Course Description – 

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Dr. Ian Shuman is back and ready to answer your difficult questions and present you with the latest materials, tried and true techniques and pearls. Lots of pearls! This course is a 6 hour dive into a smorgasbord of tips and tricks meant to help all  aspects of the most common and uncommon direct and indirect restorative care.

Direct Composite: Modern dentistry has changed dramatically from the time you were in dental school. With all of these rapid changes you must learn to do excellent work often by trial and error. Learn how to simplify the process of placing direct composite restorations in your practice. Attendees will learn how to treat a wide variety of restorative cases with simplified procedures, minimally invasive tooth preparations, and a variety of matrix systems.

Indirect Restorations: Review the latest materials coupled with innovative techniques for bur selection, local anesthetic, final impressions and provisional fabrication. Guaranteed to increase your efficiency, speed and profitability.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

Upon completion of this program, participants will:

 – Understand the fundamentals of resin bonding;

 – Have the ability to eliminate sensitivity using direct composite resin;

 – Learn how to prevent root and post fractures;

 – Know how to achieve rapid occlusal form and function in posterior bonding;

 – Be able to create excellence in aesthetics, shade selection, and armamentarium with anterior bonding, and

 – Understand how to diagnose early caries through intervention for prevention.

Removable dentures with and without implant retention: There are over 40 million edentulous people in the United States alone, many of whom are denture wearers.1 However, these patients may have worn or damaged dentures and continue to function. This is partly due to acceptance and adaptation of an edentulous mouth and/or past difficulties with new dentures. Some patients use them only in situations where esthetics are necessary. Unfortunately, these patients may also go to a dentist who believes that the complete denture is difficult to create and the fully edentulous patient difficult to treat. This course will attempt to educate the dentist and team as to some of the many steps required to treat an edentulous patient with a removable denture.

At the conclusion of this educational activity, participants will be able to:

1. Learn current trends in the denture market
2. Identify the various reasons for an ill-fitting denture
3. Discuss the options available for interim denture comfort
4. Understand the steps involved in denture fabrication

Speaker – Dr. Ian Shuman

Dr. Ian Shuman maintains a general, reconstructive and aesthetic dental practice in Pasadena, Maryland. Dr. Shuman is past Editorial Director of Continuing Education for The Dental Academy of Continuing Education. He is a Master in the Academy of General Dentistry and a Fellow of the Pierre Fauchard Academy. Dr. Shuman has been named one of the Top Clinicians in Continuing Education since 2005 by Dentistry Today. An educator and author, Dr. Shuman is a pioneer in developing advanced, minimally invasive techniques including the development and production of the V-DOC, a device used to measure and determine a patient’s vertical dimension of occlusion.