Webinar Wednesdays

This webinar provides the viewer a clear examination on the materials we use in orthodontic appliances, retainers, splints and TMD appliances in particular and address the growing concern and fear relating to micro-plastics, nano-particles and corrosive elements that could lead to systemic health issues.

You’ll walk away with simple, practical guidelines to address these concerns that you can implement immediately to safeguard your patients and practice.

Course Objectives

• Cite growing evidence that mechanical wear, heat and salivary enzymes can release microplastics and nanoparticles into the oral environment from a number of orthodontic and TMD appliances

• Identify higher patient risk groups that you may offer alternate treatment options

• Learn not to alarm patients or disrupt your practice profitability, but to adopt simple, defensible protocols

• Comprehend that aligners should never be worn while eating due to absorption of pigments and lipids and becoming more porous and shedding more particles

• Teach patients to clean devices with non‑abrasive methods; and replace worn, cloudy or abraded appliances promptly.

• Learn how to integrate biocompatible TMD devices and retention systems such as EOCA Lab’s Infinity Titanium Fixed Lingual Bar, Atlas Titanium Removable Retainer, and Atlas TMD Titanium Device, which eliminate polymer degradation entirely.
  

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Description: Clear aligner providers have already embraced digital workflows—but the next evolution is owning the production process. In this fast-paced webinar, Dr. Steven Glassman demonstrates how adding a SprintRay3D printer can transform patient communication, increase case acceptance, and enable same-day solutions.

Participants will see how the iTero Design Suite can be used to design mock-ups and restorations and seamlessly move those designs into a 3D printing workflow. Real clinical cases will illustrate the full process—from intraoral scanning to design, printing, and delivery.

Course Objectives

• Explain the value of integrating in-office 3D printing into an aligner-focused digital practice.

• Describe the key steps of the digital workflow from scan → design → print → delivery.

• Use the iTero Design Suite to create digital mock-ups and basic restorative designs.

• Understand how designs can be fabricated using a SprintRay 3D printer.

• Recognize clinical applications through real case demonstrations.

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The Hygiene Department should be a revenue and profit generator. Smile Perfected will provide "Next Day Steps" to ensure your hygiene department is helping patients, helping your practice, and making your business profitable.

Course Objectives

1) The three reasons we do what we do.
2) Hygiene workflow
3) Patient statistics
4) Dental Offices want to treat disease and patients want a bright, white smile.

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Obstructive sleep apnea remains widely underdiagnosed despite its significant impact on systemic health. Dentists are uniquely positioned to identify at-risk patients and play a critical role in treatment through oral appliance therapy. This lecture will review the pathophysiology of sleep apnea, key dental screening indicators, and the clinical use of mandibular advancement devices. Attendees will also explore how orthodontic treatment and clear aligner therapy can integrate with dental sleep medicine to support comprehensive patient care.

Course Objectives

• Understand the dentist’s role in screening and managing sleep apnea

• Identify clinical signs and risk factors of obstructive sleep apnea in dental patients

• Explain how mandibular advancement devices improve airway patency

• Integrate orthodontic treatment and dental sleep medicine into a comprehensive treatment plan
  
  

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Open bites and Deep bites historically have been challenging to treat with orthodontics. You will see real cases and outcomes achieved with Invisalign clear aligners. Learn tips on how to identify ideal case and treat them with Invisalign clear aligner therapy.

Course Objectives

• Identify ideal open bite and deep bite cases that can be predictably treated with Invisalign.

• Learn about the mechanics of aligners that make Invisalign an ideal treatment modality for deep bites and open bites.

• Apply aligner mechanics for scenarios that may look more difficult to treat than they are in reality.
  
  

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