Oral Health Conference 1997

LOUISIANA COMMUNITIES PREPARING FOR A TOBACCO-FREE FUTURE

June 26-28, 1997

 

Oral Health Program Component

June 27-28, 1997

 

Airport Hilton Hotel

901 Airline Highway

Kenner, Louisiana

FACULTY

Robert E. Mecklenburg, DDS, MPH serves as a consultant to the NCI in health policy and administration with a focus on expanding dental involvement in creating a tobacco-free society. He served as the Chief Dental Officer of the Public Health Service from 1981 to 1987. Dr. Mecklenburg is currently a World Health Organization consultant.

 

SPONSORED BY:

Louisiana Office of Public Health

Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals

 

CO-SPONSORED BY:

Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse

State Department of Education

 

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

This course is approved by the Academy of General Dentistry for up to 4 Continuing Education Credits for Part I and as many as 7.5 credits for Parts I & II.

 

ACCOMMODATIONS

A block of rooms is being held at the Airport Hilton, 901 Airline Highway, for conference attendees. A single is $75 plus taxes and a double is $85 plus taxes. Please make your own hotel reservations by calling the hotel at 1-800-Hiltons or (504) 469-5000. The block is being held until May 30th. After that date, rooms will be on "availability basis" only.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The National Cancer Institute developed this two day training program to teach dentists, dental hygienists, assistants, and office managers simple, effective methods for helping their patients become tobacco-free. Cessation methods advocated have been scientifically demonstrated to be effective when routinely used in a variety of clinical practice settings. The recommended methods can be easily integrated into regular clinical operation.

The Friday afternoon and Saturday morning sessions focus on clinical oral health team organization, services, and follow-up. The comprehensive training address:

1. both smoking and smokeless tobacco

2. cessation and prevention, and

3. professional services to the profession, the community, and the clinic.

The Saturday morning program prepares clinicians and public health educators to teach the methods presented during the session.

 

COURSE OBJECTIVES

 

CLINICIANS’ ROLES:

HELPING PEOPLE TO BE TOBACCO-FREE

At the conclusion of the course, participants will be able to:

1. KNOW why it is important to include tobacco use intervention services in the dental practice

2. GET READY by organizing the practice to ensure that simple, brief tobacco use prevention and cessation services are used routinely, efficiently, and systematically.

3. HELP PATIENTS be tobacco-free by:

ASKING questions about tobacco use,

ADVISING them of the advantages of being tobacco-free,

ASSISTING them in prevention and cessation activities,

ARRANGING appropriate follow-up.

4. FOLLOW THROUGH by:

- continuing to monitor patient’s tobacco use status and

help users become tobacco-free.

- promoting a tobacco-free lifestyle by personal example

and by working with the profession and the community.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM

June 26-28, 1997, Airport Hilton Hotel, Kenner Louisiana

Includes Continental Breakfast, Luncheon,

All Materials, All Sessions, and Reception

 

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__ Part I, II, III

Registration Fees:

$50 if registered by Friday, May 30, 1997.

$65 if registered after May 30 or at conference.

Method of Payment:

___ Check Enclosed (payable to UNO)

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Mail Registration to: Tobacco Control Conference, University of New Orleans, Conference Services, Metropolitan College, Room ED 122, New Orleans, LA 70112

Note: This brochure includes the Oral Health schedule only. For the complete conference schedule or to register by phone, call (504) 280-6680, or Fax your registration and credit card information to (504) 280-7317. E-mail: confmc@uno.edu.

SCHEDULE:

Friday, June 27, 1997

7:45 a.m. Registration

9:00 - 10:15 a.m. Plenary Session

"Spit Tobacco: Biting Off More than You Want to Chew" (Dr. Robert Mecklenberg)

Part I: How to Help Your Patients be Tobacco-Free

12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Luncheon and Keynote (Reverend Melvin Juggle, Garden of Prayer Baptist Church)

1:45 p.m. Introduction

Course objectives, impact of tobacco use on society, patients and clinical practice. (Dr. Robert Mecklenberg)

2:30 p.m. First Visit: Help your patients decide to stop. (Dr. Robert Mecklenberg)

3:45 p.m. Break

4:00 p.m. Follow-up Visits: Help your patients during the stopping process. (Dr. Robert Mecklenberg)

4:45 p.m. The Team Approach: Help your clinic system.

5:30 p.m. Closure

Saturday, June 28, 1997

Part II: How to Help Protect Children and Youth

8:30 a.m. Help Your Community: Prevention and public policy issues of clinic team and professional society concern. (Dr. Robert Mecklenberg)

10:00 a.m. Break

Part III: Trainer Workshop

10:15 a.m. Help Your Profession: Training objectives, strategies, resources and methods. (Dr. Robert Mecklenberg)

11:30 a.m. Help Yourself: Training implementation plans. (Dr. Robert Mecklenberg)

Maternal and Child Health, Oral Health Program, 325 Loyola Avenue, Room 612, New Orleans, LA, 70112

For more information contact: jsutherl@dhhmail.dhh.state.la.us