What’s New in Continuing Education? by Howard M. Goldstein, DMD, Director of Continuing Education

I thought that summer would never come (here in Pennsylvania)!  Time to go to the beach and take some Dentaltown CE on your iPad or Android device. There have been new additions to Dentaltown’s CE courses in the past couple of weeks. Released recently on Dentaltown ...

The Townie Meeting 2017 series contains 13 courses from the meeting’s terrific speakers, including Drs Cory Glenn, David Hornbrook, Art Volker, Bruce Baird, Anne Koch, Tarun Agarwal, Mark Murphy, Steve Rasner and Mac Lee. You can also enjoy courses from Vicki McManus, Fred Joyal, Paul Edwards and Joleen Jackson. Together, these courses provide 25 hours of excellent education in both clinical dentistry and practice management.

Everyone who attended Townie Meeting 2017 can access these courses for free. If you missed the meeting, don’t worry: It’s only $295 to view all of these courses.

Real-World Direct Restorations
by Dr. Cory Glenn
This course explores techniques for achieving predictable results in direct restorative procedures. Whether it’s salvaging hopeless teeth or restoring a quadrant of back-to-back composites, this course aims to give insights into the tips, tools and sequencing of how to approach these challenging cases.

The Rubber Dam
by Dr. Rok Stern
This definitive course will show how to achieve rubber dam isolation, beginning with materials and equipment, and then how to properly isolate teeth for a variety of dental procedures. Learn how to easily and predictably achieve isolation in a timely fashion. One will learn the necessary skills to isolate any tooth for an endodontic procedures and for all direct and indirect restorative procedures. 

Pinhole Surgical Technique
by Dr. John Chao
This course discusses prevalence, etiology and Miller classification of gingival recession. This course covers the predictability and effectiveness of the pinhole surgical technique with Miller I, II and III recessions. Short videos illustrate a synopsis of the surgical protocol, and examples of long-term results are included.

Silver Is the New Black: Improving Your Practice with Silver Diamine Fluoride
by Dr. Jeanette MacLean
Silver diamine fluoride is a revolutionary approach to combating caries in an effective and noninvasive manner. Discover the history and science behind this powerful oral medicine that recently received the prestigious FDA “breakthrough therapy” designation and learn how to successfully incorporate this caries management treatment into your clinical practice today, including restorative options. 

Intro to CBCT Interpretation, Part 1: Oral Cavity, Nasal Fossa, Paranasal Sinuses
by Dr. Tony Mecham
This course focuses on CBCT interpretation and discusses important concepts and suggestions for interpretation, with a focus on common findings in the oral cavity, nasal fossa and paranasal sinuses, including anatomical variations.

Holy Moly—What Do We Do With Resorption?
by Dr. Ed Carlson
This course discusses open apices, perforations and resorption, including how to recognise these before treatment is started and how to treatment-plan the work once these are encountered. The prognosis of treatment approaches is also explained. 

Pediatric Dentistry: Anesthesia, Pulp Therapy and Stainless Steel Crowns
by Dr. Josh Wren
When the Affordable Care Act mandated dental coverage as an essential health care benefit for those 19 and younger, millions of pediatric patients were added to 150,000 dental practices. Treating children likely became a necessity for your dental office. Pulp therapy and stainless steel crowns 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 are discussed, with emphasis on diagnosis and technique. The procedural steps for stainless steel crowns are explained and shown, as well as Wren’s process for using nitrous oxide, appropriate topical anesthesia and local anesthesia.

Improving Case Acceptance
Dr. Mark Murphy
Helping patients want what we know they need drives the economic and reward engines of our practices. Help patients have better health, do more of the dentistry that fulfills and stimulates you, and be more successful in your practice. This course demonstrates how to improve the educational value of the examination experience and how to overcome the “insurance entitlement” behavior that patients often exhibit.

Nuts and Bolts Occlusion: The Fundamentals of Recording & Mounting (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
by Dr. Michael Melkers
This three-part program packs nearly four hours of live patient demonstration with the recording and mounting skills that you need for your comprehensive care cases. From impressioning to final mounted, groomed and programmed cases, Melkers walks through three different systems of articulation and the best practices taught at the major institutes, Pankey, Dawson, Spear and Kois ... all in the comfort of your own office or home.

Occlusion: The 10 Essential Steps for Clinical Success
by Dr. Mike Racich
We are in exciting times for our profession with all the new materials and techniques that are available for the dental team to utilize. Nevertheless, the practice of dentistry has many fundamental principles and rules that need to be adhered to for clinical success. This evidence-based presentation will distill the 10 essential or basic rules for success with occlusal therapy. From patient evaluation and treatment planning to the process and payoff of providing care, all will immediately be able to apply presented concepts for optimization of their patients’ oral health.

Improving Your Confidence and Competence in Office Oral Surgery: Atraumatic Surgical Extractions, Flaps and Splitting Teeth
by Dr. Jay Reznick
This presentation recorded at Townie Meeting will cover important oral surgery topics for the general dentist, including management of patients on anticoagulants, antibiotic prophylaxis, design and use of surgical flaps, handpieces and hand instruments; surgical extractions, splitting teeth, retrieving root tips, and atraumatic extraction techniques

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.

The Essentials of Endodontic Emergencies: Diagnosis, Safe Access and Infection Management
by Dr. Brett E. Gilbert
This course teaches the essential skills needed to confidently handle endodontic emergencies in a general practice setting. The material presented will help clinicians apply protocols and tips on how to efficiently diagnose, access and locate canals safely. Infection management and postoperative instructions and communication are discussed in detail.

Email us your ideas for continuing ed courses
If you’ve got an idea for a CE course you’d like to offer, email Dentaltown’s director of continuing education, Dr. Howard Goldstein, at hogo@farranmedia.com.