2021 Courses and Events

Course #: 1040
Date: 11/26/2021
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
John Olmsted

Room: 1E05
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $265.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists, Hygienists, Assistants, Students, Educator

Description:

Do you wonder which endodontic instrument is the safest and most efficient? Do you have challenges with irrigation solutions? Are you tired of lateral condensing of accessory points? This evidence-based hands-on workshop provides experiences for cutting-edge rotary/reciprocation instrumentation with new flexible and safe files; location of calcified canals and MB2; and obturation of the root canal system utilizing a four canal 3-D maxillary first molar. 

Learn:

• demonstrate location of canals with special burs
• utilize rotary and reciprocation instrumentation
• exhibit different techniques of obturation

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Course #: 1070
Date: 11/26/2021
Time: 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
John Olmsted

Room: 1E05
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $265.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists, Hygienists, Assistants, Students, Educator

Description:

Do you wonder which endodontic instrument is the safest and most efficient? Do you have challenges with irrigation solutions? Are you tired of lateral condensing of accessory points? This evidence-based hands-on workshop provides experiences for cutting edge rotary/reciprocation instrumentation with new flexible and safe files; location of calcified canals and MB2; and obturation of the root canal system utilizing a four canal 3-D maxillary first molar. 

Learn to:

• demonstrate location of canals with special burs
• utilize rotary and reciprocation instrumentation
• exhibit different techniques of obturation

Support for these programs is provided by 

Course #: 2110
Date: 11/27/2021
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
John Olmsted

Room: 1E09
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $205.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists, Hygienists, Assistants, Students, Educator

Description:

This seminar discusses the latest technological advances to provide efficient and excellent endodontic care for your patients. This evidence-based program allows you to separate the facts from the fiction with diagnosis and treatment planning, anesthesia, access, isolation. Recent improvements in the delivery of irrigation solu-tions have enhanced the reduction of bacteria and debris in the root canal system. The instrumentation phase of endodontic treatment, including locating the canal orifices, negotiating the canals, opening the orifice, reconfirming working length, and utilizing “cutting edge” rotary/reciprocation instruments, are reviewed throughout this unique course.

Learn to:

• list 15 steps of diagnosis emphasizing medical/dental history, radiographs
• outline the progression of local anesthetics, access, and isolation
• identify the different delivery of irrigation solutions
• describe the steps of rotary/reciprocation instrumentation

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Course #: 2140
Date: 11/27/2021
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Allen Nasseh
Anne Koch

Room: 1E09
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $205.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists

Description:

Nearly 25 years after the introduction of Nickel Titanium Rotary Files to endodontics, we’ve learned much about the clinical strengths and limitations of these outstanding instruments. As a result of recent improvements in metallurgy, enhanced designs, and innovative proto-cols, we now need to understand how these changes affect clinical instrumentation. As a result of recent advances in metallurgy, we now have both heat-treated, and non heat-treated rotary files. They each possess different properties, and both have distinct indications for use, as well as limitations. A blended technique has been developed that combines the benefits of heat-treated and non heat-treated files into one ‘Awesome Endodontic Technique’ that is entirely intuitive by design.

Learn:

• how the “Blend Technique” is entirely intuitive in its design
• the advantages of heat-treated files and how best to use them
• the benefits of enhanced irrigation techniques utilizing various new solutions

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Course #: 3250
Date: 11/28/2021
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Barry Musikant

Room: 1E18
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $245.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists, Assistants

Description:

How would you like to perform endodontic procedures without the fear of instrument separation while cleansing the canal far better in three dimensions? Would you like to safely use the instruments multiple times, saving a good deal of money in the process? This seminar gives you the easily applied means to negotiate a long, curved, narrow canal more quickly with far less resistance without the potential for canal distortions. Learn to create canal preparations that are easily obturated three-dimensionally with sealer and a single gutta-percha point.

Learn:

• the manual and engine-driven use of stainless steel relieved reamers (reamers with a flat along their entire working length)
• the use of reamers predominantly in a 30º handpiece oscillating at 3000-4000 cycles per minute
• why 30º oscillations virtually eliminate instrument separations
• to avoid instrument fracture while superior cleansing vigorously in the bucco-lingual plane (internal routing)

Support for this program is provided by

Essential Dental Systems

Course #: 3400
Date: 11/28/2021
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Allen Nasseh
Anne Koch

Room: 1E01/02
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $395.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists

Description:

This hands-on session teaches general practitioners how to perform endodontics in an entirely intuitive fashion. This means utilizing the correct technology where best indicated for use. For example, employing a combination of heat-treated and non-heat treated files into one instrumentation technique. Attendees experience bioceramic materials and have the opportunity to use them in a hands-on fashion. The ultimate goal is success and simplicity.

Learn:

• the meaning of Intuitive Endodontics and how to apply it clinically
• the differences between heat-treated and non-heat-treated rotary files
• the many applications and benefits of bioceramic technology

Support for this program is provided by

Course #: 3370
Date: 11/28/2021
Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Stephanie Tran

Room: 1E20
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $245.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists, Hygienists, Assistants, Administrative Staff

Description:

In recent years, there has been a significant shift in endodontics. Today, preserving as much tooth structure as possible is the most critical component to long-term success. Recent technological advancements have helped usher in this change, including CBCT, the microscope, and new designs of heat-treated NiTi instruments. The clinician discusses evidence-based approaches to restoratively driven endodontics and preserving tooth structure in root canal treatments. 

Learn:

• heat-treated NiTi instruments to achieve smaller access, shapes, and sizes in both simple and complex root canal cases
• to use high magnification with radiographs and CBCT for precise anatomical planning and execution
• how endodontics works in conjunction with restorative dentistry to enhance aesthetic and more conservative restorative outcomes for the patient

Support for this program is provided by

Course #: 3430
Date: 11/28/2021
Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Allen Nasseh
Anne Koch

Room: 1E01
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $395.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists

Description:

This hands-on session will instruct all practitioners in the art of endodontic reciprocation. Dr. Nasseh will demonstrate how the technique of reciprocation, when combined with advanced handpieces that utilize optimal torque reduction, will result in safe, predictable instrumentation. These shaping results will synchronize with the obturation technique known as “Hydraulic Condensation.” In addition to personal instruction from Drs. Koch and Nasseh, all participants will have the opportunity to work with various bioceramic products and techniques. The ultimate goal remains, “Success with Simplicity.”

Learn:

•  to understand the role of reciprocating files and how best to apply them clinically
• the differences between circumferential techniques and reciprocating methods
• the many applications and benefits of bioceramic technology

Course #: 4380
Date: 11/29/2021
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Stephanie Tran

Room: 1E01/02
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $310.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists, Hygienists, Assistants, Administrative Staff

Description:

In recent years, there has been a significant shift in endodontics. Today, preserving as much tooth structure as possible is the most critical component to long-term success. This hands-on workshop reviews and practices current concepts of restoratively-driven endodontics. Attendees learn to manage endodontic treatment from access to restoration. Changes toward a modern and restoratively-driven approach to endodontic treatment are discussed. This hands-on workshop introduces the concept of contemporary instrumentation and obturation using heat-treated endodontic instruments and bioceramic obturation.

Learn:

• the approach for restoratively driven access design
• contemporary, controlled-memory files for conservative instrumentation
• bioceramic and modern technology into root canal obturation techniques
• current conservative restorative considerations for endodontically treated teeth

Support for this program is provided by

 

Course #: 4410
Date: 11/29/2021
Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Stephanie Tran

Room: 1E01/02
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $310.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists, Hygienists, Assistants, Administrative Staff

Description:

Managing the delicate curvatures of root canal systems is often one of the most challenging aspects of predictable endodontic treatment. Too often, attempts at their navigation result in overly large accesses excessively straightened canals, and unnecessary loss of tooth structure. Like other aspects of modern dentistry, contemporary endodontics intends to treat disease while increasing the conservation of tooth structure. This hands-on course reviews the advancements in modern endodontics, including changes in access design and canal shaping. It improves understanding of instrumentation with heat-treated and controlled-memory files for predictable management of curved canals.

Learn:

• access design for conservation of tooth structure
• curved root canal treatment through glide path development and orifice management
• contemporary controlled-memory files for conservative instrumentation
• how to approach curved canals in sections for predictable instrumentation

Support from this program is provided by

Course #: 5140
Date: 11/30/2021
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Barry Musikant

Room: 1E15
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $205.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists, Assistants

Description:

Learn how to access, instrument effectively, and obturate highly calcified canals and a consistent way to treat less challenging cases. This seminar provides insights to simplify and improve your instrumentation techniques, virtually eliminating instrument separation. Learn cleansing the canals in three dimensions while at the same time preserving more tooth structure, obturating with a simple room-temperature technique, and building the tooth up when necessary with posts that are designed for maximum retention, minimal insertional stresses, and an even distribution of functional stresses.

Learn:

• why stainless steel reamers unrelieved and relieved are far superior to the K-files
• how K-files cause blockages leading to loss of length
• why a 30º oscillating engine-driven handpiece is the most efficient way to use the stainless steel reamers
• why 30º arcs of motion virtually eliminate instrument separations, allow for cleansing of canals in three dimensions, and at the same time preserve more dentin leaving the tooth stronger

Support for this program is provided by

Course #: 5340
Date: 11/30/2021
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Marcus Johnson

Room: 1E14
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $310.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists

Description:

This hands-on workshop highlights real-life techniques and strategies touching on endodontic case management, from administering a local anesthetic to negotiating canal anatomy from a restorative-driven perspective. The goals of this hands-on workshop are to diagnose a patient’s chief complaint of pain accurately by reviewing the properties of commonly used local anesthetics, learn an enhanced understanding of managing root canals with dentin conservation practice, discuss modern access design, work with heat-treated-controlled memory files that boast smaller taper, and increased resistance to fracture.

Learn:

• biological and clinical principles that will allow for predictably successful pain management and non-surgical root canal therapy
• to maximize endo-restorative dynamics while taking advantage of modern metallurgy developments in electro-discharge machining (EDM) technology
• the dynamics of dentin preservation and minimal engagement endodontics

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Course #: 5370
Date: 11/30/2021
Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):

Topic: Endodontics
Tuition:
Credits: 3

Description:

Course #: 6070
Date: 12/01/2021
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Alex Fleury

Room: 1E18
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $205.00
Credits: 3

Description:

Nearly 28 years since the introduction of Nickel Titanium Rotary Files to endodontics, we’ve learned much about the clinical strengths and limitations of these outstanding instruments. As a result of recent improvements in metallurgy, enhanced designs, and innovative rotary file motions, we now need to understand how these changes affect clinical instrumentation. Obturation improvements allow more efficient obturation techniques at lower costs. Advances on both instrumentation and the obturation front enable us to create more efficient instrumentation and obturation techniques that are safe, simple, and predictable. During this presentation, emphasis is placed on access, irrigation, instrumentation, and obturation.

Learn:

• how rotary file design, metallurgy, and motion influences instrumentation safety and efficiency
• the advantages of bioceramic based obturation and clinical techniques for its implementation
• how instrumentation and obturation protocols can be combined as a comprehensive system to achieve both efficiency and predictability in most clinical situations

Support for this program is provided by

Course #: 6150
Date: 12/01/2021
Time: 9:00am - 4:30pm
Course Info: Full Day
Speaker(s):

Room: 1E21
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $325.00
Credits: 6

Description:

This nuts and bolts program gives the dental team the tools to triage and successfully treat patients who present with pulp involvement, as well as dental traumatic injuries. Preserving the pulp and preventing apical periodontitis are key themes within contemporary clinical endodontics. Management of dental trauma remains a significant clinical challenge for healthcare providers with patients presenting with a wide variety of injuries. This course also discusses the advancements in vital pulp therapy, bioactive endodontic materials, as well as, newly published guidelines for traumatic injuries.

Learn to:

• treat vital pulp exposures using the latest advancements on materials and techniques
• implement the most recent, state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment modalities for crown, root fractures, luxations and avulsions.
• discuss dentoalveolar traumatic injuries and their complications.

Support for this program is provided by

Course #: 6300
Date: 12/01/2021
Time: 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Alex Fleury

Room: 1E14
Topic: Endodontics
Tuition: $310.00
Credits: 3

Description:

In this hands-on workshop, a simple instrumentation and obturation system are demonstrated. After attending this workshop, you will have a complete understanding of this instrumentation and obturation system, which helps improve the predictability of your cases while dramatically reducing instrument separation. Participants will have the opportunity to validate these concepts during the workshop. Plastic blocks are used for the demonstration. If available, participants are encouraged to bring sterile accessed and canal-validated extracted teeth representative of the kind of cases they do clinically.

Learn:

• the proper protocol for safe and effective instrumentation of a given canal and cone fit for obturation in different scenarios
• the simple bonded obturation technique of the fitted gutta-percha in the prepared canal
• the advantage of Hydraulic Condensation is to prepare a quick post space in the canal, if needed

Support for this program is provided by