Vermont Dental Conference
Program #7 Diagnostically Driven Dentistry: What's the Reasonable Thing to do? (Part 1)
Lou Graham, DDS
Audience Code: D, A 3 CEUs/Clinical Lecture
Today’s standard of care diagnostics dates back 100 years with low sensitivity and yet, dentists are hesitant to change. This course is all about taking out the all too often phenomenon known at the “dental surprise”! You extract an upper molar and there’s the sinus, you’ve begun a root canal and your files aren’t going as planned, you remove an old class 1 composite and find proximal caries, or you have been watching unrestored teeth that when treated, present far more issues than thought. These are a few of the surprises that modern-day diagnostics can help prevent and guide us into more predictable procedures and outcomes. This course will take attendees into modern-day general dentistry diagnostics and demonstrate why the GP must be in control of how they integrate these into their treatment planning and clinical procedures.
Learning Objectives:
- Understanding why traditional diagnostics continue to fail us daily
- Caries diagnostics…what should we be using?
- Minimally invasive dentistry: Can we really regrow enamel?
- Why CBCTs are NOT just for specialists but even more for general dentists
- Why the future of the FMX is in danger and it should be!
- Clinical casework throughout the presentation
