From Knowledge to Action: A Children’s Airway Event – American Dental Association

As a dental professional, you know how compromised children’s breathing occurs and what can be done to alleviate its harmful effects. The structural contributions to respiratory problems are easy for you to see, and you can plan treatments to address those needs. However, what isn’t as clear for you is how to talk to patients and parents, your team, colleagues and the public about how important this subject is, why what you recommend is vital to the child’s health span and how to get patients’ families to act on your recommendations.

This event will help you gain vital communication skills to address all aspects of breathing issues you see in your clinic. Through the cases presented, you will enhance your clinical skills as well as understand how they were originally presented and the obstacles that were overcome for eventual success.

Learning Objectives

• Develop communication skills: Enhance your ability to effectively explain the importance of breathing issues and treatment recommendations to patients, parents, colleagues and the public, emphasizing their connections to a child’s long-term health outcomes.
• Integrate clinical and communication practices: Apply case-based learning to refine both clinical assessment of respiratory issues and strategies for overcoming communication challenges encountered with diverse audiences.
• Build collaborative approaches: Strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration by learning to convey critical insights about structural respiratory problems and treatment plans to team members and colleagues in a clear and persuasive manner.

Recommended for dentists and their teams.

CE credits: 14