Continuing Dental Education

Let’s kick start your personal and professional readiness. Participants learn how to use their skills, training and experience to prepare for, assess and respond to disasters. Shelter-in-place or evacuation strategies and scenarios are presented for a variety of situations, including weather disasters such as earthquakes, floods and tornados, epidemics, and accidental or purposeful chemical or radiation exposure, terrorist acts, fire and explosions.

This pre-recorded webinar will present a potpourri of interesting cases seen by Dr. Svirsky or emailed to him over the past few years. In this course, participants learn how to describe a lesion, develop a differential diagnosis and treat the condition. Dr. Svirsky will show how he approaches cases to arrive at a diagnosis. Areas to be covered include: oral cancer, tumors, erythema multiform, burns, chronic ulcerative stomatitis, candidiasis, salivary gland tumors, oral complications of drug abuse, soda mouth, methotrexate toxicity, herpes zoster and many other interesting cases seen in his 40 years as an oral medicine man. Get ready to laugh, learn and make a difference in the diagnosis and treatment of your patients.

In treating today’s periodontal patient successfully, the clinician must customize a treatment plan that goes beyond the removal of plaque and calculus. Achieving excellent clinical outcomes involves assessing for systemic issues, communicating and customizing home care according to the patient’s level of understanding and ability to perform home care procedures, and choosing appropriate adjuncts to care.

In treating today’s periodontal patient successfully, the clinician must customize a treatment plan that goes beyond the removal of plaque and calculus. Achieving excellent clinical outcomes involves assessing for systemic issues, communicating and customizing home care according to the patient’s level of understanding and ability to perform home care procedures, and choosing appropriate adjuncts to care.

Many dentists ask the question, "Is the time right to buy an intraoral scanner?" The simple answer to this complicated question is, "What do you want to do with it?" You know the scope of your practice. What you may not know is how easy it is to seamlessly incorporate an intraoral scanner into your existing workflow.

Enjoy a long dental career and improve clinical precision while avoiding injury and pain! Pathogenesis, causes and prevention of various cumulative trauma disorders are discussed, focusing on upper extremity, spinal and joint pathologies. Evaluate preventive strategies, including equipment design, body positioning and conditioning and enhanced visualization. Practice stretching and strengthening exercises to reduce pain, preserve range of motion and optimize personal career excellence and longevity.

This pre-recorded webinar will present cultural diversity issues, how dental professionals can become more culturally competent in the delivery of patient care and ways to use this knowledge for addressing access to care barriers among the population groups discussed.

This two-part self-study course will investigate the importance of understanding cyber-security to protect patients and practices and then review opportunities for artificial intelligence in dentistry.

This pre-recorded webinar will be a review of physical and chemical injuries. The course will include electrical and other burns, traumatic injuries, osteonecrosis, oral sexual practices, chemotherapy complications, cosmetic fillers and much more. Get ready to have wild oral pathology ride. Due to graphic content shown, this course is rated PG 13.

In this first session, Dr. Towne will provide an introduction to minimally invasive facial cosmetic procedures with a focus on understanding the applied facial anatomy as it relates to facial soft tissue manipulation

In the second session, Dr. Towne will start with a review of products best suited for facial procedures. This will be accomplished through the understanding of the pharmacology of the recommended products, including indications, adverse reactions, complications as well as contraindications for use.

In the third session, Dr. Towne will lead a review of the actual techniques involved with the placement of the different products in different sites. Potential risks and complications associated with the injections and how to manage will also be presented.

Dental Professionals have a unique opportunity to share life-saving information with their patients that are addicted to nicotine products. This course will give the dental team the tools needed to be able to start their patient’s journey of becoming free of smoking, vaping, and dipping.

Despite many advances in resin adhesion, many misconceptions exist in modern dentistry. Dentin bonding agents continue to evolve and promise easier, stronger, and more durable. This lecture will present key elements every dentist should consider during the steps in adhesion to optimize outcomes while minimizing post-operative complications.

This pre-recorded webinar will be a review of oral dermatology in its entire splendor. Pimples, papules, pustules, tumors, and much more will be visually encountered in this adventure of what grows on the skin.

Embarrassed by recession around a recently placed crown in the esthetic zone? Faced with exposed roots that are esthetically undesirable or sensitive?
Learn evidence-based solutions for the soft tissue challenges you face on a daily basis, such as how to cover those exposed roots and predictably stop recession. In this pre-recorded webinar, methods are illustrated to solve those problems and enhance restorative results for clinicians. Gain peace of mind knowing the gingiva stays in place by the margins of newly placed esthetic crowns. This presentation is for dentists and hygienists who want to better understand how soft tissue grafting can help with enhancing esthetic restorative results.

The roles that our dental professions serve for law enforcement and other forensic sciences continues to evolve. Forensic odontology contributes a scientifically sound method human identification, be it a single individual or a multiple fatality incident. Forensic odontology serves missing person and cold case investigations and much more!

Get to know the many wavelengths able to strengthen your periodontal and restorative outcomes. This course covers various applications and procedures that can be performed during routine periodontal and dental appointments. Examples of these procedures will be shown using several dental laser wavelengths.

Dental professionals in the State of Michigan are now required to complete at least one hour of required continuing education in the area of infection control for license renewal per the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. This pre-recorded self-study course will highlight requirements under this administrative ruling to include: CDC infection control guidelines, personal protective equipment requirements, and protocol for sterilization of handpieces.

This program will provide all dental professionals the most relevant and current data on oral dysplasia and oral cancer incidence, morbidity and mortality, and introduce the breakthrough that allows us to extend our clinical vision to a deeper, truly submucosal level by employing autofluorescence technology.

The cycles of infection, immune response, inflammation and recovery take place 24/7 inside of our bodies. This live webinar examines the deadly synergistic exacerbation between cardiovascular disease (CVD), which is the leading cause of death and disability for men and women in North America, and the contributing role oral disease plays in patients with CVD. The conditions of metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance’s devastating outcomes of heart attack and stroke will be discussed.