Program #11 Dentistry's Deafening Silence: Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
Samuel Shamardi, DMD
Audience Code: D, H, A 3 CEUs/Clinical Lecture
Dental professionals are exposed daily to chronic levels of damaging sounds that result in permanent and irreversible loss of hearing over the course of their careers along with significant systemic health repercussions.
This course will show how each dental professional's career and quality of life are at risk due to our working environment and a novel solution which can prevent this from happening.
Learning Outcomes:
- Assess how your career as a dental professional jeopardizes your hearing
- Examine literature and statistics to understand why hearing loss is inevitable for dental professionals without proper protection
- Demonstrate how hearing loss causes significant systemic health issues
SEE HANDOUT PAGE for ATTENDEE LECTURE MATERIAL (available in September)