Pac Rim 2008 Info
Noted Speaker Series: Paul Glassman DDS, MA, MBA
Kathleen Tavenner Mitchell | Kay Nagata | Deanna L. Gregorio | Daniel Hubbell | Paul Glassman | Elizabeth DePoy | Stephen Gilson | Pōkā Laenui | Hewitt B. Clark
Monday April 14th, 2008: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm in the Niihau Room
“Achieving and Maintaining Oral Health for People with Special Needs”
Are you unsure about how to treat people with developmental and other disabilities? Find out how. Understand the implications of these conditions for dental treatment. Learn about treatment planning, prevention, clinical tips and tricks, and social and legal considerations. Learn how you can have a more rewarding life as an oral health professional by incorporating people with special needs into your practice. Participants will be able to: 1. Describe the implications for oral health care for a number of health conditions, 2. Plan dental treatment will full consideration of an individual’s medical, physical and social conditions, and 3. Describe methods of incorporating people with disabilities into a dental practice.
Biography
Paul Glassman, DDS, MA, MBA, is Professor of Dental Practice and Director of Community Programs at the University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni, School of Dentistry in San Francisco. In addition, he is Past President of the Special Care Dentistry Association, a national organization of oral health and other professionals dedicated to improving oral health for people with special needs.
He is also Co-Director of the Pacific Center for Special Care at Pacific and Co-Director of the California Statewide Task Force on Oral Health for People with Special Needs.
Dr. Glassman has had many years of dental practice experience treating complex patients and has published and lectured extensively in the areas of Hospital Dentistry, Dentistry for Patients with Special Needs, Dentistry for Individuals with Medical Disabilities, Dentistry for Patients with Dental Fear, and Geriatric Dentistry.
He has a long career working with special needs populations in a variety of practice and community settings and in developing community-based systems to improve oral health for people with special needs.
