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Employers can order physical copies of the poster at no cost. For convenience, a downloadable PDF version is also available. The MDA encourages all employers to display this information prominently to ensure that employees are aware of their rights and benefits.
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With a joint effort between your local component, the Maine Dental Association, and the American Dental Association, membership guarantees to meet your needs as each level offers valuable benefits and resources.
MDA CE Opportunities
In Case of Emergency, Break Glass (For Practice Owners) Webinar
Course: In Case of Emergency, Break Glass (For Practice Owners)
Speaker: Jim Kachmar, Doctors Disability Specialists and Mary Fisher-Day
Date: Friday, September 12, 2025
Time: 10:00am - 11:30am
Location: Virtual
*This webinar is not eligible for CEs
About: After attending this webinar, practice owners will understand various risks and how to mitigate and address them. Participants will also learn ways to prevent these risks from happening in the first place.
Learning objectives:
- Participants will learn about specific risks to their practice, including death and disability.
- Participants will learn ways to mitigate these risks, including purchasing insurance, utilizing mutual contracts between neighboring dentists to fill in and planning for the unexpected.
Treating Between the Lines: Understanding Rx and Illicit Drug Abuse (3 CEs)
Course: Treating Between the Lines: Understanding Rx and Illicit Drug Abuse
Speaker: Dr. Ronnie Brown
Date: Friday, October 17, 2025
Time: 8:45am - 12:00pm - includes a 15 minute break
Location: Zoom / Webinar link to be provided 24hrs prior to start of course
Substance abuse is at an all-time “high” in this country with an estimated 1 out of every 10 Americans addicted to prescription or illicit drugs. As dental professionals, we must awaken to the reality that many of our patients have substance-use disorders and that our examination findings of advanced caries, severe hyposalivation, and poor plaque control are often the effects of depressant, stimulant, and opioid abuse. Learn how to recognize the clues of substance abuse from a routine dental examination, discuss your concerns and suspicions with patients, develop and deliver safe and effective dental treatment, and manage pain with non-opioid medications.
*Note: Course content does not include marijuana
Learning Objectives
- How to identify the three categories of drugs (opioids, depressants, and stimulants) most abused by patients.
- How to recognize the physical, behavioral, and oral clues of substance misuse during a routine dental examination.
- How to discuss substance misuse with patients using motivational-interviewing techniques. - Office policies that safeguard both patients and practices.
- Evidence-based practices for managing dental pain with non-addictive analgesics.
- How to develop treatment plans, using a caries-risk assessment for patients with substance-use disorders.
Style: Lecture
Cost: $110.00 - $220.00
Intended Audience: G, S, DH, DA, DL, OP
Conflict of Interest / Financial Disclosure: N/A
Antibiotic Stewardship (3 CEs)
Course: Antibiotic Stewardship
Speaker: Dr. Erinne Kennedy
Date: November 7, 2025
Time: 8:45am - 12:00pm (Includes a 15 minute break)
Location: Zoom - link to be provided 24hrs prior to the start of the course
Nationally, US dentists prescribe 13% of outpatient antibiotics prescriptions; however, the prescribing
habits of dentists are poorly understood. Although the benefits of antibiotics for patient health and
wellbeing have been well-documented, these potential lifesavers can also result in a range of adverse
reactions including serious population level concerns such as antibiotic resistant infections.
This session will define the challenges with antibiotic use, enumerate the roles of dentists in the future
of antibiotic stewardship, and discuss best practices in other healthcare professions. We will review the
current evidence base for antibiotic use in dentistry and review best practices for dental clinicians.
Participants will be shown an example of an antibiotic stewardship program that was implemented at
the state level, and brainstorm programs and policies that have the potential to work in their state.
Lastly, participants will discuss future policy state
and national options for antibiotic stewardship.
Course objectives
- Define roles of dentists and state dental directors in antibiotic stewardship.
- Describe evidence-based guidelines for antibiotic use in dentistry.
- Understand the mindset shift and influence clinical guidelines have on clinical practice.
- Identify and utilize resources that can be used chairside to make clinical decisions for antibiotic stewardship.
Style: Virtual
Lecture Cost: $110.00 - $220.00
Intended Audience: G, S, DH, DA, DL, OP
Conflict of Interest / Financial Disclosure: N/A
MDA Annual Convention
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June 11-13, 2026
Bar Harbor, ME
New Dental Tools by MaineCare
Dental Tools
MaineCare’s Dental Workgroup has created a new Questions & Answers (Q&A) document and a dental webpage with resources for MaineCare providers. The Q&A document includes questions about billing, prior authorizations, system training opportunities, enrolling new providers, missed appointments, interpreter services, and more that we received from providers in the two dental forums in July and August. As we add new questions, we will make them green to indicate which questions are new. We will also add the date the document is updated in green.
The Q&A can be found on our new Dental Services webpage. This webpage is intended for dental service providers and billers and includes tools and information such as the presentation slides and recordings of the dental forums.
