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Continuing Education Update by Howard M. Goldstein, DMD

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

Welcome to 2016!

We just finished another great year of CE on Dentaltown and I would like to thank all of the amazing educators who have contributed and have made Dentaltown the No. 1 location on the internet for quality dental continuing education. Just a reminder that every course released since December of 2011 is viewable on your iPad and Android tablets!

Released recently on Dentaltown …

Use of Guided Bone Regeneration in a Dental Practice  
by Dr. Kris Chmielewski
Guided bone regeneration is an important part of modern dental implantology and requires skills in application of the specific materials. What's even more important is the necessary knowledge about the behavior of various materials, and indications for their application in individual cases. The majority of the materials used in the bone-regeneration procedures have osteoconductive properties, but with the help of natural growth factors we can improve their potential for healing with osteoinductive features.

Cases are presented, and include explanations of the biological principles that will help you better understand guided bone regeneration. At the end of this course, participants will have a better understanding on how to incorporate GBR into their dental practices.

Dental Marketing Update—Howie & Mark Unplugged. Filmed live at Townie Meeting. 
by Mark Dilatush and Howie Horrocks
In the world of effective promotion of dentistry, you have to stay current to squeeze as much as you can from your promotion budget. Howie and Mark have been testing what works and what doesn't work for more than 25 years. They share their updated knowledge along with providing updated tools you can use as you promote your own practice.

Fundamentals of Fixed Prosthodontics
by Dr. Lane Ochi
The long-awaited masterpiece by Townie superstar Lane Ochi is now out! Successfully treating our patients with fixed prosthodontics mandates that we have a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of it.

In no other field in dentistry can real improvement in outcomes be as directly attributed to attention to detail and execution. Details such as preparation design and margin configuration, the use of a core buildup or post, and our luting-agent selection are critical to the final result.

At the end of the day, we cannot afford failures in our treatment. Costs lost to time, remakes and loss of patient confidence are direct hits to the budget our practices don't need.

After viewing this course, you will be able to identify the causes of failures so you can prevent them.

Short Implants: Does Size Really Matter?
by Dr. Bill Schaeffer
In our daily implant practices we are often confronted with patients who meet the ideal criteria for implant treatment, but have a limited height of bone. Bone grafting may partially solve this issue, but bone grafting can be expensive and time-consuming, is always uncomfortable for the patient and can involve inherent risks.

The use of short dental implants can often avoid the problems associated with bone grafts—but can it really be that simple? This course will show you the hows and whys of short implants.

Your Retirement Number in Two Hours. Filmed live at Townie Meeting. by Dr. Doug Carlsen
The main word used by those attending or viewing this course is "relief." In this course, you first calculate your retirement number. Via worksheets (which you should print first), you will find a simple method to calculate your retirement budget, total savings needed for retirement and savings needed per year.

Next, your financial life is discussed. Those attending or viewing this course fill out financial forms. At the end of this course, you will have a better idea of how well you are doing on the road to retirement.

Nuts-and-Bolts Treatment Planning: The Triad of Success. Filmed live at Townie Meeting.
by Dr. Michael Melkers
As comprehensive practitioners, we strive to deliver the very best that we can for our patients. All too often, it seems that despite our best efforts, the patient fails to commit to treatment. In this lecture, we explore the triad of factors that enable us to progress with our patients to treatment success. We also explore foundational knowledge as well as actual case application as we blend the concepts of communication, treatment planning and occlusion into restorative success.

Success with All Ceramic Restorations
by Dr. Jan Hajtó
For the clinician today there is a large range of ceramic materials from which to choose. In some situations, only certain dental ceramics can be used, with some materials being optimized for special purposes.

It is important for the dental technician, and also for the dentist, to know the specific properties, advantages and disadvantages of all ceramic restorative materials in order to achieve the best possible success rates, as ceramic materials are inherently prone to fracture due to their brittleness.

In this lecture the various indications for which dental ceramics can be used are explained and appropriate material options are presented. Special attention is directed to the difference between the anterior region (which can be regarded as a low-risk region) and the posterior region, which demands special consideration due to the higher occlusal forces placed on molars and premolars.

The Aesthetic Full-Mouth Rehabilitation
by Dr. John Nosti
Full-mouth rehabilitations are one of the most difficult types of cases to handle in practice today. Many times these patients have advanced occlusal breakdown, along with the presence of a temporomandibular joint internal derangement. Learn how these internal derangements are classified and how they affect the long-term prognosis of your case.

Dr. John Nosti details the diagnostic records necessary and steps he completes in performing a full-mouth rehabilitation, including understanding vertical dimension and how and why to make changes. The course also details how to complete the bite records necessary in increased vertical-dimension cases, both prior to and during the preparation appointment.

Preparation sequencing is key in full-mouth reconstructions, and Dr. Nosti gives a simplified approach to tackling these complex cases.

Hygiene: The Low-Hanging Fruit of Restorative Dentistry
by Dr. Mac Lee
The biggest problem in dentistry is that our market does not understand the value of our services. Many patients feel they are being "sold to" when the dentists/hygienists are simply doing their job via the diagnosis/treatment-plan ritual. The dental team understands the process, but the patients don't. Dentistry is very frustrating when patients do not accept needed work.

Most dentists and hygienists have "approval addiction," which means they want to please the patient. This can stand in the way of telling the patient the truth. If every patient accepted all needed dentistry, how busy would you be? If your patients understood the need for their dentistry as well as you do, what would your acceptance ratio be? The dentist and the team tend to confuse patients, instead of educating them in terms the patients understand.

This program will give your hygienist, dentist and team the verbal skills necessary for higher levels of treatment acceptance.

Pediatric Dentistry: Anesthesia, Pulp Therapy, and Stainless-Steel Crowns
by Dr. Josh Wren
With the Affordable Care Act mandating dental coverage for those under 19, more than 3 million pediatric patients may 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 that are 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 will be discussed, with emphasis on diagnosis and technique. Stainless-steel crowns will also be discussed and procedural steps thoroughly explained and shown. Neither pulp therapy nor stainless-steel crowns are possible without effective anesthetic techniques, so this course also discusses Dr. Wren's process for the utilization of nitrous oxide, appropriate topical anesthesia and local anesthesia in order to achieve a truly painless injection, 100 percent of the time. If you are treating children in your practice, this course is a must!

Buying a Dental Practice: There is more to it Than Price. Recorded Live at Townie Meeting 2014
by Tim Lott
This presentation is designed to educate the prospective buyer on how to approach the financial due-diligence aspect of buying a dental practice. You will learn what information you need and how to piece it together and analyze it to formulate an offer. You will also learn some of the other aspects of the purchase process so you will be prepared when you locate a practice you want to purchase. This session was recorded live at Townie Meeting 2014.

The numbers are in and the most-viewed CE courses
in the last 12 months are…
  1. Pediatric Dentistry: Anesthesia, Pulp Therapy, and Stainless Steel Crowns by Josh Wren
  2. The Aesthetic Full-Mouth Rehabilitation,, by John Nosti
  3. Fundamentals of Fixed Prosthodontics, by Lane Ochi
  4. Treating Worn Smiles, by John Nosti
  5. Restoration of Non-Carious Cervical Lesions, by John Maggio
  6. Short Implants; Does Size Really Matter? by Bill Schaeffer
  7. Dental Sleep Medicine: Sleep Principles and Oral Appliances, by Barry Glassman
  8. Anterior All Ceramics: From Case Selection to Cementatiohttp://www.dentaltown.com/OnlineCE.aspx?action=DETAILS&cid=474, by John Nosti
  9. Fundamentals of Veneer Preperation, by David Hornbrook
  10. Associates, Partnerships, Acquisitions, Oh My! by Jason Patrick Wood
  11. Buying a Dental Practice: There is More to it Than Price, by Tim Lott. Recorded live at Townie Meeting 2014
  12. Understanding the Yes and No in Treatment Acceptance, by Bruce Baird. Filmed live at Townie Meeting.
  13. Practical Grafting Techniques for the General Practitioner, by Tim Kosinski
  14. Picture Perfect-Clinical Photography Made Easy! by Jason Olitsky


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Enjoy learning from the comfort of your home!



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