The Most Fun You’ll Have Getting Dental CE:
2019 Alumni Retreat

Gerard Chiche, DDS

This presentation will outline the management of risk factors in a step-by-step method in order to maximize long-term success of ceramic materials in extensive rehabilitations. Ceramics material selection will be discussed according to esthetics rendition, strength properties and available restorative thickness according to the state of attrition, the severity of the malocclusion and the cause of tooth wear.

Learning Objectives:

1. Create a systematic protection strategy for ceramic restorations with medium and high-risk patients.
2. Select ceramic materials for optimum esthetics and strength according to the severity of the attrition.
3. Use a simplified bonding method for all-ceramic restorations.

Karen O’Rourke, DDS

We will look at faces and breathing patterns of kids with allergies/asthma and sleep disordered breathing; look at how this affects the child’s growth; and an option to redirect facial growth. The mouth is in the middle of the airway complex, and by raising awareness and working together, dentistry and medicine can improve outcomes for our mutual patients.

Learning Objectives

At the completion of the course participants will be able to recognize, identify and improve the care of children.

• Recognize the link between dental symptoms and medical illnesses
• Identify growth and development problems in children and learn methods to intervene and prevent long-term health sequelae
• Improve overall patient health by modifying your health history to aid in identification and referral for underlying medical issues.

The Dawson Study Club Challenge is a case competition to encourage our study members to share cases and recognize those among us who are practicing quality, complete care. The challenge takes place each year during Study Club Day & the Annual Alumni Retreat.

Each contestant will have 5 minutes to present their case. Contestants should outline how they optimized the esthetics and created the 5 requirements of occlusal stability.

The 3 finalists will present their cases at the Dawson Retreat. Attendees will vote on the winner of the annual study club challenge.

Susan Maples, DDS

Would you like to position your practice as a leader in your community and reduce your dependency on insurance? Would you like to inspire patients toward a lifetime of dental stability and overall health? Would you enjoy solid co-referral relationships with a multitude of medical professionals?  If you said “yes” Total Health Dentistry is your future.

The object is to positively impact lives while you attract a plethora of patients who value and prioritize their health, and are willing to invest in it. Learn how the trends in lifestyle related illnesses such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, sleep apnea and acid reflux closely intertwine with periodontitis, caries, occlusal disease and oral pharyngeal cancer. The mouth is a show-off!  If you can look in the mouth with superpowered eyes the signs and symptoms of systemic and metabolic disease will appear. Addressing and stabilizing the root cause will escalate trust and help patients say yes to your treatment plan for significant stability.

This program will help you add new sources of revenue, lift your morale, attract quality new patients, build solid medical professional referrals and do all the dentistry you’ve dreamed possible.

Learning Objectives:

• Review the balance between science (evidence-based practice), business (profitability), and art (the intimate doctor-patient trust relationship)
• Preview many of the links between oral disease and systemic disease
• Discover some signs, symptoms, risk factors and screening tools for our most prevalent systemic diseases
• Facilitating lasting health change behavior in children and adults
• Establish a roadmap for rebranding your practice toward Total Health Dentistry for infants, children, teens & geriatrics
• Learn best practices for educating your local medical professionals and earning their referrals.

Bradley F. Bale MD and Amy L. Doneen DNP, ARNP

The oral/systemic link is based on the connection between vascular health and inflammation.  Heart Attacks and Ischemic strokes are triggered by an inflammatory process that can be initiated and exacerbated by periodontal disease.  High risk periodontal pathogens are causal of atherosclerotic changes. The Bale/Doneen Method bridges the gap between medicine and dentistry while promoting optimal health and wellness in all patients while preventing heart attacks and strokes.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will appreciate the vascular link between periodontal disease and heart attack and stroke risk.  
2. The dental professional will be able to elucidate the inflammatory causal relationship between periodontal pathogens and atherosclerosis.  
3. The audience will understand event reality and the general concept of atherosclerosis and vascular inflammation.  
4. The participants will be recognize the importance of medicine and dentistry working together to insure optimal health for the patients with vascular disease.