CE Course & Event Information

 2026 Kentucky Meeting CE Courses...

SM5 - DENTISTRY and KASPER: Management of Pain in the Dental Office

Saturday, August 22nd 2026, 8:30 am - Sunday, August 23rd 2026, 12:00 pm

Dr. Rebecca Mercke

Ticket #: SM5

8;30 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Course Title: DENTISTRY and KASPER: Management of Pain in the Dental Office

3 Continuing Education Hours

Fee: $115

Audience: ALL 

Course Description: This course satisfies the continuing education requirement for Kentucky Dental License re-newal as specified in 201 KAR 8:532, Section 10(e) concerning the use of the Kentucky All Scheduled Prescription Reporting System (KASPER) and addiction disorders.  It also satis-fies 3 hours of the MATE requirement. The course will discuss the history of the opioid epi-demic, review the requirements of KASPER, discuss recent changes to KASPER, provide practical utilization of eKASPER for the practicing dentist and discuss changes in the man-agement of acute dental pain.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

Understand the current opioid epidemic

Describe the requirements of KASPER

Discuss recent KASPER updates

Discuss practical utilization of eKASPER for the dentist

Identify the most prescribed controlled substances in Kentucky

Discuss management of acute dental pain

Describe analgesic drug interactions and contraindications

Identify resources available to dentists

A copy of the presentation PowerPoint slides is available upon request for all participants.