Scientific Meeting Speakers
September 7, 2023
Hands-On Course

Dr. Richard Stevenson
DATE: Sept. 7, 2023
TIME: 9am-12pm and 1pm-4pm
The Veneer to Full Coverage Ceramic Continuum: preparation designs to satisfy esthetics, function and longevity
LEARN MORERichard Stevenson
DATE: Sept. 7, 2023
TIME: --
The Veneer to Full Coverage Ceramic Continuum: preparation designs to satisfy esthetics, function and longevity
With ceramic restorations, the current materials we have been given us an infinite number of preparation designs to choose from, however, this large array of options can create confusion. In order to maintain the most conservative approach, a dynamically evolving preparation may be mastered after understanding a few basic concepts. Although traditional prep designs are necessary, the designs that lie in-between facial veneers and full crowns may offer the dentist with more tailored options that preserve tooth structure and yet create results which are robust and long lasting. This workshop will take the dentist through the algorithm for evolving preparation designs from A to Z, and potentially open condition-specific customized approaches that will promise higher levels of satisfaction and success.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how material differences will impact preparation design
- Be able to select the proper rotary instrumentation to accomplish the ceramic preparation continuum
- Learn the indications and steps involved for preparing facial veneers, incisal butt, lingual wrap and super veneers, vonlays, onlays and partial and full coverage ceramic restorations
- Complete at least 5 different ceramic preparations during the workshop which you can immediately implement in your practice
September 7, 2023
3.0 hr - Lectures

Michael Fling
DATE: Sept. 7, 2023
TIME: 9:00AM - 12:00PM
Michael Fling
DATE: Sept. 7, 2023
TIME: 9:00AM - 12:00PM
The Stuff That Matters
This dynamic and inspirational presentation is offered for the entire team. You will laugh, bend your mind, think deep and be refreshed. Stories, experiences and life lessons are presented in a way that it will elevate your practice and your team with purpose and meaning. Dr. Fling’s intense energy and passion will allow you to consider the following:
- Understand how having clarity can elevate you to realize your dreams
- Understand how a “blind” clarity can destroy your dream and your team
- Is talent really necessary for success?
- Systems run our business and people run our systems- which is most important?
- While systems matter, flexibility does too!
- Recognize the difference between cost and value
- Learn the two reasons that people do what they do
- Why it is important to understand that "it is not in the knowing, it is in the doing".
Learning Objectives:
- Learn the one secret that can motivate you to change

Dr. Gerard Chiche
DATE: Sept. 7, 2023
TIME: 1:30PM - 4:30PM
Comprehensive Esthetics from A to Z
LEARN MOREDr. Gerard Chiche
DATE: Sept. 7, 2023
TIME: 1:30PM - 4:30PM
Comprehensive Esthetics from A to Z
This presentation will outline the management of esthetic principles in small and large cases in a systematic fashion and its direct application to interdisciplinary treatment. Emphasis will be placed on treatment predictability, team communication and occlusal management.
Learning Objectives:
- Manage key aesthetic factors in order to achieve predictable interdisciplinary esthetic treatment for minor and major rehabilitations.
- Sequence esthetic treatment in order to achieve an optimum restorative outcome of occlusal rehabilitations.
- Set Vertical Dimension of occlusion, Occlusal Scheme and Anterior Guidance strategies in various types of estheticocclusal rehabilitation with emphasis on conservative restorations.
September 8, 2023

Dr. Taiseer Sulaiman
DATE: Sept. 8, 2023
TIME: 8:30AM
Restoring Hope?! Reinstating Form, Strength, and Appearance of Devitalized Teeth
LEARN MOREDr. Taiseer Sulaiman
DATE: Sept. 8, 2023
TIME: 8:30AM
Restoring Hope?! Reinstating Form, Strength, and Appearance of Devitalized Teeth
Coronal rehabilitation of endodontically treated posterior teeth remains a contentious topic. Although the traditional crown supported by metal radicular supports is still extensively used in dentistry, its invasiveness has been heavily criticized. Parameters, including residual tooth volume, tooth position, number of proximal contacts, timing of the definitive restoration, and the presence of cracks have been reported to impact restoration and tooth survival. The ongoing evolution of dental materials and techniques, coupled with a trend toward more conservative endodontic restorative procedures, necessitates a reassessment of the scientific literature. Can contemporary materials and minimally invasive therapeutic options based solely on adhesion replace conventional and more invasive restorative methods?
Learning Objectives:
- Explain how impaired tooth structure affects the restorability of teeth.
- Identify the key concepts that influence tooth and restoration survival and present predictions for best future solutions for the long-term retention of endodontically treated teeth.
- Describe the current understanding of the therapeutic options for devitalized teeth that rely on modern materials and adhesive dentistry and compare them to conventional procedures.

Dr. Steven Chu
DATE: Sept. 8, 2023
TIME: 9:30AM
Macro Hybrid Implant Designs: Are They Transformational in Treatment?
LEARN MOREDr. Steven Chu
DATE: Sept. 8, 2023
TIME: 9:30AM
Macro Hybrid Implant Designs: Are They Transformational in Treatment?
Immediate tooth replacement therapy has become a mainstream treatment modality for single and multiple tooth implants in the aesthetic zone. However, a balance exists in the amount of primary stability afforded in extraction sockets and gap distance from the labial bone plate and adjacent tooth for graft material and new bone formation.
Novel macro design concepts such as reduced platform diameter as well as tri-oval and biaxial inverted body-shift implants designs that combine hybrid strategies in implant diameter, shape, and thread pattern will be discussed and supported by literature.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of labial plate dimension for long term stability.
- Understand the importance of tooth-to-implant and implant-to-implant distance for interdental hard and soft tissue preservation.
- Understand the differences in macro implant design to achieve treatment goals in various areas of the oral cavity.

Dr. Richard Stevenson
DATE: Sept. 8, 2023
TIME: 11:00AM
Preparation Designs that Compliment Current Material Options for Indirect Restorations
LEARN MOREDr. Richard Stevenson
DATE: Sept. 8, 2023
TIME: 11:00AM
Preparation Designs that Compliment Current Material Options for Indirect Restorations
We have several different options to restore teeth today, however, there exists a tremendous lack of consistency in the fundamentals of preparation design, nomenclature, and rotary instrumentation. What one school identifies as a chamfer; another school might call a rounded shoulder. The textbooks and much of the literature have not been able to keep up with the current materials and the subsequent preparation alterations required. It is certainly time for our profession to embrace the proper terminology, burs, features and dimensions indicated to create preparations that will support the long-term survival of our restorations. This presentation will attempt to clarify what we know, what we think we know and what we need to know about preparation designs in the current era.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand what we can learn from engineers about three dimensional shapes, stresses, nomenclature and preparation indications.
- Be able to identify which bur will create which finish line and when to use each.
- Learn the steps used to produce preparations that are intentionally designed for the material being used.

Dr. Tom Dodson (OMFS)
DATE: Sept. 8, 2023
TIME: 1:30PM
Systemic risk factors for implant failure
LEARN MOREDr. Tom Dodson (OMFS)
DATE: Sept. 8, 2023
TIME: 1:30PM
Systemic risk factors for implant failure
Dental implants are a solution to replacing missing teeth with a high success rate. Clinicians, however, may not want to offer implants due to concerns of increased risk for implant failure in patients with systemic diseases or conditions.
The purpose of this presentation is to identify commonly encountered systemic conditions, e.g. age, osteoporosis, diabetes, and to summarize and quantify the risk for implant failure and discuss ways to modify the factor to enhance outcomes.
The general clinical question I will try to answer is: Among patients seeking implants to replace missing teeth, do those patients with insert condition, when compared to patients without insert condition, have an increased risk for implant failure? A secondary question I try to answer is: Among patients seeking implants to replace missing teeth with insert condition, will modifying the risk factor, e.g. hemoglobin A1C levels, when compared to not modifying the risk factor, enhance implant success?
Learning Objectives:
- To identify and describe systemic factors associated with implant failure.
- To estimate and quantify the risk for failure for specific diseases and conditions
- To discuss the effect of modifying the risk factor to enhance outcomes
- To apply this information to enhance clinical decision-making

Dr. Van Ramos
DATE: Sept. 8, 2023
TIME: 2:30PM
Graduate Prosthodontic Education: A Melting Pot of Analog and Digital Concepts and Technologies
LEARN MOREDr. Van Ramos
DATE: Sept. 8, 2023
TIME: 2:30PM
Graduate Prosthodontic Education: A Melting Pot of Analog and Digital Concepts and Technologies
Graduate Prosthodontic training is a 3-year post-doctoral education program where students learn interdisciplinary treatment planning and develop the abilities to treat patients with advanced dental needs. In fact, the ADA Commission on Dental Accreditation stipulates that students “must have the didactic/clinical background that supports successful completion of the prosthodontics specialty board examination”. Additionally, graduate programs “should” use advanced methods to include existing and emerging technologies to optimize occlusion, masticatory function and esthetics. This presentation will explore the challenges of integrating new technologies that can improve treatment efficiency, while at the same time, develop prosthodontists with the advanced clinical and laboratory knowledge and skills to treat patients with advanced dental needs.
Learning Objectives:
- Graduate Prosthodontic clinical and didactic requirements as defined by the ADA's Commission on Dental Accreditation.
- Technologies that improve treatment outcomes for Graduate Prosthodontic students.
- Technologies that may impact clinical and laboratory skills.

Stéphan Provencher
DATE: Sept. 8, 2023
TIME: 4:00PM
Occlusion in large prosthetic reconstruction
LEARN MOREStéphan Provencher
DATE: Sept. 8, 2023
TIME: 4:00PM
Occlusion in large prosthetic reconstruction
Design represents all intellectual and material process leading to creation of a hypothesis of prosthetic solution, this process culminates in a verification tool called Prototype. Especially in the case of large reconstruction, prototyping is the key to quality prosthetic design.
Considering that tooth crown morphology is predetermined phylogenetically, their position in dental arches and the way the masticatory organ builds itself into a functional ensemble relates much more to its ontogenetic aspect. In case of large reconstruction, we are potentially facing agenesis, loss or deep transformation of teeth and soft tissue morphology.
Therefore, can we use all functional determinants still present, add to proper documentation and guide ourselves to a permanent and valuable prosthetic solution.
Learning objectives:
- Understand congruence between TMJ anatomy and the dynamics of occlusion
- Substantiate the use of Angle’s Class I in large prosthodontic reconstruction
- Promote multi and Interdisciplinary approach in occlusion medicine
September 9, 2023

Dr. Armand Bedrossian
DATE: Sept. 9, 2023
TIME: 8:20AM
Complete Digital Workflow for Full Arch Implant Therapy: Fact or Fiction?
LEARN MOREDr. Armand Bedrossian
DATE: Sept. 9, 2023
TIME: 8:20AM
Complete Digital Workflow for Full Arch Implant Therapy: Fact or Fiction?
As materials and workflows evolve into the digital realm, clinical practices may be enticed to embrace digital technology into their practices. As technology has shown to provide efficient and predictable treatment, fundamental knowledge of implant analog principles is imperative for a successful treatment outcome. This seminar will focus on the restorative aspects of implant dentistry, with a focus on traditional principles as well as implementing digital workflows for treatment planning, design, and manufacturing processes. We will walk through how to implement a digital workflow for full arch therapy, as well as review the current literature to support and rationalize when and how digital technology can or should be used. Cases from of a complete arch implant supported prostheses will be thoroughly examined in depth, demonstrating how a contemporary dental practice may implement digital technology for treatment planning, converting, and restoring the definitive complete arch implant prosthesis.
Learning Objectives:
- The traditional analog principles of restorative implant dentistry will be examined and how they lay the foundation for today’s digital world.
- An emphasis will also focus on digital workflows for treatment planning, case design, and guide fabrication for the placement and restoration of single and multiple unit cases. The attendee will walk away from this program with an understanding of the various digital workflows available to practitioners today, including laboratory produced treatment plans and surgical guides as well as various chair-side and other collaborative options.
- Attendees will have the opportunity to review an A-Z workflow for the planning, converting and restoration of a complete arch implant prosthesis.

Dr. David Baker
DATE: Sept. 9, 2023
TIME: 9:20AM
Diagnosis of cracks. To treat or not to treat?
LEARN MOREDr. David Baker
DATE: Sept. 9, 2023
TIME: 9:20AM
Diagnosis of cracks. To treat or not to treat?
This lecture will discuss the different types of cracks and highlight how to properly diagnosis and treat these cases clinically. It will also review the prognosis of cracks and how to assess if it is better to treat or extract.
Learning Objectives:
- To understand the different types of cracks
- To diagnosis and treat cracks
- To assess the prognosis of treatment

Dr. Hugo Ciaburro
DATE: Sept. 9, 2023
TIME: 9:40AM
Adding Retention on Gold Castings
LEARN MOREDr. Hugo Ciaburro
DATE: Sept. 9, 2023
TIME: 9:40AM
Adding Retention on Gold Castings
Among the key elements in successful cast gold restorations, retention form is certainly one of those sitting at the top of the list. It is quite common to be faced with clinical situations that compromise the achievement of an ideal retention form. Like any good magician, a dentist must have more than one trick up his sleeve. This lecture is intended as a review of simple and effective means that can be used to improve the retention form in cast gold cavity preparation.
Learning objectives:
- Improvement of retention form, cast gold restorations

Drs. Jon & Jeremy Werbitt
DATE: Sept. 9, 2023
TIME: 10:30AM
Gingival Contouring: A Perio-Ortho Discussion
LEARN MOREDrs. Jon & Jeremy Werbitt
DATE: Sept. 9, 2023
TIME: 10:30AM
Gingival Contouring: A Perio-Ortho Discussion
We will review what cases set up better to have the gingiva recontoured by a periodontist, and which ones are better handled by the orthodontist. We will show a mix of cases and review the literature so that you can make better clinical decisions in your practice. We will also discuss when a CCL should be used vs. forced orthodontic extrution (both fast and slow).
Learning objectives:
- How to treatment plan leveling the gingival margins
- When and should orthodontic forced extrusion be used to expose more tooth structure
- When is a CCL indicated over ortho contouring

Dr. Taras Konanec
DATE: Sept. 9, 2023
TIME: 10:50AM
Immediate Dental Sealing, for a long term bond
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Dr. Firoozeh Samim
DATE: Sept. 9, 2023
TIME: 11:10AM
HPV related oral and oropharyngeal cancer, new trends
LEARN MOREDr. Firoozeh Samim
DATE: Sept. 9, 2023
TIME: 11:10AM
HPV related oral and oropharyngeal cancer, new trends
This course is designed to inform primary care providers including dentists about oral and oropharyngeal cancer including HPV-associated oral and throat cancers.: epidemic, Risk Factors and Clinical Presentation, Prevention, Vaccination, and treatment options would be briefly discuss. The primary objective of this course is to provide audiences with a thorough understanding of how to better diagnose and treat patients who have oral or HPV-related oral and throat cancers.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Discuss the disease burden of oral and HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer worldwide and in Canada.
- Emphasizing the changing epidemiology of oral and oropharyngeal cancer and associated risk factors.
- Understand the role and responsibility of today’s healthcare providers to diagnose and increase awareness.

Dr. Shammick Kotecha
DATE: Sept. 9, 2023
TIME: 11:30AM
Artificial Intelligence(AI) from science fiction to dentistry, what you need to know.
LEARN MOREDr. Shammick Kotecha
DATE: Sept. 9, 2023
TIME: 11:30AM
Artificial Intelligence(AI) from science fiction to dentistry, what you need to know.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly advancing field that has the potential to transform many industries, including healthcare. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in applying AI to dentistry, driven in large part by the increasing availability of digital data. By analyzing large amounts of data, AI algorithms can help dental professionals make more informed decisions and improve patient outcomes. In this presentation, we will explore the current applications of AI in dentistry, including how it is being used in different specialities and general practice.
Learning Objectives
- Understand what is Artificial Intelligence?
- Current applications of Artificial Intelligence in Dentistry
- Benefits and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Dentistry

Dr. Andrea Gagnon-Audet
DATE: Sept. 9, 2023
TIME: 11:50AM
Analog vs. Digital Impression Techniques and Generation of Working Casts for Complete-Arch Implant-Supported Fixed Dental Prostheses: A Review of the Literature
LEARN MOREDr. Andrea Gagnon-Audet
DATE: Sept. 9, 2023
TIME: 11:50AM
Analog vs. Digital Impression Techniques and Generation of Working Casts for Complete-Arch Implant-Supported Fixed Dental Prostheses: A Review of the Literature
Remarkable advancements have been achieved in digital technology facilitating the acquisition of intra-oral data for the fabrication of definitive restorations. However, the debate still exists regarding its use for complete-arch implant restorations. This presentation will review the literature to provide insight into the current state of analog vs. digital techniques for complete arch implant impressions and cast fabrication, and also suggest a clinical and laboratory protocol that takes advantage of both techniques to provide evidence-based level of care to our patients.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this session, attendees should be able to:
- Identify the techniques described in the current literature for complete arch implant impressions and generation of working casts, with their advantages and disadvantages.
- Recognize the benefits, but also the limitations of using digital technologies for complete arch implant therapy.
- Describe a treatment protocol that combines analog and digital workflows to take advantage of both techniques.

Dr. Emo Rajczak
DATE: Sept. 9, 2023
TIME: 12:50PM
Wisdom in Dentistry: Ethics to Sustain the Professional Dentist
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Dr. Taiseer Sulaiman
DATE: Sept. 9, 2023
TIME: 2:15PM
A Walk-through of Contemporary Literature in Restorative Dentistry
LEARN MOREDr. Taiseer Sulaiman
DATE: Sept. 9, 2023
TIME: 2:15PM
A Walk-through of Contemporary Literature in Restorative Dentistry
Restorative dentistry has made significant strides in recent decades. Beginning with a simple and direct treatment plan consisting of rather invasive treatment procedures and a few material choices to complete treatment, a complex treatment plan with numerous restorative options emphasizing preservation of tooth structure and an endless supply of materials has evolved. Clinical evidence is becoming increasingly limited. Unless completed correctly, in vitro investigations yield minimal clinical relevance. It is vitally important to stay current with the latest advancements in diagnostic methods, efficient therapeutic planning, conservative restorative dental techniques, and materials.
Learning Objectives:
- Examine current research relevant to restorative dentistry.
- Evaluate clinically relevant literature recommendations and their implementation to clinical procedures.

Dr. John Sorensen
DATE: Sept. 9, 2023
TIME: 3:15PM
New Frontiers In Digital Prosthodontics: Integrating Digital Materials, Digital Technology and Traditional Prosthodontic Principles Into Clinical Practice
LEARN MOREDr. John Sorensen
DATE: Sept. 9, 2023
TIME: 3:15PM
New Frontiers In Digital Prosthodontics: Integrating Digital Materials, Digital Technology and Traditional Prosthodontic Principles Into Clinical Practice
Digital technology breakthroughs have transformed clinical prosthodontics to levels implausible only 10 years ago. Just as important though, are the disruptive innovations made in digital material systems. The specifically designed properties of glass ceramics, zirconia ceramics and polymers work synergistically with fabrication technologies to significantly accelerate CAM speed, efficiency and accuracy.
Dr. Sorensen will systematically evaluate each step and material in the digital workflow (DWF) with available laboratory and clinical research validating where DWF is superior or when conventional prosthodontics still work better.
He will demonstrate with single tooth to complex oral rehabilitation clinical cases how DWF can leverage and enhance the clinician’s knowledge and skills in diagnosis, treatment planning, technician-dentist and interdisciplinary provider 3D communication, provisionalization, prototyping and definitive prosthesis, producing predictable exceptional clinical outcomes.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the advantages, disadvantages and limitations of digital impressions relative to conventional impressions.
- Understand the advantages and limitations of the various parts of the digital workflow in prosthodontics for both the clinical and laboratory technology aspects.
- Identify how digital tools can enhance patient communication, treatment planning and communication between providers and the dental technician.
- Explain the mechanisms of improved zirconia esthetics by ceramic structure, milling disk/block structure and shade gradation, shading technologies and unique ultra-thin layering materials.
- Understand the advantages and disadvantages of applications of the various classes of digital ceramics and polymers.
- Understand selection criteria for ceramic material systems, digital technologies, implant abutments and cements.