Tray Tooth Bleaching: What We Now Know!

Course Details

Target Audience: General Dentists, Lab Technicians, Specialists

Live Stream Date: FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Live Stream Time: 10AM-1PM EST

Recording Access: 30 Days for single purchase

CE Credits: (must total 3hrs): 3(780)L

Instructor: Van B. Haywood D.M.D.

Tuition: $249

Course Description

This overview will establish the known recommendations based on 35 years of research and clinical treatment with tray bleaching.
Treatment for discolorations such as brown and white spots, single dark teeth, as well as nicotine stains, tetracycline-stained teeth and sensitivity will be discussed.
Safety and novel tray options for bleaching children’s teeth, as well as caries control in elderly and orthodontic patients will be presented.

Learning Objectives

Discover bleaching examination components
Understand hydrogen and carbamide peroxide differences
Discuss treatment options for brown & white discolorations, plus nicotine stains
Review treatment of tetracycline-stained teeth and long-term safety
Understand bleaching options for single dark teeth with internal and external stains
Discuss treatment for tooth sensitivity using bleaching trays and potassium nitrate
Determine best techniques for bleaching children’s teeth and controlling caries

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Instructor Van B. Haywood D.M.D.

Van B. Haywood, D.M.D.,is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Restorative Sciences, Dental College of Georgia @ Augusta University. A 1974 alumni of the Medical College of Georgia School of Dentistry, he was in private practice 7 years in Augusta, Georgia and taught at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry in Chapel Hill, NC in Operative and Prosthodontics for 12 years before coming to Augusta University in 1993. In 1989, he co-authored the first publication in the world on Nightguard vital bleaching (at-home tray bleaching) with Dr. Harald Heymann, and in 1997 co-authored the first article on extended treatment (six-months) of tetracycline-stained teeth using this technique.While he is most known for his research and articles on tray bleaching, he taught in the Fixed Prosthodontics courses, the Occlusion courses,and the Esthetics course, as well as in sophomore and junior Operative and Fixed student clinics. After over 29 years at the Dental College of Georgia, he retired from full-time teaching in December 2022. The DCG Class of 1997 initiated a scholarship in his name for clinical excellence and compassionate care.

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The Dawson Academy is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. The Dawson Academy designates this activity for 4 credit hours continuing education credits.