Dr. Priest will present proven techniques and protocols that enhance esthetic outcomes based on his experience restoring thousands of implants over more than 20 years. Specific techniques, materials and components that profoundly impact implant esthetics will be highlighted. Topics include team collaboration, envisioning the end result, site preservation/preparation, restoratively driven implant placement, soft-tissue development, abutment selection, lab communication, integration of implants with other treatment modalities and the post-treatment assessment.
Dr. George Priest is a former professor in graduate prosthodontics at Emory University and an innovator and teacher of implant and esthetic dentistry for more than 20 years. In 2008, Dr. Priest relocated his prosthodontic practice from Atlanta, GA to Hilton Head Island, SC. He lectures nationally and abroad on topics including implant dentistry, advanced restorative dentistry, tooth-colored restorations and esthetic excellence.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
The first portion of this program is designed to make the practicing dentist comfortable with office oral surgery. You will learn how to prevent and treat complications, when to refer, and how to feel confident with flap design and surgical extractions. Third-molar impactions including reasons to remove, surgical treatment approaches and avoiding lingual and inferior alveolar nerve injury will be reviewed. Pre-prosthetic surgical procedures such as frenectomies, alveoplasty, secondary epithelization, tori removal, frenum removal, tuberosity reduction and papillary hyperplasia will also be discussed. In the second portion of this program, you will learn how to diagnose and treat medical emergencies commonly encountered in the dental office. An appropriate, useful emergency kit will be reviewed. A discussion on what you and your staff need to do will be presented with emphasis placed on how to prevent some of these emergencies.
Dr. James A. Garibaldi is associate professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Pacific. He is a course director in undergraduate didactic programs and has been the course director for the popular, hands-on, live-patient treatment program, "Success with Oral Surgery in the General Dentistry Office", at Pacific for the past 25 years.
This program is a review of the essential elements of the California Dental Practice Act as well as a review of risk management topics. This two-hour presentation satisfies the Dental Board of California’s relicensure requirements for two units of continuing dental education in the area of dental law.
Patrick J. Wood, Esq., is an attorney with over 25 years of experience in representing dentists and assisting them with all of their business transactional needs. His law firm, Wood and Delgado, handles dental practice sales, lease reviews, associateships, partnerships, dental board defense and related legal needs of dentists in California.
This two-hour course provides the dental team with the latest information on infection control and meets the Dental Board of California’s relicensure requirements for two units of continuing dental education in infection control. This program will update you and your staff on OSHA regulations. You will receive the framework upon which to build your understanding of dental regulations.
Rodney M. Stine is owner and operator of OSHA Review, Inc., a business specializing in regulatory compliance in California. He has served as director of Dental Affairs with the California Dental Association and was responsible for management of the Regulatory Affairs and Membership department. Mr. Stine reviewed and managed hazard communication requirements with CAL-OSHA.
