Cosmetic Dentistry for the Restorative Practice (6 CEs)

Date: Thursday, June 12, 2025

Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm

Location: Bar Harbor, ME

Course Description

Today's restorative dentists need to constantly enhance their cosmetic skills in order to achieve growth and profitability in their practices. This lecture will demonstrate a simplified method of restoring the fractured maxillary anterior central incisor with composite resin using the intraoral composite mock-up technique creating an imperceptible restoration. Additionally, as a result of the latest composite technology, dentists can now quickly, easily and predictably treat posterior teeth, cervical (abfraction) lesions and incisal wear with beauty, strength and function beyond patient expectations. Improvements in composite polymerization shrinkage, reduction of internal stress and occlusal wear, have made composite material a great aesthetic option. This lecture will also demonstrate, in a step-by-step fashion, how to place posterior composites quickly and easily, so that an aesthetic result with a high success rate and predictable outcome can be achieved.

Educational Objectives:

• Learn a simplified method, step by step, of restoring the fractured maxillary anterior central incisor with composite resin creating an imperceptible restoration.
• How to incorporate a Simplified Unishade Composite System into your practice.
• Learn how to place sensitivity-free posterior composites quickly, with sealed sub-gingival margins.
• Learn how to use high strength low-wear injectable composite to treat incisal and occlusal wear.
• Learn how to place composite in cervical (abfraction) lesions so that they don’t fall out. A great practice builder and an untapped resource in your practice!
• Understand how to predictably cement all Zirconia restorations.
• Learn many other clinical tips and advanced skills in anterior and posterior composite placement that will promote your practice.

Meet the Speaker

About:

Dr. Robert Marus of Yardley, Pennsylvania, is accredited by the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. The Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry is the premiere organization for the specialty of cosmetic dentistry. He is one of five dentists in the state of Pennsylvania to receive this honor. There are only 500 accredited members worldwide. A graduate of NYU College of Dentistry, Dr. Marus received his dental degree in 1985, completed his residency at the Jamaica Hospital in New York and holds membership in the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, the American Dental Association, the Pennsylvania Dental Association and the Montgomery-Bucks Dental Society and is a Fellow of the International College of Dentists. Dr. Marus currently lectures to dentists on techniques in cosmetic and restorative dentistry and has been published in numerous national and international publications. He has been a Dentistry Today Leader in Continuing Education from 2011 to 2023 as well as a Philadelphia Magazine Top Doctor in Cosmetic Dentistry since 2017. Dr. Marus has been featured as the cosmetic dentist on the CN8 television show “It’s Your Call”, hosted by Emmy-Award winner Lynn Doyle airing in nationally on the Comcast Network.

Oral Ulcers, Fungal Infections and Leukoplakia in the Molecular Age (6 CEs)

Date: Friday, June 13, 2025

Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm

Location: Bar Harbor, ME

Three topics in one session

Topic 1: How to Diagnose and Treat Oral Ulcers

Educational Objectives:

• Be able to distinguish simple aphthous ulcers from other ulcerative conditions
• Know when patients should be referred
• Be knowledgeable about treatment using topical and systemic agents

Topic 2: Medical Management of Oral Mucosal Disease 

Educational Objectives:

• Know how to diagnose inflammatory mucosal disease and mucosal infections
• Know how to use effectively use anti-fungal and anti-viral medications
• Be knowledgeable about the use of topical steroids 

Topic 3: Leukoplakia in the Molecular Age

Educational Objectives:

• Be able to distinguish between leukoplakia and other white lesions
• Understand that all leukoplakias are precancerous
• Know the difference modalities of treatment for leukoplakia

Meet the Speaker

About:

Dr. Sook-Bin Woo is Professor in the Department of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, consultant oral and maxillofacial pathologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital, and attending oral medicine specialist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute. She is director of the Center for Oral Pathology at StrataDx Inc. in Lexington, Massachusetts and program director for the advanced oral and maxillofacial pathology training program at Harvard.  She is board-certified in both oral and maxillofacial pathology and oral medicine and is active in training residents and graduate students in both specialties. She received the Distinguished Senior Faculty Award from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 2012. She is a sought after speaker at national and international meetings and her recent work on immunotherapy for oral leukoplakia is innovative. She has published more than 300 papers and book chapters including a textbook on Oral Pathology, the third edition of which was published by Elsevier in 2023. 

The Full Arch Restoration: Is it a Clear Choice (6 CEs)

Date: Saturday, June 14, 2025

Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm

Location: Bar Harbor, ME

Course Description

The need for treatment for edentulous patients is projected to increase in the US over the next decade. Multiple analog and digital treatment options are available to the clinician ranging from removable to fixed prosthetics. Currently, there is no consensus over the guidelines for treatment, procedures, and material selection.

 This program will present a systematic decision-making approach to restore health, function, and esthetics for the edentulous patient starting with the end in mind. In addition, different material choices will be discussed. Throughout the presentation, current literature will be analyzed to highlight the pros and cons, predictability, and limitations of different treatment approaches.

Educational Objectives:

• When to call a dentition “terminal”
• What are the treatment choices for the edentulous patient
• Present different provisional restoration workflows
• Compare different analog and digital impression techniques for the full arch
• Discuss material choices for the definitive restoration

Meet the Speaker

Wael Garine, DDS

About:

Dr. Garine graduated from Cairo University School of Dentistry in Egypt. Dr. Garine joined the Dental School at the University of Western Ontario, London Ontario, where he earned his dental degree.

Graduating first in his class, Dr. Garine received the Dr. Gerald Z. Wright Award for excellence. He then joined the Eastman Dental Center at University of Rochester, in NY where he spent three years specializing in the area of Prosthodontics.

Dr. Garine spent the following year teaching at the University of Rochester and completed the Implant Fellowship, for which, he received the Dr. Gerald N. Graser Fellowship Award.

Dr. Garine’s research in implant dentistry has received several awards and was published in the International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Implants.

Dr. Garine is the Director of the Seaside Study Club (local chapter of the Seattle Study Club in Jupiter, FL), a clinical assistant professor at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY and an adjunct clinical assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma.

He currently resides in Palm Beach Gardens with his wife Jasmin, their daughter Sabrina and son Phoenix. They enjoy traveling around the United States and other countries during their time off.