Continuing Dental Education Courses

This is the next step for assistants who want to expand their capabilities in dental practice. This course is designed to provide dental assistants with the knowledge and skills they need to perform expanded duty dental assisting functions as specified by Louisiana law. Hands-on exercises will be performed in the laboratory to reinforce the material presented in the lectures.

This 5-weekend continuum is for anyone who wants to better understand TMD and Orofacial Pain, more adeptly diagnose and manage their patients suffering with TMD and Orofacial Pain, and/or discover a successful practice model for treating TMD and Orofacial Pain in general dentistry.

Attendees will participate in an in-depth dissection of the head, neck, and airway over a two-day period. Working in two-member teams, each participant will dissect half of a cadaver head. The head, neck, and airway will be dissected to demonstrate the relationship of structures to orofacial pain conditions including TMD and sleep breathing disorders.

This competency course follows ADA guidelines and complies with the Louisiana State Board of Dentistry’s regulations specifying the education and training required for either a dentist or a hygienist to obtain a permit to administer nitrous oxide inhalation analgesia for dental procedures.

This course will help our team become more efficient in prepping teeth, making impressions, and fabricating provisional restorations. Participants will also learn practical solutions utilizing advanced materials and techniques and have a comprehensive overview of the scientific aspects and clinical applications of small diameter implants (SDI).

This is the “next step” for assistants who want to expand their capabilities in dental practice. This course is designed to provide dental assistants with the knowledge and skills they need to perform expanded duty dental assisting functions as specified by Louisiana law.

This is the “next step” for assistants who want to expand their capabilities in dental practice. This course is designed to provide dental assistants with the knowledge and skills they need to perform expanded duty dental assisting functions as specified by Louisiana law.

This course serves as an update and review of requirements for the purpose of administering moderate oral sedation and/or IV sedation to pediatric patients. The Louisiana State Board of Dentistry requires that dentists with a permit to administer moderate sedation to pediatric patients attend a live, in-person review course once every four years.

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 focuses on the evaluation, diagnosis and clinical implications of joint and muscle disorders, and a discussion on occlusion and its relationship to TMD. Other topics include: the use of imaging in TMD diagnosis, the neurophysiology of pain, oral appliance therapy, the role of physical therapy in TMD management, pharmacology for TMD, and Botulinum Toxin therapy.

Do you want to provide excellent endodontic care for your patients? This one day hands-on course is designed for general dentists and endodontists to gain expertise and confidence with completing the highest quality endodontics on both vital and necrotic teeth.

This is the “next step” for assistants who want to expand their capabilities in dental practice. This course is designed to provide dental assistants with the knowledge and skills they need to perform expanded duty dental assisting functions as specified by Louisiana law.

This lecture will explore the avenues available to expand your dental training beyond the limits you may feel that you, as a general dentist, are restricted to. Through presentations of various cases from simple to complex, utilizing technologies and techniques learned through experience and continuing education, participants will learn how they can help more of their patients and keep many procedures within the confines of their practices.

The mouth is a remarkable environment that cariologiests are finally beginning to understand, and so can you. Come learn everything you didn't know about plaque and the amazing organisms that make the mouth a wonderful place to work. If you're still telling patients to, "Brush, floss, and use fluoride toothpaste" you're going to be surprised by the myriad of treatment option available today.

This is the “next step” for assistants who want to expand their capabilities in dental practice. This course is designed to provide dental assistants with the knowledge and skills they need to perform expanded duty dental assisting functions as specified by Louisiana law.

This is the “next step” for assistants who want to expand their capabilities in dental practice. This course is designed to provide dental assistants with the knowledge and skills they need to perform expanded duty dental assisting functions as specified by Louisiana law. Hands-on exercises will be performed in the laboratory to reinforce the material presented in the lectures.

Technology in dentistry today accelerates the ease in which Implant Dentistry, along with general accuracy and efficiency can be accomplished within dental practices. This course allows the doctor to see how digital storage and transfer of information can streamline the practice of any general dentist doing implants.

Day one will focus on Sleep Disordered Breathing with lectures from the medical perspective and from the dental perspective. Day two will consist of a clinical session on oral appliance therapy as it applies to obstructive sleep apnea and lectures focusing on sleep bruxism, the relationship of sleep to temporomandibular disorders (TMDs), and sleep bruxism and the relationship between sleep and pain.

This is the “next step” for assistants who want to expand their capabilities in dental practice. This course is designed to provide dental assistants with the knowledge and skills they need to perform expanded duty dental assisting functions as specified by Louisiana law.

This course focuses on the advanced diagnosis and management of orofacial pain, current theory and diagnostic aids used in the differential diagnosis of craniofacial pain, and how differential diagnosis is an extremely challenging aspect of dental practice. This course also includes a discussion on cranial nerve pathology, vascular pain otalgia, salivary gland pathofunction, neuropathic pain, headaches, burning mouth syndrome, and movement disorders.

This is the “next step” for assistants who want to expand their capabilities in dental practice. This course is designed to provide dental assistants with the knowledge and skills they need to perform expanded duty dental assisting functions as specified by Louisiana law.