Topic: Pearls for Your Practice ® & Profitable Crown & Bridge Procedures

Speaker Information:
Lecturers: Dr. Joseph A. Blaes and Dr. Albert L. Ousborne Jr., DDS
Phone: 1-866-274-4500

This course is designed to cut through the confusion of all the new products that are constantly being introduced.  You will go home with a “cookbook of Pearls” that can be immediately implemented upon your return to the office, such as:

• Take advantage of the Esthetic Revolution.
• Get your patients excited about cosmetic dentistry.
• A new interactive Patient Communication System.
• New high powered LED curing lights – best brands to buy.
• A new non alcohol antibacterial foam for your hands.
• Best uses of flowable composites.
• Adhesive dentistry made simple. Stop sensitivity.                
• Is the PFM finally dead?  What are the viable options?
• Veneers – should they be ultra thin, moderate or thick?
• Lasers or electrosurgery – which one should you buy.
• Enhanced oral cancer examinations.
• A new innovative post system that fits all canals.
• Why your next handpiece should be electric!
• The best techniques for cementing Veneers.
• Make beautiful custom temps in less than 15 minutes.
• Self-Etch Resin reinforced glass ionomer cements.
• Simplify the workplace.
• Save money, get better preps use disposable diamonds
• A fast paced new product review!

This course will enable the entire dental team to significantly reduce the time required to produce high quality dentistry and significantly increase the dollar per hour production in the practice.  The handout includes a complete source guide for all materials discussed plus many others.

Full Day Program: Recommended for Dentists, Hygienists and Assistants

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Topic: Laboratory Participation Course: Boxing and Casting of a Final Impression, and Fabrication of a Custom Esthetic Blue Print

Speaker Names: Dr. Joseph Thornton, DDS & Ken Waldo, CDT

This course will center on two very important laboratory procedures in fabrication of an exquisite complete denture. Participants will be shown and allowed to practice a method of boxing and pouring a final edentulous impression. This precise method insures that all of the anatomic details of the impression are present in the working model, as well as maintaining an adequate peripheral land area for strength.

Participants will also fabricate an "Esthetic Blue Print" baseplate for the dentist to utilize in the cosmetic planning of the maxillary denture. Customized to reflect measurements made at the dentist's examination
appointment, the blue print base allows for complete control and
confidence in the esthetic outcome.

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Topic: Overview OF Restorative Dental Procedures For Children

Speaker Name: .  Dr. Marvin H. Berman

Jamaica Dental Association, Friday February 13, 2009

Pediatric Dentistry (unlimited attendance…dentists, assistants.hygienists)

Performing quality dentistry for young children demands mental acuity and manual dexterity. Using live action videotapes and other vivid media resources, Dr. Berman will cover a broad spectrum of clinical situations and issues including behavior management, local anesthesia, operative dentistry, pulp therapy, crowns and composites, fractured incisors, eruption guidance oral habits and anomalies. The emphasis will be on sharing practical advice and offering solutions to problems that will sharpen your clinical judgment, accelerate your speed and increase your comfort level even when working with  reluctant children. Dentists and their chairside assistants will leave this entertaining and informative session with a bagful of tips and tricks that will have an immediate positive impact on the way you practice.

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Topic: The Extraordinary Dentist ……..Why Your Patients Love You

Speaker Name: Dr. Marvin H. Berman

Our world today is fraught with uncertainty. People are less trusting, so it requires more effort to win a patient’s confidence and respect. Drilling and filling skills do not necessarily make a successful dentist. The chairside and desk-side manners displayed by the dentist and the staff can make or break a doctor-patient relationship. It’s what you say and how you say it and it’s what you do and how you do it that create an atmosphere of credibility.

The world of computerization has further distanced us from our child and adult patients to the extent that the healing touch is almost non-existent in many practices. Utilizing his live action videos and movie clips,

Dr. Berman will explore a wide range of office situations, clinical and personal, which will ring all too familiar.  Extensive emphasis will be placed on the administration of local anesthesia….the defining moment between dentist and patient.  A most entertaining  educational experience that will add a new dimension to your professional and personal lives  and prompt your patients to say “thank you”.

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Topic: Infection Control in Dental Practice: 2009

Speaker: Dr John A. Molinari, Ph.D.

Accumulated knowledge describing the risks of hepatitis B, hepatitis C, human immunodeficiency virus infection, tuberculosis, and other occupational infections have increased both the awareness and efficiency of health care infection control practices.  These and other infectious disease challenges along with appropriate prevention strategies, are considered in light of current scientific evidence.  

The most recent guidelines for infection control in dentistry will serve as the framework for the presentation.   The application of aseptic technique principles and standard precautions for the treatment of patients is re-enforced throughout the session.  Evolving issues including patient and provider allergic reactions to latex, strategies for control of dental waterline contamination, and respiratory protection against aerosolized pathogens are also emphasized.

In addition, updated information regarding appropriate vaccines for health care professionals, instrument reprocessing protocols, heat sterilization modalities and monitoring, protective barriers and disposable items, evaluation of available products and their application in disinfection procedures, as well as other areas of concern, are considered in the context of developing technologies.  The overall objective of this presentation is to provide the most recent scientific and clinical information to assist dental professionals in the application of effective, practical infection control.

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Topic:Uncle Joeʼs One step Impression system for Dentures, Partials and Implant
Overdentures

Speaker: Dr. Joseph Massad

(Limited attendance to 40 of uncles Joeʼs nieces and nephews)

The most fun and informative hands on class in the Caribbean. Each participant will experience on actual patients (provided by the Jamaican Dental Association) making an impression on totally edentulous or partially dentate patient. Participants will also be able to make an impression on a model of an implant overdenture case.

Our goal is to let each participant improve their skills of making master impressions without a custom tray in a single visit with the highest of quality in about 15 minutes. Dr. Massad and Group will demonstrate impressions on actual patients viewed on big screen for all the participates to see and experience.

Dr. Massad will be accompanied by the Massad Dental Group (Dr. Bill Lobel, Dr. Joe Thornton, Dr. Richard June, Dr. Kevin Scott and CDT Ken Waldo) who will assist this attendees for the ultimate learning exercise.

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Topic: : Dental Bleaching – Action and Risks

Speaker: Dr. Renato Miotto Palo

Lecture / Hands-On

• peroxide behavior
• peroxide penetration in dental tissues
• pulp damage risks
• external root resorption risks
• the use of lights
• clinical protocol

Please note:

• 2 Part Lecture / Hands on
• Part 1: Bleaching in Non Vital Teeth: to demonstrate how is the best way to fill pulp chamber with bleaching material and how to seal it! 
• Part 2: Bleaching in Vital Teeth: to demonstrate how to make the trays and how to fill.
• Cost: US$100
• IMPORTANT: Participants will need to bring anterior teeth with accessed pulp chamber and Ultradent makes available the following materials: Ultratemp, Opalecense pf 10%, Opalecense Boost, Trays, Scissors

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