Spring is the perfect time to refresh your knowledge.
Join us for an all-team training day that covers key topics in practice. Explore current topics and trends in infection control, vaccines and strategies for effective infection control protection during patient treatment. Learn how implicit biases in dentistry could be the cause of health care inequities and how you and your team can make an impact in changing their outcome.
Register for Upcoming Sessions
May 1, 2026 8:30 am - May 1, 2026 3:45 pm
All times for all events are in local Central Time.
Zoom Webinar
Course Number: CF5369
Good Clinical Outcomes Require Good Infection Control
Join Dr. Carsten for a focused morning session on infection control, current vaccination controversies, and the essential process of ensuring that regulatory policy remains consistent with modern science and medicine. Drawing directly from his experience as a Washington State Commissioner, Dr. Carsten will share crucial insights into the steps required to establish and maintain highly effective infection control policies and procedures in the dental office. You’ll learn to mitigate common, real-life problems and strengthen patient safety.
Learn How To
- Mitigate real-life infection control problems and learn evidence-based strategies to mitigate them and control transmission
- Discuss current controversies surrounding vaccinations, evaluating the associated risks and benefits based on the latest scientific evidence
- Strengthen protocols and conduct a thorough review of critical infection control areas
- Understand regulatory change and the methodology by which dental regulations can be successfully modified to be consistent with current science and medicine
Implicit Biases in Dentistry - How do they matter?
In 2003, the Institute of Medicine published the groundbreaking report “Unequal Treatment. Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care.” The review of 600+ studies concerning diagnosis, treatment and health outcomes by age, sex and race found health inequities existed—even when they controlled for socioeconomic status and insurance coverage. In the discussion of these findings, the Institute of Medicine suggested that in addition to structural factors (such as insurance coverage,) implicit biases might be a cause of health care inequities.
Join Dr. Marita Inglehart for an informative afternoon session where you'll delve into the concept of implicit biases through a demonstration of their power in daily life and dentistry-related situations. You will gain an understanding of how implicit biases can change over time and when they are most likely to occur. And Dr. Inglehart will help you explore ways in which the content of implicit biases can be changed.
Learn How To
- Define the term “implicit bias” and how its existence can be demonstrated
- Identify how dental patients’ implicit biases matter in dentistry related settings
- Understand when implicit biases are most likely to surface and if their content can change over time
- Describe the role of personal, educational and professional experiences in shaping implicit biases, and the strategies individuals can utilize to change their content.
Training Methods
Lecture, discussion and case studies
