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2025 Participation Series:

April 5

Treating Patients with Anxiety
or Special Needs

Saturday, April 5, 2025
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Maritime Conference Center
Building 3 | Room A307
692 Maritime Blvd| Linthicum Heights

Lunch is provided

This seminar is designed to provide the necessary knowledge and skills to treat difficult or otherwise unmanageable patients. We will discuss cases covering autistic, medically compromised, and mentally challenged patients, from the apprehensive to the combative, from infancy to old age, in the office, in the OR, and elsewhere off site. This course will illustrate criteria for case selection, protocols for pre- and postoperative care, and practical clinical tips for greater intra-operative efficiency. The course will include practicing with some of the tools, equipment and supplies discussed in the presentation, including non-threatening wraps, mouth props, imaging, hovercraft dental chairs, lighting, portable x-rays, self-developing film, laughing gas, and using acupressure points to open nearly anyone’s mouth. Patients with special needs may be present for you to practice your new skills.

Course Objectives:

Participants in this course will gain knowledge in the following areas:

 

  1. Explore and try-on special equipment such as wraps, mouth props, nitrous oxide mask, handheld x-ray unit, self-developing films, instant images, intra-oral lighting and more.

  2. Develop skills to work comfortably on live patients with special-needs and role play working on each other.

  3. Learn techniques for quickly and efficiently extracting teeth, with no wrist or body fatigue and few fractures.

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AGD 750 Special Patient Care
CE Credit:  8 or 16 Lecture/Participation

with Harvey Levy, DMD, MAGD, FACD, FICD

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About our Speaker:

Dr. Harvey Levy  practices general and hospital dentistry in Frederick, Maryland, where he emphasizes comprehensive dental care for individuals with anxiety or special needs. He graduated from Tufts Dental in 1974, GPR at Eastman Dental Center in 1976, and taught full time at Univ Penn GPR and was on the Dean's faculty at UMSOD. Dr. Levy has earned Mastership and six Lifelong Learning Service Recognitions by the Academy of General Dentistry along with eleven fellowships, five diplomate certificates, and board certification in Integrative Medicine. His work with anxious patients has earned him the AGD Humanitarian Award, the ADA Access to Care Award, the Maryland Governor’s Doctor of the Year Award, the Maryland State Dental Association’s Inaugural Humanitarian Award, Morgan State Public Health Award, Special Care Dentistry’s Saul Kamen Award, Tufts University Alumni Distinguished Achievements Award, and the honor of running the 2002 Olympic Torch. He has written and lectured extensively on dental care for patients with high anxiety and special-needs. Dr. Levy is also a martial arts master, holding nineteen black belts, and is a three time inductee into the US Martial Arts Hall of Fame.

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