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Dental Management of Patients Receiving Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer

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A summary of recently published data from the landmark OraRad study, which seeks to facilitate evidence-based dental management of this patient cohort.

AGD Subject Code: 730

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
After reading this course, the participant should be able to:

  1. Describe the OraRad study and highlight key findings regarding the oral health effects of radiation therapy on patients diagnosed with cancers of the head and neck.
  2. Explain the common course of radiation treatment and exposure for patients with head and neck cancers.
  3. List recommended management strategies for this patient population.
  4. Discuss factors that may increase risk for dental caries, periodontal involvement and osteoradionecrosis among this cohort.

This course was issued in September 2022 and expires September 2025. The authors have no commercial conflicts of interest to disclose. This 2 credit hour self-study activity is electronically mediated.


Belmont Business Media is an ADA CERP-recognized provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ada.org/cerp. Belmont Business Media Nationally Approved PACE Program Provider for FAGD/MAGD credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by any regulatory authority or AGD endorsement. July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. Provider ID 317924
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Rajesh V. Lalla, DDS, PhD, is a professor of oral medicine and the associate dean for research at the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine in Farmington. He can be reached at lalla@uchc.edu.


Michael T. Brennan, DDS, MHS, is chair of the Department of Oral Medicine/Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is also a professor in the Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.


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