April 14 - 17, 2021
CEU: 3
Course Synopsis: This course is the first of the two required workshops in the Accreditation process. It provides a detailed overview of the Accreditation program and the resources available to help you on your journey. Dr. Olson will explain what excellence in cosmetic dentistry is all about, and attendees will become familiar with the AACD's Accreditation process. Disclaimer: The American Board of Cosmetic Dentistry® does not endorse any particular clinical technique or style, nor does it endorse particular products or materials. It is acknowledged that Accreditation success is not dependent on the technique or the materials used, but on the excellence of the final result.
Objective 1: Identify the requirements for AACD Accreditation
Objective 2: Discuss examples of Accreditation cases
Objective 3: Understand why a credential in cosmetic dentistry is desirable
Accreditation Recommended
CEU: 4
Course Synopsis: The Advanced Accreditation Workshop provides an in-depth analysis of how Accreditation cases are evaluated and is a great opportunity for participants to have their own cases reliably critiqued. Participants are encouraged to have taken the two required workshops in the credentialing process prior to attending this advanced course, and to bring their cases to be critiqued.
Objective 1: Understand how cases for Accreditation are examined based on specific criteria
Objective 2: Discern fine details when examining cosmetic dentistry
Objective 3: Determine if cases meet Accreditation criteria
Prerequisite(s): Accreditation Workshop and Criteria Workshop
Course Synopsis: This interactive presentation will provide recommendations to dental practices on the most effective ways to market themselves online. We will explore platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and more. Leveraging the power of video content, email newsletters and live broadcasts will also be covered. Coupled with a solid strategy and tenacious execution, these ideas will be a game-changer for participants.
Objective 1: What type of content works best and how to encourage engagement through video, contests and paid advertising
Objective 2: Create a more dynamic and unique online presence, while improving page rank Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)
Objective 3: How to film engaging content with a mobile phone that builds your dental practice brand and awareness
Objective 4: Video optimization tips, advertising wisdom and production hacks that will ensure reach among your target demographics
Objective 5: Implement the proper content initiatives, tracking and systems to generate qualty new patients on a regular basis
Course Synopsis: This course will begin with a display of successful and unsuccessful cases, and then Dr. Finlay will evaluate each case following the criteria Accreditation examiners use when examining clinical cases. The attendees will learn the process for analyzing cases which will help them prepare to submit their clinical cases for Accreditation. This is one of the required workshops in the AACD Accreditation program. Disclaimer: The American Board of Cosmetic Dentistry® does not endorse any particular clinical technique or style, nor does it endorse particular products or materials. It is acknowledged that Accreditation success is not dependent on the technique or the materials used, but on the excellence of the final result.
Objective 1: Recognize the criteria used in Accreditation examinations
Objective 2: Analyze differences between clinical cases that satisfy or fall short of the criteria
Objective 3: Understand the relationship between Accreditation criteria and excellence in cosmetic dentistry
Course Synopsis: As dentistry evolves into the digital world, the successful incorporation of computerization and new technology will continue to provide more efficient methods of communication and fabrication. The utilization of new digital technology will continue to enhance the working relationship of the dentist/technician team, while at the same time retaining the individual creativity and artistry of the skilled dental technician and dentist. The progressive digital team will have ultimate communication between all specialties of restorative dentistry involved in patient care, and have the ability to diagnosis, treatment plan, and restore on a virtual patient with multiple combined data sets.
Objective 1: Learn how to create the virtual patient: with CT, IOS, facial scanning, and digital facebow and articulation.
Objective 2: Explore new ways to achieve optimal Dentist/Surgeon/Technician teamwork, using digital communication and design, and new-shared responsibilities, with Technical-Dentist, Clinical-Technician and Restorative-Surgeon designations.
Objective 3: Understand the Restorative services that the digital dentistry can offer, from simple restorations, digital dentures, orthodontics, to complex Implant and maxillofacial surgery.
Sponsored By: Cain Watters and Associates/NDP
CEU: 2.5
Course Synopsis: If you’ve contemplated either the purchase or sale to a private owner or DSO/Private Equity Group, there are considerations you need to analyze to ensure you come out on top. This session will cover timing, tax strategies and partnerships involved—offering owners the insight and direction to position themselves for success.
Objective 1: Evaluate how private equity or a DSO value an EBITDA
Objective 2: Learn the step-by-step process that produces successful, equitable partnerships in private practice
Objective 3: Evaluate if the associate can afford to buy-out the private practice
Objective 4: Understand why specialty practices are valued completely differently
Objective 5: Recognize the income impact of bringing in a partner
Sponsored By Infinity Dental Web
Course Synopsis: Have you ever wondered how a "Gummy Smile" develops? What were the contributing factors during growth and development that led to this anatomic feature? We will delve into the etiology of a gummy smile – starting at infancy and early childhood. We will investigate contributing factors and compensations that occur over one’s life that lead to the development of a gummy smile. Once established, we will also discuss inherent compensations that patients make because of their growth pattern and the potential deterioration that can occur. Finally, we will consider treatment options for gummy smile patients of all ages.
Objective 1: An appreciation for the contributing factors that lead to the development of a gummy smile
Objective 2: An understanding of the compensations that result from a gummy smile skeletal growth pattern
Objective 3: Treatment planning strategies for patients of all ages with a gummy smile
Product Provided by: Ivoclar Vivadent
Course Synopsis: A practical discussion of color fundamentals will be presented, and participants will learn when to use different composite systems. Additional topics of discussion will include shade selection, material placement and finishing, as well as polishing techniques. Participants will learn a systematic technique to achieve proper contour, form, texture and achieve a beautiful result.
Objective 1: Present a simple approach to using hue, chroma, opacity, translucency and value when matching a composite restoration to the natural tooth
Objective 2: Learn how to layer the composite to mimic the natural tooth in a polychromatic approach
Objective 3: Learn a step by step approach to creating harmonious tooth anatomy and contours using transitional line angles
Product Provided by: PhotoMed
Course Synopsis: Participants will learn photography fundamentals, basic camera operation, equipment options, and case documentation. Techniques for improving the quality and consistency of clinical photography will be discussed. Proper framing of the AACD photo series, capturing images, downloading images to a computer, and creating a PowerPoint® presentation will be discussed.
Objective 1: Learn photography basics and equipment options
Objective 2: Learn how to perfect images for the AACD Accreditation photography series
Objective 3: Upload images to a computer and create an AACD PowerPoint® presentation for mentor communication
Objective 4: Upload images to the AACD module for exam
Objective 5: Upon completion, participants will have the foundation for taking images on their own patients and will know where to find resources for more information
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Sponsored By: 3M
Course Synopsis: Porcelain veneers are one of the most reliable and satisfying restorations in dentistry. This course will demonstrate how to improve accuracy, efficiency and predictability for all your anterior smile design cases. See how smile design relates to proper prep design and how fabrication of trial smiles helps motivate patients and verify esthetic and occlusal planning. We will include a review of current trends for tooth preparation as well as bonding veneers to enamel and dentin. Understand how the accuracy of modern impression systems and materials will help you deliver beautiful anterior restorations with consistency and confidence.
Objective 1: Understand how digital photos and basic digital smile design relates to case acceptance, case planning and excellent lab communication.
Objective 2: See how the accuracy and efficiency of modern impression systems and materials can improve the predictability and quality of your porcelain veneer restorations.
Objective 3: Learn simple methods of using mock-ups and trial smiles for proper esthetic, occlusal evaluation and how to fabricate reduction guides to use when preparing teeth for “minimal prep” porcelain veneer restorations.
Sponsored By: Cosmedent
Sponsored By: Shofu
Course Synopsis: In this course you will achieve the skill set to take your dentistry to the next level. Learn simplified techniques to create quick, easy, and morphologically precise direct anterior and posterior composite restorations. Gain the knowledge to use the proper opacities and thickness of pink composite to restore a unique model with black triangles and recession. Evaluate dental aesthetics and develop artistic capabilities by training your eyes to see the different dimensions of color. Predictably mimic the contralateral tooth’s facial anatomy and reflective surfaces with a final step-by-step finishing and polishing technique.
Objective 1: Learn how to use pink composite to restore black triangles and recession
Objective 2: Train your eyes to see color, line angles, reflective surface, shape, and form in the adjacent tooth that is being replicated
Objective 3: Learn how to use practical placement and matricing techniques with bioactive Giomer Technology composites
Sponsored By: Rosemont Media, DoctorLogic, Infinity Dental Web, and Golden Proportions Marketing
Course Synopsis: Your dental website is often the first impression your prospective patients get of your practice. Can a visitor to your website tell—in just a few seconds—what makes your practice different or unique? Search algorithms are changing daily. Visitor expectations for a trouble-free online experience are through the roof. For online success, you must keep up with these rapid changes. In non-technical and conversational language, join our lively panel discussion featuring the biggest names in the world of dental websites: Keith Humes, Rosemont Media; Xaña Winans, Golden Proportions Marketing; Stuart Lloyd, DoctorLogic; and David Hall, DDS, AAACD, Infinity Dental Web.
Objective 1: Learn how your website and digital presence is the #1 sales tactic in your marketing toolkit
Objective 2: Find out how you could be chasing away future patients by ignoring reviews, patient testimonials, compelling video content and more
Objective 3: Discover how your dental website can better leverage local search to optimize results - and new patients
Sponsored By: DenMat
Course Synopsis: Simplify cosmetic dentistry in your practice while delivering patient-approved simile makeovers. With hands on demonstration, discover minimally-invasive tooth reduction utilizing a series of reduction guides that minimize chair time and ensure the best and most aesthetic outcome. You will explore the latest steps in the evolution of responsible aesthetic dentistry and learn how to produce the best outcome for your patient’s new smile
Objective 1: Learn a predictable and systematic protocol for conservative prep design
Objective 2: Develop an understanding of how strategic tooth reduction combined with minimal tooth contouring makes complex and combination cases simple and predictable
Objective 3: Learn to communicate with the lab and achieve an approved smile design the first time, every time
Attending The 37th Annual AACD Scientific Session is a great way to get in your daily steps, so why not participate in the AACD Charitable Foundation’s Steps for Smiles!
Participants will track their steps on Friday and the person with the most steps wins! All proceeds benefit survivors of domestic violence through the Give Back a Smile program and participants will receive an official Steps for Smiles beanie/stocking cap.
No refunds will be issued.
In the event the Scientific Session is cancelled due to the time of uncertainty, Steps for Smiles will occur virtually.
CEU: 1
Course Synopsis: So true!! Laugh along as one of our country's funniest dental speakers discusses what many feel is the most challenging part of the practice--THE PEOPLE!! You’ll see that words build relationships, and relationships are the key to improving the culture and climate of a practice and a home.
Objective 1: Learn the secret to bringing out the best in the people we work with and the patients we serve
Objective 2: Discover the six most powerful words in the English language and when to use them
Objective 3: Learn to create an environment where GREAT results thrive
Product Provided by: Shofu
CEU: 6
Course Synopsis: This course will demonstrate composite mirroring skills. Attendees will use composite with various layering techniques to build in polychromicity, incisal edge halo and incisal translucency. The course will also cover microesthetic principles, such as secondary and tertiary anatomy, and how to attain the appropriate finish, polish and luster.
Objective 1: Learn by using an unique model to train and calibrate your visual perception of polychromicity, incisal halo, and incisal effects that need to be replicated
Objective 2: Learn to use the model as your guide to mirror line angles, outline form, primary, secondary, and tertiary anatomy
Objective 3: Special session time will be allocated to finishing and polishing of composites
Dr. Karla Soto, DDS
Title: Using DSD Mock-Ups to Emotionally Engage Your Patients
Course Synopsis: This course will take you on a journey of the implementation of digital smile design and emotional dentistry concepts and the impact it can have in your practice and in your patient’s life. Learn how to enhance your practice using facially-driven interdisciplinary dentistry to seamlessly deliver the highest level of predictable, comprehensive and truly satisfying patient care. Utilizing the latest in technology to allow you to focus in what really matters: The patient connection!
Objective 1: Understand the concept of emotional dentistry and its application to everyday practice
Objective 2: Understand the complete Digital Smile Design experience to captivate, engage, and deliver
Objective 3: Understand different types of mock-ups and test drives Objective 4: Learn tips and tricks to do the emotional patient presentation
Dr. Miguel A. Ortiz, DMD
Title: The Neuroscience of Dentistry
Course Synopsis: Color theory is usually thought as something external to our sense. However, our brain and live experiences can alter the way we experience color. It is time for us to dive deep into our psyche and begin to understand how what YOU see might not be what I see, making color matching a seemingly impossible task. The question then is clear. Is dental color matching even possible?
Objective 1: To understand how color is perceived by the human eye
Objective 2: To understand the role of the human color receptors and their limitations
Objective 3: To follow the path of color perception on their way to the final image generation
Objective 4: To understand why it is possible and likely that what You see is not what I see
Objective 5: To realize that color evaluation and communication between humans as we know it might be physically impossible
Sponsored By: Ivoclar
Course Synopsis: This course will explain a simple and practical way to select shades and choose the ideal layering style for various clinical situations. A step-by-step approach will be used to demonstrate the layering process, as well as contouring and polishing. Dr. Vargas will demonstrate the process of resin veneers, from preparation to polishing, and attendees will participate throughout the hands-on exercise.
Objective 1: Recognize when to layer anterior restorations
Objective 2: Learn shade selection to match layering
Objective 3: Obtain polishing with resin composite that rivals ceramic glazing
The Accreditation Written Examination challenges individual's knowledge in the foundational aspects of cosmetic dentistry. Dentists and laboratory technicians, well-versed in all phases of cosmetic dentistry, are expected to successfully complete this first step in the AACD Accreditation process. Failure to pass the written examination indicates further education would be beneficial prior to attempting the clinical cases. Pre-registration for the written examination is required. Applications, along with all applicable fees, must be submitted prior to taking the written examination. Attendance limited to dentists and laboratory technicians.
Product Provided by: 3M
Course Synopsis: Do you struggle making anterior composite restorations disappear? Modern technology has allowed direct materials to have lasting beauty and luster previously only found in porcelain restorations. This clinical presentation will show you a simple, predictable, step-by-step process to fabricate conservative, esthetic and functional restorations that save tooth structure and look incredible. The goal of Accreditation Case Type IV is creating an invisible restoration that blends seamlessly with the surrounding dentition. This course will give you the confidence to offer patients composite restorations that replicate the contours, polychromatic color and realistic surface polish found in natural teeth.
Objective 1: Learn simple, predictable methods for restoring anterior teeth with direct materials so they look great and are un-detectable
Objective 2: See how intra-oral mock-ups relate to case design, case acceptance and fabrication of natural looking composite reconstructions
Objective 3: Train your eyes to recognize the subtleties of polish, texture and anatomy of natural teeth while training your hands to accomplish your goals
Sponsored By: Clinician's Choice
Course Synopsis: “Contour is King”: A common challenge for most dentists is the ability to shape anterior composite restorations to the degree that they beautifully blend into the remaining dentition. Dr. Chan will demonstrate predictable techniques to develop the primary, secondary, and tertiary anatomy in composite and seamlessly polish those restorations within minutes.
Objective 1: Learn simple systematic contouring and polishing techniques to create exceptional anterior composite restorations that can match the best porcelain restorations or the beauty of natural teeth
Objective 2: Witness these simple step by step processes with composite resin can provide amazing results demonstrated live on how these amazing results with composite resin can be obtainable by anyone
Objective 3: Learn how to predictably create the correct primary, secondary, tertiary anatomy with anterior composites
Sponsored By: Align Technology
Presented in the popular Ted Talk format, these dental influencer's will reveal their secrets on marketing and practice management topics.
Course Synopsis: This workshop will assist attendees with preparation for attaining the highest credential available to members in the Academy. Dr. Olson will be giving a brief discussion, with emphasis on examination criteria, using multiple cases as the participant guide. Disclaimer: The American Board of Cosmetic Dentistry® does not endorse any particular clinical technique or style, nor does it endorse particular products or materials. It is acknowledged that Accreditation success is not dependent on the technique or the materials used, but on the excellence of the final result. Attendance limited to Accredited Members / Fellowship Recommended
Objective 1: Understand the Fellowship protocol
Objective 2: Review successful and unsuccessful Fellowship cases
Objective 3: Review the evolution of the Accreditation criteria
Objective 4: Learn how to objectively use the criteria in the examination process
Course Synopsis: The shift from a transactional economy to a connected one has people scrambling. Businesses, brands, and leaders at all levels are desperately trying to capture attention and resonate with consumers who expect more. Is there a secret weapon? A silver bullet to humanize and connect? Yes. The answer is strategic storytelling. Whether you're looking to reach more consumers, or bring your team closer together, Kindra Hall, award-winning columnist, author, and national champion storyteller (yes, they have those), delivers a presentation that will inspire teams and individuals to better communicate the value of their business and their individuality through strategic storytelling.
Course Synopsis: This course will focus on our journey into esthetic dentistry and beyond. When, where, why and how did this all begin? Along the way, we will share invaluable pearls, both good and bad, that have become proven staples in our everyday arsenals. From smile design, isolation and bonding, to composite artistry, we will demonstrate key sequences that allow us to deliver esthetic excellence on a daily basis.
Objective 1: Discuss our journeys into esthetic dentistry
Objective 2: Share tips and tricks to achieve esthetic excellence
Objective 3: Share case demonstrations of what to do and what not to do in order to achieve clinical success