Join us October 12 for the first course of the year with the following topics:

• Ronda Anderson – Infection Control and Jurisprudence.
• Tom Terronez with Christian Meyer – IT Security and HIPPA Compliance

Reminder – if you are unable to attend this course you can take the new required (in Iowa) jurisprudence course through self study. The link to more info can be found here:

https://dentalboard.iowa.gov/practitioners/continuing-education/jurisprudence-self-study-course

The following are the dates for the 2018/2019 Sioux City Dental Society Courses. The details will be mailed and posted in the next couple weeks. But please mark your calendars for the following dates:

• October 12, 2018
• November 9, 2018
• January 11, 2019
• February 8, 2019
• March 8, 2019
• April 12, 2019 – Make-up date if needed

Please be patient as we put all the details together for an announcement to come.

Click the link below to view the handout for the lecture on Friday February 9 –  Medical Assessment and Common Medical Emergencies in the Dental Office by Dr. Bob Bosack:

MEDEMERG

Also, as a reminder the morning Infection Control course offering will begin at 8am.

We look forward to seeing you on Friday.

The Sioux City Dental Society will hold two courses this Friday.

• Dr. Bob Bosack-   Medical Assessment and Common Medical Emergencies in the Dental Office
• Infection Control – morning session only starting at 8am

We look forward to seeing you there. Also, just to clarify the January Implant course will now be held on April 20 after the weather postponement.

The two courses scheduled for Friday January 12 have been postponed due to potential weather and travel issues for the speaker.  The postponements are as follows:

• Infection Control will now be held during the February 9 course starting at 8am (half day course)
• NEW DATE – APRIL 20:   Dr. Zola Makrauer DMD, MAGD  – Full Mouth Reconstruction or Single Tooth Implants, Let’s Make it Happen!

The January 12, 2018 SCDS meeting will consist of two courses:

• 8 am (morning) Infection Control
• 8 am (full day course) Dr. Zola Makrauer DMD, MAGDFull Mouth Reconstruction or Single Tooth Implants, Let’s Make it Happen!

   

  Course description:

   

  Do you ever wonder what keeps your patients from accepting more effective comprehensive treatment options? Are you or your team members sometimes challenged in the clinical processes or treatment discussions related to full mouth reconstruction or single tooth implants

   

  This course will help you maximize the treatment discussion opportunities that occur during the hygiene visit.  Both you and your team members will learn simple processes that you will be able to immediately implement to help you increase case acceptance.

   

  Implant placement and restorative techniques in the esthetic zone, esthetic risk assessment and case difficulty will also be discussed. Optimizing esthetic outcomes in implant dentistry from the findings of the 5th ITI Consensus Conference to consistently complete implant restorations with a minimum of complications will be reviewed.

   

  Learning objectives:

   

  • Communicating benefits of the single implant vs. fixed bridge in a way a patient will value
  • Create a process that will make it easy for the patient to commit to and schedule with the specialist
  • Minimize the objections to care
  • Learn how time issues affect your patients decisions regarding treatment options
  • Improving your interdisciplinary relationship with your specialist affects your patient’s viewpoint of the care you provide.
  • Understand the “why” and “what” you can do to create a seamless patient care process.
  • Treatment planning, case evaluation employing ERA and understanding patient expectations
  • Restorative techniques resulting in successful well fitting restorations
  • Esthetic zone implant surgery and restorative techniques
  • Evaluating the esthetic risk profile, and utilizing the SAC assessment tool
  • Gaining case acceptance in the hygiene visit
  • The use of guide templates
  • Techniques to minimize or eliminate cement problems
  • Locators: Process in the mouth or out
  • Impression techniques to relate subgingival contours to the lab technician
  • Steps for restoring full arch early load implant cases, The Pro Arch Concept
  • The latest and greatest new abutments utilized in full mouth restorations (SRA)
  • Working with your specialist and how to communicate utilizing the team approach

   

   

  Speaker Bio:

  Dr. Makrauer, his patients, and his team have benefited from the interdisciplinary care process. He has had extensive training in cosmetic, and implant reconstructive dentistry, and maintains a full time practice in Huntingdon Valley, Pa.

  He speaks National and Internationally on Practice management and Implant restorative dentistry. Dr. Makrauer is a part time clinical instructor at the Kornberg School of Dentistry. Additionally, he has been published in a national peer review dental journal, The Compendium, and has also been published in Starget.  Dr. Makrauer maintains memberships with numerous dental organizations and is a Fellow of the International Team for Implantology (ITI) of Basel, Switzerland and a Master of the Academy of General Dentistry.  Dr. Makrauer is also the past president of the Eastern Dental Society.