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Minimal sedation is a simple yet powerful tool to reduce patient anxiety and improve patient satisfaction. In Texas, Level 1 minimal sedation is easily accessible to all dentists. This presentation provides a practical and up-to-date guide to minimal sedation Texas. Attendees will learn how to safely implement minimal sedation in their daily practice while ensuring they are compliant with current Texas State Board of Dental Examiners regulations.

This program is designed to improve the participant’s ability to:

• Describe the requirements for obtaining and maintaining a Level 1 Sedation Permit in Texas
• Explain the necessary monitoring, documentation, personnel, and equipment for compliant sedation delivery
• Describe safe clinical protocols for administering minimal sedation for various patient populations
• Recognize common errors with minimal sedation in dental practice

Brandon Key, DDS earned a Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry and Spanish from the University of New Mexico, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. He then earned a Doctor of Dental Surgery Degree from UT Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Dentistry. He graduated as valedictorian of his class with a distinction in research. After dental school, Dr. Key completed a 3-year dental anesthesiology residency at Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine and University Hospital. He is a diplomate of the American Dental Board of Anesthesiology.

Dr. Key joined the UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry’s Bernard and Gloria Pepper Katz Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 2023. Since then, he has served on the anesthesia staff at Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital and as a clinical faculty member at the school of dentistry. He provides sedation and anesthesia for pediatric and adult patients in both office and hospital settings. He is actively involved in clinical and didactic dental education and research. His research interests include pediatric sedation and anesthesia, perioperative medicine, patient safety, and post-surgical pain management.

Dr. Key is originally from the beautiful state of New Mexico, but now happily calls Houston his home with his wife, who is also a devoted UTHealth doctor.

Conflict of Interest:  None disclosed.

Cancellations received before September 11, 2025 will be assessed a 25% administrative fee, cancellations received after this date will be non-refundable. Registration fees are for this meeting only.

Greater Houston Dental Society is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.

Greater Houston Dental Society designates this activity for 1.5 hours of continuing education credits.