Scheduled Courses

Course Description

This all day lectures will discuss the latest in adhesive dentistry and how it is utilized with direct and indirect restorations. With new technologies entering the market that address bulk filling techniques and self-etching alternatives it is easy to get confused. This lecture will address the confusion and concerns facing the dentist. The later portion of the day will include a hands-on portion utilizing the new approach to bulk filling large class II restorations as well as a quick approach to placing an anterior class IV restoration. 

There will also be a discussion with various indirect restorative materials and their indications. This will include a variety of adhesive and cementation options. 

Course Objectives: At the end of this program each participant should understand:

1. Self-etching principles and how they are applied to composite resins.

2. The mechanisms of bonding systems and how to control sensitivity.

3. What is required or material to be utilized for bulk fill and how to place them correctly.

4. A predictable method for and anterior class IV restoration.

5. Laboratory restorative materials their indications and cementation

Course Description:

Attachment retained and bar-retained implant overdentures are one of the most successful, not to mention cost-effective, methods of treatment available for edentulous patients. Course attendees will learn how to diagnose, treatment plan, fabricate surgical stents, implant impression techniques, customize a fee schedule so you never lose economics, as well as how to work with overdenture attachments. Participants will learn how to easily change attachments in 7 seconds or less. This course focuses on all implant designs utilizing the revolutionary Locator Attachment assembly from the Zest Corporation.

Course Description:

This combination lecture and hands-on program presents a step-by-step blueprint for case analysis and sequencing that can be applied to every case – veneers, crowns, and implants – to produce an aesthetic and functional restoration, in a predictable way, every time. Rules of function will determine every tooth contour, position, and opposing contact – and the aesthetic result.

Every case, no matter how straight forward or complex, no matter the type of restoration, demands answers to the same basic questions:

• Where do the teeth go in the face? (the smile line)
• Where do they go in relation to one another? (the occlusion)
• How are the teeth individually shaped? (aesthetics and function)

Course Objective:

At the end of the day, you will return to your office with a detailed blueprint for restorative success that you can use right away. You will learn:

• Sequence of case analysis and case construction
• The occlusal scheme and how to apply it as the key to every restoration
• How to use a facebow and articulator to reproduce jaw position outside the mouth, as the foundation for success
• How and when to use anterior deprogrammers and bite registrations
• How to effectively communicate and coordinate with the laboratory, including:
  • Articulator mountings
  • Clinical photography
  • Doctor mock-ups and laboratory diagnostic wax-ups
  • Model preparation guidelines
  • Preparation and Provisional putty indices

Program Highlights:

• The Fundamentals of Restorative Dentistry
  • Temporomandibular joint anatomy and function
  • Articulators and facebows (theory and practice)
  • Occlusal theory
  • Occlusal scheme
    • Centric holding contacts
    • Anterior guidance
    • Posterior disclusion
  • Centric relation, maximum intercuspation
  • Vertical dimension – when to open and when you can’t
  • Neutral zone
  • Envelope of function
  • Jaw muscles
  • Anterior deprogrammers
  • Bite registrations
• Doctor – Laboratory Communication and Coordination
  • Articulator mountings
  • Clinical photography
  • Doctor mock-ups
  • Laboratory diagnostic wax-ups
  • Model preparation guides
  • Preparation putty indices
  • Provisional putty indices
• Case Sequencing
  • Implants
  • Crowns
  • Veneers
• Case examples – detailed, step by step

Course Description:

This hands-on participation workshop teaches alternatives to rotary NiTi.
The dentist will be given a wealth of practical techniques, to achieve consistent, predictable results in a wide variety of cases.   

Goals and Objectives:

·         Eliminate the fear of instrument separation.     

·         Learn to overcome the problems of Hand Instrumentation and the fears and extra costs associated with rotary NiTi.

·         Perform stress free endo, even in the most difficult cases.    

·         Accomplish 3D dimensional fills.     

·         Learn how to obturate without apical pressure.

·         Learn how to achieve a long lasting restoration after endo

Biography:

Dr. Barry Lee Musikant’s lecture schedule has taken him to over 200 international and domestic locations. His dynamic speaking style and ability to direct Dentists to the very heart of stress free techniques is what sets him apart.  It is often said that he introduces a logic and common sense that is undeniable. He has co-authored over 250 articles in dentistry in major dental journals, domestic as well as international.  Barry Lee Musikant, DMD holds 16 patents for co-inventing revolutionary Endodontic Obturation, Instrumentation, Post and Composite Systems.  As a partner in the largest Endodontic practice in Manhattan, Dr. Musikant’s 30 plus years of clinical experience have crafted him into one of the top authorities in Endodontics.

Dr. Musikant is the President, Co-Director of Dental Research, and Co-Founder of Essential Dental Systems (EDS), a dental products manufacturing company located in South Hackensack, NJ. The company's roots stem from the desire for product improvements to the items of focus in Dr. Musikant's lectures and daily practice. After much research and development, the patented Flexi-Post and Ti-Core were produced to meet his needs and today are the number one post and core build-up in the United States and Canada. Dr. Musikant is also the co-developer of the SafeSiders and EZ-Fill bi-directional spiral, which is the quickest and most economical instrumentation and obturation system on the market today.

Course Description:

This one day course will definitively spell out the steps to plan, place and restore a dental implant in adequate bone. Through the use of Cone Beam CT’S, any general dentist can safely place and restore an implant in their practice. As a general dentist, Dr. Tischler will clearly spell out every step you need to start providing this service in your practice. This methodical protocol that Dr. Tischler will share with you will change your practice forever!

Course Objectives:

Treatment planning and justification for implant placement:

• Why provide dental implants as a treatment option in your office
• Choosing which dental implant system to use
• Picking your implant patients and medical history flags
• Understanding implant parts and pieces
• Space requirements for a dental implant
• Equipment and instruments you need to place your first implant
• Appointing with confidence implant patients and scheduling details
• Pharmacology protocol for implant placement
• Informed consent forms for implant placement
• Assessing the anatomy for your first implant, choosing the right sites
• Cone Beam CT for implant planning using imaging services
• Pre-surgical appointment steps

Surgically placing a dental implant using surgical guides:

• Review of imaging sequence: from CT guides to surgical guides
• The day of the appointment: what to do
• Your staff’s role in implant placement
• Pre and post operative protocol for your first implant
• Possible surgical complications and how to deal with them
• Tips to keep the patient calm during surgery
• Provisionalization techniques of a placed implant
• Photographing your implant cases
• Follow up appointments
• Chart write-ups for dental implants
• Radiographic checks during surgery
• Caveats of surgery

Restoring a dental implant with cement retained crown:

• The closed tray impression technique
• Enhancing impression copings
• Laboratory communication for dental implants
• Cementation techniques
• Abutment choices and design
• Cementation choices for implants
• Creating implant protected occlusion
• Hygiene for dental implants

HANDS-ON portion:   Extensive model work

• Implant placement on models through surgical guides
• Temporary abutment for provisionalization
• Fabricating provisional on model