Infection Control and Waterline Safety in Georgia: Navigating Critical Updates and Evolving Risks
Zoom webinar - Join details in your confirmation email
* Registration open until 10/7/26 at 5:45 PM (EDT)
Course Description:
Protect your patients, your team, and your practice! While the core fundamentals of infection prevention have remained the same, the landscape and clinical risks in dental infection control have shifted. A truly safe dental visit requires an entire dental team that is fully up to date on modern compliance standards, regulatory requirements, and clinical challenges that clinical personnel face on a daily basis.
This 2-hour webinar bridges the gap between time-tested policies and protocols to new industry changes. We will dive deep into emerging issues, highlighting the transition to a new national advisory body for infection control guidelines, updates to guidelines and standards, and crucial antibiotic paradigm stewardship shifts to prevent resistant infections.
We will also address updated, high-profile risks, focusing heavily on stringent dental unit waterline compliance to protect your practice from devastating non-tuberculous Mycobacteria and Legionella outbreaks.
Attend this session to learn how to identify hidden vulnerabilities and challenges, manage modern regulatory risks, and maintain a compliant, customized written program. Walk away ready to run an infection control program that operates smoothly, efficiently, and fluently in the face of changing standards.
Learning Objectives
- Identify New Leaders in Infection Control Guidelines: Understand the transition of guidelines from the CDC to the new national governing body for dental infection control, and how this impacts your practice protocols.
- Navigate Upcoming OSHA Deadlines: Recognize the critical timelines and compliance requirements for the updated OSHA Hazard Communication Standard regarding chemical handling and labeling.
- Mitigate Modern Waterline Risks: Implement strict dental unit waterline monitoring and treatment protocols to eliminate the threat of bacterial outbreaks due to contaminated dental unit waterlines.
- Adapt to Stewardship Shifts: Understand the latest paradigm shifts in antibiotic prescribing, to minimize the threat of antibiotic resistance.
- Identify Practice Problem Areas: Spot hidden vulnerabilities and common "blind spots" where clinical teams unintentionally compromise patient safety.
CE Credit: Two (2)
Speaker: Dr. Marie Fluent
Format: Lecture Webinar
Registration Options
|
Registration Options
|
Price |
|---|---|
|
GDA Member
|
$80.00 |
|
Non-GDA Member
|
$100.00 |
Dr. Marie Fluent is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. Her dental career spans over 35 years and involves lecturing, writing,
and consulting on infection control related topics including antibiotic stewardship and dental unit waterlines. Dr Fluent is a member of the Michigan Dental association, American Dental Association, and holds Fellowship in the American College of Dentistry. She is a recipient of the Association for Dental Safety Milton Schaefer and Service Leadership Awards. Dr. Fluent is passionate and deeply committed to improving the safety of dental visits and has educated thousands of dental professionals and students nationally and internationally.