Vermont Dental ​Conference

Program #11 Dentistry's Deafening Silence: Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

Sam Shamardi, DMD
Audience Code: D, H, A         3 CEUs/Clinical Lecture 

Education Sponsors: NSK, PreXion, Deka, PerioProtect, Slate, TePe Oral Health Care, Dental Innovations

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 Objectives:

  • 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)