Continuing Education Update by Dr. Howard Goldstein

Mastering Adult Minimal Oral Sedation
by Drs. Mark Donaldson and Jason Goodchild
Minimal adult sedation instruction is now available online, exclusively on Dentaltown. This 10-part dental CE series meets all state and provincial requirements for topics and hours to apply for a minimal sedation permit or recertification. Offering a total of 19.5 CE hours, this series was specifically designed to meet the guidelines of the ADA as described in its Guidelines for the Use of Sedation and General Anesthesia by Dentists.

Nitrous Oxide and Dental Personnel Concerns: Contamination & Scavenging
by Dr. Mark Donaldson
This course is designed to mitigate any concerns dental staff may have when working in offices where nitrous oxide/oxygen inhalational sedation is provided. Perfect for every clinician or team member who may be under the impression that the chronic environmental exposure to nitrous oxide could result in some type of fetotoxicity or teratogenicity in an expectant employee. This program debunks that myth and others concerning the safety of nitrous oxide.

Managing TMD: What Dentists Should Know
by Dr. Eric Schiffman
Trauma is the most common cause of pain-related temporomandibular disorders (TMD). More than half of trauma cases (61%) result from patients opening their mouth too wide or too long. In this course, Schiffman describes how to diagnose and manage your patients with pain-related TMD using evidence-based methods. You will be ready the next time your patient complains of painful TMD during or after a dental procedure.

Tissue Augmentation and Immediate Tooth Replacement for Optimal Implant Esthetics and Success
by Dr. Sascha Jovanovic
Jovanovic discusses the principles of biological augmentation, focusing on guided bone regeneration and soft tissue, using biological materials from the patient.

Rapid Dentures: Predictable, Efficient, Profitable
by Dr. Joe Barker
For years, dentures have taken too much chair time with very little predictability or profitability. This course will cover all areas of denture construction in detail, beginning with the initial oral exam through the post-insertion. Dentists will learn how to make dentures predictable, how to be efficient and how to increase profits from dentures.

Improving Your Confidence and Competence in Office Oral Surgery: Atraumatic Surgical Extractions, Flaps, and Splitting Teeth
by Dr. Jay B. Reznick
This presentation covers important oral surgery topics for general dentists, including managing 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.

Intercepting Sleep-Disordered Breathing: The Integral Role of Dental Professionals
by Dr. Ben Miraglia
This course is a call to action for all dental professionals who are dedicated to preventing sleep-disordered breathing rather than wait to treat the devastating effects it imposes, such as ADHD, bed wetting, asthma, cardiovascular disease, lower IQ and depression.

From Simple Occlusal Adjustments to Treating Occlusal Neurotics
by Dr. Barry Glassman
We have all dealt with a postrestorative complaint and corrected it by adjusting a “high spot” that was inadvertently created during the procedure. Almost without fail, a single adjustment resolves the complaint. We’ve also all dealt with patients who were hyperaware of their occlusion. This course is geared for the general dentist who wants to improve daily occlusal adjustments in restorative therapy and learn how to deal with more complex occlusal issues.

How to Simplify Challenging Implant Cases
by Dr. Michael Wehrle
This CE course is designed to increase the success rate of your implant cases by laying out a simplified protocol for placing immediate implants, ridge splits and sinus bumps, as well as the ideal restorative option, screw-mentable crowns.

Injection Molding: Engineering Composite Success
by Dr. Arthur Volker
The injection-molding technique’s composites and ultrathin anatomic tooth forms creates porcelainlike outcomes at a lower physiological cost. These monolithic restorations can endure and sparkle for decades. The CE course goes in detail on how to use this technique.

Rapid Hypnotic Techniques for Drug-free Management of Pain and Anxiety
by Elvira V. Lang, MD, PhD
This course helps dental practitioners reduce patient anxiety and pain through advanced rapid rapport skills, awareness of verbal and nonverbal cues, correct use of suggestions, and the reframing of distressing thoughts and pain by hypnotic language.

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