Continuing Education Update by Dr. Howard Goldstein

There are great beers being released right now for Oktoberfest. There are also great CE courses being released on Dentaltown. Watch a course and drink a beer! Sounds like a plan.

Dentaltown is proud to release The Townie Meeting 2018 Lecture Series, which contains 17 courses from the meeting’s excellent speakers, including Drs. Terry Shaw (“dkdocterry” on Dentaltown’s message boards), Chris Griffin, Ryan McCall, Manor Haas, Andonis Terezides (“bifid uvula”), John Nosti and Barry Glassman.

You can also learn from the courses by Tim Lott, Laura Hatch, Sandy Pardue, Judy Kay Mausolf, Jeff Tonner, Tom Limoli and more! Together, these courses provide 30 hours of excellent education in clinical dentistry and practice management.

Everyone who attended Townie Meeting 2018 can access these courses for free. If you missed the meeting, don’t worry; it’s only $360 for access to these 30 hours of CE.

To view the courses featured here, or browse hundreds of others, visit dentaltown.com/ce.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. The most common findings in the oral cavity, nasal fossa and paranasal sinuses are all shown and explained, as well as anatomical variations.

Composite Full Mouth Rehabilitations the ‘Dkdocterry’ Way
by Dr. Terry Shaw
For the past 25 years, Shaw has done composite full-mouth restorations with excellent success. These are a great solution for patients on a limited budget, seniors, those who are not candidates for porcelain, etc. Shaw is a master of this techniuqe, and this is the course to see on how and when to do this service.

Dental Implants from Planning to Restoration: Immediate Placement and Loading of Dental Implants
by Dr. Charles Schlesinger
Immediate and early loading of dental implants has become something patients expect, and something every doctor providing implants treatment should understand. This concise segment includes a discussion of the ins and outs of immediate loading implants, along with the rationale behind this type of treatment and its requirements.

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

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.

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.

Opening Our Eyes to CBCT in Endodontics: A View from the Inside
by Dr. Brett E. Gilbert
The use of CBCT technology in endodontics allows us to view dental and oral structures in a more clear and accurate way than ever before so that in all aspects of endodontic care, assurance is provided that the clinical situation is truly understood. This multimedia course is designed to teach the standard clinical protocols for using 3D imaging and to show how CBCT helps to assess, diagnose, treat and evaluate the outcomes of endodontic cases.

The Complete Digital Workflow of Implant Dentistry
by Dr. Riley Clark
Make implant placement and restoration more predictable than ever. Learn about the latest in digital technology, from 3D printing of surgical guides and temporaries to scan bodies and final impressions. Take home an adoptable digital workflow that will make your implant cases less stressful and more enjoyable.

The Single Tooth Implant: The Ultimate Aesthetic Challenge
by Dr. Dan Pompa
The past few years have brought a paradigm shift, as guidelines for surgical and restorative approaches have changed dramatically. Reviewed are multiple approaches showing sequential planning, which can result in highly successful outcomes. Discussed are diagnostic work-ups, computer-guided surgery, and provisional options or interim prosthesis appliances to attain ideal aesthetic results.

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.