• Dental Materials- Dr. Edward Swift
• Building Your Bottom Line...Tapping into the Power of the Dream - Dr. Kenneth Zakariasen
• Photography - Dr. Paul Olin
• Esthetic Dental Assisting: Level 1 - Dr. Peter Bastian
• Blueprint for a Beautiful Smile - Dr. Dan Ward
• Periodontics & Optimal Esthetic Dentistry - Dr. David Carbanaro
• Function as it Relates to Esthetics - Drs. Fred McIntyre and Ron Ritsco
• Fundamental Principles of Removable Esthetics - Dr. Frank Lauciello
• Indirect Posterior Restorations - Dr. Ron Jackson
• Tissue Sculpting by Laser - Dr. John Graeber
• Diagnosis and Treatment Planning for Predictable Implant Esthetics - Dr. Joe Carrick
• Contemporary Dentistry 101...Composites for predictable restorations - Dr. Martin Abel
• CAD/CAM Dentistry - Dr. Todd Levine
• Creating Life-Like Etched Porcelain Bonded Restorations - Dr. Nasser Barghi
• All Ceramic Restorations - Dr. George Tysowsky
• Direct Composite Techniques Made Easy - Dr. Paul Belvedere
  

Increasing Quality & Comfort Utilizing Minimal Invasive Dental Concepts
	Dr. Edward Swift Professor and Chairman of the Department of Operative Dentistry at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

This lecture and hands on session will explore the areas of minimal invasive dentistry from micro air abrasion to conservative direct and indirect restoratives. A midpoint anterior deprogrammer will be discussed as to it?s conservative nature along with its ability to protect the muscles of mastication and prevention of tension headaches and migraines.

Experience an in-office laboratory processed restorative technique that allows you to reduce the amount of tooth structure removed and provide an exceptional aesthetic result. This technique allows you to simply resolve the problem of polymerization shrinkage.

Gain a working knowledge of laboratory indirect restorations accomplished in your office along with patient and office advantages and disadvantages.
A comparison of systems available for indirect in-office laboratory processed restorations will be provided so you can understand the financial benefits of this technique.

Building Your Bottom Line...Tapping into the Power of the Dream
	Dr. Kenneth Zakariasen Professor and Project Coordinator for Curriculum Transition, Marquette University School of Dentistry; Editor-in-Chief, Mosby's Year Book of Dentistry

Organizations that become wildly successful continually ask themselves such questions as "where are we today and where do we want to be tomorrow?", "what could we become at our very best?" and "what would it take to move us far ahead of all the others"? They are not afraid to dream nor are they afraid to act on their dreams. They create bold new visions for the future based on a solid foundation of values and teamwork, and they create definitive strategic actions to make their visions become reality.

This workshop will focus the dental team on learning and applying the newest organizational concepts for creating a bold vision for the future and the strategic actions that will make that vision become reality, for creating strategies for thriving amidst the continuous change that we all face in our practices, and for creating high-performance dental teams.

• The creation for each practice of both a vision for the future and a strategic action plan to make that vision become your new reality
  
• Creating the knowledge base, and learning the skills necessary, for the dental team to function as a true high-performance team
  
• Learning how to adopt strategic thinking, and the skills to effectively manage change, into your practice
  
• If you are successful in the above three, you can expect increased office productivity, as well as increased career satisfaction among the dental team members

At the completion of the program, participant dental teams should be able to:

• Articulate a bold vision for the dental practice, and a strategic action plan to make that vision become reality?. in short, to create a practice strategy, a strategy based on the values held by the dental team
  
• Use the values held by the dental team to identify their real bottom line for the practice, incorporate it into the vision, and then maximize the financial bottom line within this context
  
• Understand how to use that strategy as the map to a better future, and as a foundation for managing change
  
• Understand the process for implementing ongoing strategic thinking into the practice's everyday way of doing business
  
• Begin implementation of both the practice strategy and high-performance team concepts between the first and second workshops

This workshop is a hands-on activity. Dental teams will spend most of their time working together through a guided process. It is designed to unleash innovation and creativity in developing a bold new vision of the future for each dental team. During the workshop, short mini-presentations will be given to empower the teams to action on each step of the process. This course is continuously updated with the newest concepts in organization development.

Photography
	Dr. Paul Olin Associate Dean, Clinical Systems; Director, Dental Implant Program; Associate Professor, Division of Prosthodontics, Department of Restorative Sciences, University of Minnesota, School of Dentistry

Esthetic Dental Assisting: Level 1
	Dr. Peter Bastian Faculty Esthetic & Cosmetic Dentistry at the post-graduate level at The State University of New York at Buffalo and at the Eastman Dental Center in Rochester; Private practice, Toronto, ON

This course provides your whole dental team with knowledge and skills to work productively in your modern esthetic dental practice. Participants will learn the scientific basis behind today's cosmetic materials, treatment options and the steps by which "excellence" in cosmetic dentistry is achieved.

• A safe and uninterrupted learning environment for dental office assistants
  
• Eliminate the stress of acquiring new skills at chairside
  
• Increases office productivity
  
• Decreases costly and fragmented in-office training

Your Dental Auxilliary will learn to:

• Understand the scientific principles of adhesive dentistry
  
• Explain different clinical techniques and actively participate in the restorative process
  
• Support the dentist during the planning and restorative phases of patient care
  
• Acquire a working knowledge of clinical photography
  
• Communicate to patients the reasons for choosing high quality esthetic dentistry

Workshops in clinical photography and communications allow each team member to take a more active role supporting the dentist in their esthetic practice.

Blueprint for a Beautiful Smile...
	Dr. Dan Ward Clinical instructor at the Ohio State University and is in private practice in Columbus, Ohio. He lectures and serves as examiner for the Esthetic Dentistry Programs at University at Buffalo, University of Missouri-Kansas City and University of Minnesota.

This computerized presentation will change the way you approach smile design. You will discover the secrets of proportional smile analysis. See computer imaged photos of patients and see treatment carried out to completion. Following this innovative course, you will be able to confidently determine the ideal smile for your patient prior to treatment. Learn how to achieve predictable clinical success.
Learn the importance of photography in analyzing a smile

• Preview the latest digital cameras
  
• Learn how to objectively analyze a smile

Presentation Objectives:

• Understand the components of an ideal smile
  
• Evaluate a smile using mathematical proportions and the FIVE technique
  
• Utilize the RED proportion along with a computer spreadsheet to design the ideal smile
  
• Prepare a smile blueprint prior to treatment

Unique computer analysis of smiles and subsequent computer imaging is displayed.

Periodontics & Optimal Esthetic Dentistry
	Dr. David Carbonaro Associate Clinical Professor of Periodontics at University at Buffalo, School of Dental Medicine; Private practice, Fairport, NY

This course will identify and illustrate various periodontal components of the optimal esthetic case. Various esthetic surgical procedures that create or enhance ideal esthetic dentistry, including crown lengthening, root coverage, ridge augmentation, and others will be shown. Their indications, techniques, as well as their sequence in a multidisciplinary approach to achieve predictable success will be demonstrated.

This course empowers the practitioner to systematically diagnose and treatment plan those periodontal factors that are key components in smile design as well as various techniques to achieve them. Equally important will be the ability to sequence therapy in a restorative treatment plan that will ensure predictable and lasting results. Consequently, greater patient satisfaction will be achieved while the practitioner will realize increased case control, stress reduction, and profitability.
At the completion of the program, participants will:

• Be able to identify the various periodontal components necessary to achieve optimum esthetics
  
• Have a knowledge of the various surgical options in creating an optimal gingival profile
  
• Be able to treatment plan and integrate periodontal surgical options to enhance esthetics and restorative procedures with predictable success

Function as it Relates to Esthetics
	Dr. Fred McIntyre Clinical Associate Professor Restorative Dentistry, UB School of Dental Medicine; Director, UB Esthetic Dentistry Education Center Dr. Ron Ritsco Private practice, Williamsville, NY

Review function from both classical and high tech approaches
Faculty review the importance of function to the longevity of today's esthetics materials. The determinants of occlusion and function such as vertical dimension, neutral zone, envelope of function, centric relation and incisal edge position are discussed. You will be introduced to bimanual manipulation and to the new devices presently available for recording the health of the joint, its terminal position and the equilibration of occlusion using Tek Scan.
A hands-on session inlcudes:

• CR recording using bimanual manipulation
  
• Joint evaluation using joint vibration analysis
  
• Occlusal evaluation & CR verification using Tek Scan

Gain a better understanding of function as it relates to esthetics and become familiar with some of the new devices for evaluation of the joint and occlusion.

Fundamental Principles of Removable Esthetics
	Dr. Frank Lauciello Director of Removable Prosthodontics for Ivoclar Vivadent

Anterior Denture Teeth

• Morphology
  
• Techniques of selection
  
• Positioning to the arch
  
• Characterization

Denture base

• Anatomy of the denture base
  
• Principles of wax-up design
  
• Denture base tinting techniques
  
• Processed base concept

Vertical Dimension

• Average values
  
• Phonetic rim technique
  
• Transitional technique for restoring vertical

What is it that makes a persons teeth appear esthetic and "right" for them? How can you predict what tooth form, size, position is correct for an individual patient? These are extremely important questions in today's emphasis on esthetic dentistry. This program will detail the many factors that are involved in this process. Understanding denture tooth morphology and techniques of denture tooth characterization will not only improve your ability to deliver esthetic removable dentures but will also carry over into the other areas of restorative dentistry. After all haven't we all learned our basic understanding of esthetics from removable prosthodontics?

At the completion of the presentation, you should be able to:

• Select appropriate denture teeth for the removable denture patient
  
• Understand the esthetic principles of denture tooth morphology and positioning
  
• Characterize anterior denture teeth to reflect the sex, personality and age of patient
  
• Evaluate and determine vertical dimension for the edentulous patient
  
• Add to your practice the "processed denture base" concept and technique

Indirect Posterior Restorations
	Dr. Ron Jackson Associate professor, restorative dentistry, University at Buffalo; Director, Posterior Aesthetics program, Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies; Private practice in Middleburg, VA, emphasizing comprehensive restorative and cosmetic dentistry.

Tissue Sculpting by Laser
	Dr. John Graeber Certified Laser Educator; Private practice, New Jersey

The ultimate in dental esthetics is achieved when the soft tissue frame around restorations is healthy and of proper proportion to the coronal structure. The art and science of laser gingivoplasty will be shown and discussed.

Learn to recognize common abnormailities in gingival architecture. Begin to appreciate the use of lasers in control of the operative field and ways lasers can help achieve desired treatment outcomes.

• Recognize how to alter gingival architecture during operative and restorative treatments
  
• Choose which wavelengths are most appropriate for laser tissue sculpting

Diagnosis and Treatment Planning for Predictable Implant Esthetics
	Dr. Joe Carrick Maintains a private practice emphasizing implant and esthetic dentistry in Mukwonago, Wisconsin

Learn to document a desired end result and address patient-problems that present challenges to meeting the end result. Develop solutions to overcome these challenges and one or more treatment plans that the patient can choose from.

A worksheet provided includes space to sequence the chosen treatment plan, including all the specialists that will be treating the patient. This one document allows everyone, including the patient, to understand what will be accomplished at each appointment, as well as the fees associated with the whole process.

Learn to simplify implant dentistry while providing predictable esthetic results.

Contemporary Dentistry 101... Composites for predictable posterior restorations
	Dr. Martin Abel Full time clinician with a general practice focusing on appearance related dentistry Rockville, MD

Large lesions require indirect restorations. This requires multiple dental office visits and high lab costs. CEREC or in-office onlay production works but the equipment investment is enormous. My technique of "Direct Resin Onlay Production" allows a one-visit-no-lab-cost solution to this restorative challenge.

• Restore teeth with direct resin onlay (and veneer)
  
• Why this modality works
  
• How to get fair compensation
  
• Insurance issues

You and your staff can learn to discuss, plan and deliver composite restorations to restore lesions of all sizes in one visit.

CAD/CAM Dentistry
	Dr. Todd R. Levine Private practice, Lockport, NY

Dentists will be shown how to easily design, and fabricate in office crowns, inlays/onlays, and laminates in just one 60-90 minute appointment. This is accomplished without the use of impressions using CEREC technology. Restorations will be milled out of prefabricated esthetic porcelain, and ceramic blocks. The discussion will include restorative materials, bonding procedures, porcelain and composite staining techniques. Dentists will be encouraged to bring in models to fabricate restorations fix their own patients (must call my office for information) during the hands on portion of the program.
Learn how to save money, increase productivity and patient acceptance, gain new patients and perform esthetic, conservative dentistry.

• One appointment to fabricate crowns, inlays/onlays, and laminates
  
• No impressions, provisional fabrication, or laboratory is needed

At the completion of the program, you should be able to:

• Design and fabricate porcelain and composite, crowns inlays, onlays and laminates in a single office visit using the CEREC technology
  
• Stain and glaze, or polish restorations
  
• Use various bonding materials
  
• Make a restoration for one of your own patients (if wanted)

You are encouraged to fabricate restorations on your own actual patient cases (must call my office for information.)

Creating Life-Like Etched Porcelain Bonded Restorations: Advancing From Good to Excellent (Porcelain Veneers, Crowns, Inlays, Onlays)
	Dr. Nasser Barghi Professor and Head, Division of Esthetic Dentistry, Department of Restorative Dentistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Dental School, San Antonio, Texas

Advances in adhesive dentistry and developments in materials and techniques enable us to provide our patients with more esthetically pleasing porcelain veneers and posterior etched porcelain bonded restorations. Treatment planning, selection of the materials and laboratory communication varies for porcelain veneers on non-discolored, mildly discolored or severely discolored teeth. The impossible task of making esthetically pleasing porcelain veneers for severely discolored teeth is now easily attainable with new ceramic materials and composite resins. Two decades of experience and progress with bonded porcelain restorations and new knowledge provides us with a unique opportunity to advance the quality of these life-like restorations from good to excellent.

• New generation of porcelain restoration-alternatives in esthetic dentistry
  
• Porcelain veneers
• Posterior etched porcelain bonded restorations
• Selection of porcelain for porcelain veneers
  
• Clinical applications of new esthetic materials
  
• Laboratory communications for etched porcelain bonded restorations: the key to your success
  
• Failures of ceramic bonded restorations: untold stories
  
• Products

Upon completion you should be able to:

• Discuss the basic principal of etched-porcelain bonded restorations
  
• List the criteria for selection of porcelain for etched-porcelain bonded restorations
  
• Discuss the role and importance of substructure color in providing life-like bonded restorations
  
• List steps involved in preparation and bonding of etched-porcelain bonded restorations
  
• Objectively communicate the esthetic requirements of bonded ceramic restorations with ceramists
  
• Discuss possible factors causing failures of anterior and posterior ceramic bonded restorations

All Ceramic Restorations: The Who, What, Where and Why for Selecting the Material that Works for You
	Dr. George Tysowsky Vice President of Technology for Ivoclar North America, Inc.; Clinical Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo, School of Dental Medicine

All ceramic restorations have become a dominant treatment option for today?s contemporary dental practice. Technology is developing at a very rapid pace with new materials being introduced routinely into the clinical marketplace.

Criteria for selection and their appropriate use are often confusing and complex relative to developing an appropriate treatment plan.

This program will review and categorize all current materials in this quickly developing field. A full profile of material, technique and case selection will be provided to allow the clinician to have the correct background on selecting the right material for their clinical use.

Direct Composite Techniques Made Easy... it's not the material, it's the technique
	Dr. Paul Belvedere Internationally renowned teacher, lecturer, author and innovator of cosmetic and composite dentistry since 1975. He is regarded by his peers as the "Father of Direct Posterior Composites"

Through use of unique, advanced matrix systems, unit-dose delivery, bulk placement techniques and trans-enamel polymerization, you can increase your practice two-fold.
Dr. Belvedere is the pioneer of teaching through live TV demonstrations...learn the techniques, instruments and ancillary devices that he has developed for the profession. Use these simple, effective procedures in the office Monday morning.

• Learn through live TV demonstrations and slide presentations
  
• See step-by-step techniques live
  
• Through slides, the actual treatments are shown and through TV, the steps to achieve them are performed
  
• Creation of perfect gingival margins through placement techniques in all direct composite restorations and indirect veneers
  
• Restoring extensively decayed and traumatically fractured anterior teeth which have subgingival marginal demands

This all-day seminar will teach time proven techniques that will improve the manner in which many of you and your teams approach the use of direct resin-based composite systems in all regions of the mouth.

Direct veneers, diastema closing restoration, restoring traumatically fractured anterior teeth; these restorative techniques are made with a Contour Strip matrix band creating perfect gingival margins

• Cosmetic enhancement of problem cases
  
• Geriatric problem solving with flowable composite
  
• Techniques for the total replacement of amalgam in a practice
  
• Direct fiber reinforce bridges and post-and-core composite crowns
  
• Tight contact points on posterior direct composites

Dr. Paul Belvedere has pioneered the development of simple, practical, money-making and time-saving techniques. He uses a 'common sense' approach for the practical clarification of the various and sometimes confusing techniques and materials presently found in print and at lecture venues for the placement of direct resin-based composites.

A multi-media, slide, TV demo seminar which teaches, not merely tells. This is the only lecturer teaching with this "see it live" teaching method.