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  • Implant-Assisted Prosthetics: Treatment Planning Options for Fixed, Removable, and Hybrid Restorations

  • Dental implants are a lucrative business, and everybody wants in. However, the treatment planning, execution, and prosthetic restorative phases of treatment remain nebulous for most clinicians. This presentation will cover several real-world clinical case studies from a dual-certified prosthodontist and laboratory technician, ranging from the single central crown and multi-unit bridge to full-mouth hybrids and removable overdentures. Concepts and challenges regarding patient screening and case acceptance, communication protocols with the laboratory and surgical colleagues, material selections, provisionalization, follow-up care, and various aesthetic, biologic, and mechanical complications will be discussed.

  • 1) Review various treatment planning principles found in the field of contemporary implant dentistry for both fixed and removable prosthetic options.

    2) Analyze many of the current materials available to the clinician and dental technician that can be utilized in the restoration of fixed and removable implant prosthetic treatment plans.

    3) Determine the chairside/benchtop protocols that will ensure the highest level of quality and efficacy that will augment successful patient outcomes in the final product at delivery.

    4) Apply new concepts and techniques within the dental clinic and dental laboratory.

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  • Exposed: The Art and Science of Emotive Clinical and Dental Laboratory Photography

  • Dental photography serves as an effective tool for communication with colleagues, and as an emotional means of marketing to patients and clients regarding our clinical services and laboratory products. This presentation will discuss the philosophy, equipment, and resources necessary for intraoral shade analysis, portraits, bench-top photography, and publishing outstanding high-end results with low-end consumer cost to enhance personal professional development, boost social media engagement, and for publication in scientific peer-review.

    PART 1: 2- hour lecture (Theory) on basics of dental photography, photography equipment, and principles of light, camera settings and picture composition. Also discussed will be publishing in peer-review, marketing your practice/laboratory and posting to social media.

    PART 2: 4-hours hands on-training (practical) on basics of intraoral/clinical, portrait, benchtop/product photography, and photo editing.

  • 1) List the marketing tactics and techniques that can be used with dental photography to attract referrals, company sponsors, and clients.

    2) Compare the final results of various photographs made with both professional and consumer level equipment.

    3) Improve current skills through demonstrated dental photography exercises.

    4) Create a portfolio of case studies to share with colleagues that will showcase your ability to document with dental photography.

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  • On Your Mark, Get Set, PRO! Tips and Tricks to Guide You Through the Restorative Phases of Fixed, Removable, and Implant Prosthetic Treatment

  • Traditional crown and bridge restorations, removable prosthetics, and endoesseous implant therapy all begin with a sound treatment plan and continue through the various phases of care, including diagnosis, laboratory communication, impressions, provisionalization, final delivery, and on-going oral-health maintenance. The advancement of new procedures and technology within the specialty of Prosthodontics continues to evolve and grow at an accelerated rate, and an exhaustive knowledge base for any aspect of prosthodontics is simply not possible. This presentation, however, will cover many of the overlapping protocols, philosophies and materials that are currently available to achieve predictable long-term result, produce high-end aesthetics, and ensure successful patient outcomes.

  • 1) Recognize appropriate case selection criteria to ensure long-term success for fixed, removable, implant restorative therapy.

    2) Analyze many of the current materials available to the dental clinician and laboratory technician that can be utilized in the restoration of implants, fixed crown and bridge, and removable prosthetic treatment plans.

    3) Determine the chairside/benchtop protocols that will ensure the highest efficacy as well as quality final product at delivery.

    4) Apply course concepts and techniques to current patient base.

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  • Bleaching Bonanza: A Clinical Update on Tooth Whitening Marketing, Materials, Methods and Myths

  • With the move toward minimally invasive cosmetic dental treatments and the ever-expanding variety of tooth whitening products on the market today, internal, and external bleaching options are now able to afford the clinician with a predictable, safe, and effective means to lighten and brighten a patient’s natural dentition. Many of these products, especially 10% carbamide peroxide gel, have additional revenue-generating potential as a value-added treatment for patients undergoing aligner therapy, and as an oral hygiene adjunct which may greatly assist those patients who are not necessarily interested in aesthetic enhancement. This presentation outlines the most up-to-date tooth bleaching materials, procedures, and protocols, dispel the myths, and reveal many low-cost and out of the box marketing strategies that exist for the contemporary dental practice.

  • 1) Identify the most common etiological causes of tooth discoloration and the treatment options available to patients for treatment with these conditions.

    2) Review the factors which contribute to the efficacy and predictability of the various tooth whitening protocols in the treatment of discolored natural dentition.

    3) Investigate many of the widely held dogmas and myths surrounding current tooth bleaching techniques and clinical recommendations.

    4) Establish evidence-based protocols utilizing various materials and methods for in-office and take-home tooth bleaching strategies to improve successful aesthetic/hygienic dental outcomes for existing patient base.

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  • Defend Dentures: Aesthetic and Functional Foundations for Traditional and Implant-Supported Removable Prosthetics

  • Restorative and prosthetic dentistry is in a state of crisis. With more and more individuals in need of complete dentures therapy - social media, corporate advertising, and even the most reputable dental symposiums continue to focus a heavy emphasis on conventional fixed treatments (i.e., cosmetic crown and bridge dentistry). Much of what students have learned during their dental school education about dentures and removable prosthetics is flawed, and based on outdated, dogmatic principles. There is a new wave of clinicians/technicians that are challenging the status quo and are pushing for bold updates to the education and training of complete dentures/implant overdentures in an effort to rekindle the love affair with the original full-mouth rehabilitation. This course will go through several cases studies and outline the low-cost materials and easy to follow techniques necessary for treating edentulous patients with efficacious, predictable, and profitable outcomes utilizing implant protocols.

  • 1) Establish the parameters of full-arch removable prosthetics that are coincident with contemporary fixed implants and how they apply to treatment planning.

    2) Review many of the current shortcomings that exist with all phases of removable complete dentures prosthetics.

    3) Develop a case-specific armamentarium for implant-supported removable prosthetics based on aesthetic and functional demands for each patient.

    4) Apply new concepts and techniques to current patient base.

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  • Burn The Ships: Digital Dentistry Solutions for Analog Patient Problems

  • Many traditional dental procedures have been given a digital make-over, and this technology has greatly improved the efficacy, laboratory communication, case acceptance, and overall clinical experience in the on-going quest for improved patient outcomes. This presentation will discuss some of the “can’t live without” tools that have revolutionized the path of the contemporary analog clinician towards a more successful future shaped by digital dentistry.

  • 1) Identify the pain points that exist for clinicians and technicians utilizing analog protocols and the digital technologies that are available to alleviate those issues.

    2) Review current methods and materials that exist in the delivery of care of for both analog and digital dentistry treatment options.

    3) Recognize the advantages and limitations of contemporary analog and digital protocols.

    4) Apply course concepts and techniques to current patient base.