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Human Trafficking: Understanding the Issues

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Method Broadcasted Interactive Event
Dates Nov 4, 2026 - Nov 4, 2026

Course overview

Human Trafficking is a $150 billion criminal industry and has continued to increase over the past few years. This course is designed to awaken the dental community to the possibility of human trafficking involving patients seeking care in a dental facility. Many clues may be evident and exhibited by a patient or even by the perpetrator who may be accompanying the victim. Many children have been brought to the USA by traffickers and the likely event of seeing these victims in your office is going to increase. When a victim cannot perform their duties for a trafficker because of pain or trauma-related injury, the person will be brought to a facility for evaluation. Unless the healthcare professional is aware of the signs, the opportunity to assist the victims may not be recognized. Communication with the victim is key in gaining trust and understanding the issues involved in each circumstance. Certain tactics used by a perpetrator may result in head and neck injury to a victim and are visible to the dental professional during a thorough exam. These tissue findings, injuries will be discussed as items that will get your attention. The protocol for reporting human trafficking will be presented with excellent handouts for the participant on dental findings and seeking help for a victim. Many states are now requiring a course in this subject matter and all dental personnel should be aware of human trafficking clues, how to communicate with the patient, assist in seeking help for the victim and recognizing abuse. What is Sextortion? It is a form of Cyber Sexual Harassment or Revenge Porn. The sharing of private sexually explicit self-images has become a frequent practice with both the young and adult populations. Learn the way you can protect yourself and children from this online issue.

Subject areas

This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.

Alabama Board of Dental Examiners

Dental Hygienist

3h General

Dentist

3h General

Florida Board of Dentistry

Dental Hygienist

3h General

Dental Temporary Certificate

3h General

Dentist

3h General

Health Access Dentist

3h General

Georgia Board of Dentistry

Dental Hygienist

3h Clinical/Scientific courses in the actual delivery of dental services

Dentist

3h Clinical (pertaining to the actual delivery of dental services to patients)

Volunteer Dentist

3h Clinical (pertaining to the actual delivery of dental services to patients)

Louisiana Board of Dentistry

Dental Hygienist

3h Clinical (pertaining to the actual delivery of dental hygiene services to patients)

Dentist

3h Clinical (pertaining to the actual delivery of dental services to patients)

Michigan Board of Dentistry

Dental Assistant

3h General

Dental Hygienist

3h General

Dental Therapist

3h General

Dentist

3h General

Minnesota Board of Dentistry

Dental Assistant

3h Clinical Subjects

Dental Hygienist

3h Clinical Subjects

Dental Therapist

3h Clinical Subjects

Dentist

3h Clinical Subjects

Full Faculty Dentist

3h Clinical Subjects

Specialty Dentist

3h Clinical Subjects

Mississippi State Board of Dental Examiners

Dental - General

3h General

Dental - Specialty

3h General

Dental Hygienist

3h General

Dentist - Provisional

3h General

Hygienist - Provisional

3h General

Missouri Dental Board

Dental Assistant

3h Directly Related to Treatment, Health, and Safety

Dental Hygienist

3h Directly Related to Treatment, Health, and Safety

Dental Specialist

3h Directly Related to Treatment, Health, and Safety

Dentist

3h Directly Related to Treatment, Health, and Safety

New Hampshire Board of Dental Examiners

Dental Hygienist

3h Clinical Dental Care

Dentist

3h Clinical Dental Care

Volunteer Dentist

3h Clinical Dental Care

Ohio State Dental Board

Dental Hygienist

3h Clinical Dental Practice Education

Dentist

3h Clinical Dental Practice Education

Volunteer Certificate

3h Clinical Dental Practice Education

Oklahoma Board of Dentistry

Dental Assistant

3h General CE

Dental Hygienist

3h General CE

Dentist

3h General CE

Oral Maxillofacial Surgery Assistant

3h General CE

South Carolina Board of Dentistry

Dental Hygienist

3h clinical and technical subjects

Dental Instructor

3h clinical and technical subjects

Dental Specialist

3h clinical and technical subjects

Dental Technician

3h clinical and technical subjects

General Dentist

3h clinical and technical subjects

Hygienist Instructor

3h clinical and technical subjects

Orthodontic Technician

3h clinical and technical subjects

Volunteer Dentists

3h clinical and technical subjects

Volunteer Hygienists

3h clinical and technical subjects

Tennessee Board of Dentistry

Dental Assistant

3h Dental Assistant Continuing Education

Dental Hygienist

3h Dental Hygienist Continuing Education

Dentist

3h Dentist Continuing Education

Virginia Board of Dentistry

Dental Hygienist

3h General

Dentist

3h General

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Course Objectives

At the completion of this course, the participants should be able to:

  1. Learn the ways you can protect yourself and children against sextortion.
  2. Become knowledgeable in ways that a health professional can assist a victim and obtain help.
  3. Enhance your communication skills in approaching a human trafficking victim-learn what to say and what not to say.
  4. Learn the key organizations available to assist in reporting a possible trafficking victim and become familiar with local/state organizations that are available to the healthcare provider.
  5. Identify key factors in making your office a trauma-informed office.
  6. Become familiar with the techniques of force, fraud and coercion used by traffickers and the control mechanisms that continue to promote and exploit victims globally.
  7. Learn what you as a healthcare provider can do to stop these atrocious crimes against victims from human traffickers, drug cartels and human smugglers.
  8. List the key professions involved in the subsets of both labor and sex trafficking.
  9. Become comfortable with key communication factors in approaching a human trafficking victim in conversation.
  10. Identify the verbal, physical and dental clues that indicate a patient may be a trafficking victim or a perpetrator.
  11. Understand the characteristics of individuals who become targets for perpetrators.


The educational teaching methodology used in this course is a lecture presented via live webinar in concert with an accompanying PowerPoint presentation. Both the live lecture and the PowerPoint presentation incorporate a variety of audio and visual cues to enhance audience members’ understanding and retention of key concepts. In addition, audience participation will be encouraged and facilitated by group discussions as well as question and answer periods provided for at the conclusion of each section of the live webinar.


Concord Dental & Medical Seminars is not supported by any commercial organization, receives no grants or funding, and its revenues are derived only from the tuition of the attendees of the seminars that it sponsors. Our organization and the speakers that we hire do not sponsor, promote or sell any commercial products, tapes, books, instruments, forms or other materials for this course.