Scheduled Courses

COURSE SYNOPSIS:

Intensive all day hands-on participation workshop teaching alternatives to rotary NiTi. A predictable, safer, more time efficient and far less costly system will be introduced. The dentist will experience the elimination of hand fatigue, canal distortion, and instrument separation.

• Avoid hand fatigue
• Learn alternatives to costly rotary NiTi systems without sacrificing quality
• Demonstrating a single cone filling lateral canals
• Explores the degrees of curvature
• Learn the advantages of Epoxy resin cement and a single point fill
• Compare several of the most popular root canal cements

Course Description:

The Morning program will be a treatment planning session with three selected case presentations with group discussion and case planning by each group provided with casts, radiographs and patient history. Emphasis will be placed on esthetic and interdisciplinary treatment, and occlusal management. Topics to be covered include:

• Identify the key factors for treatment planning of anterior restorations: A methodical treatment sequence applicable to major and minor anterior restorations.
• Establish a step-by-step occlusal plan for maximum predictability. Identify occlusal red flag prior to treatment and provide a predictable restorative outcome.

The Afternoon program will be a hands-on preparation workshop on dentoforms for the following teeth:

• Porcelain veneer preparation on a maxillary central incisor
• Porcelain veneer preparation on a maxillary canine
• All-ceramic crown preparation on a maxillary central incisor
• All-ceramic crown preparation on maxillary bicuspid

Biography:

Dr. Gerard J. Chiche is the Director of the Center of Esthetic and Implant Dentistry at MCG School of Dentistry, Augusta GA. He has given numerous programs nationally and internationally and holds membership in the American College of Dentists, the American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry, the American Academy of Fixed Prosthodontics, the American Academy of Restorative Dentistry and the Omicron Kappa Upsilon Dental Honor Society. He is a Past President of the American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry and is also, respectively with Alain Pinault and Hitoshi Aoshima the author of the textbooks: Esthetics of Anterior Fixed Restorations, and Smile Design - A guide for Clinician, Ceramist and Patient both published by Quintessence Pub. Co. He serves as adjunct faculty at the Pankey Institute, he is the recipient of the 2003 LSU Alumni Award, the 2003 Educational Community Achievement Award of the Seattle Study Club for best dental educator of the year and the 2007 Distinguished Lecturer Award of the Greater New York Academy of Prosthodontics.

Course Description:
Synopsis: The TMJ patient can present with many faces. Facial asymmetries, dental asymmetries and dental mal-occlusions can all have their origins from a temporo-mandibular joint internal derangement. Early childhood trauma to the lower jaw, as simple as a bunk to the chin can lead to growth and development disorders of the mandible due to TMJ structural injury. Subsequent development of skeletal and dental mal-occlusions which can express themselves progressively into the adult life of the patient can also then develop.All dentists, whether general dentists or specialists, should have the basic knowledge and skills to perform a front line TMJ examination and make a front line diagnosis. Specifically, skeletal, and Angle’s class II type malocclusions, anterior open bites and changing or unstable bites very often have temporo-mandibular joint internal derangements associated with them. Further diagnostics of the TMJ’s, such as CT scan and MRI are indicated for formal diagnosis of any joint pathology in order to incorporate and account for it when treatment planning any type of dental work.

Objectives:
This presentation will introduce attendees to the concepts and techniques necessary to:

• perform a basic, front lineTMJ exam
• relate it to the presenting occlusion
• know how to recognize the patient who requires further advanced diagnostics
• recognize pain patterns of the TMJ patient
• provide more advanced TMJ related care.
• Understand basic TMJ MRI interpretation.

The hands on component of this course will allow attendees to:

• Practice using a Doppler on the TMJ’s
• Practice bi-manual manipulation and load testing of the TMJ’s

Perform a clinical exam of the TMJ’s

Course Description:
This one day hands on course includes videos of procedures, case presentation and the principles that allow for success in implant surgical and prosthetic dentistry and bone grafting. Treatment planning principles are emphasized and cone beam CT is brought in to almost every case.

Objectives:

• Rationalization for dental implants as a treatment option
• Treatment planning for dental implants
• The science of dental implant surgery and prosthetics
• Dental implant material and design considerations
• Bone Grafting related to dental implants
• Clinical Case Examples
• Video of surgical cases
• Occlusion related to dental implants
• Forces related to dental implants
• Reasons for dental implant failure
• Implant design considerations
• Prosthetic steps for fixed and removable implants
• Soft tissue considerations for implant success
• Principles for esthetics with dental implants
• The clinical applications and rationale of extraction site grafting
• Multiple clinical case examples
• Traumatic extraction techniques
• Treatment planning extraction site grafts
• Complications of extraction site grafting and their management
• Bone physiology/ cellular sequence of grafting
• Terminology and histology of bone science
• The 8 keys to bone grafting
• Choosing the appropriate graft materials
• Suturing principles
• Membrane principles and review of available materials
• Review of growth factors for bone grafting
• Hands On Model Work Depending On Group Size

Course Description:

The communication between ceramist and dentist is the easiest link to aesthetic failures and success. In order to achieve the best possible result, a clear vision between both people is necessary.  Traditionally, diagnostic wax-ups and detailed lab scripts have been utilized, which we have found lacks aesthetic accuracy.  In this course, we will go over alternative methods of communication to ensure success.  Working off of facial landmarks rather than landmarks of the just the smile help the fractioned and ceramist be more conservative and create smiles that truly "disappear" when placed into the mouth.   We will talk about how to utilize provisional's as our form of communication and how to create them chair side.  Discussions of addition veneers and communicated vertical dimension will also be touched upon.

Learning objectives

• facial landmarks dictating tooth position
• create accurate provisional's chair side to accurately communicate aesthetic outcome
• treatment planning for addition veneers
• alternative methods for communicating and verifying vertical dimension

Course Description:

The purpose of the program is to demonstrate in a detailed step-by-step fashion, procedures, that if practiced, can impact your ability to deliver an improved level of dentistry in your practice tomorrow. You will gain practical tips and techniques through lecture and participation in the following areas of esthetic and restorative dentistry: morphologic placement for anterior and posterior composites, crown and bridge techniques, provisionalization, tooth preparation, final impressions and cements.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

At the end of this hands-on exercise, each participant should understand:

1. Proper tooth preparation and how it influences the results that can be achieved with all porcelain and ceramometallic crowns
2. Provisionalization techniques for full coverage restorations
3. Layering principals of direct composite resins that result in polychromicity
4. Techniques for contouring, characterizing and polishing composite restorations