Annual Island Dental Colloquium

Course Location, Registration and Dates

Course Description

The University of California, San Francisco School of Dentistry and The University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry are pleased to invite you to join us for the 15th Annual Island Dental Colloquium. Again, we are offering an outstanding educational opportunity featuring three excellent faculty speakers. Combined with the beauty and excitement of the Big Island, you have an unbeatable travel education program for the entire office team.

Where?
Waikoloa Beach Marriott
Resort and Spa
The Big Island of Hawaii
February 16-20, 2009

What?

*Implant Surgery – Everything You Need to Know to Succeed
Hieu D. Pham, DDS, MD
This lecture will focus on topics that will help general dentist and auxiliaries achieve success with implant procedures. It will cover implant surgery for the general dentist, socket grafting, implant considerations for patients who have taken bisphosphonates, autogenous bone grafting for alveolar reconstruction for implant placement, and an update on antibiotic coverage for implant surgery. Using case presentations and video clips of actual surgeries, you will learn implant site preparation, treatment plans for patients on bisphoshonates, factors that maximize bone graft success, and how to avoid problems in implant placement.

*A New Standard of Care in Dentistry: 3-Dimensional Imaging – Cone Beam CT (CBCT)
Gurminder Sidhu, BDS, DDS, MS, Dip ABOMR
The field of 3-dimensional imaging is rapidly developing into a new standard of care in dentistry. Diagnosis, treatment simulation, treatment planning and treatment outcomes are greatly improved with the advent of Cone Beam CT (3-D technology) imaging. This program will give you a general overview of the 3-D imaging process, Cone Beam CT, including when to refer patients for advanced imaging, what type of image to request, systematic evaluation of CT volumes, how to decipher what the radiologist is saying and a review of the legal/liabilities of this new technology.

*Office Oral Surgery and Medical Emergencies
James A. Garibaldi, DDS, MA
The first portion of this program is designed to make the practicing dentist comfortable with office oral surgery. You will learn how to prevent and treat complications, when to refer, and how to feel confident with flap design and surgical extractions. Third molar impactions including reasons to remove, surgical treatment approaches, avoiding lingual and inferior alveolar nerve injury will be reviewed. Pre-prosthetic surgical procedures such as frenectomies, alveoplasty, secondary epithelization, tori removal, frenum removal, tuberosity reduction and papillary hyperplasia will also be discussed.

In the medical emergencies portion of the program, you will learn how to diagnose and treat medical emergencies commonly encountered in the dental office. An appropriate, useful emergency kit will be reviewed. A discussion on what you and your staff need to do will be presented with emphasis placed on how to prevent some of these emergencies.

About the Speakers
Dr. Hieu Pham, DDS, MD is Associate Clinical Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at UCSF. Licensed in both dentistry and medicine, Dr. Pham maintains a faculty practice at UCSF and a private practice in Sunnyvale. A diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and The National Dental Board of Anesthesiology, he has lectured nationally and internationally.

Gurminder Sidhu, BDS, DDS, MS, Dip ABOMR is Assistant Professor in the Department of Dental Practice and Director of Radiology at Pacific. A graduate of Pacific, Dr. Sidhu holds a Masters in Science in Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology from the University of Iowa College of Dentistry. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology.

Dr. James A. Garibaldi, DDS, MA is Associate Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Pacific and has been the course director for the popular, hands-on, live patient treatment program, Success with Oral Surgery in the General Dentistry Office, an oral surgery personalized learning experience at Pacific for the past 24 years. A member of the California Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, Dr. Garibaldi also holds a graduate degree in Educational Psychology and maintains a private practice in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Pacific’s faculty group practice.