Continuing Dental Education

Full coverage restoration on natural tooth abutments is often a better treatment option for patients than implant placement and restoration. However, dentists often lack confidence with their crown and bridgework skills, so patients are getting implants when they would be better served with bridgework. This course will demonstrate why bridgework is often the superior choice and then present a simplified step-by-step predictable technique for created full coverage restorations on natural tooth abutments.

This pre-recorded webinar is designed to teach the general dentist how to effectively treat complex interdisciplinary cases. Clinical, radiographic, and diagnostic features of several endodontic cases will be presented. The efficiency of modern root canal treatments on healing outcomes, and tooth retention will be discussed as well. Numerous endodontic cases meet implant dentistry. The concept of immediate and non-immediate implants and the risk if they are placed in a previously infected site will be reviewed. Finally, the difference between ailing and failing implants will be discussed in order to effectively save implants with several different techniques.

This pre-recorded self-study course is designed to teach the general dentist and specialists how to effectively and predictably maintain the dimensions of the alveolar ridge following tooth extractions. This pre-recorded self-study course will demonstrate predictable and evidence-based techniques for successful ridge preservation, resulting in less chair time, less traumatic patient experience, and increased referrals.

According to the World Health Organization, 15% of the world's population have a disability and are 3x more likely to be denied health care. Additionally, the care they receive is likely to be sub-standard. This is evidence-based presentation includes relevant concepts, management strategies, and real-world clinical encounters via a variety of audio and visual cues to enhance participants understanding and development of the skill set necessary for the comprehensive dental management of individuals with specialized healthcare needs.

This course is designed to teach the general dentist and the specialist (oral surgeon, periodontist and prosthodontist), how to effectively design, place and restore dental implants with the use of guided implant surgery. In combination with a CBCT scan and an PVS or digital impression, the course will provide all the information how the implant software is helping in virtual and backwards treatment planning which allows the design of the final restoration, prior to the position of the implant(s).

Difficult cases can be simplified when carefully thought out. A strong background of proficiency in crown and bridgework, precision attachments, restorative dentistry and implants allows the practitioner to choose what is best for the patient and is not limited to the one technique a practitioner can do well. This pre-recorded self-study course will present a unique approach to diagnosis and treatment planning that will offer the practitioner more options to help patients.

Dentoalveolar surgical procedures and management of potential complications useful for the general dentist will be presented in this pre-recorded presentation. Understanding and mastering a variety of dentoalveolar surgical procedures can enhance your patient’s in office experience by reducing referrals to a specialist.

This CBCT educational video series by BeamReaders Oral and Maxillofacial Radiologists Drs. Shiva Toghyani, Martina Parrone, and Kaycee Walton covers 3D anatomy, foundational information on CBCT imaging, and a comprehensive process for reviewing a scan.

This class will include the disease itself, HIV and its life cycle, testing and diagnosis and current treatment. People are living longer with the disease and research continues on effective treatments and hopefully a cure at some point. Universal precautions taken with every patient became the standard of care for all those in the medical community including dentistry during the epidemic.

This pre-recorded self-study course is designed to expose the participants to the use of Nitrous Oxide/Oxygen sedation in their practices. Topics discussed will include indications and contraindications of nitrous oxide sedation, patient evaluation, delivery systems, monitoring equipment, and the technique for delivery. The course content will be beneficial to both hygienists and dentists.

This self-study on-demand course is designed to be a full review of radiology for Dentists and Dental Hygienists. Dr. Svirsky will walk the audience through a number of common cases as a way of reacquianting the audience with key radiographic entities common to the dental practice. There will be an emphasis on common radiolucent and radiopaque lesions. In addition, Dr. Svirsky will spend some time highlighting the bizarre and unusual cases he’s encountered throughout his career.

In conjunction with BeamReaders Inc, we are pleased to share a new on-demand CBCT educational course! This CBCT educational video series by BeamReaders Oral and Maxillofacial Radiologist Dr. Kaycee Walton covers scan acquisition, scanning appliances, quantitative and qualitative assessment, considerations for doing immediate implants, grafts, virtual planning and common anatomic variants.

In treating today’s periodontal patient successfully, the clinician must customize a treatment plan that goes beyond the removal of plaque and calculus. Achieving excellent clinical outcomes involves assessing for systemic issues, communicating and customizing home care according to the patient’s level of understanding and ability to perform home care procedures, and choosing appropriate adjuncts to care.

Dental personnel often see OSHA as a “dreaded foe,” or “feared-friend” at best. Many do not appreciate the importance of OSHA regulations in the safe practice of dentistry. In this course, attendees will learn the differences between CDC Guidelines and OSHA Regulations and the OSHA inspection process.

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In treating today’s periodontal patient successfully, the clinician must customize a treatment plan that goes beyond the removal of plaque and calculus. Achieving excellent clinical outcomes involves assessing for systemic issues, communicating and customizing home care according to the patient’s level of understanding and ability to perform home care procedures, and choosing appropriate adjuncts to care.

An overview of sleep disordered breathing and what the dental team can do about it. We start with the basics: sleep, dental appliances, how to work with sleep physicians, medical insurance interaction AND the "ABC’s" of marketing. Then we go a bit beyond the basics: complications, titration and follow-up testing, team development, complex sleep disorders and advanced marketing.

Dentists are playing an increasing role in screening patients for sleep-related breathing disorders and referring them for further testing to obtain diagnosis. Understanding the different technologies that are available to use in the dentist’s office to screen, as well as those that are used by medical sleep doctors to diagnose sleep-related breathing disorders is important to be able to communicate with patients as dentists implement screening programs.

When patients present to dental offices with TMD and head pain, most dentists don’t ask about other somatic pain syndromes or take a detailed history that might reveal airway problems. This lecture establishes why TMD & airway are often linked, provides tools to help manage chronic conditions and positions dentists as experts in helping patients achieve greater overall health.

Doctors and Hygienists can learn together about an evidenced based approach to eliminating and controlling Periodontal Disease. This on-demand course will discuss a scientifically sound approach for effective control of all levels of periodontal disease using the non-surgical approach with scaling and root planning, or minimally invasive surgical intervention for more advanced disease. Both indications will be explained and published literature will be explained.

Let’s kick start your personal and professional readiness. Participants learn how to use their skills, training and experience to prepare for, assess and respond to disasters. Shelter-in-place or evacuation strategies and scenarios are presented for a variety of situations, including weather disasters such as earthquakes, floods and tornados, epidemics, and accidental or purposeful chemical or radiation exposure, terrorist acts, fire and explosions.

We all know there is a link between the oral health and the rest of your body. If that is the reality, we should be billing many of our procedures as a medical specialist to medical carriers. After all, your patients have benefits for many of the things you do every day in your practice. This course will help you develop an understanding of WHY you would want to incorporate Medical Billing into your practice.

This two-part self-study course will investigate the importance of understanding cyber-security to protect patients and practices and then review opportunities for artificial intelligence in dentistry.

This is the perfect review course that covers the recognition, diagnosis and treatment of the 26 soft tissue lesions that every dentist and hygienist should know and treat appropriately. A number of the entities only require recognition. The classic lesions that have been forgotten since school will be brought back to life and your diagnostic confidence will be re-energized. At the end of the course the management of xerostomia will be discussed.

This pre-recorded webinar will be a review of oral dermatology in its entire splendor. Pimples, papules, pustules, tumors, and much more will be visually encountered in this adventure of what grows on the skin.

This prerecorded self-study course deals with unusual cases, diagnostic challenges, the oral health effects of tobacco products and alcohol, premalignant and malignant lesions, presenting an oral cancer diagnosis to a patient and new diagnostic technique. Treatment of oral cancer and oropharyngeal cancer will be presented.

Burnout is a widespread problem that affects healthcare workers’ ability to provide optimal patient care. Furthermore, it poses a threat to the health care worker’s emotional and physical health. In this course we will address burnout from a perspective that takes into the consideration not only the individual, but also their work, family and socio-cultural environments.

Every superb dental professional needs two things - clinical or technical expertise and excellent communication skills. Clinical/technical expertise is not enough to build and maintain thriving patient relationships. This course dissects some of the most challenging communication scenarios in the dental office, such as what to say when patients reject treatment recommendations or when discussing third party benefits and financial matters.

The practice of dentistry and dental hygiene involves adhering to strict standards of care. This course examines the best methods for producing desirable results to avoid injury. Clinical standards are reflected in various case histories. Proper documentation protocol, the gold standard in mitigating liability, is also discussed.

This on-demand course provides an introduction to the use of botulinum toxin for facial cosmetic enhancement. During this presentation, participants will learn the basic pharmacology of botulinum toxin, indications for its use, benefits and risks associated with the injection of toxin.

Dr. Bradford Towne, co-author of “Neurotoxins and Facial Fillers in Facial Esthetic Surgery”, provides an introduction to the use of dermal fillers for facial cosmetic enhancement in this three hour on-demand course. Participants will learn about the pharmacology of different dermal fillers, indications for their use, benefits and risks associated with the injection of fillers.

This self-study written class will explore the various types of domestic violence, prevention, reporting and support and protection for those victims. All healthcare professionals should be alert to the signs of each of these and know the laws governing the assessment and reporting of such abuse.

The aim of this course is to empower dental professionals with practical knowledge and skills to understand and support patients experiencing dental anxiety and fears (DFA). In this course, we will cover patient management strategies to support patients so they can successfully receive needed care, and overcome avoidance.

Enjoy a long dental career and improve clinical precision while avoiding injury and pain! Pathogenesis, causes and prevention of various cumulative trauma disorders are discussed, focusing on upper extremity, spinal and joint pathologies. Evaluate preventive strategies, including equipment design, body positioning and conditioning and enhanced visualization. Practice stretching and strengthening exercises to reduce pain, preserve range of motion and optimize personal career excellence and longevity.

Many dentists ask the question, "Is the time right to buy an intraoral scanner?" The simple answer to this complicated question is, "What do you want to do with it?" You know the scope of your practice. What you may not know is how easy it is to seamlessly incorporate an intraoral scanner into your existing workflow.

Despite many advances in resin adhesion, many misconceptions exist in modern dentistry. Dentin bonding agents continue to evolve and promise easier, stronger, and more durable. This lecture will present key elements every dentist should consider during the steps in adhesion to optimize outcomes while minimizing post-operative complications.

Dental Professionals have a unique opportunity to share life-saving information with their patients that are addicted to nicotine products. This course will give the dental team the tools needed to be able to start their patient’s journey of becoming free of smoking, vaping, and dipping.

Sports play a very important part in the lives of many of our patients. Not just high level and professional athletes, but kids and weekend warriors as well. Most players put themselves at risk of dental injuries when participating in these activities. Sports dentistry is the part of sports medicine that, in addition to other things, deals with the treatment and prevention of these injuries. How to handle dental injury emergencies and how to prevent them from happening is important for the dental professional especially in the context of the active athlete. In addition, it is critical that dentists be able to communicate with other sports medical personnel, parents, coaches and school nurses if injuries occur.

This webinar will be the first part of a two part lecture highlighting various topics of pediatric dentistry for the active child. This first part will cover the very young patient (0-2 years), preschoolers (3-5 years) and a significant part of early school age (6-12). We will talk about pacifier use and the important area of screening for airway difficulties and sleep disordered breathing. This will bring non pediatric dental professionals up to speed on many topics but it will also be valuable for pediatric dentists, hygienists and staff who can put what they do in a context of what others are doing.

Following up on the first part of this two part lecture, we will complete the dental trauma part by highlighting some new treatment options for traumatized teeth such as decoronation, autotransplantation and Regenerative Endodontics Procedures (REPs). We will concentrate on the “older” child, ages 13-18. The major section of this will cover the world of sports dentistry as sports plans a very important role in the lives of kids in this group.

This pre-recorded self study presentation will provide a comprehensive review of techniques in delivering local anesthesia for dental procedures of the maxilla and mandible. A review of applicable anatomy and landmarks will set the stage for a review of techniques of delivery and choices of the type of anesthesia to achieve optimum patient comfort during and post procedure. Finally a review of risks and complications along with their management associated with delivery of local anesthesia will be reviewed.

Over 30 million Americans have diabetes. Dental office personnel must become comfortable treating patients with diabetes. This course has a clinical focus and emphasizes current medical therapies for diabetes, bilateral relationships between oral health and diabetes, dental treatment pathways for these patients, and prevention and management of diabetic emergencies in the dental office.

This self-study course is designed to teach the general dentist and/or the specialist the principles of guided bone regeneration procedures (GBR) to successfully reconstruct Seibert class I, II or III ridge deformities. In addition, different surgical techniques, materials, and successful flap management will be demonstrated.

This pre-recorded webinar will present cultural diversity issues, how dental professionals can become more culturally competent in the delivery of patient care and ways to use this knowledge for addressing access to care barriers among the population groups discussed.

This pre-recorded self-study course is designed to inform the participant about various oral pathologic lesions of the oral cavity. The oral health care professional should be able to identify common lesions and understand how to manage patients with such conditions.

This course will enable participants to recognize the overall signs of child maltreatment as well as the oral / head and neck manifestations. The dental team is required to report suspected child maltreatment to local child protection authorities. This course will provide participants with the framework for documentation and reporting such instances.

The cycles of infection, immune response, inflammation and recovery take place 24/7 inside of our bodies. This live webinar examines the deadly synergistic exacerbation between cardiovascular disease (CVD), which is the leading cause of death and disability for men and women in North America, and the contributing role oral disease plays in patients with CVD. The conditions of metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance’s devastating outcomes of heart attack and stroke will be discussed.

This program will provide all dental professionals the most relevant and current data on oral dysplasia and oral cancer incidence, morbidity and mortality, and introduce the breakthrough that allows us to extend our clinical vision to a deeper, truly submucosal level by employing autofluorescence technology.

Embarrassed by recession around a recently placed crown in the esthetic zone? Faced with exposed roots that are esthetically undesirable or sensitive?
Learn evidence-based solutions for the soft tissue challenges you face on a daily basis, such as how to cover those exposed roots and predictably stop recession. In this pre-recorded webinar, methods are illustrated to solve those problems and enhance restorative results for clinicians. Gain peace of mind knowing the gingiva stays in place by the margins of newly placed esthetic crowns. This presentation is for dentists and hygienists who want to better understand how soft tissue grafting can help with enhancing esthetic restorative results.

This class deals with ethical behavior in dentistry and will discuss four different situations that could challenge ethical behavior. Conflict of interest, dual relationships, confidentiality, and impaired colleagues are four common ethical difficulties presented to all those in medical practice.

In this informative and emotional course, you will learn from a 16 year cancer survivor (and dentist) the steps he used to achieve "his" best outcome as well as the best outcome for multiple cancer patients he has treated. Dr. Blackburn will navigate you through the process from the exam, diagnosis, pre-treatment, active-treatment and post-treatment phases. Long term successes and failures will also be discussed. At the end of this course you will feel confident on how to give these patients the best dental and psychological outcome.

This self-study written class will present summaries of HIPAA rules and how they affect the practice of dentistry. Also covered is the ADA Code and its statements regarding basic ethical principles and their relevance to the HIPPA standards of confidentiality and trust. There are recommendations for dentists to be in compliance with those rules and information available on the ADA website.

Dental team members need to understand the role HIPAA plays in their daily practice lives. Yet many do not participate in the required annual HIPAA training. HIPAA requirements deem that practice specific documentation be maintained, but often teams don’t maintain the information.

This self-study pre-recorded video course will review HIPAA requirements and what teams need to know to protect the patient’s protected health information (PHI). The program is not designed to replace a practice’s individualized information, but to provide teams with the information needed to update their protocols.

Get to know the many wavelengths able to strengthen your periodontal and restorative outcomes. This course covers various applications and procedures that can be performed during routine periodontal and dental appointments. Examples of these procedures will be shown using several dental laser wavelengths.

This class presents a basic understanding of the principles and theories of medical ethics, the difference between ethical, moral and legal and contains an ethical decision-making tool for resolution of ethical dilemmas faced daily by dentists. The Code is referenced in relation to those principles and theories and several case studies are included. 

Dental professionals in the State of Michigan are now required to complete at least one hour of required continuing education in the area of infection control for license renewal per the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. This pre-recorded self-study course will highlight requirements under this administrative ruling to include: CDC infection control guidelines, personal protective equipment requirements, and protocol for sterilization of handpieces.

The roles that our dental professions serve for law enforcement and other forensic sciences continues to evolve. Forensic odontology contributes a scientifically sound method human identification, be it a single individual or a multiple fatality incident. Forensic odontology serves missing person and cold case investigations and much more!

During this self-study course a comprehensive review of current protocols and techniques required to perform a proper diagnosis and treatment plan will be described. This presentation covers the importance of a differential diagnosis for the worn dentition, a step-by-step approach how to diagnose, treatment plan and sequence esthetic rehabilitation of patients with severe worn dentition.