Our Courses

All of us have experienced patient consultations where the patient has severe dental wear. How many times do you hear a clinician default to recommending a night guard?  What if the wear is actually occurring during the day during normal function?  In some cases, even modest changes in tooth position could offer dramatic assistance to other members of the interdisciplinary team to improve their ability to provide their highest quality treatment where the patient with a worn dentition is the ultimate beneficiary.

This presentation will include numerous patients where ortho was used in combination with other disciplines to set up these worn patients for successful restorative care.

Learning Objectives:

• To provide an overview of what types of malocclusions lead to excessive tooth wear.
• To illustrate the advantages aligners has over traditional orthodontic treatment in treating a variety of cases.
• Identify how controlling teeth in 3 dimensions can have such a positive impact on restorative care.

It doesn’t matter how good your root canal looks if you’ve treated the wrong tooth, treated the wrong problem, or if tooth survival is unlikely. Gaining a deep understanding of long-term prognosis is traditionally developed over the lifetime of practice— where prior clinical experiences and observations help guide future decision-making. But what if there’s a way to shorten this learning curve?

Systematic pathways have been developed to assist in decision-making for the pulpally compromised tooth from the endodontic perspective. Every aspect you need to know to understand prognosis has been mapped out into easy-to-follow and easy-to-understand flowcharts, using three independent and intertwining
variables. Learn exactly what these variables are and how these pathways can help you improve your prognostic confidence.

By the completion of the course, attendees should have a better understanding of

• The dominant variables that need to be considered when making endodontic treatment recommendations.
• How evidence-based systems can be used to develop a thorough understanding of long-term prognosis

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Ceramic implants have been in clinical use for over forty years. They had difficult beginnings mostly due to limitations of the materials used in the early stages but also because of early designs that were not adapted to ceramics. Their superior biocompatibility however was never put into question. The last twenty years the manufacturing protocols of load bearing ceramic such as zirconia have made significant progress in terms of the mechanical behavior of zirconia when used as an implant material. The last decade has been one where we have witnessed an “explosion” in the use of zirconia in dentistry. Along with this phenomenon the manufacturing protocols and advanced formulas of zirconia have been created which have led to zirconia
becoming a stable, biocompatible, bioinert and structurally stable implant material. Today load-bearing implant bioceramics can be categorized in two major groups, namely Yttria Stabilized Tetragonal Zirconia (Y-TZP) and Alumina Toughened Zirconia (ATZ). Thanks to these improvements, clinicians now enjoy increase flexibility and a wider range of applications for ceramic implants as the one-piece implants are now available in two-piece configurations similar to conventional implants. Therefore, cementable and screw-retained prosthetics have become possible in a broad range of edentulous situations. Questions have been raised and remain about their osseointegration and long-term performance under function in the oral environment. This presentation will present case selection, clinical and systemic patient management and case planning workflows that contribute to the long-term success of ceramic implants in different
scenarios and levels of complexity of oral rehabilitation.

Objectives:
-The evolution of zirconia as a load-bearing bioceramic
-Case selection and treatment planning
-The biological behavior of zirconia in the oral environment
-Minimizing the occurrence of complications

This course will introduce and discuss simple but advanced clinical techniques for direct & indirect restorations that can have a dramatic effect on clinical outcomes in your practice on a daily basis. The key research papers that give scientific support to these techniques will also be reviewed and discussed. The first of these papers was published in 1994 on the immediate sealing of dentin & then resin coating. In the 28 years since the introduction of this clinical technique there have been numerous research papers confirming a dramatic increase in dentin bond strengths, as well as partial coverage restorations. Additional studies have also shown that the pulp is insulated and protected from bacteria, temperature and electrical conductance more than even a natural tooth.

Learning Objectives:
• How to perform immediate dentin sealing & resin coating with direct and indirect restorations
• How to perform deep margin elevation
• How to bond and seal dentin after RCT to help prevent retreatment (leakage)
• Technique for bonding partial coverage restorations after IDS & Resin Coating
• Temporization techniques after ID

Why you should Stop using Chlorhexidine and the alternatives.

You hate that it stains and builds up calculus but using Chlorhexidine can be much worse. Find out all the side effects and contraindications for using this antiquated product. Discover an alternative, designed specifically to replace Chlorhexidine, that does not stain, can be used daily and has a high patient compliance.

We live in a TikTok world. Patients often go to social media platforms not to be social but to search. Patients go home, process the treatment plan given to them, often with their significant other, and then try to understand what procedure they need and why they need it. Frequently, the patient will call the office to ask about the procedure expecting someone with clinical knowledge to answer. With the changing landscape in staffing, Dental offices need new strategies and workflows to help increase treatment acceptance by guiding the patient through their procedure and how this procedure will improve their overall health and avoid more costly procedures in the future. 

In this course, the attendees will review the principles of socket preservation after minimally traumatic extractions. They will be exposed to simple techniques for horizontal ridge augmentation.

There will be a review of prosthetically driven implant placement and treatment planning, techniques for minimally traumatic extractions, full thickness and split thickness flaps. There will be an overview of the principles behind the use of autologous blood concentrates (PRp, Prf) and their use in socket preservation and ridge augmentation, combined with mineralized freeze dried bone, and layered combinations of pericardium, collagen and PTFE membranes.

Course Objective:
-After this course the attendee should feel knowledgeable to explain the rationale of socket preservation and ridge augmentation to the patient.
-The attendee should be able to properly plan the position of an implant as well as a minimally invasive extraction of the offending tooth.
-The attendee should have a good understanding of the combination of autologous blood materials with bone and membranes, and the logic in the layering techniques which offer the most predictable results for the patient.