1. 20170511 Dr. Bernie White, Mr. Jerod Orb
CDSS Update
Dr. Bernie White, Mr. Jerod Orb

2. Council President Mike Prestie 2017
President Elect Louie Kriel ,18
Vice President Hilary Stevens 2017,18,19
Todd Graham ,18
Craig Humber ,18
Drew Krainyk
Wes Thomson ,18
Dean Zimmer ,18
Public Rep. Nancy Croll
Public Rep. Devin Dubois
Public Rep. Kim Neudorf

3. Recent Question Areas For myself:
CDSS Activity: Support of members vs Public Interest/Discipline
‘Corporate Dentistry’ – Facility Permits
Management of members ‘Fitness to Practice’ issues
Management of ‘Trivial/Ridiculous Complaints’
The Opioid Crisis
Practice divorces
For Jerod:
The Annual Oral Health Conference and the CDSS CE Program
Members Economic Health
The ‘Assistant shortage’
Advocacy of Other Professions
‘Insurance Audits’

4. CDSS Activity:

5. The CDSS Strategic Plan
I. Vision
Regulated Healthy Members, Enabling a Healthy Public.
II. Mission
The CDSS regulates and assists members through registration, licensing and communicating professional standards to enable the provision of safe, excellent, comprehensive patient centered oral-facial health care within a well performing oral-facial and general health care system.

6. Public/Patient Interest
Bylaws, Standards, Policy
Public Education
Public Program Support
Patient Centered Care
Complaint Process

7. Member Support Fair Processes Professional Health Economic Health
General Health

8. CDSS Activity Healthy Member Healthy Public

9. Corporate Dentistry’ – Facility Permits
Anyone can own facility/equipment
CDSS Dentist must be connected to any/all facilities
CDSS Dentist is responsible for the care provided
Non Dental person can not share fees, determIne care, employ D,T,H,A, keep records

10. Fitness to Practice Concerns are identified by a member, others or PCC
Concerns are addressed with the Member
Options are presented for Intervention/assessment/treatment
-Health matters are confidential (HIPA}
-Consents for information exchange are obtained as required
Professionals are engaged to assess /treat following CDSS protocol agreement
Conditions are identified for treatment and return to Practice as required

11. ‘Trivial/Ridiculous Complaints’
‘Trivial complaints’- if they are truly trivial they should likely be resolved within the office where they occurred
Ridiculous complaints – we must discover all side of the story to decide how ridiculous they might be!

12. Opioid Crisis Federal Budget – 117 million
U.S.- FoxNN- more deaths than Autos/Guns combined
Awareness for abuse
Responsible History taking
Responsible Prescribing
Enrollment in PIP
Cases of ‘risk’ in Rx
doc-family
dentist-self
patients- double doctoring

13. Practice divorces Professionalism Matters - continuity of care
- appropriate record transfers
- patients are not chattels
- member advertising/notices – misleading, unprofessional
- public perception of the profession
Business Matters
- contracts and agreements
- prof corps
- rights to names, phone #s, websites etc

14. Assistant Shortage
Recent survey shows over 100 dental assistants needed over the next year.
SK Polytechnique refuses to add new spots
New program being explored with a possible fall 2017 start.

15. Economic Health
Will be a reduction in publicly funded dental programs in SK
Will be low increases in CDSS fee guide for the foreseeable future
Increased competition in urban areas
In 2015, more foreign trained dentists being licensed than Canadian trained for the first time. This is a good thing, but makes calls for other professions increased autonomy unnecessary.

16. Advocacy of other professions
Hygienists
National push for autonomy
SDHA feel being employed or in contract with a dentist amplifies access to care issues, what to reopen the DDA.
Denturists
Are pushing scope in other provinces. Want to cement crowns, place implants, etc.

17. Dissolving the SOHP Conference
As is becoming more apparent, other professions want autonomy.
Each profession had equal say in conference, even though CDSS members were footing the bill. Had 1 out 4 influence in programming, structure, etc.
An increase in non-dentist programming over the years as we strived to keep the coalition together, at the expense of delivering CE to our members. Council felt this was not serving our members well and requested we host our own conference.

18. Thank you!
Questions?