Patient Cannabis Use:What you need to know

Date: April 28, 2022

Time: 7:30pm EDT/5:30pm MDT

Instructor:​ ​Nicole Greco BS, MA
Sponsor:​ ​Dental CE Masters
2 CEUs  
Cost $32 - Payment Link Below
Live​ ​Interactive Webinar​ 

Course Description: Some of your patients use cannabis, let's understand why and how this affects them.  The cannabis plant offers enormous therapeutic potential in dentistry as well as some risk. This course covers the good and the bad and how it relates to the dental patient.  Therapeutic potential includes analgesic effects, anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties, anti-fungal and antimicrobial qualities. This is an evidence-based review of the intra-oral and extra-oral uses of cannabis, including mucositis, trigeminal neuralgia, migraine and more! Course Objectives: After completion of this two-hour course, the participants will:

• Develop an understanding of the oral applications of CBD, THC, CBG, CBN and the

essential oils of cannabis, called terpenes. + Analyze the potential to provide pain and anxiety relief using hemp based and cannabis

based medicine.

• Improve the ability to communicate with patients about cannabis, hemp, strains and

methods of administration.

Nicole Greco is a cannabis educator with New Jersey  Alternative Medicine and a Holistic Dental Hygienist. Nicole spent 15 years as a dental hygiene educator, serving as Dean for Baker College of Auburn Hills, Michigan which sadly closed August 2016. She has held Dental Hygiene licenses in four states (NY, NJ, PA, MI) and medical marijuana cards in three states (MI, CA, NJ). Nicole is looking to share the miracles she witnesses in both Holistic Dentistry using ozone therapy and probiotics and Alternative Medicine using Cannabis, Hemp and the essential oils of Cannabis called Terpenes.