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Continuing Education

May 11, 2020 Feature Continuing EducationData Driven DentistryOHGdataPractice management

Don’t Be Afraid to Keep Learning

by Oral Health

When conducting our research for Data Driven Dentistry, we found 72% of patients would choose their own dentist to perform a specialized procedure over a specialist, if their dentist had the applicable skills. It makes sense, as patients would spend…

March 22, 2020 News Continuing EducationNews

An Update From UBC Continuing Dental Education

by UBC Continuing Dental Education

Due to the ongoing concerns regarding the COVID-19 virus, all UBC Continuing Dental Education April courses have been postponed. Participants who have registered for April courses have already been contacted by our office via email. If you are registered for…

November 19, 2019 Feature Continuing EducationDental HygieneHygienists

Why CE Goes Beyond Professional Obligation

by Beth Parkes, RDH, BSc

As dental hygienists across Canada, we are united and bonded by one major, collective fear: The Continuing Competence, Quality Assurance auditing process. The mere mention of the term elicits a sequence of events including, but not limited to, sweating, blurred…

October 31, 2019 Feature Continuing EducationDental StudentsNew dentistsNew gradsOral Health

What’s Next For The Graduating Dentist?

by Mark H. E. Lin, BSc, DDS, MSc (Prostho), FRCD(C)

Dental students who have recently completed their education may find themselves pondering many questions. For example, they may be considering their need to find a stable job. Geographic location may be a particular focus – what setting would encourage a…

October 31, 2019 Feature Continuing EducationOral Health

Life-Long Learning

by James Yacyshyn

Have you ever thought about the process of learning? How we learn, why we learn what we do, the mechanics of learning? What does learning mean to you? How does it impact you? What opportunities will you have because of…

July 12, 2019 News Continuing EducationNewsOral Health

Clinical Research Dental Announces New Hands-Online Live Courses And Fall Dates

by Clinical Research Dental

Known industry-wide for supporting, promoting and teaching better dentistry through the presentation of clinical seminars, CLINICAL RESEARCH DENTAL is pleased to announce their new Hands-OnLine LIVE courses and the release of fall course dates. With the fall line-up comes the…

September 20, 2016 News Continuing EducationDentistryOral Health

1st Annual ‘Implant Complications & Innovations Symposium’ by T.I.D.E

by Oral Health

The Toronto Institute for Dental Excellence (T.I.D.E) is proud to announce the 1st annual “Implant Complications & Innovations Symposium” taking place in Toronto on June 2-3, 2017. This Symposium will be packed with two days of didactic and hands on…

August 3, 2016 News Continuing EducationCustomer servicePatient Management

The Power of Experience to Educate and Empower Your Patients

by Oral Health

Are you doing all you can to motivate and empower your patients to become actively involved in their dental health?    As dental professionals, you are trained to understand the science of oral health. You know how to use the…

April 28, 2015 News Continuing EducationGeneral DentistryMedical newsOverall Health

Medical schools are rebooting for the 21st century — what about dental schools?

by Kahaliah Richards

I am always amazed when I visit the U of T dental school that the biggest room ever is dedicated to drilling and filling. Seemingly hundreds of chairs over which are bent hundreds of dental students practicing their techniques on…

April 18, 2012 News ClinicalContinuing EducationEndodonticsSocial mediaSocial NetworkingTechnologyTrends in Dental EducationWebinarsWebsitesYouTube

CLOG – Digital literacy enables you to learn by and from example!!

by ken

This is an endo related post. For those who are upset about my antipathy towards single file endodontics, rest assured, it will not be referenced, nor should you take away any sense that endodontic microsurgery and single file endodontics are…

April 3, 2012 News ClinicalContinuing EducationEminence based dentistryEndodonticsEvidence based dentistryNew TechnologiesPathologyResearch

Illogical Logic of Dangerous Dichotomies

by ken

http://www.slideshare.net/kendo160/wave-one-jan2012 http://www.slideshare.net/kendo160/dentinal-tubule-infection-as-the-cause-of-recurrent-disease-and-late-endodontic-treatment-failure-a-case-report-12270277 If you read both these articles, you have to be left with a sense of the “dangerous dichotomies” in their relative perspective. If one were to consider all possibilities suggested “in a step by step linear manner” and then…

March 31, 2012 News APPsBlogsClinicalCone beam computed tomographyContinuing EducationEndodonticsSocial NetworkingYouTube

Resorption CBCT Mapping

by ken

This was gifted to us by Terry Pannkuk of Santa Barbara, CA. He is one of the most unique endodontic educators in the world and he brings to his efforts, the other gods of the endodontic pantheon. It’s unfortunate that…

March 27, 2012 News ClinicalContinuing EducationEminence based dentistryEndodonticsEvidence based dentistryManagementMarketing strategiesNew productsNew Technologies

Crippled Epistomology

by ken

Op-ed piece from an online discussion forum……..worth a read….everything is grist for the mill……….there is method and madness in the concept of a dental knowledge network in Canada. There is no question that anonymity will lead to some incendiary commentary,…

March 24, 2012 News ClinicalContinuing EducationImplantology

The View from Alexandria

by ken

Stars Beyond the Horizon (psssssssst – click on the link above) Joint meeting of the ICOI and the AOIA – double click on the images…….

March 4, 2012 News APPsComputer softwareContinuing EducationTrends in Dental EducationTrends in Dentistry

Will Apple create the all-iPad classroom?

by ken

By Sharon Noguchi snoguchi@mercurynews.com Posted:   03/04/2012 06:10:16 AM PST Updated:   03/04/2012 07:22:21 AM PST Apple hopes its foray into digital textbooks for the iPad will impress educators and corner a huge, lucrative K-12 book market. But the high costs of the…

March 4, 2012 News Continuing Education

And a little Kiwi shall lead them to the mountainetop!!!

by ken

I’ve been involved with discussion forums for almost 15 years now. What I’ve learned is that there are truly amazing people who care and share and don’t start a conversation with how busy they are or what’s in it for…

February 17, 2012 News Community outreachComprehensive reasoningConnectivityContinuing EducationElearningTrends in Dental Education

The diplomacy of knowledge

by ken

We are a geographically a huge country with a population less than the state of California if you count Arnold Schwarzenegger twice…we could have a Canadian dental intranet – iTrans – it would require very little to make itransdental.com the…

February 3, 2012 News BlogsClinical case reportCommunity outreachComprehensive reasoningConnectivityContinuing EducationTrends in Dental EducationWebsites

Yee Haw, Bazynga, Whoo Whoo and all that stuff – blog of the day!!!

by ken

http://ucladentaliptp.wordpress.com/2012/02/ Talk about EUREKA!!!  UCLA INTERNATION POST DOCTORAL TRAINING PROGRAM – go visit, it’s a mind blower!!!!! Double click the image to peruse, then hit the link and go postal!!!

January 27, 2012 News Continuing EducationTrends in Dental EducationWebsites

The continuing education world is flat

by ken

http://pdacongress2012.com/

January 27, 2012 News BlogsContinuing EducationTrends in Dental Education

A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants

by ken

I’ll do anything to get this blog’s numbers to skyrocket………sadly, the title is from Chuckles the clown on his passing in the Mary Tyler Moore show, so those of you who are up in arms, “SETTLE DOWN!” Nope, this entry…