Continuing Dental Education Courses

This course will provide you with the tools, materials, and techniques to allow you to create durable, predictable, and esthetic restorations for both posterior and anterior teeth. The hands-on workshop includes step-by-step bonding protocol form tooth cleaning to finishing, fabrication of simple and complex posterior and anterior teeth, composite restorations including essential matrix systems, and polishing techniques to high shine restorations.

Appearance and self-esteem have long been intertwined. So, as our social media and selfie culture continues to grow, it’s no surprise that more and more people are seeking out cosmetic dentistry as a way to enhance their appearances. The dental world has taken notice and we need to respond with conservative ways to satisfy our patient’s desires for ideal smiles.

The course will focus on 7 topics including immune-mediated lesions, traumatic lesions, radiographic lesions, pigmented oral lesions, skin lesions, neoplasms and infections. Numerous clinical images will be provided to give the clinician a thorough review of the selected topics. The instructors will review appropriate therapy and management suggestions of these lesions.

This course will provide training for auxiliary personnel in the technique of accurate intraoral dental radiography. Practical experience will be provided in radiographic technique, darkroom procedures, and mounting intraoral x-rays. The long cone paralleling technique will be emphasized. The bisecting the angle technique will be presented in theory and in practice.

This course contains two separate half day presentations. In the morning, Dr. Todd Snyder will present on Cosmetics and Veneers. In the afternoon, he will present on Smart Practices For Your Practice.

This course contains two separate half day presentations. In the morning, Dr. Timothy Bizga will present on The Nuts and Bolts of Implant Dentistry. In the afternoon, he will present on Embracing the Change.

Dr. Thomas Viola will be presenting on three different topics about the knowledge of dental pharmacology and how it has never been more essential to patient care. These topics include, It's (Medically) Complicated, Waiting to inhale, and Hurts So... Swell.