2018 PAST EVENTS

CONFERENCE FOLLOW-UP INFO AND PICTURES

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

SPEAKER: Dr. John Tucker

PROGRAM: “Dental Sleep Medicine: It’s Not Difficult...It’s Just Different”

COURSE DESCRIPTION: 

• How Does Oral Appliance Therapy Help Treat Obstructive Sleep Apnea?
• Oral Appliance Designs and Fabrication
• Proper Bite Registration for Oral Appliance Therapy
• Implementation of Systems, Office Flow and Integration Into Your Practice
• Documentation, Medical Billing and Reimbursement for the Dental Practice
• Marketing Your Dental Sleep Medicine Practice
• Communicating with Physicians and Sleep Laboratories
• Overcoming the 3 Major Hurdles to Successful Implementation

PROGRAM: Oral Appliance Therapy: Bite Registration with the Airway Metrics System

Dr. Tucker will provide HANDS-ON instruction for all attendees on the proper use of the Airway Metrics System. Workshops are limited to 20 attendees and priority will be given to those that have ordered the Airway Metrics System prior to the conference.

HANDS-ON WORKSHOP (2 Hours): 8am-10am and 10am-12pm

• TUCKER EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE/AIRWAY METRICS PROMOTION FOR NDA MEMBERS
• Airway Metrics System (contains 16 piece snore screener/simulators/24 bite)
• Retail Price = $328.00
• NDA Price.  = $289.00
• System can be purchased at Registration

SPEAKER: Chris Bormes

PROGRAM: Basic to Complicated Implants—Denturists provide life changing prosthetics for their patients.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Now that you can provide a great denture, how do you incorporate implants and attachments into your practice?  Basic techniques, parts, and technical information will be covered. Implant Supported and Retained Full Arch Removable Treatment  -- When should you provide a stud overdenture?  A bar overdenture?  An F-Tx fixed prosthesis?  What parts are needed for each technique?  What should the Denturist expect?  Tech tips, troubleshooting, and pitfalls to avoid will be covered.

SPEAKER: Martin Schmid, CDT

PROGRAM: Is Your Business Adapting To Change? Really?
Designing Partial and Full Dentures Digitally (Lecture and Live Demo)

Martin Schmid will take you through the process of designing full and partial dentures using a digital workflow. The emphasis will be choosing the right components and materials for a successful outcome while maintaining efficiencies and esthetics.

Course Content:

• Digital workflow overview for RPD’s and full dentures
• Choosing the correct components and connectors
• Clasp and major connector design
• Achieving natural esthetics for Removable Partial Dentures
• Characterization of the tooth setup and denture base utilizing 3Shape design software
• Nexco gingiva solution for creating natural denture base esthetics

Martin Schmid was born in Oberhausen, Germany. Influenced by two of his older brothers, a dentist and a master dental technician, he chose to pursue a career as a dental technician. Martin studied and trained at a laboratory in Essen, where he practiced various techniques such as crown and bridge, porcelain, full and partial dentures. Thereafter Martin taught porcelain courses for VITA in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. In 1993, Martin joined BEGO as North America’s Director of Education. From 2013 to 2014 Martin was a technical trainer for Straumann’s Cares system. Martin was back at BEGO USA from 2014-1016 as Chief Education Officer. Currently, Martin is at Ivoclar Vivadent as part of the technical team working in R&D, Education and Technical Support. He is also the owner of European Dental Arts, a precision dental laboratory in Massachusetts. Martin is highly skilled in the areas of porcelain, milling, attachments, implants, and full and partial dentures.

SPEAKER: Brian Carson

PROGRAM: Hands-on course Sponsored by Schultz

Course Description
In this hands-on course, the student will receive classroom instruction time regarding clinical/technical communication, and how to apply the data. The discussion will also include how to create natural emergence profiles with anterior arrangements. Occlusion theories will also be discussed. Each student will perform a full upper and lower set up to include a fully balanced occlusion. The N.F.P method will be demonstrated. The participants will use a full compliment of Tribos 501 denture teeth. A complete natural wax up will also be demonstrated. All students will create his / her wax-up using the Tribos waxes. Each participant will be mailed two working cast with bite registration key prior to course. All cast will need to be mounted on the student's own articulator prior to participation and brought to the course site.

Bio
Brian has received training in Engen, Germany for total prosthesis construction and is a current advisory board member to the laboratory program at Durham Technical Community College. He has authored several technical articles to include the “Masters Workshop,” which was featured with Inside Dental Technology October 2011 entitled “Creating Stability and Maintaining Age Appropriate Esthetics”, and March 2016 JDT issue, “Efficient Denture Setups Using the NFP Method.”  Brian feels that understanding the different philosophies within the art of removable prosthetics has given him an insightful and unique perspective.

SPEAKER: Eugene Royzengurt

During this course we will discuss the some of the challenges associated with implant supported restorations and will cover techniques that can prevent errors in the fabrication protocols. We will also look at some of cases completed and show modifications that can create not only an aesthetic restoration but also a fully functioning prosthesis.

Bio

Mr. Eugene Royzengurt has been working in the dental industry since 1996. He began as a Dental Assistant, later becoming an In-house Laboratory Technician, specializing in Removable Prosthodontics. Mr. Royzengurt’s education includes an Associate Degree and certificates in Dental Assistance and Radiology. He is also currently pursuing a degree in Denturism. He has published several peer review articles about Removable Prosthetics and currently lectures in the United States and internationally. Mr.Royzengurt has been a member of the Dental Technicians Guild since 2013. He currently resides in Sandy, Utah, where he owns Apple Dental Laboratory L.L.C.

SPEAKER: Linda Baird

CLASS: Baird Rule by Bright Innovations

Patients want two things in their dentures... a beautiful smile and dentures that work! Unfortunately, the National statistics shows 60% of all lower dentures fail. BairdRule ™ is a revolutionary process that combines aesthetics and function in perfect harmony.  BairdRule ™ achieves precision alignment of the posteriors, unique to each patient, that instantly gives a golden mean of proportion for the anteriors.  BairdRule ™ Places the posteriors over the ridge in a single complete set-up. Saves hours adjustments and re-sets.   Learn how to use BairdRule ™ to solve the puzzle in this class. You will use BairdRule ™ to draw out and solve a case in class!

Linda Baird, BA, RG.  Specializing in removable prosthetics, Linda was the owner of  LynWoodDental Design Laboratory in Chicago. Linda is the inventor of the BairdRule ™ and another concept now in beta testing with Bright Innovations LLC.

SPEAKER: Ivory Digital Denture: Shlomo Sharer M.Sc., DD and Joseph Della Marina DD, LD

The Ivory Digital Denture System is a fully integrated, digital workflow providing a complete solution for the denturist. Ivory facilitates the design of 3D printed dentures in a single visit. This presentation will demonstrate the simplicity of Ivory’s step-by-step procedures, involving standard denture fabrication protocols, but with innovative concepts and cutting-edge technology. The process includes scanning of the patient’s face into the virtual world, designing patients’ dentures in the Ivory Designer Studio software, and retrieving the virtual dentures back into the physical world by way of our 3D printer. No longer hidden behind closed laboratory doors, denture design is carried out in the operatory and with the direction of the patient. The Ivory process provides for a pleasurable patient experience, and high quality, predictable and reliable treatment outcomes. Thereby, Ivory equips denturists with a powerful competitive advantage and a rewarding practice.

Joseph Della Marina DD, LD, is a graduate of the George Brown Denturist program 1996 and an Ivoclar BPS certified denturist. Joseph has lectured for the NDA (National Denturist Association of America), MLDA (Maine licensed denturist association), Manitoba Denturist association, Denturist Society of Nova Scotia, International Federation of Denturists (IFD) World Symposium, DISC (Denturism Implant Study Club, as well as various dental manufacturers and suppliers. Joseph served as an instructor and lecturer for the denturist program at George Brown College for nine years. Joseph has been a member of the Denturist Association of Canada and Denturist Association of Ontario since 1996. Joseph is a member of the advisory board for Spectrum Denturism Magazine and an Internationally published author in Denturism.

Shlomo Sharer is the founder of Novel Technologies and is the Product Developer of the Ivory Digital Denture System. Shlomo graduated from the University of Toronto with a Master of Science in 1992. He has authored several articles on his medical research which are published in scientific journals. Shlomo later obtained his Denturist accreditation at George Brown College, in 1996. He is a member of the College of Denturists of Ontario and the Denturists’ Association of Ontario and Canada. With his combined scientific background and with more than 20 years of practice experience, Shlomo recognized the need for improvement of the denture treatment process. With the emergence of the scanning, computer design, and 3D printing technologies, Shlomo saw the opportunity to apply those developments to the denture process. The result is the birth of the Ivory Digital Denture System.

SPEAKER: Jim Collis, CDT

PROGRAM: Jim Collis Digital Dentures, Hands-on

Jim will bring dentures produced at Sovay 360 for you to grind and polish. Get your hands on a milled denture to work on.

SPEAKER: Dr. John Marshall

PROGRAM: Is Your Business Adapting To Change? Really?

The rate of change today is astronomic — and only increasing in speed. Some Denturists welcome change and turn the unexpected into an opportunity for growth. Others simply react. To determine your present level of comfort, you’ll complete an exercise to rate yourself out of 100. Having your own score will allow you to see your opportunities. To also make this presentation interactive and engaging, we’ll discuss innovative ideas and how these changes can dramatically improve your future results.

Biography – John Marshall, Results Driven

Results Driven was created because we believe that your Denture clinic is capable of ‘more’. More billings. More profit. More growth. More impact. But you struggle to get there and stay there. For over a decade, John Marshall’s company has trained clients in over 30 industries to get results. Period. You could say, their structured and proven training solutions are, in every sense of the word, Results Driven.

SPEAKER: Tija Boyd Hunter

PROGRAM: Impressions and asepsis

In this hands-on workshop we will discuss the most common errors with traditional impression taking, and how to avoid them. From materials to technique, we will cover ways to take a great impression each time! You will also get the newest knowledge for asepsis for your office.

SPEAKER: John Wilky

PROGRAM: Verty System Sponsored by Diashine

Vertysystem USA by DiaShine: Precise, Predictable & Fast Workflow
The Vertysystem is a workflow using dedicated equipment, specific materials and well-thought-out protocols.  The user can produce dentures and many other types of restorations with the utmost precision, reliability and great savings in overall costs.

This session will include a detailed lecture followed up with a demonstration and Q&A session by Wilky Bunyan, co-developer of the Vertysystem.

SPEAKER: Dean Fenwick

PROGRAM: Specialized Office Systems DOMx Examples of Excellence

Dean will share what volunteering can do for you.