Continuing Education Update by Howard M. Goldstein, DMD

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The Real Access to Care
by Howard M. Goldstein, DMD, Director of Continuing Education

It’s February, which means you could be spending time with your Valentine watching our excellent CE courses that were released recently. Very romantic!

Just a reminder that every course released since December 2011 is viewable on your iPad and Android tablets and phones.

I also want to give any Townie who posts on our message boards an invitation to discuss with me a CE course that you’d like to offer. I would love to hear your ideas.

Released recently on Dentaltown…

Tips and Tricks to Making Lifelike Restorations
by Dr. Varsha Rao
This CE course discusses how to make daily restorative work predictable using composites. Emphasis is on tips and tricks to make lifelike restorations in anterior teeth, as well as newer and conventional methods to make direct restorations in the posterior teeth to build our aesthetic dentistry practice.

Guided Surgery, Ridge Splitting and Sinus Lifts for Success in Implant Surgery (Recorded live at the CAD-Ray Symposium)
by Dr. Jay Reznick
Reznick goes into details on how to split the ridge to increase bone for implants, and when and how to use BMP. He also discusses the protocol when a bone graft fails, and provides information and videos about how to perform sinus lifts. Reznick shows how guided surgery makes implant placement more predictable and more efficient as well as how to use guided implant stents.

Next Level Endodontics: Instrumentation, Trends and Transitions
by Drs. Martin Trope and James G. Hupp
RaCe NiTi files have unique properties that increase their flexibility, increase resistance to fracture and decrease the “screw-in” effect. There are a large variety of files to support any instrumentation philosophy. This presentation presents two sequences that predictably reach apical sizes appropriate for our philosophy without excessive taper of the coronal two-thirds of the canal.

Implant Challenges— Creative Solutions
by Arian Deutsch, CDT
Implant restorative challenges can be difficult for the dental team and the implant patient. This course focuses on implant restorative challenges, and some creative solutions that are making what was once impossible a reality. Tools to achieve aesthetic restorative outcomes for challenged implant cases will also be discussed.

To Pull or Not to Pull: Apical Surgery Versus Implant Replacement
by Dr. Daniel G. Pompa
With the introduction of new surgical approaches in apical surgery, and a systematic approach to the diagnosis and treatment of compromised teeth, clinicians should be able to more accurately determine the long-term prognosis of a surgical, nonsurgical or replacement treatment option, and determine its potential success, by taking this course.

Improving Patient Care by Improving Practice Performance
by Lance Jacob with Tim Lott
The course explains why it's important for dentists to understand how their practice is performing and how that performance affects patient care. Topics covered include production versus collections, and their relation to cash flow; expense classifications and overhead; revenues and overhead; why it's important to be able to compare your practice to industry benchmarks.

How to Double Your New Patient Numbers Using Facebook Marketing
by Dr. Anissa Holmes
Facebook has the No. 1 advertising platform in the world, and allows you to reach your ideal audience through Facebook targeted ads. This course teaches you how you can ignite your practice through Facebook marketing, and teaches not only what to post but how to get your posts seen by your target audience to maximize your new patient numbers and your ROI.

Keys to Your Success (Recorded live at Townie Meeting)
by Dr. John Nosti
Dr. Nosti covers a plethora of topics and shares concepts that he’s learned from his practice that have allowed him to continue to perform with a less than a 50 percent overhead. Topics include treatment-planning presentations, from single-unit crowns up to full-mouth reconstructions. Learn the one procedure that can increase your production significantly. Increase new patients, increase referrals, decrease overhead, and more

The Standard of Care: What Is It? What Is It Not? Key Information Both Specialists and General Dentists Need to Know
by John Dovgan
This course will educate you on the definition of the “standard of care” and how to meet it, as well as key legal terms you need to know. Guidelines are given for what is looked for in dental board cases and malpractice cases, as well as local anesthetic and sedation mistakes that dentists make. Learn which lines should not be crossed, and typical treatment notes you should incorporate into practice.

Pediatric Dentistry: Anesthesia, Pulp Therapy and Stainless Steel Crowns
by Dr. Josh Wren
With the Affordable Care Act mandating dental coverage for those 19 and younger, more than 3 million pediatric patients will be added to 150,000 dental practices. Treating children may become a necessity for your dental office. Pulp therapy and stainless steel crowns are procedures often considered complex when performed on pediatric patients—this course will alleviate any fear of the unknown that leads to this misconception. Indirect pulp therapy, pulpotomy and pulpectomy are discussed, with emphasis on diagnosis and technique. Stainless steel crowns are also discussed, with procedural steps explained and shown. The course also discusses Wren’s process for using nitrous oxide, appropriate topical anesthesia and local anesthesia to achieve painless injections.

Appropriate Analgesic Prescribing for the General Dentist
by Dr. Mark Donaldson
Wouldn't it be great to be known as the dentist who offers excellent pain-free, postoperative care without the use of narcotics? Wouldn't you like to be more confident in evidence-based, guideline-driven prescription writing? This is the program to help you be just that.

Fundamentals of Fixed Prosthodontics
by Dr. Lane Ochi
Successfully treating patients with fixed prosthodontics requires a mastery of materials and mechanical concepts, as well as a respect for tooth structure. We need to be aware of the interactions between preparation design, margin configuration, core buildups or posts, and the luting agent. After viewing this course, you’ll be able to identify the causes of failures and prevent them from recurring.





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