36 exhibitors Chicago Midwinter — February 22, 2018 Glidewell Dental Laboratories takes C.E. offerings on the road Dallas symposium sells out By Robert Selleck, today Staff n Attendee response to the inaugu- ral Glidewell Dental Symposium 2017, held in November in Dallas, has the company planning a 2018 follow-up. “It exceeded my expectations. I’m very, very pleased with it,” said Glidewell Laboratories President and CEO Jim Glidewell in an interview with Chairside Live, the company’s online educational and informational video platform. Commenting on the event’s unique format, Glidewell said: “I think it’s going to be a big hit, and we’re going to see this beyond Dallas. We’re getting information out there and helping dentistry to be more responsive and more valued.” The sold-out, single-day sym- posium brought together 11 opin- ion leaders from various sectors of dentistry, each delivering 30- to 40-minute presentations. Topics included esthetic dentistry, digital dentistry, dental implants, tissue regeneration, sleep-related dentistry and practice management — all with a focus on tools and techniques that are helping dental practices achieve clinical and business success. Attend- ees of the event were able to earn up to eight C.E. units. When asked in the Chairside Live interview if more such events will be held, Glidewell said: “Absolutely. We think we can go to every major city in the United States, and this idea will work.” In addition to the speakers, the event included an interactive exhib- its area featuring the latest tools and resources Glidewell Dental has avail- able for practices. Attendees were also able to take a virtual-reality tour of the main lab areas at the company’s 71,000-square-foot facility in New- port Beach, Calif. With a staff of 4,500, the company is the largest employer in Orange County, operating out of a total of 650,00 square feet of office space, Glidewell noted in opening remarks at the symposium. Chad Duplantis, DDS, who is in pri- vate practice in Fort Worth and speaks internationally, presented “Digital Dentistry: The New Office Paradigm.” Duplantis covered the history of his increasingly digital practice. His set up incorporates the latest offerings from glidewell.io (In-Office Solution), Here in Chicago To learn more about Glidewell Den- tal Laboratories, stop by the booth, Nos. 4016/4021. clinical director with Greenberg Den- tal and Orthodontics, which has more than 70 offices and 240 practitioners across Florida. He outlined in detail how he approaches various cases and works closely with Glidewell lab pro- fessionals. “My goal is for my patients to pick up a mirror and say they love their provisional,” Barrett said. Introduced as the “Father of Implant Dentistry,” Jack Hahn, DDS, delivered the event’s closing keynote, “The Emergency Implant.” Hahn, who maintains a private practice in Cincin- nati, quickly and self-deprecatingly guided the audience through the earliest days of his 45 years of expe- rience in placing dental implants. Today, Hahn is perhaps best known for his involvement in the design of the Hahn Tapered Implant System. With a clinician’s eye, Hahn outlined in detail the latest thinking in evalu- ating and successfully performing immediate implant placements. Other speakers included Anama- ria Muresan, DMD, ME, CDT, on “New Techniques for Successful Veneers”; Carrie Webber on “Get- ting Your Patients to Say ‘Yes’ to the Big Cases”; Justin Chi, DDS, CDT, on “The Reengineered PFM”; Raymond Choi, DDS, on “Indications for Small- Diameter Implants”; Paresh Patel, DDS, on “Monolithic Zirconia from Single Crowns to the Full Arch” and Charles Schlesinger, DDS, on “Ridge Preservation Protocol for Success.” Many of the presenters teach continuing-education course at the Glidewell International Technology Center, a 2,800-square-foot, state-of- the-art training, education and dem- onstration center that for years has provided comprehensive programs on all aspects of implant and restora- tive dentistry. The Dallas event represented the first time the company has pack- aged a full symposium of such train- ing outside of its Irvine base. The $125 preregistration tuition included breakfast, lunch and a closing cock- tail event. You can monitor or sign up for noti- fications at glidewellsymposium.com to learn about a planned symposium for this year. 5 Introduced as the ‘Father of Implant Dentistry,’ Jack Hahn, DDS, delivers the Glidewell Dental Symposium 2017’s closing keynote, ‘The Emergency Implant.’ (Photos/Robert Selleck, today Staff) 5 Anamaria Muresan, DMD, ME, CDT, presents ‘New Techniques for Successful Veneers’ during the Glidewell Dental Symposium. which comprises a package of tools and support that enable practices to scan, design and even mill in house (with full support from the Glidewell lab) to provide patients with quicker service — not just with single crowns but with bridges, inlays, onlays, par- tials, aligners, ortho appliances and more. It’s all about “simplifying your workflow and making your office more efficient,” Duplantis said, com- menting on the process used to deter- mine how and when to keep control in house or when to tap into additional expertise from the lab. Tim Kosinski, DDS, MAGD, a gen- eral dentist in Bingham Farms, Mich., presented “Esthetic Implant Success.” Kosinski, who is an adjunct clinical professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry, used a show of hands to determine that nearly half of the general dentists in the audience were placing implants. He quickly covered one of his recent cases involving a fractured tooth in a patient with very thin facial palatal bone. The case involved immedi- ate implant placement with a Hahn Tapered Implant, graft material and a custom temporary abutment from Glidewell Dental Laboratories. “Visu- alize the case finished before you ever start,” Kosinski said, when sharing his thought process from initial scan- ning through follow-up. “Every single one of you should be doing sleep dentistry,” advised Suzanne Haley, DMD, in present- ing “Preventing Sleep Divorce.” The sleep dentistry and general dentist who practices in St. Simons Island, Ga., emphasized that dentists only screen and treat (or refer) — leaving diagnosis to physicians. Noting that research shows that snoring and other sleep disorders have a bigger negative impact on lifespan than smoking, Haley said, “You can save a marriage. You can save a life. You can change a life.” She explained in detail how she heavily relies on a number of Glidewell’s sleep-dentistry products. Presenting “Quality Provisionals for Esthetic Success,” Steven Barrett, DDS, shared an emotionally charged video capturing his patients’ reac- tion upon first seeing their smiles following his placement of BioTemps Provisionals. Barrett is partner and