Join us online for this joint ADOHTA/DHAA webinar presented by University of Melbourne (UoM) Associate Professor of Dental Therapeutics and MIMS Drugs4dent® developer Leanne Teoh.

Dental practitioners frequently encounter patients with complex medical conditions taking a wide variety of drugs. As such, prescribing and medication management are skills required in daily clinical practice. However, research has shown that errors involving medications are common, and also occur in dentistry. Errors occur for various reasons, such as omitting to check drug interactions when recommending drugs, lack of medication knowledge, and inappropriate management of patients taking their current medications.

In this presentation, the different types of errors and how they can happen will be presented. Solutions to reduce medication and prescribing errors, which lie in addressing the systems which govern dentistry, will be shown. A new dental clinical decision tool, MIMS Drugs4dent®, will also be presented and how this is used to reduce risk and improve patient safety.

• Members and non-members welcome. 
• If you are a DHAA member, please register via the DHAA website.
• 1 hour scientific CPD.
• Webinar link will be emailed on 28 January 2025.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify factors, including human fallibility and system elements, that contribute to medication errors in dentistry.
2. Understand the types of errors that can occur in the context of dental practice, and their potential consequences for patients.
3. Recognise the methods to mitigate medication errors, including the use of clinical decision tools. 

About UoM Associate Professor of Dental Therapeutics Leanne Teoh B.DSc(Hons) B.Pharm(Hons) PhD FICD FPFA

Leanne Teoh is an Associate Professor of Dental Therapeutics at the University of Melbourne, a practising dentist and registered pharmacist. She co-authored the Therapeutic Guidelines Oral and Dental Version 2, is on the editorial board for the journal BMC Oral Health, and is the current Vice Chair of the Therapeutics Committee for the ADA. She has been a guest on several podcasts, and co-authored the book ‘Handbook of Dental Therapeutics’, highlighting the use of therapeutics and pharmacology in dentistry. She also developed the first dental clinical decision tool, MIMS Drugs4dent®.

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