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Friday, January 31, 2025 - Dr. Peter Auster ~ Embassy Suites, Saratoga Springs, NY 7 CEs

Newer than New : Surprising Changes and Dental Inflation Busters

Dental companies are leapfrogging over each other to introduce the next great product. Some are outright exciting; some are just ways to charge higher fees for tweaked products. Dr. Auster will help you decide which direction to go when adding better, more intuitive technologies and products to your dental world. Also, start to love dentistry: understanding and confronting “Dental Imposter Syndrome” and “Dental Burnout”.

Learning Objectives
Dive deeply into inflation-busting products that drastically DECREASE your costs
AI in Dentistry: the future is now, and it's amazing!
Discover dozens of brand-new products that beat what you use: single shade composites, zirconia cements, temp cements, a MUCH better retraction paste; desensitizers; bulk fills; better bite materials; diode lasers; curing lights, scanners
Learn how injection molding and new “pressure molding” can fill your chairs and end down-time in your practice
Should you buy that scanner or 3D printer now? A veteran’s report. What your lab should be telling you about scans.
Learn how to beat imposter syndrome and start truly enjoying dentistry

Wednesday, February 12

  Child Abuse Reporting 6—9 PM Webinar 3 CEs

This law requires that mandated reporters, including those who have previously undergone the current training, complete the updated training curriculum by April 1, 2025.

Course Synopsis:

Updated Mandated Reporter Training Requirements. Chapter 56 of the Laws of 2021 amended Social Services Law § 413 to require additional training to include protocols to reduce implicit bias in decision-making processes, strategies for identifying adverse childhood experiences, and guidelines to assist in recognizing signs of abuse or maltreatment while interacting virtually within the New York State Mandated Identification and Reporting of Child Abuse and Maltreatment/Neglect coursework.

Objectives: 

1. determine if a child shows indicators of maltreatment or abuse including in a virtual environment

2. Recognize the impact of trauma and adverse childhood experiences on children, families, and themselves.

 with Approved Provider John Vassello

Friday, March 7 - 8 AM - Noon  Webinar 4CEs

Local Oral Surgeon Panel:

Golaleh Barzani, DMD - Empire Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery  

Non-Surgical and Surgical Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea

James D. Condry, DDS - Northeast Surgical Specialists

Third Molar Updates

Seth Farren, DMD - Great Oak Oral Surgery & Dental Implant Center       

Full Arch Reconstruction

Dr. Justin Kirkwood - Great Oak Oral Surgery & Dental Implant Center   

Osteonecrosis of the Jaw 

Learning Objectives
• Fundamental protocols for achieving the required inter-arch occlusal space
• Rationale for angled and straight posterior dental implants and their advantages and limitations
• When is it ideal to perform a fixed-hybrid denture using all-on-four, five or six dental implants?
• Techniques for ridge manipulation and delivery of angled multi-unit abutments
• Anterior/posterior (AP) spread and splinting techniques for achieving the required implant torque values
• Concepts in tooth extraction and ridge reduction protocols
• Fixed-hybrid team approach including surgeon, dentist and dental laboratory technician
• How to minimize chairtime for optimal patient care, efficiency and profitability
• Impression techniques that achieves a passive final dental implant prosthesis

 Monday, March 31, 2025 6pm-8:30pm

A Pediatric Dental Refresher for the General Dentist

Dr. Carla Tornatore, Director of Pediatric Dentistry, Assistant Professor of Dental Medicine, Touro College of Dental Medicine

Dr. Shiri Greenberg, Clinical Director of Pediatric Dentistry and Co- course Director for the Preclinical Pediatric
Dentistry courses, Touro College of Dental Medicine

Pediatric dentistry is an age-defined specialty that provides comprehensive preventative and therapeutic oral health for infants and children through adolescence, including those with special health care needs.  Refresh yourself in training the child to accept dentistry, restoring and maintaining the primary and permanent dentition applying
preventive measures for dental caries and periodontal disease and identifying and treating or referring occlusal dysfunction in the primary or mixed dentition. 

Learning Objectives

 Prevention of caries, diet and nutrition
 Behavior management 
 Pediatric special needs patient care
Education in treating mentally or physically challenged children
 Pediatric anesthesia and pain control
Education related to relieving pain and gaining anesthesia in the pediatric
population may use behavior modification or medications for anesthesia and pain
control
 Trauma management in young permanent and primary dentition
Education on treating traumatized dentition in the young pediatric patient with
primary or permanent dentition.

Saratoga Dental Congress

Thursday & Friday May 8 & 9 - Saratoga City Center, Saratoga, NY

Dr. Susan Mc Mahon 

The Next Dimension: Cosmetics, Digital Dentistry, CBCT, Lasers, 3D Printers & More

Dr. Tracey Nyugen

Airway Management: Enhance Breathing and Overall Health

CPR with MedCourse

Friday, September 19 - Risk Management (last offered 9/2023)

Dr. Fred Wetzel

8:30 - 11:30 AM Hiland Park Golf Club, Queensbury, NY