Online Dental CE

Part nine of the webinar series "Learning From Our Mistakes" will feature Dr. Derse's inspiring journey to becoming a successful dentist and the proud owner of Espire Dental. Dr. Derse will share her experience of embracing failure and using it to build a stronger future. She will discuss her transition from a single practice to a DSO, highlighting the challenges and opportunities involved in this process. Additionally, Dr. Derse will delve into how certain products can standardize processes and reduce costs. This CE webinar is essential for anyone interested in expanding their dental practice and gaining insights into financial and clinical leadership, as well as material and equipment selection for enhancing their practice. (read more)

Restorative care is the core of dentistry. Dentists are proud of their work and the beautiful restorations they create; however, with high-risk patients it can feel like building a house on sand when the restoration ultimately fails due to secondary caries. Preventive care addresses the underlying cause (dental caries) and ultimately ensures a more predictable restorative outcome. In this webinar, I will discuss the importance of individualized preventive care – how it benefits the patient’s overall oral health, and in cases where the patient receives restorative treatment, extends the longevity of the restoration. I will further explain how prevention is not a one-size-fits-all protocol. Treatment should be tailored to the patient’s caries risk and should not be limited by age or insurance coverage. (read more)

Direct resin posterior restorations can be challenging to blend with the surrounding tooth structure for several reasons ranging from discoloration of underlying tooth structure that can result when replacing an old amalgam that stained the dentin, teeth discolored due to tetracycline or other things related to when the tooth developed, tooth shades that do not fit standard Vita shades, to enamel and dentin that varies in shade on the tooth. Luckily, advances in restorative composite materials have allowed development of single shade resin materials for direct restorations, offering a simpler process using fewer materials to achieve excellent aesthetics that blends with the surrounding tooth. In this CE webinar, the benefits of using a universal shade composite to simplify direct resin restorations for use for Class I and II restorations, Class V restorations and core buildups will be discussed. (read more)