Thursday, September 11, 2008
Special program event for New and Younger Members and Residents only, to be followed by a reception at a favorite Providence restaurant.
An Afternoon with Gianelly and Zachrisson – Dr. Anthony Gianelly and Dr. Bjorn Zachrisson
Evidence based view of some past and present controversies, including: TMD and orthodontics, the value of early treatment with an assessment of maxillary expansion in the absence of crossbites and the relationship of premolar extraction and smiles. - Dr. Gianelly
Interdisciplinary management of missing maxillary incisors: Space closure, autotransplantation, or implants - Dr. Zachrisson
This lecture deals with the advantages and disadvantages of different treatment options for replacement of missing maxillary central and/or lateral incisors in young and adult/elderly patients. The short- and long-term appearance associated with the following treatment options are covered:
- Orthodontic space closure - combination of carefully detailed orthodontic treatment and techniques from esthetic dentistry (restoration with porcelain laminate veneers and hybrid composites)
- Autotransplantation of developing premolars (restoration of the “abnormal” crowns with porcelain veneer crowns)
- Single tooth implants
(restoration with porcelain crowns)
Particular emphasis will be given to the (1) esthetic outcome, (2) practicality and safety, (3) evidence base, and (4) long term results for each of the alternative solutions
CE Credits: 3.5
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Friday, September 12, 2008
Achieving Excellence in the Role of the Records Coordinator - Carolyn Friedman
A records coordinator is no longer about the tasks of taking records. This role is not how to complete the process, but how to help patients feel comfortable and confident in your practice. This does not need to be a difficult procedure that both patients and staff dread. Learn the basics of x-rays including what makes a good x-ray vs. a bad x-ray, the basic cephalometric points used for analysis and why a panorex is so important to the orthodontist. Learn how to communicate to your patients in a way that eases their fears of radiation.
CE Credits: 1.5
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Bridging the Front and Back Divide - Lori Garland Parker and Debbie Best
Debbie Best and Lori Parker will use humor and day to day examples to demonstrate the common challenges between team members. They will show ways of eliminating the frustration between “the front and the back” by using systems, technology and problem solving tools. This interactive presentation will make you laugh, but more importantly, help you solve common challenges in an orthodontic practice.
CE Credits: 3.0
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Embracing the Challenge - Lori Garland Parker
What is your response when your orthodontist informs the team that a new clinical/office system will be implemented at the office? Elation? Frustration? Nervousness? Join Lori as she shares the four critical factors to addressing clinical challenges in the orthodontic practice. Identify your typical response to change and learn how to utilize your awareness to pave the way to a smooth transition to any challenge.
CE Credits: 1.0
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Global Trends and Paradigm Shift in Clinical Orthodontics – Bjorn Zachrisson
This lecture will discuss fundamental conceptual changes that, at present, are taking place in our profession. They include (1) changes in age and categories of patients, (2) a changing role of the orthodontist among dental professionals, (3) the emphasis shift in diagnosis and treatment planning from dental and skeletal components to soft tissue esthetics, and from emphasis on smile design to our patients’ incisor display at rest and while speaking, and (4) new possibilities to regenerate soft and hard periodontal tissues by orthodontic tooth movements.
CE Credits: 1.5
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Miniscrews 101 - Dr. Gabriela Marquez
Miniscrews for absolute anchorage in orthodontics have expanded treatment options and greatly improved outcomes. This lecture is intended for those clinicians with no experience in miniscrew placement that are willing to try them for the first time, but do not know how to introduce the concept of miniscrews to patients and parents. A step-by-step guide, including what you and your staff need to know, what to expect, what can go wrong as well as technical aspects and other factors that may influence miniscrew performance, will be provided.
CE Credits: 1.0
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Misadventures in Orthodontics - Dr. Rolf G. Behrents
Orthodontics has been described as “simple but not easy." Unfortunately, orthodontic complications and failures do occur. This presentation will describe some of the misadventures that occur before, during, and after treatment, point toward the etiology of these complications, comment on their ethical and legal consequences, and explore their meaning in terms of the development of expertise.
CE Credits: 1.0
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Orthomania- A New Generation of Orthodontics - Debbie Best
Gone are the days when patients expected nothing more than straight teeth from their orthodontic experience. Ultimate customer service, from the initial telephone call to the removal of the appliances, is the 21st century ruler orthodontic practices are measured by. Debbie Best will share tips with you to help enhance your patient’s experience and make your practice untouchable by your competition.
CE Credits: 1.5
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Perfect Alginates from A-Z and More - Rita Johnson and Ellen Gambardella
The first hour of this course is a lecture with unlimited attendance. This is followed by a 2-hour hands-on session where attendees will take alginates on manikins with a limited attendance of 45 participants.
This program is a must for those wishing to increase office productivity as alginate impressions are needed for the fabrication of diagnostic study models, retainers, and other orthodontic appliances. Join this power-packed session and become more valuable by enhancing your proficiency in impression taking.
Lecture: 1 hour, unlimited attendance
Hands-on: 2 hours, limited to 45 participants
CE Credits: Lecture - 1.0, Hands-On - 2.0
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Three-Dimensional Imaging for the Busy Orthodontic Practice - Dr. Chung Kau
The standard of care in orthodontics continues to evolve as technological advances are introduced to the market. This seminar aims to give a brief description of the latest three-dimensional modalities available to orthodontics and to give the busy orthodontist an idea on how to use technology for the advancement of patient education, management and care. The applications of facial imaging devices and new cone beam technology will be discussed and demonstrated.
CE Credits: 1.0
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Update on the Dynamics of the Banded and Rollo Banded Herbst Appliance - Dr. Michael Rogers and Laurie Crane
Learn first-hand how doctors and staff can work as a team to attain efficiency with the Herbst appliance and achieve maximum treatment results. Innovations such as reinforced bands, Rollo Bands and telescopes will be presented. Streamline your treatment for ultimate results when using the Herbst appliance.
CE Credits: 1.5
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Saturday, September 13, 2008
Esthetics in Orthodontic Finishing of Adolescent and Adult Orthodontic Patients – Bjorn Zachrisson
Based on the research evidence from different experimental models that will be presented and clinically treated orthodontic cases, this lecture will provide many practical tips on making intentional changes in tooth morphology and the surrounding marginal and interdental gingival. Such performance is required in order to perfect the orthodontic treatment results in adolescent and, particularly, in adult cases. Topics include: (1) grinding with diamond instruments to intentionally change tooth form for esthetic, functional, and stability reasons; (2) mesiodistal enamel reduction (stripping) to reshape teeth to ideal morphology, and treat or prevent the development of interdental gingival recession (“black triangles”); (3) routine incisal edge contourings; (4) the use of porcelain laminate veneers and veneer crowns for improved esthetics and age relevance, and (5) different techniques for crown lengthening procedures.
Detailed how-to-do-it advice on the various procedures will be given to illustrate optimal performance and common mistakes for each. Many clinical examples will be provided for each item in this lecture.
CE Credits: 1.5
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Herbst Therapy in “Growers” and “Non-Growers” - Dr. Hans Pancherz
The research based clinical implications of the Herbst appliance in the therapy of Class II malocclusions will be addressed. In particular the short- and long-term impact of Herbst treatment on the skeletal, dental and soft tissue structures will be considered. Children, adolescents and adults will be compared. Using the methods of roentgenographic cephalometry, tomography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) the treatment effects on the mandibular condyle, glenoid fossa and articular disc will be presented.
CE Credits: 1.0
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The “New” Old Way to Consistent Practice Growth, Profitability, Delinquency Control and Quality of Life Within the Orthodontic Practice - Paul Zuelke
Morning session
The basics of what it takes to build a practice that is not only highly profitable but one that generates a very high quality of life within the practice for the doctor and the practice team. Mr. Zuelke will present the specifics that will produce a practice of significant overall health. Further, he will present and explain the serious damage done to the orthodontic practice and its ability to thrive when, in the never-ending search for increased patient flow and increased revenue, doctors make poor business choices such as to promote third party financing, to do retail type forms of advertising, to participate with PPO’s and other forms of Managed Care, to seek greater case acceptance through low fees, discounting, etc. Mr. Zuelke will present “nuts and bolts” information describing how a practice can grow substantially by routinely granting highly flexible credit terms within the practice, and virtually avoid all risks of not being appropriately paid through the use of proper stability and credit evaluation of patients.
CE Credits: 3.0
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Afternoon session
Mr. Zuelke will demonstrate the new patient flow process and more specifically, how proper verbal skills are used with the new credit granting policies to obtain greater rates of case acceptance while maintaining virtually perfect cash flow. Attendees will also learn a method of delinquency control that will ensure a virtually perfect delinquency rate (less than 1% dollar delinquency) while simultaneously eliminating the need for collection agencies or any other type of external control assistance.
Return to your practice with a greater sense of confidence and knowledge that you do, in fact, have the skills and techniques needed to improve the quality of new patient flow, increase your rate of case acceptance, charge what you are worth, be completely delinquency free, and be as profitable in your profession as you ever dreamed possible.
CE Credits: 3.0
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Orthodontic Bonding for the Clinical Team Members - Dr. Michael L. Swartz
The critical steps for successful bracket bonding and the critical role of the clinical staff in achieving at least a 95% bond success rate will be covered.
Excessive bond failures are extremely costly for the orthodontic practice and can impact patient treatment time and their quality of care. A bonding success rate of 95% or more is both doable and practical. The primary reason that most offices do not enjoy a bare minimum bond failure rate is not directly related to the materials used, but rather to the procedures. This presentation will emphasize the reasons behind each of the bonding procedure steps and stress those procedures that are particularly critical to obtaining a high success rate. A brief review of indirect bonding procedures will be included.
CE Credits: 1.5
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Perfect Invisalign Impressions = Perfect Smiles - Rita Johnson and Ellen Gambardella
The first hour of this course is a lecture with unlimited attendance. This is followed by a 2-hour hands-on session where attendees will take PVS impressions on manikins with a limited attendance of 30 participants.
Eliminate wasted chair time and stress! No more lab returns! No more retakes! Join this fun and informative session.
Lecture: 1 hour, unlimited attendance
Hands-on: 2 hours, limited to 30 participants
CE Credits: Lecture – 1.0, Hands-On – 2.0
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The Periodontally Accelerated Osteogenic Orthodontics Technique
Evidence-based Rationale for Increased Scope of Treatment – Drs. Thomas Wilcko and William Wilcko
This course will highlight the differences in the mode of movement between traditional orthodontics, orthognathic movements, and selective alveolar decortication. It will also explain the advantages of including augmentation with the bone activation provided by the selective alveolar decortication.
CE Credits: 1.0
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Strategy for Achieving Orthognathic-like Results by Using Miniscrews - Dr. Eric Liou
Orthodontic miniscrews have been applied as an osseous anchorage for the treatment of various malocclusions. Without the limit in anchorage, it is now possible to move teeth in a greater scale than before by using miniscrews, and mimic treatment results of orthognathic surgery in certain types of malocclusion, such as Class I and II dentoalveolar protrusion, Class III dentoalveolar protrusion, anterior open bite, and Class II mandibular retrognathism. The “orthognathic-like orthodontics” is defined as the orthodontics that mimics treatment results of orthognathic surgery but without surgery by moving teeth to their upper limit with miniscrews as the osseous anchorage. In this presentation, the appliances, mechanics, and treatment strategies toward the orthognathic-like orthodontics in Class I and II dentoalveolar protrusion, Class III dentoalveolar protrusion, anterior open bite, and Class II mandibular retrognathism will be presented. Two overlooked but important issues regarding migration of the miniscrew and biological boundary of orthodontic tooth movement also will be clarified.
CE Credits: 1.0
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A Walk on the Wild Slide - The Future of Biomechanics - Dr. Gerry S. Sampson
If we look past our hands, past bracket and wire,
What might we see in the future?
What might actually transpire?
Will teeth move free of friction?
Will they sing as they glide?
Will there be no hyalinization?
Will the pulp be happy inside?
The future of mechanics appears to be the art of perfect bracket placement on well defined magical places of human teeth. Then, engaging robotically formed exotic arch-wires anchored by titanium mini-screws. The glitzy sell is that it will work perfectly every time. Never a hitch, never a problem – pure harmony in the orthodontic cosmos will finally be ours. That is, unless, maybe, possibly, just once in awhile there’s a “glitch” in the “glitz”, a fly in the soup. During the coming age of orthodontic techno-magic what information will remain essential? This presentation will attempt to divine a few answers to these futuristic thoughts.
Specific topics will be selected from the following buffet:
- How do additive and subtractive forces work for and against shorter treatment times?
- Reversing the Curve of Spee: why it works well in some patients, not at all for others, and what to do about it.
- Specifically, what are the best mechanics to use for deep bite correction?
- Why has the orthodontic twin-bracket been the most popular and effective design?
- Self-ligation; if friction is that big of an influence, then why has my current appliance system worked reasonably well?
CE Credits: 1.5
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
Treating the Class II Division 1 Growing Patient Including Use of Fixed Functionals
Short lectures from each of four expert speakers, following by a panel discussion, on how they treat Class II Division 1 retrognathic mandibles in a growing patient.
Dr. Anthony Gianelly moderating, with Dr. Terry Dischinger, Dr. Lysle Johnston, Dr. Hans Pancherz and Dr. James L. Vaden as panelists.
CE Credits: 3.0
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The Valuable Employee - Office Etiquette and Career Success - Dr. Gerry S. Sampson
Basic and very cool mechanics of why and how teeth move
It's 3:45PM on a busy Wednesday. You've had "better days". The telltale echo of loud voices, white knuckles and "looks that could paralyze" betrays a less than perfect afternoon. Hopefully, tomorrow everyone will enjoy a more pleasant experience at the office.
Behavior management is both a learned skill and an intuitive talent. It's a varied and cross cultural art that applies to patients, parents, staff members, families, and doctors. And, we recognize that various situations require alterations in our own conduct and the conduct of others. Perhaps most essential is the rational management of our own behavior. Certainly, these self-management skills are an essential ingredient for professional success and sustained personal happiness.
Next item is to ponder an unbelievable thought: that it’s possible to understand, enjoy and actually be entertained by the clinical application of the basic engineering principles that we use to move teeth.
Designed for both the staff (and interested doctors), this presentation will focus upon an entertaining and educational look at achieving these goals. Participants are assured of a motivating, provocative and entertaining experience.
CE Credits: 3.0
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