LDA Events and Continuing Education Calendar
Event | Date |
Last Chance Seminar | December 13, 2024 |
Bowden Leadership Conference | January 10, 2025 |
Adult Sedation Renewal Course | February 21, 2025 |
Winter C.E. with Character | March 2-4, 2025 |
New Orleans Dental Conference and LDA Annual Session | April 10-11, 2025 |
Summer Education Conference | June 18-21, 2025 |
LDA Foundation Fishing Rodeo | July 18-19, 2025 |
Pediatric Sedation Renewal Course | September 12, 2025 |
Napa Valley Sip & C.E. | September 17-19, 2025 |
Winter C.E. & Ski (Big Sky) | February 15-17, 2026 |
Summer Education Conference (more coming soon) | June 17-20, 2026 |
LDA Expanded Duty Dental Assistant Courses
Event | Date |
New Orleans EDDA Course | December 5-7, 2024- Registration Open |
Gonzales EDDA Course | January 16-18, 2025- Registration Open |
Lafayette EDDA Course | February 6-8, 2025- Registration Open |
Lafayette EDDA Course | March 20-22, 2025---registration will open Jan. 2025 |
Gonzales EDDA Course | April 3-5, 2025 ---registration will open Jan. 2025 |
New Orleans EDDA Course | June 5-7, 2025---registration will open Feb. 2025 |
New Orleans EDDA Course | August 21-23, 2025---registration will open Feb. 2025 |
Gonzales EDDA Course | September 11-13, 2025---registration will open June 2025 |
New Orleans EDDA Course | October 9-11, 2025---registration will open June 2025 |
Lafayette EDDA Course | November 6-8, 2025---registration will open Aug 2025 |
New Orleans EDDA Course | December 4-6, 2025---registration will open Sept 2025 |
Our Registration System is currently down until Sept 9. If you would like to register for this event, please call (225) 926-1986 to speak with Jeanne McFall, Director of Conference Services.
New State Requirements for Those Writing Prescriptions for Schedule Drugs
There is a NEW State mandate requiring 3 hours of opioid prescribing and abuse awareness C.E. for those doctors holding a controlled dangerous substance license permitting them to prescribe schedule drugs. The 3-hour course must be completed sometime between Aug. 1, 2017, and the first time you renew your license after Jan. 1, 2018, and must include drug diversion training, best practice prescribing of controlled substances, appropriate treatment for addiction, and any other matters regarding the prescribing of controlled dangerous substances that are deemed appropriate by the board. According to current law, you will never have to take the course again.
C.E. Requirements Change
DENTISTS: The LA State Board of Dentistry has changed C.E. requirements for dentists as of Jan. 1, 2018. If your license renewed in December 2017, you will only be required to have 30 hours of C.E. every 2 years, however, all 30 hours must be clinical. Further, 20 of the 30 hours must be obtained in person (not online C.E.). If your license renews in December 2018, you can choose whether or not to submit the traditional 40 hours that includes practice management or you can select the newer requirement and log in 30 hours of all clinical C.E.
HYGIENISTS: As of Jan. 1, 2018, hygienists need 20 hours, all of it clinical. However, 12 of it must be personally attended.
Delivery Method & Timing of Payments
On-line event registrations and dues payments are processed when submitted. An on-line confirmation will display once the payment process has been approved.
Refunds and Cancellation Requests
To receive a refund, all requests must be postmarked or sent no later than the day before each meeting begins. You may send your request to jeanne@ladental.org or fax to (225) 926-1886. Registration and course cancellation/refund requests must be in writing.
Cancellation Requests prior to Early Registration Deadline (see specific meetings for specific dates)
- Refund requests for registration will be granted a full refund, less a $15 processing fee. The request must be received on or before each meeting's early registration date.
- Exceptions will not apply.
Cancellation Requests between Early Registration Deadline and the day before your meeting begins
- Refund requests for registration fees will be granted a 50% refund less a $15 processing fee. The request must be received no later than 4 p.m. on the day before your meeting begins.
- Exceptions will not apply.
No cancellation requests or refund requests will be accepted or granted after the scheduled start to any meeting. This includes cancellations due to illness, late arrivals, weather, parking difficulties or any other reasons.
C.E. Providers
For information about continuing education courses listed on the calendar, please contact the appropriate sponsoring organization. A more detailed listing of C.E. courses also appears in each issue of the LDA Journal.
Ark-LA-Tex Academy of Dentistry
P: (318) 636-5580
F: (318) 636-5900
Registration: Dr. Clint Bruyere, (903) 753-0337
www.arklatexacademy.com
Continuing Dental Education of Baton Rouge (CDEBR)
(225) 266-7619
Registration: Dr. Byron Rome, (225) 621-2700
www.cdeofbr.com
Louisiana Academy of General Dentistry
9069 Siegen Lane
Baton Rouge, LA 70810
(855) 542-5243
lagd@cox.net
www.lagd.org
Louisiana Society of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons (LSOMS)
New Orleans Dental Association (NODA)
Metairie, LA 70001
P: (504) 834-6449; F: (504) 838-6909
www.nodental.org