Course Title: Innovative Periodontics: "How to" From Techniques to Products 
Course Time: 8:00 AM -11:00AM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $68 Other - $28
Lecture Room: Celestin B, 3rd floor

Course Description:

Want to utilize the dental hygienist's time more productively? Looking for a quality resource for "what's new" in dental products, systems and technology? Periodontitis is a major reason for tooth loss and systemic complications. We create the user-friendly perio approach from patient acceptance scripting to chair side positive action. You will incorporate time tested and new technologies to find and manage periodontal disease. Take the frustration out of delivering periodontal care and fair success with patient case acceptance, tooth retention and financial reward.

Course Objectives:

1. Empower the dental hygienist with expanded work descriptions beyond the "prophy"
2. Develop "realistic" non-surgical therapies and the respective re-evaluation with emphasis on "new" anti-inflammatory systems including micro-ultrasonics and laser technology, and nutraceuticals such as probiotics and anti-oxidants
3. Determine the efficacy of utilizing various laser wavelengths in sulcular decontamination, degranulation, new attachment, and bone regeneration 
4. Review successful parameters to determine tooth survival in short and long term prognosis
5. Establish a quality periodontal maintenance program that enhances the restorative practice, including third party reimbursement
6. Achieve greater positive interaction between dentists and the team through improved communication skills 

Course Title: Prevent Enamel Cruelty: Tooth Preparation for Conservative CAD/CAM Restorations
Course Time: 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $68 Other - $28
Lecture Room: Imperial 11, 4th floor

Course Description:

For many clinical situations, full coverage crowns are no longer the best choice for treating posterior teeth. Thanks to CAD/CAM technology, high quality bonded indirect restorations can be fabricated in-office in one patient visit. This evidence-based course will present a protocol for conservative posterior tooth preparations that lead to better clinical outcomes for CAD/CAM restorations, are more fun to do and most importantly, hands down, more fun to do!

Course Objectives:

1. Describe how conservative tooth preparations can lead to better restorations and long-term tooth health
2. Synthesize a tooth preparation process to yield the most conservative restoration for a given tooth condition
3. Discuss how a CAD/CAM design system can be used as a quality check for conservative tooth preparations

Course Title: Build Your Fortress of Protection and Eliminate the Four Threats! 

Sponsored by: Fortress Management 
Course Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
C.E. Credit Hours: 2 Non-Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: All Attendees - Free
Lecture Room: Imperial 9, 4th floor

Course Description: 

The Fortune Law Firm has taken its years of courtroom experience, defeating doctors and seizing their assets to create a fortress of protection against the four threats to you and your practice; trial lawyers, the NPDB, the IRS and Probate Court.

You will learn how to structure your business and personal life so that all moving pieces work in harmony to protect you, your family, and your practice.

Course Objectives:

1. The proper legal structure for your Dental Practice to maximize tax reduction at the same time protecting your Practice from the many liabilities it faces
2. The importance of Using the Investment Grade Insurance Contract to Invest Tax-Free
3. Multiple sources of lawsuits that could ruin your business and personal financial future and how to protect against them
4. How to protect your Dental License from reports to the NPDB and State Boards and ultimately stop sanctions on your Dental license
5. The value and limitations of liability insurance (i.e., potential pitfalls that arise because of policy exclusions and payout caps)
6. How a settlement from your Malpractice Insurance will trigger a report to the National Practitioners Databank (NPDB)
7. The negative effects of your name being on the NPDB

Course Title: Splint Therapy in Everyday Dentistry
Course Time: 8:15 AM - 11:15 AM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $68 Other - $28
Lecture Room: Imperial 5AB, 4th floor

Course Description:

Utilizing bite splint therapy and understanding various appliance designs can be an invaluable advantage in a more comprehensive approach to treatment planning. A step-by-step overview of the different appliances will be discussed and simplified for applications in everyday dentistry. Learn the indications, contraindications, and benefits to the different appliances with applications in dental cases and applied to predictable dental outcomes.  

Course Objectives:

1. Review of TMJ and muscle examination and anatomy
   2. Review of Occlusal Muscle Disharmony
   3. Discussion of various appliances designs and advantages/ disadvantages to appliance selection
   4. Focus on Principles and Design of Bite Splint therapy
   5. Discussion of all various appliance designs and advantages and disadvantages to appliance selection
   6. How to communicate and collaborate with your team and patients with Appliance Therapy

Course Title: Part 1- The Thriving Independent Fee for Service Practice — The Clinical Requisites Required to Achieve Independence 
Course Time: 8:15 AM - 11:15 AM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $68 Other - $28
Lecture Room: Imperial 5CD, 4th floor

Course Description: 

A lecture for the entire dental team. This course will provide a real world recipe for breaking away from third-party carriers and regaining your independence.

Dr. Rasner will cover:

• The clinical criteria for today’s independent practice.

• The safest and most profound oral sedation protocol presently unknown to you.

• An exact blueprint for atraumatic tooth removal that you should be performing. From pre-op preparation to suturing to post-op instruction.

• An introduction to surgical and prosthetic implant treatment that you need to be doing. Early case selection, standard of care bone grafting, predictable outcomes.

• Treatment planning in a challenged economy. How to responsibly recommend and provide valuable care to patients with a compromised budget. Putting out the fires cases.

In addition, he will speak on:

• The Fail-Proof Blueprint for the new graduate and for the stagnant practice.

• Four simple principles for 90% case acceptance.

• The art of getting paid up front and real world ways to reduce overhead.

• What you need to become a superstar when you weren’t born one. Why patching that filling, bonding with the new patient, and waiting to present comprehensive care down the road is killing your practice.

• The hidden jewels: the $250,000 that 99% of practices leave on the table each year.

• Protocols: what they are and why you’ll never grow without them.

• The weakest link to your profitability.

• How to solve any problem in your day in the fewest possible steps.

• How to keep staff with you for many years without going broke.

• Why most practices waste marketing dollars chasing the wrong market and more …

Course Objectives:

1. Describe the clinical criteria for today’s independent practice.
2. Recite the safest and most profound oral sedation protocol.
3. Be familiar with pre-op to post op the exact blueprint for atraumatic tooth removal.
4. Understand early case selection, standard of care bone grafting, predictable outcomes of surgical and prosthetic implant treatment.
5. Understand treatment planning in a challenged economy

Course Title: Modern Anterior Composite Techniques Making Predictable Happen (Part 1)
Course Time: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $68 Other - $28
Lecture Room: Celestin A, 3rd floor

Please note this course does not repeat. It is a continuing course but you are not required to attend Part 1 in order to attend Part 2. 

Course Description: There are a plethora of composite materials and matrices available on the market. This course aims to give the practitioner insight into some of the modern techniques available today to make modern direct composite simple and predictable. 

Course Objectives:

1. Apply principles of smile design and analysis of proportions
2.  Integrate mathematical algorithms of dental esthetics to smile design
3. Discuss composite options as well as determinants for matrix selection
4. Systematize preparation protocols such as isolation and particle abrasion for carious and non-carious restorations
5. Understand the methodologies available for direct composite including layering and injection molding
6. Discuss polishing techniques

Course Title: Maximum Immunity: Fortify Your Patients’ Defenses!
Course Time: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $68 Other - $28
Lecture Room: Celestin D, 3rd floor

Course Description: With the recent global pandemic, a healthy immune system is on everyone’s point of mind. Vaccinations have been front and center. But how else can we support and quite possibly maximize our immune system. Dental industry professionals have known for years that the body is better able to fight other infections if there is optimum oral health. In this brand new program Uche will share with you new insights on how you can FORTIFY your patients’ natural defenses and reduce disease risk & increase healing.

Course Objectives:

1. Discover the best nutrition to create a body that is a fortress against illness
2. Gain insight into simple strategies that strengthen your patients’ immune system at a cellular level
3. Enjoy a deeper communication chair side with a better understanding of the body mind connection

Course Title: Actions and Algorithms for Medical Emergencies; 2023/How to Save a Life, Including Your Own 
Course Time: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $68 Other - $28
Lecture Room: Celestin C, 3rd floor

Course Description: A CRISIS SITUATION can--and likely will--occur at some time in your practice. Many potential medical emergencies can be prevented. Gain a comprehensive command of the essential knowledge and skills needed to handle a life-threatening medical crisis. There are more medically compromised patients coming to our offices than ever before. Acquire “up to the minute” actions for dealing with a medical emergency while challenging preconceived or outdated ideas. Daniel Pompa, DDS - Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, ADA Consultant and Seminar Series Speaker - discusses the prevention, preparation, recognition and management of medical emergencies. Delivered in a multi-media presentation frequently Dr. Pompa will describe a step-by-step medical approach using a basic physical diagnostic approach, giving the attendee a clear understanding of these medical findings. We will explore the “Conversational History” and how it will uncover medical issues not revealed by the standard health history form. Additionally, the participant will learn simple, non-invasive critical tests that can reduce overall risks. We clearly delineate indications for emergency drug use and how to be more prepared if such a medical crisis should occur.

Course Objectives:

1. Discover three simple chair-side, non-invasive tests to help avoid an emergency
2. Recognize the most frequent life-threatening emergencies and know when and why they occur
3. Review a systematic approach to treat the most common life-threatening scenarios
4. Learn how to develop a plan for the office team when dealing with a crisis event

Course Title: CPR/AED (BLS) Training & Office Emergencies
Course Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: All Attendees - $99
Lecture Room: Imperial 12, 4th floor

Course Description: What would you do if you found someone who is unresponsive or witnessed someone who suddenly became unresponsive?  Would you panic?  Would you know what to do?  Do you know the legal consequences of your actions or inaction?  Or worse yet, what if it happens in your home or office? Attend this hands-on seminar to learn the latest information on effectively providing emergency help in serious and life-threatening situations.  In this thorough, but practical course, District Chief Iggy Rosales, a critical care paramedic and registered nurse, will review medical emergencies, medications, laws, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to help keep you calm and effective in practically any emergency situation in the office, out in public, or at home. 

Course Objectives:

1. Laws governing emergency situations.
2. How to properly respond to medical emergencies, including appropriate treatment modalities.
3. CPR for adults, children, and infants.
4. Use of AEDs in medical emergencies.

Course Title: Social Media & HIPAA Compliance - Simple Ways to Protect your Practice 
Sponsored by: Compliancy Group

Course Time: 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 2 Non-Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: All Attendees - Free
Lecture Room: Imperial 9, 4th floor

Course Description: 

Some of the most common misunderstandings dental professionals face stem from how to use social media in a HIPAA compliant manner. To do so, Employees must be properly trained on how to use social media. Without adequate employee training, your organization may be subject to fines due to the misuse of social media. 

Whether your practice uses Facebook to attract new clients or your employees post about their workday on Twitter, improper use of social media can lead to major HIPAA violations. With the widespread use of smartphones and access to apps like Instagram and Snapchat, these violations are more frequent than ever before. 

The question becomes: How can your practice use social media without violating HIPAA? 

Learn how your employees can use social media ethically while protecting your practice from HIPAA violations. You’ll be instructed on how to create effective policies surrounding the use of mobile phones and social media in the office, and given real-life examples of HIPAA breaches that occurred due to improper social media usage.

Course Objectives:

1. Learn how to respond correctly to social media posts
2. Best practices for social media use in the workplace
3. Consequences for incorrect use of social media in your practice

Course Title: One Step Alveolar Ridge Preservation Without the Need for a Membrane

Sponsored by Impladent Ltd.
Course Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $68 Other - $28
Lecture Room: Imperial 9, 4th floor

Course Description:

This course will demonstrate a series of simple, cost-effective and predictable and clinical uses for bone regeneration focused on one step alveolar ridge preservation using novel composite graft/collagen materials. The speaker will review cost-effective surgical techniques for both everyday tooth extractions as well as innovative surgical procedures for ridge preservation, sinus lift as well as grafting around immediately-placed implants. The speaker will cover current clinical guidelines and the scientific rationales behind them.

Course Objectives:

1. Understand alveolar ridge preservation and why it is important to graft sockets as well as recognize the clinical indications and benefits of grafting extraction sites.
2. Demonstrate simple, predictable, and cost-effective socket grafting techniques without the use of a membrane
3. Review additional surgical applications covering post-extraction grafting around immediate implant placement including filling interproximal and facial gaps after extraction
4. Learn novel techniques for successful sinus elevation and bone grafting for immediate implant placement

Course Title: The "New" Periodontal Disease: "Inflammatory & Risky"
Course Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $68 Other - $28
Lecture Room: Celestin B, 3rd floor

Course Description: 

Periodontitis has entered into a new frontier as not only a major chronic infection but moreover a disease of chronic inflammation. Recent studies demonstrate that the incidence of periodontitis has been underestimated by 50%. Determining who is at risk and the corresponding therapy and management is a significant component of effective treatment. Dental school provides the science. This course transforms the science into actual dental practice.

Course Objectives:

1. Learn an approach for managing inflammation as a systemic and local immune response with antioxidants and microthin ultrasonic/laser combos
2. Recognize management of periodontitis as a major chronic inflammatory systemic disease
3. Determine the role of traditional and non-traditional therapies in controlling periodontitis
4. Utilize risk assessment to determine susceptibility
5. Incorporate the new paradigm of periodontal medicine into the practice
6. Consider genetics, diet (probiotics/nutraceuticals), and stress as variables in controlling disease

Course Title: Become Digitally Indispensable: CAD/CAM for Dental Assistants
Course Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $68 Other - $28
Lecture Room: Imperial 11, 4th floor

Course Description:

CAD/CAM technology continues to revolutionize the art of restorative dentistry.  Fabricating high quality indirect restorations, in-office, in a single visit, has tremendous appeal to both patients and the dental team.   CAD/CAM dentistry allows dental assistants to be directly involved in the delivery of final restorations in ways never before possible.  This course will provide an evidence-based overview of the current state of CAD/CAM dentistry as well as specific clinical skills the dental assistant can contribute to the process.   Becoming “digitally indispensable” can be an extremely rewarding addition to any dental assistant’s career!

Course Objectives:

1. Discuss the current state of CAD/CAM dental technology as supported by scientific evidence
2. Identify the steps in fabricating a single-tooth CAD/CAM restoration from start to finish.
3. Learn basic skills required to obtain the digital scans and design a CAD/CAM restoration.
4. Identify steps in preparing a milled CAD/CAM restoration for cementation.
5. Learn the dental assistant’s role in the cementation of CAD/CAM fabricated restorations. 

Course Title: Start from the TMJ and Finish with a Big Smile
Course Time: 1:15 PM - 4:15 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $68 Other- $28
Lecture Room: Imperial 5AB, 4th floor

Course Description:

Let’s make it simple and bring it all together by learning more about the Temporomandibular Joint and how we use the information to create smiles.  Understanding the Temporomandibular Joint and related muscles can impact final restorative outcomes.  Applying Splint therapy in different clinical situations to ensure a successful restorative outcome in simple to complex comprehensive restorative cases.  Starting from the TMJ evaluation to the final design of the smile can restore form, form, and esthetics through knowledge in appliance therapy, occlusion, and equilibration.  

Course Objectives:

1. Review of TMJ and muscle examination and anatomy  
2. Review of cases from treatment of the TMD to final smile
3. Discuss posterior and anterior determinants of occlusion
4. Review Rules of Occlusion as it related to the cases presented
5. Discuss principles of prep design in smile an anterior esthetics case
6. Review cementation procedures 

Course Title: Part 2- The Thriving Independent Fee for Service Practice — The Clinical Requisites Required to Achieve Independence (this is a continuation from Part 1.)
Course Time: 1:15 PM - 4:15 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $68 Other - $28
Lecture Room: Imperial 5CD, 4th floor

Course Description: 

A lecture for the entire dental team. This course will provide a real world recipe for breaking away from third-party carriers and regaining your independence.

Dr. Rasner will cover:

• The clinical criteria for today’s independent practice.

• The safest and most profound oral sedation protocol presently unknown to you.

• An exact blueprint for atraumatic tooth removal that you should be performing. From pre-op preparation to suturing to post-op instruction.

• An introduction to surgical and prosthetic implant treatment that you need to be doing. Early case selection, standard of care bone grafting, predictable outcomes.

• Treatment planning in a challenged economy. How to responsibly recommend and provide valuable care to patients with a compromised budget. Putting out the fires cases.

In addition, he will speak on:

• The Fail-Proof Blueprint for the new graduate and for the stagnant practice.

• Four simple principles for 90% case acceptance.

• The art of getting paid up front and real world ways to reduce overhead.

• What you need to become a superstar when you weren’t born one. Why patching that filling, bonding with the new patient, and waiting to present comprehensive care down the road is killing your practice.

• The hidden jewels: the $250,000 that 99% of practices leave on the table each year.

• Protocols: what they are and why you’ll never grow without them.

• The weakest link to your profitability.

• How to solve any problem in your day in the fewest possible steps.

• How to keep staff with you for many years without going broke.

• Why most practices waste marketing dollars chasing the wrong market and more …

Course Objectives:

1. Describe the clinical criteria for today’s independent practice.
2. Recite the safest and most profound oral sedation protocol.
3. Be familiar with pre-op to post op the exact blueprint for atraumatic tooth removal.
4. Understand early case selection, standard of care bone grafting, predictable outcomes of surgical and prosthetic implant treatment.
5. Understand treatment planning in a challenged economy

Course Title: Modern Anterior Composite Techniques Making Predictable Happen (Part 2)

Course Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $68 Other - $28
Lecture Room: Celestin A, 3rd floor

Please note this course does not repeat. It is a continuing course but you are not required to attend Part 1 in order to attend Part 2. 

Course Description: There are a plethora of composite materials and matrices available on the market. This course aims to give the practitioner insight into some of the modern techniques available today to make modern direct composite simple and predictable. 

Course Objectives:

1. Apply principles of smile design and analysis of proportions
2. Integrate mathematical algorithms of dental esthetics to smile design
3. Discuss composite options as well as determinants for matrix selection
4. Systematize preparation protocols such as isolation and particle abrasion for carious and non-carious restorations
5. Understand the methodologies available for direct composite including layering and injection molding
6. Discuss polishing techniques

Course Title: Inflammation 911: The Mouth-Body-Mind Connection!
Course Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $68 Other - $28
Lecture Room: Celestin D, 3rd floor

Course Description: Welcome to the Jungle! Want to learn about “permanent lifestyle change” and SLASH your patients’ disease risk? There is an avalanche of evidence demonstrating the connection between your patients’ mouths with modern lifestyle habits: lack of sleep (saps their discipline), shift work (after 4 night-shifts blood sugar is elevated), poorly managed stress (shows up in every cell of their body), overeating (high fat & processed food boosts inflammation), and sedentary living (did you know “Sitting is the New Smoking?”). And it’s bi-directional; the oral environment has far reaching effects on the rest of the body.

Patients appreciate the dental health professional who sees the bigger picture and truly understands the relationship between the body, mind & mouth. Set yourself apart from the pack and develop a VALUE-ADDED PRACTICE. Stop the deadly “rock n roll” cascade with specific dental & lifestyle solutions guaranteed to change your patient’s health destiny. This fact filled & inspirational program is a ‘call to arms’ against “party all night” inflammation – “let’s douse the flames!”

Course Objectives:

1. Expand your knowledge of the BODY-MOUTH connection
2. Understand why certain patients do not respond well to your hygiene programs
3. Learn how periodontitis increases the odds of someone developing insulin resistance two-fold.
4. Recognize the destructive INFLAMMATORY CASCADE in your patients.
5. See that insurance companies are beginning to recognize the power of enhanced dental coverage to lower hospital costs & decrease MD visits for their diabetic patients
6. Make the connection between diabetes, insulin resistance, & inflammation
7. Learn how to spot the SLEEP DEPRIVED PATIENT. Hint, 30% of Americans are shift workers and are living in a “jet lag” state.
8. Discover how visceral fat behaves like an active organ releasing inflammatory cytokines causing havoc throughout the entire body & mouth.
9. Learn the new science on GUT FLORA - human microbiome, probiotics and prebiotics
10. Spot how stress shows up in your patient’s mouth
11. Develop a VALUE-ADDED PRACTICE inspire patients to become RAVING FANS!
12. Understand how chronic dehydration adversely influences your patient’s biochemistry
13. Calculate BMI (Body Mass Index) easily for yourself or your patient
14. Identify 7 KEY foods & lifestyle habits that contribute to inflammation – EAT THIS NOT THAT!
15. Learn which exercises best fight inflammation in your body
16. Put into practice some simple solutions to modify your patient’s behavior
17. Implement a new dimension to your treatment planning
18. Become confident and learn the language of wellness
19. Learn an easy two minute script to educate & motivate your patients
20. Develop leadership strategies to get your entire office on board focusing on whole body health.
21. Create a circle of influence with allied health professionals (RMT’s, DC’s, RD and CPT’s)

Course Title: The "Top 10 List" for Essential Drugs in the Emergency Kit 
Course Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $68 Other - $28
Lecture Room: Celestin C, 3rd floor

Course Description: We will describe the drugs and their proper doses and routes of administration.  Dr. Pompa will also demonstrate how to assemble and maintain an ideal emergency drug kit. The newest drugs now available for an emergency will be reviewed along with techniques for drug administration will be shown for participants to hone their skills utilizing real drugs. Attendees will receive and review color-coded instructional cards depicting the most common life-threatening situations with algorithms providing an easy to follow action plan for both dentist and team members. We will also review the legal and moral obligations that are presented during a medical crisis. In addition, we will discuss three basic tests that can easily be performed to help in the physical diagnosis of a patients medical status and help in a medical crisis. 

Course Objectives:

1. Utilize a systematic approach for each emergency depicted on color-coded cards
2. Determine when to administer the Essential“Top10” emergency drugs
3. Implement three simple chair-side, non-invasive tests, to help avoid an emergency
4. Know the legal and moral obligations that are presented during a medical crisis

Course Title: How is it that Some Patients Can Afford a New TV, But They Can't Afford a Root Canal?
Course Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Non- Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: All Attendees- $39
Lecture Room: Imperial 12, 4th floor

Course Description:

Dental case acceptance and refusal often cannot be rationally explained. Our profession has taught us that the ability to smile and properly function is tremendously valuable, yet we often find patients seemingly incapable of understanding such value. Instead of negatively judging these patients, it is important that we understand what is actually going on inside our patient's heads at the time when complex dental recommendations are made. By understanding our patients, we will become much more successful at getting them to understand us and realize the value of what we have to offer.

Course Objectives:

1. Develop a patient-centered, emotion-based clinical exam, shedding the coldness and objectivity taught in dental school
2. Understand the major psychological barriers preventing patients from moving forward with treatment, and learn the best ways to uncover and empathize with those
3. Discover the value in starting the new patient interview during the initial phone call
4. Return to the office the next day with several actionable tools that will get your patients to say "yes" to complex full mouth treatment

Workshop Title: Artistry and Efficiency with Composite Restorations
Course Time: 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: All Attendees - $153
Lecture Room: Imperial 11, 4th floor

Course Description: Most dentists spend a considerable part of their day placing composite restorations. During these appointments they manage preparation designs, matrix systems, dental adhesives, filling materials and finishing techniques. This course will utilize clinical videos, hands-on demonstration and product sampling to improve the predictability and esthetics of this popular restoration for both anterior and posterior teeth. Particular emphasis will be placed on the newest materials and tips and tricks to improve efficiency.

Course Objectives:

1. Examine the best ways to avoid the dreaded “white line” Determine when to add a bevel to the preparation
2. Discuss materials that mimic the natural appearance of teeth
3. Discover how to match surface textures and shine
4. Create a matrix for predictably tight contacts and closed margins
5. Learn how to manage post-operative sensitivity

Lecture Title: Treatment of Anterior Discolorations 
Course Time: 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $73 Other - $32
Lecture Room: Celestin A, 3rd floor

Course Description: Discoloration of anterior teeth can result from a disruption in mineralization of the forming tooth or from the process of caries on the formed tooth. Both dysmineralization and white spot lesions may be an esthetic concern for many patients. Resin infiltration and microabrasion are 2 different conservative treatments for these discolorations. This lecture will review clinical tips for case selection for both types of treatment as well as the steps to perform both techniques.

Course Objectives:

1. Review the clinical signs to determine which cases will have the best chance for success with microabrasion or resin infiltration
2.  Review the clinical steps to perform microabrasion and resin infiltration
3.  Present clinical cases with both treatments

Lecture Title: IV Sedation in the Dental Office
Sponsored by Prime Anesthesia Services 
Course Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
C.E. Credit Hours: 2 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $32 Other - $17
Lecture Room: Imperial 9, 4th floor

Course Description: 

The course will discuss what an anesthesia company can provide for patients undergoing oral surgery in an office based setting. The course will discuss evidence based pharmacology, patient safety and satisfaction, and daily operational workflow systems. 

Course Objectives: 

1.  Dentists will gain better insight into the advantages of IV Sedation for their patients. 
2.  To understand the current Louisiana laws of the Dentist and CRNA relationship.
3.  Dentists will learn more in depth knowledge of the pharmacodynamics in comparing Oral vs. IV sedation.
4.  Dentists will learn how the service has the potential to aid in practice growth.

Course Title: Bugs, Drugs and Food Fads: Considerations for the Dental Professional 
Course Time: 8:15 AM - 11:15 AM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $73 Other - $32
Lecture Room: Celestin D, 3rd floor

Course Description: 

We are a self-medicating, hype believing society that wants a quick fix fast. If Dr. Oz says it’s good for us—we head straight to the local pharmacy or health store to see if we can find it on the shelves! Our bodies need vitamins and minerals to function efficiently but which ones—and how much? Probiotic use is a fast growing market in regards to general health and oral health. What are the implications for use in dentistry? Supplements promise everything from weight loss to increased energy. How can we be certain the claims are true? Do food trends such as Acai berry, energy drinks and juicing have a potential impact on oral health? As dental professionals, we need to be aware of the changing landscape of probiotic use, dietary supplements and food fads and how these trends could potentially impact patient care.

Course Objectives:

1. Define probiotic and identify common probiotics and their implications for dentistry.
2. Discuss the use of vitamin and mineral supplementation specific to various patient populations.
3. Know how to determine if a vitamin or mineral is considered safe and pure by U.S. Standards.
4. Provide patients with useful resources to determine risk versus benefits of certain supplements.
5. Discuss fad diets, the varying food trends and the potential impact on oral health.

Course Title:  Safety and Simplicity in Root Canal Instrumentation and Obturation: myths, metal and motion

Sponsored by: Real World Endo
Course Time: 8:15 AM - 11:15 AM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $73 Other - $32
Lecture Room: Imperial 5CD, 4th floor

Course Description:

Nearly 31 years since the introduction of Nickel Titanium Rotary Files to endodontics, we’ve learned much about the clinical strengths and limitations of these great instruments. As a result of recent improvements in metallurgy, enhanced designs, and innovative rotary file motions, we now need to understand how these changes affect clinical instrumentation. Furthermore, in parallel to improvements in instrumentation technology, root canal obturation has been revolutionized in the area of cement/sealer technology. These obturation improvements are allowing more efficient obturation techniques at lower costs. Finally, combining improvements on both instrumentation and obturation front is now allowing us to create more efficient instrumentation and obturation techniques that are safe, simple, and predictable. During this presentation, Dr. Fleury will talk about these points with specific emphasis on access, irrigation, instrumentation, and obturation. 

Course Objectives:

1. Learn how rotary file design, metallurgy and motion influences instrumentation safety and efficiency.
2.  Comprehend the advantages of bioceramic based obturation and clinical techniques for its implementation.
3.  Discover how instrumentation and obturation protocols can be combined as a comprehensive system to achieve both efficiency and predictability in most clinical situations.

Course Title: Implant Retained Removables: The Least-Stressful Replacement Option
Course Time: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $73 Other - $32
Lecture Room: Imperial 5AB, 4th floor

Course Description: When faced with either partial or full edentulism, the options that are available to most patients are often limited to either conventional dentures, which are poorly retained, or implant-retained fixed prostheses, which are very expensive, complicated, and stressful for the providing dentist.  Implant retained removable dentures are a wonderful “middle-ground” option.  The problem is that they require knowledge and comfort with all the tiny parts and pieces needed for successful execution.  In this entertaining and highly practical presentation, Dr. Gupta simplifies this process, providing a simple, step-by-step guide from the new patient consult all the way to final seating.

Course Objectives:

1. Gain a general overview of all long-span replacement options, understanding the benefits and limitations of each
2.  Discover the long-term benefits that implant retained removable options uniquely create
3.  Attain clear understanding of the details, steps, and supplies needed from start to finish
4.  Understanding several internal and external marketing strategies to individuals in your community who are frustrated with their ill-fitting dentures

Course Title: The Business of Dentistry in 2023
Course Time: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Non-Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: All Attendees- $39
Lecture Room: Imperial 12, 4th floor

Course Description: Forget the days of past, in fact forget everything pre 2010, survival for a dental office today must involve contemporary business concepts that enable it to run extremely efficient and yet be incredibly personal. Forget just watching how much a bib costs or how much cash you have in your office checking account, this course is all about understanding the latest economic and demographic changes in dentistry and what you can do to proper, versus join every PPO and hope to pay your monthly lab bill!  This course is for the entire team to attend because it takes a team to change.

Course Objectives:

1. “Actionable” analytics, that drive your huddles and monthly meetings
2. Understanding how best to utilize today’s technologies that can grow your business and clinical efficiency, the must haves!
3. Why Key Performance Indicators drive market and ROI in the office
4. Hygiene growth equates to practice growth, seeing is believing
5. The In-office dental plan, steps A to Z and why these are NOT an option today

Course Title: Overcoming Barriers to Dental Care for All Anxious and Special-needs Patients
Course Time: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $73 Other - $32
Lecture Room: Celestin C, 3rd floor

Course Description: This course will provide some basic knowledge and tools to treat difficult or unmanageable patients. Attendees will hear examples of complicated cases involving medically compromised or mentally challenged patients, from the apprehensive to the combative, from infancy to old age. This session will use live demos to address how to open and keep open the mouths of uncooperative patients including props, gentle restraints, drugs, and laughing gas, and hovercraft air glide dental or chairs. A separate afternoon session will teach more advanced techniques and tools.

Course Objectives: 

1. Understand the options available for people with dental anxiety, fears and phobias 
2. Appreciate that there is a solution to every obstacle in treating fearful, anxious, and special-needs patients.
3. Become familiar with clinical techniques for performing standard procedures on difficult, compromised, or otherwise unmanageable patients of all ages and medical or mental conditions in various settings.
4. Explore equipment and tools including gentle wraps, props, drugs, gas, portable imaging systems, hovercraft operatory chairs, and more.
5. Discover little-known techniques for opening the mouths of any patient, and keeping them open.

Lecture Title: Intentional Communication: Connecting with Clarity, One Conversation at a Time
Course Time: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Non-Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: All Attendees- $39
Lecture Room: Celestin B, 3rd floor

Course Description: 

In this course we will explore all the areas of your practice (and yourself) that can be impacted by intentional communication. This course will help you see how you can impact your workplace environment by simply tapping into your ability to intentionally communicate. We will lean in to the human defaults around communication and learn ways to sharpen our skills for more fruitful outcomes, and a lighter work/life experience. Our focus will be on cultivating a healthy workplace culture, conversations with patients, and a Compass signature system...the Internal Study Club. We will dive into systems, ideas and how we can elevate our meetings, do we can experience the human-side to everything we do logistically. So wear your tennis shoes...It's Friday, we will laugh, we will learn, and bring your journals, because you may want to write this down!

Course Objectives: 

1. Learn what intentional communication is, and how to do it
2. How to use intentional communication to work better as a team
3. Find our how to conduct your own Internal Study Club
4. Discover ways to create communication "touch points" in your day to day
5. Untap the potential of your performance by using top notch customer service skills

Lecture Title: Modern Materials in a Digital Era

Sponsored by Glidewell Dental
Course Time: 10:15 AM - 12:15 AM
C.E. Credit Hours: 2 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $32 Other - $17
Lecture Room: Imperial 9, 4th floor

Course Description: 

Advancements in technology have brought a wave of digital solutions from the laboratory to the clinic environment. With intraoral scanners and new milling capabilities, there has never been a greater opportunity for dentists to control the restorative process while boosting productivity and maximizing patient comfort and convenience.

Course Objectives: 

• Understand the requirements and techniques for digitizing the clinical workflow
• How to digitally design a functional and esthetic restoration
• Material choices based on their indications
• How to produce quality restorations with chairside milling

Course Title: Keep What You Earn  

Sponsored by: Legally Mine
Course Time: 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 2 Non-Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: All Attendees - Free
Lecture Room: Imperial 9, 4th floor

Course Description: Legally Mine will show you how to stop the threat of lawsuits before they ever get started by protecting your assets in time tested and proven legal structures. These same structures allow us to help our tax attorneys shave what you would normally pay in income taxes. These are little known tax helps that have significant case history and have stood the test of time.

Course Objectives:

1. Correct structuring strategies to protect all assets, business and personal from any lawsuit, from any direction
2. Maintain the focus of their medical practice on improved patient care rather than malpractice defense.
3. How through understanding your legal structuring you can lower your income tax.
4. The proper usage of trust, partnership and LLC’s among other entities.
5. Protecting the doctor's license is vital. We will introduce you to a streamlined collection of effective protocols to help protect the doctor’s license.

Workshop Title: Exquisite Temporaries Made Simple
Course Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: All Attendees - $153
Lecture Room: Imperial 11, 4th floor

Course Description:

The placement of temporary restorations is common in all dental practices because it allows patients to use their teeth during the manufacturing phase of their restorative treatment and evaluate any changes to their existing dentition. As a whole, the dental profession has not placed much emphasis on the importance of well-fabricated temporaries because their service is usually short in duration. The opportunity to improve patient function, practice efficiency and communication with the laboratory technician exists if we pay attention to modern materials and techniques. This workshop will help participants experience the advantages of using chemical cure composite resins (bis-acrylates) and the proper technique to fabricate temporaries that closely match the desired final restorations including shape, surface texture and polish.

Course Objectives:

1. Master the fabrication of an appropriate matrix quickly and accurately
2. Use modern materials that mimic the natural appearance of teeth
3. Match surface texture and shine with ease

Lecture Title: Prevention and Non-Surgical Treatment of Caries
Course Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $73 Other - $32
Lecture Room: Celestin A, 3rd floor

Course Description:

 Despite our best efforts to restore natural dentition with adhesive dentistry, all restorations are inferior to natural tooth structure and susceptible to secondary caries. This lecture presents a simple approach for treating caries based on the risk factors of our patients. We will discuss new products and techniques used to arrest caries (such as Silver Diamine Fluoride) as well as review time-tested approaches (such as fluoride-containing products and diet modification recommendations). This course if friendly for the entire dental team (including dentists, hygienists, and assistants).

Course Objectives:

1. Review four distinct types of high caries risk patients
2.  Present protocols and techniques for treating each type of high caries risk patient
3.  Review the evidence for fluoride

Course Title: Nutrition Myths, Diet Fallacies and Magical Unicorns: Oh MY!
Course Time: 1:15 PM - 4:15 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $73 Other - $32
Lecture Room: Celestin D, 3rd floor

Course Description: 

The population is growing… and so are our waist lines! Everyone wants to find the holy grail of weight loss—giving in to diets that sound too good to be true--promising rapid loss of pounds, no need for exercise and the ability to eat whatever you want! Associations between fad diet practices and oral health status can alter dental care and treatment outcomes. Weight loss surgery is a growing trend for those who have been battling the bulge. As the number of individuals choosing weight loss surgery rises, dental professionals need to be aware of the potential implications for the oral cavity.

Course Objectives: 

1. Identify oral risk factors more common in patients who have undergone weight loss surgery.
2. Discuss oral concerns about fad diets with patients during the clinical visit.
3. Have a greater awareness of oral risk factors associated with weight loss surgery, fad diets and the role of the oral health care professional during patient care.

Course Title: Clinical Endodontics for the General Dentist
Course Time: 1:15 PM - 4:15 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $73 Other - $32
Lecture Room: Imperial 5CD, 4th floor

Course Description: In this lecture program, Dr. Fleury will focus on current concepts of root canal access preparation, instrumentation, and obturation. Emphasis will be placed on clinical factors that help improve the long-term successful outcomes when utilizing modern and efficient techniques. This lecture will include a discussion on the use of effective irrigation protocols to improve clinical outcomes and incorporating ultrasonic technology during the irrigation phase of treatment. A blended instrumentation technique that combines heat-treated and non-heat treated files to achieve a robust instrumentation protocol and incorporating a bioceramic based obturation technique for simple and effective root canal obturation will also be discussed. Dr. Fleury will showcase details to help all attendees gain their own ‘how-to’ understanding about the blended technique. This ‘must-see’ event will also include a simple drill-less post technique discussion along with techniques for achieving profound local anesthesia and controlling post-operative pain.

Course Objectives:

1. Learn a robust blended instrumentation system achieving safe cleaning and shaping of a variety of root canal shapes and sizes.
2.  Learn to obturate the shaped canals with a simple and efficient, bioceramic based obturation technique.
3.  Learn how to achieve profound local anesthesia for root canal treatment.    

Course Title: WORKSHOP: Implant Retained Removables: The Least-Stressful Replacement Option
Course Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: All Attendees - $153
Lecture Room: Imperial 5AB, 4th floor

Course Description: In the morning presentation about implant retained overdentures, Dr. will have shown the incredible potential that frequently providing such a service will provide for your office and your professional identity.  However, the small pieces, parts, and steps involved, can be overwhelming for any participant who is merely listening.  During this 3-hour afternoon hands-on workshop, participants will have the opportunity to restore an edentulous arch on a model, add locators, pick up metal housings, and replace retention caps.

Course Objectives:

1. Understand the small nuances that differentiate various locator accessories
2. Utilize the most valuable tools for predictable locator placement, denture fabrication, and metal housing pickup
3. Understand the tools and pieces in a typical restorative kit

Speaker: Dr. Harvey Levy

Course Title: Overcoming Barriers to Dental Care for All Anxious and Special-needs Patients

Course Description: This course will provide some basic knowledge and tools to treat difficult or unmanageable patients. Attendees will hear examples of complicated cases involving medically compromised or mentally challenged patients, from the apprehensive to the combative, from infancy to old age. This session will use live demos to address how to open and keep open the mouths of uncooperative patients including props, gentle restraints, drugs, and laughing gas, and hovercraft air glide dental or chairs. A separate afternoon session will teach more advanced techniques and tools.

Course Objectives: 

1. Understand the options available for people with dental anxiety, fears and phobias 
2. Appreciate that there is a solution to every obstacle in treating fearful, anxious, and special-needs patients.
3. Become familiar with clinical techniques for performing standard procedures on difficult, compromised, or otherwise unmanageable patients of all ages and medical or mental conditions in various settings.
4. Explore equipment and tools including gentle wraps, props, drugs, gas, portable imaging systems, hovercraft operatory chairs, and more.
5. Discover little-known techniques for opening the mouths of any patient, and keeping them open.

Course Title: Diagnostically Driven Dentistry: The Business of Dentistry and How it All Fits Together 
Course Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Non-Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: All Attendees- $39
Lecture Room: Imperial 12, 4th floor

Course Description: In dentistry, superior diagnostics relates to creating more efficient methodologies to result in better decision making and ultimately a higher quality of care and long-term success. Ultimately these diagnostics can actually lower the costs to the patient by creating far more customized approaches to their dental care and equally create the ideal treatment plans for long term success. This course will take the attendee into modern day general dentistry and demonstrate why the GP must be in control in how they integrate treatments with their specialists. Throughout the day, the business of dentistry will be presented, integrating the latest in software technologies and “actionable analytics” to demonstrate clear pathways in creating office/hygiene growth. This is a great team course and is designed with common sense approaches to drive your office forward.

Course Objectives:

1. Creating the ideal initial exam, customized per patient and how it intertwines with your in office dental plan
2. How transillumination, fluorescence, digital imaging and CBCT technology truly supplement your explorers and 2D x-rays
3. Today’s recall exam, why it becomes the health of your practice
4.  New protocols that truly challenge traditional dentistry
5. Today’s initial exam and why CBCT imaging will be replacing the FMX, and it will!
6. Truly Personalizing your communications, why it is not an option!
7. The latest in clinical treatments that include: treating refractory periodontal disease, selective caries removal, digital scanning, and a novel approach to implant restorative single units
8. Why KPI’s are becoming essential to your practice and which analytics are the keys to your office’s growth

Course Title: Successful Treatment of All Patients with Anxiety or Special-needs 
Course Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $73 Other - $32
Lecture Room: Celestin C, 3rd floor

Course Description: This course is supplemental and independent of the morning basics course, teaching additional tools for treating difficult or unmanageable patients. This will include imaging, lighting, drugs, nitrous oxide, and offsite dental care such as operating rooms and nursing homes. This motivating and informative course will teach techniques for successful patient management in many health settings. It will describe dental care at alternate facilities, including private homes, nursing homes, hospice, institutions, surgical centers, hospital operating rooms, and out in the field. The course will include a live demo of some of the tools, equipment and supplies discussed in the presentation.

Course Objectives:

1. Appreciate how personally gratifying and professionally rewarding it can be to treat anxious, medically compromised and special-needs patients.
2. Learn clinical techniques for performing standard procedures on difficult, compromised, or otherwise unmanageable patients, more advanced than today’s separate morning course
3. Examine helpful clinical tools to treat difficult patients using oral conscious sedation, snugly wraps, safe oral props, hovercraft airglide operatory chairs, intraoral lighting, portable x-ray units, and more.
4. Understand how treating this patient population will greatly expand your practice for all patients with zero costly advertising.
5.  Be able to implement protocols and checklists for treating patients with anxiety or special-needs in the office, hospital, operating room, etc.

Lecture Title: 10 Steps to Implement Your Ideas Successfully: The key to sustainable operating systems
Course Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Non-Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: All Attendees- $39
Lecture Room: Celestin B, 3rd floor

Course Description: 

Do you and your team struggle to take your ideas for the practice to the finish line? This course is for the Doctor and everyone on the team! In this course we will walk through the 10 steps that help us to take important ideas from thoughts, to sustainable routines. Our practice operations are threatened everyday by the sometimes unpredictable nature of patient care. So in this course we will talk about how to identify the systems that need implemented, how to develop them, how to get them implemented in the practice, and how to make them stick. You won't want to miss this eye opening, organizational roadmap!

Course Objectives: 

1. Learn 10 steps to organize and implement systems
2. Discover how to use our "Implementation Tool Kit" as your @Compass (we will give this to you as a free gift!)
3. Identify the blind spots in your practice that may be interrupting optimal practice performance
4. Get comfortable using intentional communication and workbook like resources to solve your practices problems
5. See the possibilities when it comes to having a practice that fires on all cylinders

Course Title: Build Your Fortress of Protection and Eliminate the Four Threats! 

Sponsored by: Fortress Management 
Course Time: 2:45 PM - 4:45 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 2 Non-Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: All Attendees - Free
Lecture Room: Imperial 9, 4th floor

Course Description: 

The Fortune Law Firm has taken its years of courtroom experience, defeating doctors and seizing their assets to create a fortress of protection against the four threats to you and your practice; trial lawyers, the NPDB, the IRS and Probate Court.

You will learn how to structure your business and personal life so that all moving pieces work in harmony to protect you, your family, and your practice.

Course Objectives:

1. The proper legal structure for your Dental Practice to maximize tax reduction at the same time protecting your Practice from the many liabilities it faces
2. The importance of Using the Investment Grade Insurance Contract to Invest Tax-Free
3. Multiple sources of lawsuits that could ruin your business and personal financial future and how to protect against them
4. How to protect your Dental License from reports to the NPDB and State Boards and ultimately stop sanctions on your Dental license
5. The value and limitations of liability insurance (i.e., potential pitfalls that arise because of policy exclusions and payout caps)
6. How a settlement from your Malpractice Insurance will trigger a report to the National Practitioners Databank (NPDB)
7. The negative effects of your name being on the NPDB

Course Time:  8:45 AM - 11:45 AM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $60 Other - $23
Lecture Room: Imperial 12, 4th floor

Course Title: Color in Dentistry: Its Role in the Aesthetic Arena 
Course Time: 12:45 PM - 3:45 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $60 Other - $23
Lecture Room: Celestin A, 3rd floor

Course Description: Life without color would be drab and virtually intolerable. This presentation outlines the basic principles of color and applies them to the everyday practice of dentistry. Color perception and acuity will be discussed in detail. Clinicians will better understand how important color is in the successful practice of dentistry. The presentation will give useful tips to ensure that the esthetics of each restoration is maximized. Clinicians will have a greater understanding of the importance of balancing translucency, transparency and opacity in achieving good color matching. The importance of color in office design will be discussed. Additionally, digital technology created to increase the quality of the shade selection process will be discussed.

Course Objectives:

1. Understand the basic principles of color.
2. Learn the skills required to achieve exception color matches.
3. Understand the limitations of current restorative materials in achieving acceptable color results.
4. Navigate the technological advances in shade selection utilizing digital equipment.

Course Title:  Dental Care for the Dementia Patient: Obstacles, Assessment & Treatment 

Course Time: 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 2 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $49 Other- $23
Lecture Room: Imperial 11, 4th floor

Course Description: 

Recognize the inherent communication challenges with dementia patients. Discover tips for honing verbal skills. Identify the essential records and documentation to keep in the patient’s record. Feel good about providing the best oral care to ensure your patient is comfortable, they can eat, swallow, and feel good about smiling.

Course Objectives: 

1. Explore the pharmacologic treatment and
   cognitive enhancers approved for Alzheimer
   disease and drugs that can make dementia worse.
2. Discuss the roles and responsibilities of the
   emergency contact, custodial parent, and joint
   custody, and their legal authority to act on the
   patient’s behalf.
3. Recognize the legal differences between
   emergency contacts, durable and general powers
   of attorney.
4. Gain strategies for working in partnership with
   referring dentists, primary care physicians,
   caregivers and families to determine the best
   treatment for each patient

Course Title: The Complex Aesthetic Case: When & How to Open the Vertical 

Course Time: 12:45 PM - 3:45 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $60 Other - $23
Lecture Room: Celestin C, 3rd floor 

Course Description: 

Failures in dentistry are frequently blamed on materials, but in reality, many times we, the dentist are the culprit. We treat the anterior teeth as cosmetic challenges, and we forget to look at the relationship of form and function.  This presentation will simplify occlusion by combining dental facial treatment planning in combination with function. By applying a few basic principles, we can design the proper amount of restorative space for our restorations. This innovative, fast pace course will explore aesthetics that are BUILT TO LAST.

Course Objectives:

1.   Learn how to diagnose and treatment plan an aesthetic case. 

2.   Evaluate the patient's incisor position and morphology, their dento-facial requirements, and implement the techniques to determine the appropriate vertical dimension, and create synergy between form and function. 

3.   Understanding distinctive steps to simplify restorative preparations and identify which adhesives and restorative materials work the best for maximum predictability.

Course Title: CBD: Not Just Another Supplement 

Course Time: 12:45 PM - 3:45 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 3 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $60 Other- $23
Lecture Room: Celestin B, 3rd floor

Course Description: 

The body’s Endocannabinoid System (ECS) plays a major role in balancing our tissues and many important functions including the heart, digestive, endocrine, immune, nervous, and reproductive systems. Research suggests that Canabidiol (CBD) can help alleviate several medical issues in a lasting and effective manner. However, the importance and use of CBD and the related cannabinoids remain unknown or confusing to many people. In this cutting edge, evidence-based presentation, discover the basic components and function of the ECS. Explore the two main endocannabinoids that our bodies produce, the importance of activating receptors, and what to do when the ECS is deficient. Discover how to utilize CBD with patients to improve sleep, manage pain, and serve as an anti-inflammatory. Learn the appropriate dosing and product guidelines for the best results. Offer patients an evidence-based alternative which can boost resiliency, support our systems, and return balance to the body.

Course Objectives:

1. Illuminate the history of cannabis and the properties, benefits and side effects of the two most discussed compounds - CBD vs. THC
2. Explore the importance of and functionality of the body’s endocannabinoid system
3. Recognize the important differences between various phytocannabinoids & other cannabis compounds.
4. Discover where CBD and other phytocannabinoids fit with dental care and patient health
5. Differentiate products: Isolate vs. broad spectrum vs. full spectrum; topicals vs. tinctures vs. edibles.
6. Determine dosing recommendations and patient instructions

Course Title: Are you still practicing in the Dark Ages? Why a dental laser should be in your office

Course Time: 12:45 PM - 2:45 PM
C.E. Credit Hours: 2 Clinical Hours
Course Pricing: D - $60 Other - $23
Lecture Room: Imperial 12, 4th floor

Course Description: Applications for dental lasers have evolved into all areas of the dental practice. Most dentists are unaware of the broad areas dental lasers have beneficial relevance. Dental lasers have effective functions in Operative Dentistry, Periodontal treatment, Endodontic procedures, Prosthodontic s, TMJ treatment, Oral Surgery, Implant Dentistry, Cosmetic Dentistry and in the treatment of breathing disorders. There are multiple patient benefits to laser dentistry both in patient comfort and efficiency of treatment.

Course Objectives:

1. Attendees will be given a brief assessment of laser physics.
2. Different types of dental lasers will be reviewed.
3. Examples of Laser applications will be discussed for each branch of Dentistry.