Oral Cancer and Tobacco: Risks, Early Signs, and Quitting

Oral Cancer and Tobacco: Risks, Early Signs, and Quitting

2 CEU’s

Educational Objectives:

• Understand the risk factors associated with smoking and tobacco use
• Identify early signs or oral cancer
• Understand the consequences of using chewing tobacco
• Be familiar with techniques used to help your patient or loved one quit

Description:

This course will cover the history of tobacco use, tobacco use by people of all ages,  the impact of tobacco use on oral and periodontal health, oral pathologies resulting from tobacco use (benign and malignant), proper diagnosis an identification of oral pathologies related to tobacco use.

This course will focus specifically on oral and lung cancer as it relates to tobacco use, clinical manifestations of cancer, and diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Support group information referrals will be provided to dental professionals for use with their patients.

This course will help attendees identify and understand the consequences of smoking or chewing tobacco as it relates to health, especially oral health.

Instructor:  Rose Hirshorn, CDA, RDA

Attend this program as either a LIVE INTERACTIVE Webinar or Attend at our School

Requirements to attend a live webinar:

You will need a smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop computer to view it. If using a smartphone or tablet, it is best to have the app for the program on your device (i.e. Zoom).
To verify your continued attendance during the class, you will need a microphone, webcam or the ability to type into the program’s live chat.
Instructors or school personnel will take attendance periodically throughout the class.
Instructors may call on participants.
To verify attendance, a code word may be given sometime during the class.
You will be required to complete and return an evaluation after the course has ended. The evaluation may ask what code word was given.
You may not receive your Certificate of Completion if we cannot verify your attendance.

Tuition will not be refunded under these circumstances

Webinar invitations are emailed to registered students approx. one day prior to the class.

Certificates of Completion are emailed to students approximately 5 business days after the course.

This program is for the full dental staff – no prior skills are needed to attend.

The teaching method will be in a lecture format with a Q & A period.

DSI Staff or administration do not have any commercial interest or relationship to the speaker.

The content and format of the Continuing Education course is presented without commercial bias and does not claim superiority of any commercial product or service.  No DSI Staff have any financial relationship with the speaker or company.