2025-26 Course Objectives

After completing The 2025-26 Dental Update you should have acquired the knowledge that will better enable you to:

  • Understand the essential principles of diagnosis, treatment planning, and foundational techniques in root canal therapy.
  • Identify, diagnose and treat ulcerative changes to oral mucosal soft tissues.
  • Understand and meet today’s practice challenges.
  • Better understand how to compare dental laser technologies to determine the most appropriate tool for specific soft- and hard-tissue procedures in clinical practice.
  • Identify and manage substance-abusing patients.
  • Identify financial controls to prevent fraud and increase revenue.
  • Identify and manage substance-abusing patients.
  • Understand the terms and implications of alternative associate agreements.
  • Understand recent innovations and core principles in endodontics to enhance the effectiveness and predictability of root canal therapy.
  • Enhance early detection of oral cancer through effective screening, risk assessment, and diagnostic examination techniques.
  • Identify the characteristics of a great dental practice culture and team.
  • Identify insurance gaps and litigation stress management techniques.
  • Identify dental considerations relating to cannabis.
  • Identify legal and practical issues associated with buying or selling a dental practice.
  • Understand the comparative outcomes of implants versus endodontic therapy, emerging regenerative endodontic techniques, and systematic diagnostic protocols to improve treatment planning.
  • Identify and evaluate the clinical signs of ankyloglossia and maxillary labial frenula in infants, understand their impact on breastfeeding, and determine when surgical intervention is appropriate.
  • Recognize, diagnose, and manage endodontic emergencies and traumatic dental injuries using evidence-based approaches.
  • Understand the oral impact of and treatment approaches for acid airway reflux and DM2.
  • Understand the legal and ethical pitfalls of salivary diagnostics and genomics.
  • Discuss the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of acute pain.

The Update, offered weekly in over 50 enviable destinations, is a unique, 20-hour survey of the intersection of practice management, risk management and selected clinical topics.

Program Description

The Update is produced in state-of-the-art studios utilizing 4K digital technology and presented via COVID-safe, Destination-based, Remote Classrooms. That means, as in the past, you will participate in the travel destination of your choice during scheduled lecture hours, however, you will view The Update on your laptop, tablet or smart phone from the comfort and safety of your hotel room or condominium. And you will do so in the virtual and interactive company of your colleagues in attendance at the same time.

We think this offers the best of all worlds: Comfort, safety, and the ability to interact in real time with a multi-discipline audience of professional peers. You will have over 1,000 oppor­tunities to attend, at your choice of over 40 premier sun and ski resorts, through the end of September – virtually any week you choose.

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