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.

Expand Your Practice and Save a Life With Oral Cancer Examination Techniques
by Dr. Bob Convissar
One person every hour of every day dies of oral or oropharyngeal cancer in the United States. The five-year survival rate for these cancers is worse than breast cancer, colon cancer or leukemias. This course will discuss the causes and risk factors for these cancers, a protocol for a complete oral cancer exam, and which adjunctive devices are available on the market to help with the examination.

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.

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. 

Creating a Remarkable Dental Practice: Communication and the Patient Experience
by Fred Joyal
Effective communication has a profound effect on the success of the practice, as does the moment-by-moment experience of the patient. This course goes into the most effective ways to communicate with patients and your team, and how you can use small changes in the details of the patient experience to get big results. For a limited time, there will be no charge to view this CE course due to the sponsorship of Rectangle Health.

Fluorescence Enhanced Theragnosis in Cariology
by Dr. Liviu Steier
Caries diagnosis is still performed using a mixture between visual and tactile approach. Bacterial presence identification is almost impossible according to this classic approach. Minimal invasive treatment approaches are still undervalued and underperformed as a consequence of the limited information’s granted by the described classic approach. This course introduces the concept of fluorescence enhanced theragnosis in cariology. For a limited time, there will be no charge to view this CE course due to the sponsorship of Designs for Vision.

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.

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.

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.

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