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Friday, July 19, 2019 | 6:00 PM

Join Penn Dental Medicine in Washington, DC

You’re invited to attend a pop-up alumni reception in Washington, DC on July 19. Whether you are traveling to participate in the NDA Annual Convention or live in the area, we hope you will consider joining us.

Meet and mingle with fellow Penn Dental Medicine graduates, while enjoying hors d’oeuvres and drinks compliments of the School. All alumni and friends are welcome!

Penn Dental Medicine
240 South 40th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Description

This one-day, 7 CDE-credit course offers hands-on training on using dental microscopy for prosthodontic treatment. Participants will learn all microscope adjustments, optimal operating positions, usage of appropriate burs for different preparation designs, interim crown margination, and crown marginal adaptation evaluation under the microscope.

Educational Objectives:

• ​Understand microscope focus, parfocal, and practice position exercises
• Simulate single tooth preparation for all ceramic restoration
• Interim crown fabrication and marginal adaptation evaluation
• Build confidence and efficiency, participants practice complete preparations of on anterior, and/or posterior teeth on dental mannequins under the microscope.

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Ceremony – Annenberg Center
Reception – Penn Dental Medicine

Join us to welcome the Class of 2023 to the study of dental medicine. The ceremony, be to held at Penn’s Annenberg Center, will include guest speaker Dr. Jack Dillenberg. A reception will follow at Penn Dental Medicine. 

Penn Dental Medicine
William W.M. Cheung Auditorium

Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Lunch provided
Registration Fee: Free; Registration is required.
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CE Credits: 1.0 lecture credits

Description

This presentation will review of challenges and opportunities associated with interprofessional collaboration to improve caries management in children, with a focus on studies around development and validation of a risk assessment tool, and strategies that could be delivered in non-dental settings, such as Silver Diamine Fluoride.

Educational Objectives

• Compare challenges and opportunities available for Interprofessional collaboration for caries management in children.
• Review evidence behind caries risk tools for children.
• Review evidence behind use of SDF in children.

Speaker

Margherita Fontana, DDS, PhD, is the Clifford Nelson Endowed Professor of Dentistry in the Department of Cariology, Restorative Sciences and Endodontics at University of Michigan School of Dentistry (U-M). She is currently co-director of Cariology courses, and cariology discipline co-coordinator at U-M. As a principal investigator, she has received research grants from the National Institutes of Health, the American Association of Pediatric Dentistry, the Delta Dental Fund, DentaQuest, and private industry amongst others. She has over 125 papers published in peer reviewed journals, such as Journal of Dental Research, Caries Research, Journal of Dental Education, Pediatric Dentistry, Advances in Dental Research, Journal of Public Health Dentistry, Journal of the American Dental Association, British Dental Journal, etc. She was the 2007-2008 President of the Cariology Group of the International Association for Dental Research(IADR), and the 2010-2011 Chair of the Cariology Section of ADEA. In 2012 she received the USA Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for her work on caries risk assessment in children.She was the 2009 winner of the IADR Cariology Research Group’s Basil G. Bibby Award in Cariology, and in 2016 winner of the IADR Burrows Memorial Award.

Disclosure: Dr. Fontana received an honorarium from Delta Dental, Colgate and American Dental Association. This presentation will contain reference to Silver Diamine Fluoride for caries arrest.

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 1.0 continuing education credits.