A Guide for Clinicians

This webinar took place at the 2019 ADA/FDI Congress in San Francisco. It features a brief presentation and panel discussion with the experts. Discussion covers contemporary Dental Whitening via Ionic Technology and how to bring more whitening services… View Article

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Will Cannabis Join…or Even Replace…Opioids in the Management of Pain and Addiction?

Dental whitening procedures provide a minimally invasive solution for esthetic dentistry, and have changed treatment options in achieving optimal and natural-looking outcomes for patients.

Medication and Disease-Induced Xerostomia Affects All Age Groups!

Review the proper of nitrous oxide-oxygen minimal sedation to manage patient anxiety.

Intra-Oral Photography has emerged as a valuable way to not only educate patients but also document cases.

Early oral health education and intervention is a key foundation to helping patients achieve optimal oral health throughout their lifetime.

With its tumultuous and murky history, syphilis has influenced the scientific developments in various medical fields, including microbiology, immunology, pharmacology, and bioethics.

Words matter, those from our participants and ours. Whether working one on one or when facilitating a larger group educational program, principles and strategies for engaging participants are key.

This presentation reviews the demographics and common characteristics in the geriatric population, thereby revealing the diversity in needs and resources regarding oral health care.

This presentation reveals a General Relations Approach to communicating with persons, especially older adults, from diverse backgrounds in group settings.

This presentation focuses on providing information about sensory changes such as changes in vision and hearing, cognitive changes in information processing and memory, and mental health changes, especially changes in depression, in older adults.

This course is an overview of innovative processes in implant dentistry.

Insurance Administration errors are predictable in today’s dental practice.

Nearly 3 million people in the United States have Celiac Disease (CD) with many of these people remaining undiagnosed due to poor understanding of the disease. 

When teaching the team about whole mouth health, we have to help them connect the dots between what we once taught them and what the new research tells us.

Coding errors are predictable in today’s dental practice.

This course will discuss how focusing on prevention and “coaching” patients towards optimal oral health leads to more patient referrals, greater patient loyalty, better treatment outcomes and less stress for the dental team.

The webinar will cover an overview of the most recent evidence pertaining to intake of sugars and risk of dental caries and other non-communicable diseases.

How mouth breathing habits do harm to your health

A guided tour from clinical challenge to public health opportunity

From the Why to the How

How to develop culturally competent oral health care personnel who can provide dental services to diverse populations including limited English proficient patients, through provision of care that addresses issues of quality, access, linguistic barriers and adherence

Oral health is critically dependent on the behaviour of individuals, yet behaviour change can be challenging.

Oral disease is a health issue experienced by children and adults living in the United States.

Today’s visit to the dental office should be about wellness.

Today there are more medically compromised patients being treated in our offices than ever before.

Seeing is believing!

This presentation will review the anatomical structure & its limitations, technical & design aspects of implants, hygiene methods that affect the outcome of oral implant therapy in patients.

Osteoporosis and its Treatment and the Link to Medication-Related Osteonecrosis

Operatory management and environmental surfaces

RAISE YOUR ECO-CONSCIOUSNESS—RAISE YOUR BOTTOM LINE $$$

Keeping Patients and Dental Healthcare Personnel Safe

Few words provoke such a wide range of emotions as “cancer”. Unfortunately, many cancer patients are unaware that cancer treatments affect the oral tissues and that consulting with their dentist and dental hygienist is an important part of their overall treatment.

Many patients come into dental offices today with questions about the “Mouth-Body Connection”. They’re reading about these relationships in Reader’s Digest, Redbook, and Good Housekeeping, as well as on the Internet.

This course will address important issues as they relate to YOU, the dental professional. In the USA we work more hours and take fewer vacations than any other country.

This course reviews and celebrates the ADA code of Ethics and it’s Code of Professional Conduct. It explores real life ethical dilemmas dental students and new dentists may face and recommends activities that enhance the public trust of the profession

Botox®, one of the botulinum toxin drugs derived from the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, has gained popularity in the past 20 years as a safe, non-invasive cosmetic treatment for facial lines and wrinkles, but has a rich history in treating a wide and eclectic group of medical and dental maladies and conditions.

This seminar will offer healthcare providers the knowledge and tools for individuals with ASD in oral health care at home and in a dentist office.

This presentation will take caries management strategies from strictly the curative dental model and incorporate them into a promotional, preventative and educational model. These will apply to all healthcare providers, healthcare settings and age groups.

The purpose of this program is to understand the utility of risk assessment in dental practice.

Many are telling us that you are not practicing up to date dentistry without digital impressions and CBCT.

Dr Mazevet will present the activities of the Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future, the data on the global burden of the disease and how fields such as nutrition, evidence based research, clinical practice need to be joined.

Effective Methods For Early Detection and Prevention of caries.

Compliance with oral self-care is poor despite our best efforts in helping patients to understand their oral health care needs.

Can you still practice with paper charts, film xrays and a sharp explorer?

I will challenge your thinking about keeping a tooth or placing and implant. TEETH FOR A LIFE TIME. Helping clinicians make therapeutic decisions of maintaining or extracting Endo/Perio compromised teeth based on Scientific evidence.

The treatment we render to our pediatric patients has significant long-term implications on their dental status through adulthood. Recognizing the far-reaching consequences of our interventions would help us select treatment options that not only look at the present but also at the future well being of the child.

This presentation will focus on maintaining caries-free teeth through the latter portion of life utilizing caries risk assessment, preventative strategies, minimally invasive dentistry and modifications of treatment plans.

The presentation will provide an overview of Pediatric Oral Pathology from infancy to early childhood with an emphasis on diagnosis and management.

Oral healthcare professionals can have an enormous impact on the identification of patients suffering from domestic violence.

Why don’t patients follow our home care instructions?

Management of Implant complications in the esthetic zone is by far the most challenging tasks in implant dentistry. Current classification of biologic com-plications mainly focused on disease progression, extent or etiology.

Management of dental pain is accomplished with the use of opioid and non-opioid analgesics. Since the treatment of such pain relies heavily on individual factors, it is essential for the dental professional to not only assess the efficacy of the prescribed analgesics but also monitor for their appropriate use.

Prosthetic space is the three-dimensional space within the oral cavity that includes space for the ideal prosthesis and its associated prosthetic components.

This course is designed to familiarize the entire health care team with those medical conditions necessitating antibiotic therapy prior to dental treatment.

During this course we will explore the pathogenesis and risk factors of medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw. As well as look at the recommended management strategies based on the clinical stage at the time of presentation.

Despite the growing evidence of its usefulness in management of cancer, HIV/AIDS, epilepsy and other neurological disorders, marijuana remains illegal under the U.S. federal law.

This lecture will present a systemized approach to treatment planning and case presentation. This comprehensive approach covers the areas of esthetics, function and health.

A discussion of dental plaque and its etiologic effect on dental caries and periodontitis will initiate the Webinar, which will cover the following.

The lecture will describe the characteristics and causes of dental fear and anxiety, as well as how to identify and manage patients with dental fear.

Are you ready to deliver care to a vast variety of patients? In the 21st century you have the potential to be treating 5 generations of patients in your practice!

Ten thousand Americans turn 65 every day. With age comes increasing medical complexity that can affect your delivery of care.

Dental caries is a dynamic dietomicrobial disease that involves multiple cycles of demineralization and remineralization before its consequences are expressed clinically.

This seminar discusses about how to manage the pediatric patient in regular general dental office.Especially focused on the patient that may not cooperate for dental treatment.

Ever wonder why some of our young patients just can’t sit still in the dental chair, or focus on what we are saying, or just brush their teeth daily like we remind them every time we see them?

The desire of our patients who are missing a front tooth is to have a natural and esthetic result.

Personalized or Precision Oral Health Care

In today’s economy patients are looking for long-term, predictable results when making decisions on treatment options.

This presentation will provide an overview of the International Caries Classification and Management System (ICCMS™) and how it helps deliver Modern Caries Management in Practice.

Have the improvements reached all population groups?

The primary objective of pulp therapy is to maintain the integrity and health of the teeth and their supporting tissues.

The relationship of oral disease to overall disease is certainly not a new concept.

Women and men have different healthcare needs, and regarding oral healthcare, men and women often require different approaches to treatment.

This presentation will discuss basic nutrition recommendations that can be incorporated into daily practice.

This seminar discusses about how to manage the pediatric patient in regular general dental office.

This course will address HPV associated head and neck cancers, their characteristics, known risk factors, theories regarding their etiology and roles oral health professionals can assume in their prevention, detection and referral.

For health care providers, clear health communication is about helping patients to understand and act on health care information so they can follow instructions with the goal of improving health outcomes.

Management of periodontal disease is important for preservation of the dentition, and also plays a role in general health.

Management of pain during dental procedures is accomplished with the use of local anesthetics.

The presentation will guide the clinician on how to proceed when an oral mucosal lesion is found.

The infective process of dental decay has been a primary focus of the modern dental practice.

This webinar will enable the practitioner to treat and manage the unique concerns that this patient population will present.

This course will focus on training Physicians, General dentists, Dental providers and their team on how to prepare with the young child 0 to 3 years of age in their dental practice.

This course will help dental professionals feel better prepared with working and communicating with different Generations within their practices.

This course will examine the widespread problem of substance abuse and addiction among older adults.

Evidence based information concerning the relationship between oral and overall health will be presented with an emphasis on developing messages which can educate and motivate patients to improve their oral and overall health.

It has been 32 years since the first reports of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) were reported to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This course will present the oral manifestations that may be encountered in pregnancy. Many myths regarding dental treatment for the pregnant patient will be discussed.

Not all patients that need or require surgical periodontal care are candidates for this form of therapy. A variety of factors preclude them from receiving or pursuing surgery to correct their problems. This population of patients may benefit from a variety of chemotherapeutic pharmacologic agents currently available to affect host modulation and address their disease. This program will explore the rationale and appropriate usage of pharmacologic agents used as adjuncts to traditional modes of periodontal therapy as well as DNA culturing to assist your selection of medications.

Forensic Dentistry is that part of science that deals with Dentistry and the Law. All members of the dental field have knowledge and expertise they can contribute to the field of Forensic Dentistry.

Every superb dental professional needs two things – excellent clinical or technical expertise and excellent communication skills. This seminar dissects some of the most challenging communication scenarios in the dental office, such as what to say when patients reject treatment recommendations or x-rays. Other topics include one-on-one communication about patient homecare, barriers to communication, and reducing disappointments. Every attendee will gain useful information to improve his/her own communication skills. Doctors and all staff members can benefit from this seminar.

The purpose of this course is to provide oral health professionals with information regarding the assessment of oral complications of medication use. Adverse medication effects on oral hard and soft tissues will be reviewed. Detailed descriptions of drug classes associated with each effect will be provided. Management strategies for improving oral health in medicated patients will be discussed.

Eating disorders have become a problem that is epidemic on our college campuses with possible life threatening implications. This presentation will address the psychological, medical and dental issues associated with these disorders. Dental management considerations of the eating disordered patient will also be discussed.