Continuing Education Update by Howard M. Goldstein, DMD, Director of Continuing Education


 
What’s New in Continuing Education?

by Howard M. Goldstein, DMD, Director of Continuing Education
For those of us in the United States, our July 4 holiday is now over and it’s time to get back to work. Let’s learn more about our jobs with Dentaltown CE from the comfort of our air-conditioned homes.

There have been new additions to Dentaltown’s CE courses in the last couple of weeks.

Dentaltown’s “super” dental attorney, Jason Patrick Wood, has a new course “Associates, Partnerships, Acquisitions, Oh My!” The cost for this CE course including the CE credits is only $9.95. Wood’s course is designed to educate young dentists (0-10 years out of dental school) on the various stages of their early career. The course will first focus on associate agreements and the issues and concerns a young dentist must be aware of prior to signing the agreement. The course will then turn to the issues one faces when attempting to buy into a practice and become a partner. The course will view in depth the many compensation scenarios, buy-in concerns, structural issues, buy-out scenarios, as well as additional major concerns a dentist needs to know about prior to entering into a partnership or shareholder agreement. Next, the course will briefly focus on dental practice startups and some of the unique issues a dentist faces when attempting to launch a dental practice. Finally, the course will review the issues a buyer faces when acquiring a dental practice, either as a buy-in situation or as a complete acquisition. The focus will be on key issues that should be contained in your purchase agreement and some of the numerous pitfalls you need to be aware of prior to closing on your acquisition.

“Is Periodontal Disease the Common Denominator in the Spectrum of Chronic Inflammatory Diseases?” is a course by noted oral-systemic disease expert Dr. William Nordquist. A completely different understanding of oral infection and its relationship to Chronic Inflammatory Diseases (CID), including Alzheimer’s disease and atherosclerotic heart disease, is presented. Convincing evidence theorizes the mechanism involved with CID and a common denominator instigator: oral spirochetes. Oral spirochetal infections, when treated with antibiotics, force these microbes to hideaway into a protective “spore-like” form within the gingival sulcus, inside the epithelial cells that line the gingival sulcus and in adjacent granulation tissue. Morphologically identical spores were found in the atherosclerotic plaque in blood vessels and in several other tissues in the body. This lecture will change the way you understand and treat periodontal disease. It will aid in the understanding of the relationship between periodontal disease and chronic disease, plus help you prevent tooth loss and implant failure in your patients.

And from the Dentaltown archives...“Practical Oral Surgery for the General Dentist: Impacted Third Molars” by Dr. Jay Reznick. This excellent course covers pre-surgical planning, local anesthesia, design and use of surgical flaps, classification of third molar impactions, sectioning techniques for impacted teeth and management of the surgical site. Enjoy learning from the comfort of your home!

Howard M. Goldstein, DMD
Director of Continuing Education



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