2025 Courses and Events

Course #: 4170
Date: 12/01/2025
Time: 11:30am - 1:30pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Frank Celenza, DDS

Topic: Periodontics
Tuition: $155.00
Credits: 2
AGD Number: 490 – Periodontics- Implant Pl
Recommended For:
Dentists, Hygienists, Students, Educator

Description:

At first glance, the integration of periodontics and orthodontics may seem unexpected. Orthodontics traditionally serves a younger demographic, while periodontics is often associated with older patients. Yet, combining these specialties can offer powerful advantages in comprehensive treatment planning. This lecture explores how general dentists can harness the interaction between periodontal health and orthodontic movement to improve functional and esthetic outcomes. Attendees will gain insight into practical treatment modalities and discover how interdisciplinary collaboration can elevate patient care.

Learn to:

• develop an understanding of the physiology underlying tooth movement
• recognize the periodontal benefits associated with proper tooth positioning
• understand the interactions between implants and the periodontal-orthodontic interface in interdisciplinary treatment planning

Course #: 4250
Date: 12/01/2025
Time: 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Frank Celenza, DDS

Topic: Periodontics
Tuition: $155.00
Credits: 2
AGD Number: 490 – Periodontics- Pathophysi
Recommended For:
Dentists, Hygienists, Students, Educator

Description:

Building on the foundational concepts presented in the morning, this course explores more nuanced aspects of interdisciplinary treatment planning for general dentists involving periodontics, orthodontics, and implants. Topics will include gingival grafting considerations in orthodontic patients, coordination of gingival margins for esthetic harmony, and orthodontic strategies around implants. The lecture will also review recent developments in orthodontic acceleration and showcase complex case presentations to highlight the evolving synergy between these disciplines.

Learn:

• clinical considerations for gingival grafting and soft tissue management in orthodontic cases
• techniques for achieving gingival margin coordination in interdisciplinary esthetic treatments
• how implants influence and interact with orthodontic planning and movement
• emerging concepts in orthodontic acceleration and their implications for interdisciplinary care