Location: La Primavera map 77 Woodstream Blvd.
Vaughan, Ontario
7:30 am: Registration & Breakfast
8:15 am: Lecture begins
10:00- 10:30: Mid-Morning break
12:00- 1:10 pm: Lunch
1:15- 3:30 pm: Lecture (no break)
3:30 pm: Q&A, DRAW PRIZES
Synopsis:
"Simplifying Prosthetics and Restorative Dentistry"
A materials explosion has come to dentistry and with it confusion exists among practitioners as to what materials to use and how to use them. We will discuss a multitude of materials and their impact on the treatment we render with an emphasis on providing better treatment with less stress and more predictable results. Included will be:
Understanding dental adhesives: Take the confusion out of total-etch verses self-etch adhesives and restorative materials. Learn when and where to use the self-etch cements, adhesives and flowable composites.
Soft tissue treatment for improved restorative results: Managing the pink to improve the overall esthetics of the smile when providing restorative treatment.
Endodontics vs Implants: Treatment planning decisions. When and how to make treatment planning decisions based on sound restorative principles.
Restoration of Endodontically treated teeth: The importance of restorative ferrule in an adhesive dental world. When to use posts and when they are not needed for restoration of endodontic treated teeth.
Endodontic coronal leakage prevention: How to prevent Endodontic failure with advances in endodontic obturation materials and coronal restorations to prevent Endodontic failure due to leakage.
Advances in removable prosthetics: Light-curable resin bases, flexible acetyl clasps and frames. Better results, less stress, happier denture patients.
Cad/Cam for implant hybrid and over-denture bars: Improving the accuracy, strength and precision of implant frames.
Free-standing vs Bar Over-dentures: Understanding how and when to use free-standing attachments and when a bar is needed for predictable long term results.
Mini-implants: Pit falls and indications. Discussion of when and how to use mini implants and improving denture retention.
Use of a unique implant for bypassing anatomy and avoiding grafting: Discussion on the Co-Axis implant and its use to avoid the mental foramen, maxillary sinus and improve prosthetic restoration while maximizing implant positioning within the available bone.
Simplified sinus augmentation for implant placement: A simplified technique for crestal sinus augmentation at implant placement will be discussed.
CBCT is it worth the additional treatment cost?: Discussion on the benefits of use of cone beam CT and when it should be considered during treatment planning. Additionally, we will discuss CBCT generated surgical stents and when they should be considered and when in-office stents can be fabricated for implant placement.
Dr. Kurtzman is in private general practice in Silver Spring, Maryland and is a former Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Maryland, Department of Endodontics, Prosthetics and Operative Dentistry. He has lectured both nationally and internationally on the topics of Restorative dentistry, Endodontics and Implant surgery and prosthetics, removable and fixed prosthetics, Periodontics and has over 200 published articles. He is privileged to be on the editorial board of numerous dental publications, a consultant for multiple dental companies, a former Assistant Program Director for a University based implant maxi-course he has earned Fellowship in the AGD, AAIP, ACD, ICOI, Pierre Fauchard, Academy of Dentistry International, Mastership in the AGD and ICOI and Diplomat status in the ICOI and American Dental Implant Association (ADIA).
Dr. Kurtzman has been honored to be included in the "Top Leaders in Continuing Education" by Dentistry Today annually since 2006.
He can be contacted at dr_kurtzman@maryland-implants.com.
