MATE Act Resource Center For New Jersey Dentists
Medication Access and Training Expansion Act 

Course Overview

The high frequency of utilization of the hospital ED by patients seeking care for non-emergent dental conditions provided the impetus for Mercy Health, Ohio’s largest healthcare provider, to develop strategic approaches to pain management and the opioid crisis by creating a definitive care concept, an evidence-based pain management curriculum, a substance abuse screening tool, and strategic utilization of the electronic medical record to track inappropriate prescribing profiles to alert and educate prescribers relative to best practices.

After completing this courses, participants will be able to:

• Understand the development, operational approach and rationale for implementing the Definitive Care Concept
• Recognize evidence-based approaches to pain management including preoperative, perioperative, and postoperative approaches
• Recognize the benefits of creating tools to improve identification of at-risk patients, encourage early treatment referrals, establish acute withdrawal protocols and provide more efficient access to available PDMP databases

Presented by the ADA Council on Advocacy for Access & Prevention and M. Frank Beck, DDS, FAAHD, MAGD, FICOI, DSCDA

Overview
This course educates dental providers on the new evidence-based clinical practice guideline (CPG) for the management of acute dental pain. The CPG was developed as part of the FDA funded research project titled, "Evidence-based Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Acute Dental Pain: Development, Implementation, and Evaluation Using Data Analytics to Target An Implementation Strategy." The project is a collaboration between the ADA Science & Research Institute, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Presenters
Deborah Polk, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Paul A. Moore, DMD, PhD, MPH, Professor emeritus, University of Pittsburgh

Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you should be able to:
• State the benefits of NSAIDs over opioids
• List examples of recommendations from the clinical practice guideline for the management of acute dental pain
• Use communication skills with patients
• Incorporate patient responses into and develop a plan for a patient’s pain management
• Begin to incorporate the guideline into practice