Provider Organization: Santa Clara County Dental Society
Address:1485 Park Ave., San Jose, CA 95126
Instructor: Stanley Malamed, DDS
Official Course Name: “The ABC Protocol: Making Pain Control More Comfortable, Effective and Safer”
Course Dates: August 22, 2025, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
CE Units: 1
Instructor Qualifications:Stanley F. Malamed is a dentist anesthesiologist and emeritus professor of dentistry at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, located in Los Angeles, California, USA. In 1973, Professor Malamed joined the faculty of the University of Southern California School of Dentistry (now the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of U.S.C). Dr. Malamed retired from the university in 2013. Doctor Malamed has authored more than 190 scientific papers and 17 chapters in various medical and dental journals and textbooks in the areas of physical evaluation, emergency medicine, local anesthesia, sedation, and general anesthesia. In addition, Dr. Malamed is the author of three widely used textbooks, published by CV Mosby: Handbook of Medical Emergencies in the Dental Office (8th edition 2023); Handbook of Local Anesthesia (7th edition 2020); and Sedation - a guide to patient management (7th edition 2024) and two interactive DVD’s: Emergency Medicine (3rd edition, 2018) and Malamed’s Local Anesthetic Technique DVD (2004) (edition 2 - 2012). The textbooks have been translated into 22 foreign-language editions. In his spare time, Doctor Malamed is an avid runner, exercise enthusiast, and admits an addiction to the New York Times crossword puzzle, which he has done daily since his freshman year in dental school
Course Summary:Patients do not want to experience pain during their dental treatment. Fortunately, local anesthesia forms the backbone of pain control techniques in dentistry. Local anesthetics are the safest and most effective drugs for the prevention and management of pain. Yet, on occasion, achieving profound anesthesia painlessly can be challenging. In this program we will discuss a means to making dental local anesthetic injections both more effective, more comfortable, and safer – the new A, B, C’s of dental pain control. Articaine; Buffering (the local anesthetic ‘on switch’); and Cold testing to ensure pulpal anesthesia.
On successful completion of this program the enrollee should be able to:
1. Discuss the advantages of articaine HCl compared with other dental local anesthetics
2. List 3 advantages of buffering local anesthetics
3. Discuss the protocol for the use of cold testing following local anesthetic administration
