Course Description:

• Determine treatment options that simultaneously provide caries control and prevention.
• Choose the proper materials with the best anti-bacterial and re-mineralizing properties for adults and kids.
• Use combination therapy in definitive (not interim) treatments that are also highly preventive in nature.
  

Objectives:

• Short review of what SDF is and what it does.
• New evidence on better ways to apply SDF to lesions with and without glass ionomer.
• Better, safer, non-aerosol ways to remove soft decay.
• How to insure long-term retention of glass ionomers.
• How to provide SMART safely without aerosol.
• Codes and billing for Minimally Invasive Dentistry (MID) combined with the Medical Management of Caries (MMC).
• Percent effectiveness plus time/cost analyses of MID and MMC protocols.
• Strip crowns and Hall crowns with no aerosol.
• Glass ionomer sealants - why they provide a higher standard for you and your patients.
• How to safely and effectively manage caries during COVID.