This lecture will address the following questions:

1. What is a giomer? How does it work and what does it do? How is it different from glass ionomer?
2. What does the research say?
3. What products contain giomer technology and what is the advantage over others that do not?
4. How is it used clinically - case photos?

This lecture will explore iTero: State of the art science and parallel confocal imaging; Creating a perfect impression with iTero 4.0; Real Time Modeling; Eraser Features; Margin / Preparation Editing; Open Architecture Network – Laboratory and Manufacturer; Model and Die system and STL export; Implant Integrations; Invisalign and Orthodontic Applications; and Comprehensive Case Presentations.

All Participants will gain significant insight on:

• Eliminating conventional Impression materials in any dental office with indications for virtually every type of dentistry AND the clear aligner process
• Utilizing iTero for comprehensive treatment planning including full arch restorations, implants, Invisalign and orthodontics
• The office efficiencies to be gained by using ONLY iTero
• Utilizing auxiliary staff for scanning opposing arch prior to dentist time
• Digital Work Flow with iTero
• Case presentations of a variety of different types of cases
• Laboratory process after the scan

This program will cover many aspects of minimally invasive Dentistry. New concepts and techniques will be introduced that make sense and that will allow us to raise our level of care to our patients. Easy to follow techniques will facilitate rapid integration into anyone's practice.

Participants will learn that:

1. Minimally invasive Dentistry is not limited to any specialty of Dentistry.
2. The ideal restorative to place in the floor of any restoration may be a glass ionomer
3. Heavy flow flowable composites, have multiple uses and are important part of our daily arsenal of materials.

The primary goal of this seminar is to teach dentists and staff how to easily integrate the hottest topics in dentistry into their practices such as Botox and dermal fillers for every dental practice, no prep porcelain veneers, resin bonding, overhead control, and treatment acceptance. These practical concepts will enable you to offer new dental services, reduce your stress, significantly increase your production, substantially lower your overhead, and have fun doing dentistry. This seminar is a fast paced, entertaining, and educational course and is recommended for dentists, dental hygienists, dental assistants and office managers. This course will get you and your staff excited about dentistry!

Learning objectives:

1. How to integrate hottest new materials, techniques and technology into their dental practices
2. Common sense practice management techniques for best outcomes
3. Understand the emerging field of facial injectables and their role in dental therapeutic treatment

The detection of dental decay must be: scientific, accurate, reliable, and clinically significant. It is an essential part of the caries risk assessment process when examining the patient. The CarieScan PRO is the latest and most accurate diagnostic tool for  clinical practice.  The CarieScan PRO offers dental professionals (dentists and qualified team members) a predictable, evidence-based technique for the detection and qualitative evaluation of decay in teeth. The CarieScan provides information about whether the hard tissues are healthy, in the early stages of decay or significantly decayed.  The results are displayed on an easy-to-understand LCD screen as well as in a numeric format.  Through the use of proprietary RemoteView software and Bluetooth connection between CarieScan PRO and the office computer, this data is recorded to the patient's chart for evaluation, monitoring, and long-term assessment of the disease status.
Learning objectives:
1. To become familiar with the newest and most accurate caries detection technology
2. To successfully integrate new and inexpensive technologies into the practice
3. How to incorporate the data into an overall risk assessment of the patient and develop the correct treatment plan

Conservative preparations and simplified restorations are the primary parameters of the successful practice. The evolution of minimal preparation concepts is complemented by newer generation Giomer filling materials, "super" flowable and hybrid,that are functionally and esthetically superior. Of course, the precursor for every restorative procedure is a predictable 1-step 7th generation adhesive. Single step resin cements create the ideal interface between tooth structure, metal and ceramic while special additives target alumina and zirconia crowns and bridges.

Learning objectives:

1. 1-step development of occlusal anatomy with "super" flowables
2. Predictable adhesion for all restorative procedures
3. Single step resin cementation of all indirect restorations

Today's well-informed dental patient is concerned more than ever with health and healthy options. Health is now the driving force for dental patients the way cosmetic dentistry was in the past. New caries detection systems make treatment more scientific and medically significant. Discover the latest remineralization therapies, including glass ionomers and Giomers, to PROACTIVELY treat caries.

Direct repair instead of indirect replacement is a "patient friendly" minimally invasive option. Predictable direct restorative procedures are the backbone of the general dental practice. Keep it simple. News Flash! Today's "super" flowables can be as strong as hybrids and have easy handling properties. See how to use these "dentist friendly" materials to provide your patients with simple, maintainable, healthy dentistry.

Learning objectives:

1. Use remineralizaton therapies to PROACTIVELY treat caries
2. Repair and maintain restorations using the new "super" flowables
3. Attract and keep patients by practicing conservative healthy dentistry

This clinical presentation will show how 3D technology can be easily and profitably incorporated into a general dental practice.

The following questions will be addressed:

• What do I look for in a 3D unit?
• What do I use it for?
• How do I pay for it?

Digital technology is revolutionizing every aspect of dental practice including how we make clinical decisions and how we communicate. One of the most powerful trends in technology is the development and expansion of the Internet and e-services yet many dentists do not understand or utilize e-services. This course will explain what an e-service is and how we can use e-services to improve patient care and increase profitability.

Learning objectives:

1. Understand what an e-service is.
2. Learn how to use e-services to improve patient care.
3. Know the steps needed to start using e-services.

The soft tissue diode laser has become an essential part of the dental practice. Restorative dentistry is a snap with soft tissue lasers. No more retraction cord, no more missed margins on impressions. A 15 second troughing prepares every abutment for a perfect impression. Decay or fracture below the gingival? Why wait for conventional soft tissue surgery when it can be done immediately chairside.

The soft tissue laser is also a vital tool for periodontal treatment by dentists and hygienists. The diode laser empowers the dental team to take an even greater role in the healing therapies designed for the dental patient including laser bacterial decontamination, laser assisted periodontal therapy, and laser biostimulation.

Our patients have to deal with a myriad of pain and dysfunction issues that out of necessity become chronic as the patient has to go through the everyday necessities of life. The patient is forced to live with these symptoms and tries to mitigate with drugs, continuous band aid treatment modalities and in many cases significant irreversible treatment that may not even address the issue at hand. As contemporary dentists, we have the ability to interact with our patients in a manner that allows them to inform us of such chronic issues that they may be facing and at the same time be able to understand the presented physiology by the patient to render treatment that allows for cessation of such pain and dysfunction.

In performing long lasting comprehensive contemporary dentistry, Form, Function, Esthetics and Stability are the attributes that we strive for and should for good reason. In the end, it is "physiology" that informs and governs the long term end result. In generalities, anatomy (i.e. Form) gives us guidance whereas physiology determines the end result. As Sir Charles Sherrington proved with a resulting Nobel Prize, that "Physiological Economy" is at the center of a person's well-being.

Dr. Kherani will discuss the theory and science behind the Neuro Muscular Occlusion philosophy and its application in treating numerous cases that range from aesthetic needs to pain management in a contemporary setting. A sound diagnosis followed by a physiologic treatment modality will prevent both overtreatment and under treatment of the patient leading to a permanent and stable cure of the conditions presented.

The much ignored arena of Sleep Disordered Breathing will also be considered in the overall diagnosis leading to treatment that allows the alleviation of this harmful disorder with far reaching complications that can result in increased mortality and morbidity. Successful long term treatment outcomes will be shared along with patient testimonials.

There is considerable confusion for the practitioner when discussing self-adhesive materials and when to best utilize these different types of products. With the introduction of self etch self-adhesive flowable composites, cements, bonding agents and core material, the confusion has increased. We will review the different types of materials and how to best use these to provide better restorations and improve the quality of dental treatment.

Participants will:

• Understand total etch vs. self etch adhesives
• Understand how and when to use self adhesive cements and core material
• Understand the use of self etch flowable composites and when to use them

Discussion on how to restore endodontically treated teeth and the decision making process on core buildup verses a post & core will be addressed. Techniques and materials will be reviewed for creating durable predictable core buildups and post & cores. Additionally, we will discuss the importance of restorative ferrule in today's adhesive world and why it's just as important today to achieve long term clinical success.

This course will provide solutions to daily issues encountered by most dentists with the use of newly developed Kuraray's one-step self-etch and core material.

Participants will learn about:

1. When to use posts and when they are not needed
2. Simplified predictable techniques for post cementation
3. Understanding the importance of ferrule in today's adhesive world

How the general dentist can enhance the implant portion of their practice and why loupes should be used on a daily basis.

Participants will learn about:

1. Effective consultation techniques to increase case acceptance.
2. Streamlining the implant process from planning to final restoration.
3. Loupes help maintain better ergonomics, increase quality of work, and are especially helpful for working with small implant parts.

The soft tissue laser is also a vital tool for periodontal treatment by dentists and hygienists. The diode laser empowers the dental team to take an even greater role in the healing therapies designed for the dental patient including laser bacterial decontamination, laser assisted periodontal therapy, and laser biostimulation.

The following questions will be addressed:

• What do the clinical studies say?
• What is the relevant science?
• How easy is it to operate the laser?
• How can you implement this exciting new treatment into your practice?
• Do you need a soft tissue laser?
• Can you afford to be without one?

The dental rehabilitation in the esthetic zone is often clinically challenging. The goal of esthetic implant therapy is to provide a predictable and esthetically and functionally satisfying treatment outcome with a low risk of esthetic complications. It is desirable to achieve this goal with a minimum trauma and number of surgical procedures and in the shortest possible treatment time from tooth extraction to implant restorations.

The aim of this presentation is to introduce a surgical decision making to help the clinician in the selection of the most adequate surgical technique in the implant treatment of esthetic areas in order to reach the objectives described above. Each surgical decision is presented with a case report. In addition, the biologic rationale is discussed.

This presentation will focus on the science and clinical performance of local anesthesia, including recent advancements.  A review of the documented studies on the time course for soft tissue analgesia and pulpal analgesia will lend to the discussion on the commonly held beliefs under which many dentists organize their practice day. 
The presentation will discuss the role that alkalinization (pH buffering) standard dental anesthetic cartridges immediately before delivering the injection can affect the anesthetic's performance, the patient experience, and the practice's schedule. The presentation will describe and demonstrate a novel ex vivo precision cartridge buffering system.
Learning Objectives:

1. Appreciate the differences between the realities of anesthetic performance and the commonly held beliefs.
2. Understand the role that pH and dissolved CO2 play in the practical measures of anesthetic performance (injection pain, latency, profundity).
3. Discuss how precision buffered local anesthetic may shift the way a dental professional practices and the patient's experience with anesthetic during a typical dental visit.

An improved system for irrigating and debriding root canal systems. Presented will be the latest in laser activated irrigation technique (LAI) using PIPS. Most recent results using bacterial, histological, SEM, Confocal and micro CT scanning confirm
Learning Objectives:

1. The clinician will learn the value of using LAI and PIPS for irrigation.
2. The ability to eliminate both bacterial and biofilm within the root canal.
3. Decrease the size of instrumentation needed and maintaining more internal root structure.

This lecture provides you with a  eview of the epidemiology, complications and clinical management of patients with diabetes mellitus seen in the dental office.

After this lecture, participants will:
1.     Know the prevalence of diabetes mellitus in the United States
2.     Understand the systemic and oral complications of diabetes mellitus
3.     Be familiar with the management of patients with diabetes seen in the dental office

Dentists see, hear or receive information about all-ceramic crowns and bridges every day. Are the days of porcelain fused to metal over? There is now systematically reviewed data showing that all-ceramic systems are no longer experimental; they are suitable for routine utilization in practice. There are various all-ceramic options available and numerous techniques to place them. Furthermore, there are materials to fix a ceramic chip or fracture.
Participants will learn to:

1. Determine the differences between the types of All-Ceramic Crowns and Bridges and when to use them.
2. Understand the steps of bonding to Ceramics and Metal.
3. Exposure to Tribochemical treatment of dental materials.
   
   

12:45 – 1:45 - Dr. Ron Kaminer and Dr. Armin Nedjat - Minimally Invasive Implant Dentistry for the General Practitioner

The program will cover the complete technique of minimally invasive implant surgery and prosthetic restoration. Even the general practitioner new to implant dentistry will be able to incorporate the simplified surgical technique into his/her practice. Using this system the general practitioner can substantially reduce both, implant and laboratory costs. Thus allowing more mainstream use of implants in the practice.
Learning Objectives;

1. Understanding the concept of minimally invasive implant surgery
2. Understanding how to place and restore a one piece implant
3. Understanding how to place and restore a new design two piece implant

The need to preserve as much bone as possible is crucial to the predictability of successful implant osseous integration. With the tremendous popularity of implants by dentists and their acceptance by society, replacing edentulous areas with predictability will provide you with the key to success.

This presentation presents and discusses new and innovative instruments that will effectively aid you in the regeneration of predictable bone and its preservation during extractions of teeth. Classical extractions have all too often led to resorbsion of the buccal bone of the extracted area. By their putting pressure on the buccal bone, the bone resorbs, leading to loss of this buccal bone. Consequentially, implants, which need to be placed in adequate supportive bone, are too often placed too lingually, where the majority of the bone is preserved. This leads to the prosthetic coverage of the implant having occlusal as well as embrasure compromises.

These new instruments change the direction of the pressure of the extraction, avoiding pressure towards the buccal or lingual bone. By changing this direction, these new instrument avoid the probable resorbsion, preserve bone, and promote successful regeneration of a wider B-L osseous height and ridge. The implant will then be ready to be placed in a more desirable position, both physiologically and occlusally.

Implant and periodontal therapy made more predictable with a small, portable laser

Learning Objectives:

1. Simplification of frenectomy to reduce muscle pull with a laser
2. How to perform soft tissue crown lengthening with a laser
3. Root planning enhanced with subgingival sterilization and deepithelialization using a 1064 laser
4. Implant uncovering – no bleeding, no pain, no loss of keratinized tissue

Additional procedures enabled by the use of hard and soft tissue lasers. Hard and soft tissue lasers are used to add to the general dentists inventory of procedures.

Learning Objectives:

1. Clinicians will learn the value & limitations of different wave lengths
2. Clinicians will learn the advantage of laser preparation verses rotary or blade prep
3. Clinicians immediate return on investment from adding new laser procedures & more efficient existing procedures.