Offensive Dentistry
Saturday, April 25
2 - 5 PM
3 CDE Credits – DDS, DH, DA, AUX
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Let’s face it, sitting through a lecture about dental caries or caries risk assessment isn’t appealing. In fact, it sounds downright boring. However, the science of clinical cariology is beginning to have an impact on restorative techniques and technology. Learn how to make Streptococcus mutans eat its own glucan when facing an armamentarium with much more than an electronegative anion and fast diamonds.
Course Objectives:
1. Intervene medically in the caries process.
2. Control patient caries risk with focused therapeutics.
3. Change behaviors to minimize recurrent decay.
4. Improve the prognosis of restorative treatment.
PRESENTER:
Brian Novy, DDS
Brian Novy holds faculty appointments at Virginia Commonwealth University and Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Since graduating with honors from Loma Linda University School of Dentistry, Novy's enthusiasm for teaching dental materials and cariology has taken him to four continents. He is the recipient of the Academy of General Dentistry Weclew Award, The ADA Evidence Based Practice Award, the AADR/IADR Gies Award and the ADA Adult Preventative Care Practice of the Year. Novy served on the ADA Council of Scientific Affairs from 2010 to 2014, and in 2016 he was appointed to the Consumer Representative, United States Food and Drug Administration Dental Products Panel.
Sponsored by: VOCO America, Inc.
Conflict of Interest: VOCO America, Inc.
