Events

April 4, 2025

Speaker: Brian B. Nový, DDS
Topic: Cariology
Location: Green Acres Baptist Church - Crosswalk Center
Interactive Zoom Available
Registration: 8-8:30
Class: 8:30-3:30
CE Credits: 6

Cost: See Sidebar for info

Dr. Nový is the Chief Dental Officer of the Alliance Dental Center, Massachusetts Public Employees Fund with faculty appointments at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Western University. His awards include the Academy of General Dentistry Weclew Award, The ADA Evidence Based Practice Award, The AADR/IADR Gies Award, and the ADA Adult Preventive Care Practice of the Year. He served on the ADA Council of Scientific Affairs from 2010 to 2014, and as President of the CAMBRA coalition. In 2016 he was appointed the Consumer Advocate, United States Food and Drug Administration Dental Products Panel.

AM Session: Offensive Dentistry

Synopsis:

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. Streptococcus mutans has more to fear than a rheostat, now that we’re armed with salivary diagnostics and bioactive materials.

Learning Objectives

• Intervene medically in the caries process

• Control patient caries risk with focused therapeutics

• Design restorations to minimize recurrent decay

• Improve the prognosis of restorative treatment

PM Session: Nobody Caries

Synopsis:

Sometimes it seems as though our patients don’t grasp the basic concept of home care. Other times our patients with impeccable hygiene develop rampant decay and we feel helpless because we can’t figure out what’s going on. The mouth is a remarkable environment that cariologists are finally beginning to understand, and so can you. Come learn everything you didn’t know about plaque and the amazing organisms that make the mouth a wonderful place to work.

Learning Objectives

• Explain the mixed ecological approach to caries causation

• Apply Evidence Based and novel preventive therapies

• Quickly identify high caries risk patients before they develop disease

• Stop “watching” lesions and see them get smaller

In-Person RDA/RDH Staff:
$90 at-the-door
$70 Pre-registration

In-Person ETDS Member Doctors:
FREE

Out-of-district TDA Member Doctors:
$90 at-the-door
$70 Pre-registration

Non-TDA Member Doctors:
$275.00 at-the-door
$255 Pre-registration

Zoom Member Doctors and Staff:
$90 pre-registration
$100 week-of registration

Zoom Conversion Fee (Day of Change to Zoom from In-Person):
$100 Doctors
$40 Staff

**Refunds are only available during the pre-registration period. Once pre-registration ends, refunds will no longer be available.**