Looking for free dental CE webinars this week? We've rounded up the top live dental continuing education opportunities taking place August 17–23, 2026.

This week's featured dental CE courses focus on advances in local anesthesia, pharmacology, patient comfort, airway health, inflammation, and periodontal disease. Each webinar offers 1 Live, Interactive CEU and provides practical, evidence-based education to help dentists, hygienists, and dental teams improve patient outcomes while staying current with modern clinical practices.

Below are this week's featured dental CE opportunities.

Live Dental CE Opportunities This Week

Here are this week's live, interactive dental CE webinars.

A Taste of Innovation: The Evolution of Dental Local Anesthesia

Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Time: 7:00 PM ET / 4:00 PM PT
Format: Virtual, Live Interactive Webinar
Credits: 1 Live, Interactive CEU
Presenters: Dr. Mark Donaldson and Dr. Jason Goodchild
Sponsor: Septodont

Local anesthesia has transformed modern dentistry, making countless procedures safer and more comfortable for patients. Despite these advances, clinicians still encounter common challenges such as delayed onset, inadequate anesthesia, lingering numbness, injection discomfort, and patient anxiety. Continued innovation in anesthetic delivery and formulation offers new opportunities to improve both clinical performance and the overall patient experience.

This live dental CE webinar explores the evolution of dental local anesthesia, tracing its development from the earliest anesthetic agents to today's modern formulations. Dr. Mark Donaldson and Dr. Jason Goodchild will review the pharmacology, safety profiles, and clinical indications of commonly used local anesthetics while discussing the factors that influence anesthetic success, including pH, vasoconstrictors, lipid solubility, and protein binding.

Participants will also examine emerging technologies such as anesthetic buffering and flavor-modified formulations that are designed to improve patient comfort and treatment acceptance. By combining historical perspective with evidence-based clinical guidance, this course provides practical strategies for optimizing anesthesia in everyday dental practice.

What you'll learn:

• The historical evolution of dental local anesthetics
• How advances in anesthetic chemistry have improved safety and effectiveness
• Pharmacologic differences between commonly used anesthetic agents
• Clinical indications for lidocaine, articaine, mepivacaine, prilocaine, and bupivacaine
• Factors that influence anesthetic performance
• The role of vasoconstrictors in local anesthesia
• Benefits of anesthetic buffering technologies
• Emerging flavor-modified anesthetic formulations
• Strategies for improving patient comfort during injections
• Evidence-based approaches to enhancing the overall patient experience

This course is ideal for dentists, oral surgeons, endodontists, hygienists, and dental teams interested in local anesthesia, dental pharmacology, pain management, patient comfort, and evidence-based clinical care.

Register

Beyond the Gums: Airway, Inflammation, and Periodontal Disease – Part 1

Date: Thursday, August 20, 2026
Time: 7:00 PM ET / 4:00 PM PT
Format: Virtual, Live Interactive Webinar
Credits: 1 Live, Interactive CEU
Presenter: LD Coaching
Sponsor: VOCO America

Our understanding of periodontal disease continues to evolve beyond biofilm alone. Emerging research highlights the important role that airway dysfunction, altered breathing patterns, and chronic inflammation play in influencing periodontal health and long-term disease progression. Recognizing these contributing factors allows clinicians to adopt a more comprehensive, prevention-focused approach to patient care.

This live dental CE webinar introduces the first session of a two-part series examining the relationship between airway health, inflammation, and periodontal disease. Participants will learn how mouth breathing and sleep-disordered breathing affect the oral microbiome, salivary function, inflammatory burden, and periodontal stability, while exploring how these changes can be identified during routine hygiene appointments.

Attendees will also gain practical strategies for incorporating airway screenings into daily hygiene visits, recognizing common clinical warning signs, and communicating findings confidently within their professional scope. The course emphasizes preventive care models that support improved periodontal outcomes and long-term patient health.

What you'll learn:

• How airway dysfunction contributes to periodontal disease
• The relationship between inflammation and oral health
• Oral and facial signs associated with mouth breathing
• Clinical indicators of sleep-disordered breathing
• Airway screening strategies for hygiene appointments
• How altered breathing affects the oral microbiome
• The impact of salivary function on periodontal health
• Effective communication strategies for discussing airway findings
• Prevention-focused approaches to periodontal care
• Ways to support long-term periodontal stability

This course is ideal for dental hygienists, dentists, periodontal clinicians, preventive care providers, and dental teams interested in airway dentistry, periodontal disease, oral-systemic health, preventive care, inflammation, and comprehensive hygiene assessments.

Register

Stay Current with Weekly Dental CE Webinars

Dental continuing education helps clinicians and dental teams stay current with evolving treatment techniques, evidence-based care, patient communication, pharmacology, and preventive dentistry.

This week's free live dental CE webinars provide valuable education on modern local anesthesia, patient comfort, airway health, inflammation, and the growing connection between breathing patterns and periodontal disease. Together, these courses offer practical strategies that clinicians can apply immediately to improve patient care and clinical outcomes.

Check back next week for more free live dental CE webinars and continuing education opportunities.

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