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Presented virtually via BlueJeans

Time: 6:00-8:00 pm; This virtual lecture will begin promptly at 6:00 pm via BlueJeans.
Registration: FREE to view (does not include continuing education credits); Registration is still required.
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CE Credits: 2.0 lecture credits
To receive continuing education credits:
Dentist, $50.00
Penn Dental Medicine Alumni, $37.50
Military, $37.50

Course Description

The alveolar ridge requires a fair amount of bone volume for successful restoration over implants. Whether pre-operative or at second stage surgery, several surgical options have been suggested to restore the alveolar ridge volume. Priority should be given to simpler and less invasive procedures, involving less risk of complications and achievement of goals in a shorter period.
In this lecture, Dr. Fred Silva, Clinical Assistant Professor, Periodontist at Texas A&M Baylor College of Dentistry and Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon, will share his clinical experience, and discuss techniques and materials used in less invasive procedures for restoration of volume, resulting in a functional and esthetically pleasing outcome.

Learning Objectives

• Knowledge of treating buccal bone loss
• Knowledge of lateral augmentation procedures
• Knowledge of less invasive procedures for volume restoration
• Knowledge of handling different clinical scenarios

Speaker

Dr. Fred Silva is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Periodontics at Texas A&M College of Dentistry. He received his DDS degree in 2005 and completed his residency program in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery in 2008, both in Brazil. In 2009, he completed a post-doctorate program in Periodontics at University of Michigan. After an Implant Fellowship (2015/2016), he received his Certificate in Periodontics and his Master’s degree at University of Florida in 2019.

University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.

University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine designates this activity for 2.0 continuing education credits.

Presented virtually via BlueJeans

Time: 6:00-8:00 pm; This virtual lecture will begin promptly at 6:00 pm via BlueJeans.
Registration: FREE to view (does not include continuing education credits); Registration is still required.
Register here»
CE Credits: 2.0 lecture credits
To receive continuing education credits:
Dentist, $50.00
Penn Dental Medicine Alumni, $37.50
Military, $37.50

Speaker

Dr. Joseph Fiorellini joined Penn Dental Medicine in 2005, serving as Chair of the Department and Director of the Postdoctoral Periodontics Program through June 2015. Prior to joining Penn Dental Medicine, Dr. Fiorellini was at HarvardSchool of Dental Medicine, where he served as Vice Chair and Associate Professor of the Department of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity; Head of the Division of Periodontology; and Program Director of Periodontology. Throughout his tenure at Harvard, Dr. Fiorellini also maintained a private practice in periodontics and implant dentistry.

His areas of research include the relationship of genetics and periodontal disease and studies related to periodontal regeneration and implantology. Dr. Fiorellini currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Periodontology, the International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Implants and the International Journal of Periodontics and Restorative Dentistry. He has authored more than 50 manuscripts, reviews, and textbook chapters, and his research awards have included National Institutes of Health and International Association of Dental Research travel grants, The American Academy of Periodontology Young Investigators Award, The Academy of Osseointegration Research Award, and The European Association for Osseointegration Research Prize. He was also the recipient of the 2005 E. Bud Tarrson Research Award in Oral Plastic Surgery from the American Academy of Periodontology Foundation.

University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.

University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine designates this activity for 2.0 continuing education credits.

Presented virtually via Zoom Webinar

Time: 6:00-8:00 pm; This virtual lecture will begin promptly at 6:00 pm via Zoom Webinar.
Registration: FREE to view (does not include continuing education credits); Registration is still required.
Register here»
CE Credits: 2.0 lecture credits
To receive continuing education credits:
Dentist, $50.00
Penn Dental Medicine Alumni, $37.50
Military, $37.50

Course Description

Gingival design and conditioning in the aesthetic zone.
Delivering a restorative work over implants and achieve a natural contour of the soft tissue requires handling and control of many steps during the surgical treatment.
Mastering bone reconstruction, implant placement, and soft tissue graft techniques sometimes are not enough…. We need also to control how to customize and modify the shape of the tissues previously grafted.
This lecture brings step by step techniques on how to perform controlled and precise modification of the “Pink” anatomy, giving shape to pontics, papillae and emergence profile, in order to obtain the gingival “frame” for our crowns.

Learning Objectives

• Learn the importance of the digital design on surgical cases on the aesthetic zone
• Impression for conditioned tissue

Speaker

Ricardo Kern, M.Sc., is firmly entrenched within the high aesthetic requirements of Brazilian dentistry, I am having focus my work on the demanding disciplines of soft tissue design and reconstruction. Vast experience in immediate implant placement with temporization, from single tooth to full arch rehabilitation. Have been invited to lecturing and to do training about the soft tissue (design, preservation and reconstruction) on several posgraduating courses as also congress and seminars from Latin America to overseas

University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.

University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine designates this activity for 2.0 continuing education credits.

Presented virtually via Zoom Webinar

Time: 6:00-8:00 pm; This virtual lecture will begin promptly at 6:00 pm via Zoom Webinar.
Registration: FREE to view (does not include continuing education credits); Registration is still required.
Register here»
CE Credits: 2.0 lecture credits
To receive continuing education credits:
Dentist, $50.00
Penn Dental Medicine Alumni, $37.50
Military, $37.50

Description

The Immediate Dentoalveolar Restoration (IDR) is a surgical and prosthetic powerful technique established to broaden indications for immediate loading on individual compromised teeth. It is a technique that allows tissue losses with varied extensions in compromised sockets to be reconstructed in the same surgical session of implant placement and provisional crown installation, reducing the number of interventions and making esthetic aspects predictable. The main focus of the lecture is to present the IDR protocol, which advocates minimally invasive surgery and flapless procedures, and discuss about very challenging clinical cases in anterior zone in combination with severe bone loss and soft tissue damage, and its biological response. This is a new perspective to manage compromised sockets in a simplest and reproducible way.

Objectives

• Demonstrate improvement of the practitioner’s management of compromised fresh extraction sockets in the esthetic zone.
• Explain the step-by-step, indications, and advantages of de IDR concept.
• Describe how to obtain an autogenous bone graft from maxillary tuberosity in a easier way.
• Review management of the graft and complete reconstruction of the alveolar defects.
• Discuss on bone biology and IDR response.

Speaker

Dr. José Carlos Rosa graduated from course in Dentistry, Federal University of Santa Maria – UFSM in Santa Maria/RS, Brazil in 1988. He specialized in Periodontics, at Associação Paulista dos Cirurgiões-Dentistas – APCD – Bauru/SP, Brazil in 1991. He then graduated with a Master of Science in Prosthesis, CPO SLMandic from the Center of Dental Research São Leopoldo Mandic – Campinas/SP, Brazil in 2005. In 2014 he earned a PhD in Implantology, CPO SLMandic from the Center of Dental Research São Leopoldo Mandic – Campinas/SP, Brazil. Dr. Rosa is the author Immediate Dentoalveolar Restoration (IDR) by Quintessence Publishing and he currently runs a Private Practice in Caxias do Sul – RS – Brazil.

University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.

University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine designates this activity for 2.0 continuing education credits.

Presented virtually via Zoom Webinar

Time: 6:00-8:00 pm; This virtual lecture will begin promptly at 6:00 pm via Zoom Webinar.
Registration: FREE to view (does not include continuing education credits); Registration is still required.
Register here»
CE Credits: 2.0 lecture credits
To receive continuing education credits:
Dentist, $50.00
Penn Dental Medicine Alumni, $37.50
Military, $37.50

Course Description

Ever since N. Lang stated that as a profession we are witnessing a “Tsunami of Peri-implantitis” in 2005, we have been searching for answers. However, we also have failed to discover the necessary questions. What are the entities of Peri-Implant Mucocitis and Peri-Implantitis? How do these disease processes arise and are there precipitating factors? The greatest question is perhaps, how do we treat these effected implants in a predictable and approachable manner or does such a therapy actually exist?

A thorough discussion will develop a better understanding of these two disease entities, their similarities and differences. Additionally, risk factors and evidence supported findings related to this peri-implant disease entity will be identified. Contemporary therapies and their predictability for success will be deliberated upon.

Learning Objectives

• A review of the 2018 AAP Classification of Periodontitis and specifically Peri-Implant diseases
• Assess various risk factors associated with this disease entity/these disease entities.
• Describe multiple therapeutic modalities which have been proposed in the treatment of peri-implant diseases.

Speaker

Dr. Edward Dwayne Karateew is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Dentistry, Department of Periodontics located in Chicago, Illinois. He received his DDS degree from Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery in 1992. Specialty certificates were obtained in both Periodontics and Fixed Prosthodontics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995 and 1996 respectively.

Dr. Karateew has served on the faculties of the University of Washington (Seattle, Wa), in post-graduate Prosthodontics, and the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) both in post-graduate Prosthodontics and post-graduate Periodontics as the Director of Implant Surgery. Prior to arriving in Chicago, Dr. Dwayne Karateew maintained a private practice in Vancouver, Canada, for 19+ years.

Dr. Karateew holds membership in many professional organizations and holds positions on many organizational boards related to the profession. He has published and presented his original material in numerous forums both nationally and internationally.

University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.

University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine designates this activity for 2.0 continuing education credits.

Please save the date for a half-day virtual conference on how to right-size the scope and regulation of health professional practice to meet community needs after COVID-19, with leading experts in law, economics, nursing, medicine, and dentistry.

The morning program will feature a keynote address by Martin Gaynor, PhD, E.J. Barone University Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and former Director of the Bureau of Economics at the US Federal Trade Commission. Registration and full details available on LDI’s website.

Presented virtually via Zoom Webinar

Time: 6:00-8:00 pm; This virtual lecture will begin promptly at 6:00 pm via Zoom Webinar.
Registration: FREE to view (does not include continuing education credits); Registration is still required.
Register here»
CE Credits: 2.0 lecture credits
To receive continuing education credits:
Dentist, $50.00
Penn Dental Medicine Alumni, $37.50
Military, $37.50

Description

Various techniques of hard and soft tissue grafting will be presented, highlighting the importance of creating favourable peri implant environment that leads to predictable and long term outcomes. Soft tissue manipulation with the help of modified temporary restorations renders superb results, mimicking the nature.

Objectives

• Guidelines for successful implant based restoration
• Importance of hard and soft tissue development
• Importance of properly designed final restorations ensure functionally and esthetically ideal aftermath.

Speaker

Dr. Samvel Bleyan is a dentist with extensive experience of more than 26 in Implant & Esthetic dentistry, lecturing domestically and internationally. He has been running his private practice limited to implant dentistry and prosthetic rehabilitation in Moscow, since 1997. Dr Bleyan is focused on advanced bone grafting technique and soft tissue rehabilitation around implants with the goal of creating a harmonic environment for final restorations.

University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.

University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine designates this activity for 2.0 continuing education credits.

Presented virtually via Zoom Webinar

Time: 6:00-8:00 pm; This virtual lecture will begin promptly at 6:00 pm via Zoom Webinar.
Registration: FREE to view (does not include continuing education credits); Registration is still required.
Register here»
CE Credits: 2.0 lecture credits
To receive continuing education credits:
Dentist, $50.00
Penn Dental Medicine Alumni, $37.50
Military, $37.50

Course Description

This lecture will cover from basic principles of chairside of CAD/CAM workflow, to material selection and advanced esthetic solutions. The main purpose is to demonstrate how the clinician can control the entire digital workflow from preparation imaging to digital design and in-office customization of ceramic restorations.

Learning Objectives

• Learn the principles of CAD/CAM workflow
• Understand chairside material choices for same-day ceramic restorations
• Appreciate how advanced CAD/CAM applications and chairside customization can solve challenging esthetic cases

Speaker

Dr. Gisele Neiva graduated from The Federal University of Paraná School of Dentistry (Brazil) in 1991. She has earned two master degrees: Master in Restorative Dentistry from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in 1997 and Master in Clinical Research Design & Statistical Analysis from The University of Michigan School of Public Health OJ/OC Program in 2005.

Dr. Neiva has been involved in clinical and laboratory research for over 20 years. Her initial work focused on laboratory materials testing studies of composite resins, resin cements and dental ceramics resulting in a number of publications in peer- reviewed journals. For the last seven years, she has been collaborating on several large randomized clinical trials of CAD/CAM and digital dentistry technology applied to restorative dentistry. Currently underway clinical research projects include randomized longitudinal studies of chair-side CAD/CAM generated ceramic onlays and crowns with novel ceramic materials and adhesive cements. She is prospectively following up restorations that were previously placed in three different projects and documenting data following USPHS criteria. Dr. Neiva is also studying in vitro surface roughness of chairside CAD/CAM restorations of various materials.

University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.

University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine designates this activity for 2.0 continuing education credits.

Presented virtually via Zoom Webinar

Time: 6:00-8:00 pm; This virtual lecture will begin promptly at 6:00 pm via Zoom Webinar.
Registration: FREE to view (does not include continuing education credits); Registration is still required.
Register here»
CE Credits: 2.0 lecture credits
To receive continuing education credits:
Dentist, $50.00
Penn Dental Medicine Alumni, $37.50
Military, $37.50

Course Description

Successful and consistent ridge augmentation remains a challenge in the area of implant dentistry. While a variety of techniques and materials are available, those entities that do not require harvesting autogenous tissue have obvious, potential, advantages. This presentation reviews the history and evolution of block allografts to prepare sites for ultimate implant placement. A variety of cases are presented to illustrate this point. Potential complications are also presented.

Learning Objectives

• Understand basic bone biology
• Understand the evolution of tissue banking and the development of block allografts
• Understand the potential advantages, disadvantages, and indications of using block allografts for ridge augmentation

Speaker

Dr. Cecil White received his BA degree in Microbiology from the University of South Florida, in Tampa. He attended the University of Florida College of Dentistry, where he received his DMD. Dr. White entered active duty in the Navy following graduation from UF in 1981. He received his Certificate in Periodontics and Master of Science in Dentistry from Indiana University. Dr. White is a Diplomate (Board-Certified) of the American Board of Periodontology, a Fellow of the American College of Dentists, and received his Fellowship in the Academy of General Dentistry in 1984. He has participated in medical/dental mission trips to Maracaibo, Venezuela and Accra, and Ghana. He serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor with the Department of Periodontology at the University of Florida College of Dentistry in Gainesville, Florida.

University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.

University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine designates this activity for 2.0 continuing education credits.