Biography:

Dr Peter J Murphy, DDS completed his DDS from Dalhousie University Dental School and his GPR from UBC Dental School. He has lectured and presented extensively on Dental Education reform and innovation. He is an editorial board member of The Journal of Dentistry and Oral Biology.

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Education is what survives after what was learned has been forgotten" Professor BF Skinner

At the University of British Columbia Dental School we are using Flipped Learning to teach fundamental medical sciences to our first year students. I will explain the successful teaching techniques used in the new curriculum- and the failures.

The journey to a flipped curriculum at the UBC Dental School was long overdue, and yet for some, came far too fast. I will talk about Faculty opposition and the tools we used- like PeerWise and our award winning Progress Survey- to win Faculty and students over.

I will also explain the ongoing research being conducted on our curriculum at UBC Dental School. The purpose of the study is to assess the effectiveness of a flipped learning (active) curriculum versus the traditional lecture based (passive) curriculum in a first year Dental fundamental medical sciences course.

At UBC Dental School we are achieving enduring understanding through Flipped Learning. With Flipped Learning we have less transmission, and more synthesis and absorption of knowledge. We are promoting deeper learning and encouraging students to take greater responsibility for their own learning.

Why Flipped Learning...because the world doesn't need memorizers, it needs critical thinkers and problem solvers.

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Syed Ghazi Abbas Naqvi has completed his BDS from University of Karachi, Pakistan. He has obtained Graduate Certificate in New Media Journalism from Sheridan College and is finishing up with his Dimploma in Marketing from McMaster University. He is the Director of See Factor and Brand Clinic, two very active Dental Media & Marketing organizations and is a Consultant for various dental organizations. He has recently started Canada’s first online Dental News Bulletin “Dental News Canada”. He has been involved in dental media and marketing since 2003 and has been teaching Dental Photography since 2009.

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As the dynamics of media, marketing and communications continue to evolve, we are seeing an increasing reduction in attention spans and while visual communication was one of the most effective ways to get information across even in the past, its importance has reached new heights in this new age. With the role that this evolution coupled with the social media boom is playing with consumer behavior, it is imperative that dentistry keeps pace with media and marketing trends including effective portrayal of clinical scenarios using professional photography, as well as using videos to command a leadership position in your profession. Professional photography does not necessarily have to be overly complicated and prohibitively expensive. With a few basic principles in place, one can easily continue to improve the standards of record keeping and compelling visual communication incrementally. This talk will introduce some basic principles and guidelines related to the subject as well as the practical application of getting over “the eye does not see what the mind does not know” phenomenon by learning how to see common errors in photographs and simple ways to avoid them. It is also important to keep in mind that with the increasing exposure to visual media, the viewers’ eyes are also becoming better trained to differentiate between exquisite and mediocre.

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Dr. Michael J Sigal is Professor and former Head of Pediatric Dentistry at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto where he was the Director of the MSc Graduate Specialty Program in Pediatric Dentistry for over 20 years. At the Mount Sinai Hospital, he is the Head of the Division of the Dental Program for Persons with Disabilities/ Special Needs, the largest such dental program in Canada and was for the past 15 years the Dentist-in-Chief and Co-director of the Mount Sinai Hospital Dental Residency Program, a postgraduate dental program structured in such a way as to educate the postgraduate resident in dental care for persons with disabilities / special healthcare needs.

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Persons with special needs (PWSN) have limited access to dental care in their communities and dental care is one of the most frequent unmet healthcare needs. PWSN have more untreated caries and periodontal disease, a poorer state of oral hygiene and a greater need for extraction than the general population. Oral health is considered an integral component of overall health. The purpose of this presentation is to provide an overview of oral health issues in persons with developmental disabilities. Persons with special needs (PWSN) still have limited access to required dental care in their communities, this after at least 30 years of education and public advocacy. Dental care is one of the most frequent unmet healthcare needs for persons with special needs. Evidence has demonstrated that PWSN, as a group, has more untreated caries and periodontal disease, a poorer state of oral hygiene and a greater need for extractions than the general population. Oral health is considered an integral component of overall health, and is significant in an individual’s quality of life as it pertains to communication, nutrition, emotional expression, taste, social appearance and self-esteem. The purpose of this presentation is to provide an overview of oral health issues in persons with developmental disabilities, their impact on total health and the role of a multidisciplinary team to ensure that oral health is maintained and promoted. Persons with special needs still have limited access to required dental care in their communities, this after more than 50 years of education and public advocacy. Dental care is one of the most frequent unmet healthcare needs for persons with special needs. Evidence has demonstrated that PWSN as a group have more untreated caries and periodontal disease, a poorer state of oral hygiene and a greater need for extractions than the general population. Oral health is considered an integral component of overall health, and is significant in an individual’s quality of life as it pertains to communication, nutrition, emotional expression, taste, social appearance and self-esteem. In addition there is now evidence to suggest a link between oral inflammatory disease and diabetes, cardiac disease, and pneumonia. The purpose of this presentation is to provide an overview of the issues regarding access to care, specific oral health issues in persons with special needs, their impact on total health and the role of a multidisciplinary team to ensure that oral health is maintained and promoted. A novel educational model which can be applied in a multi-disciplinary manner to introduce students to persons with special needs in a social and clinical framework will be presented. As a result of participating in this session participants will be able to identify oral disease in persons with PWSN. They will also gain understanding of basic care that is required and how to ensure that care is provided.

Biography:

John Nadeau, Vice-president of Sleep Group Solutions has been actively involved in Dental Sleep Medicine since 2002. He has worked with several hundred dentists in the field and helped many of them get started with sleep in their own practices. An expert on airway acoustic imaging and home sleep testing, he authored the SGS protocol manual detailing the steps-by-step process in taking a patient from initial screening through diagnosis, treatment and follow-up. His passion for dental sleep medicine comes strongly in his lectures and he has been an invited guest instructor at many dental meetings and teaching facilities across North America.

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The presentation will be highlighted with the following topics: 1) Introduction to sleep – sleep stages, disorders; 2) Sleep apnea prevalence – Why is there a need for treatment? 3) Sleep apnea symptoms/clinical issues; 4) Treating snoring and sleep apnea in a dental office – protocol review; 5) Patient education; addressing key issues and getting a snoring patient to convert to a sleep apnea treatment case; 6) Prepare overnight home sleep study for select for the course attendees; 7) Pharyngometer/Rhinometer; 8) Working with sleep physicians; 9) Home sleep tests; 10) Dental sleep medicine, a step-by-step protocol flow chart; 11) Working with popular oral appliances like the TAP, Respire, EMA, SilentNight and more; 12) Appliance review – Pro’s and con’s of all of the major sleep appliances; 13) Case presentations; 14) Medical insurance billing; 15) Review of the latest codes, fees, procedures and recommendations from SGS experts who are doing this daily.

Biography:

Vinod Sachdev has completed his Master’s in Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry from Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, India in 1983. Currently, he is the Director of Post-Graduate studies at ITS Centre for Dental Studies and Research, India. He has a Post-graduate teaching experience of 33 years and has 49 publications in journals of repute to his credit. He has delivered more than 50 lectures at national and international forums and has guided more than 50 post-graduate dissertations. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Dental Specialties; the official publication of the ITS group of dental colleges. His areas of special contribution are pediatric endodontics, functional orthodontics and preventive dentistry/epidemiology

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Non-vital teeth with long standing periapical pathology presents a challenge to the treating dentist as they are often associated with cystic periapical lesions and apical root resorption. Along with endodontic therapy, periapical surgery is often advised for the management of these cases as half of them are wrongly diagnosed as cysts. Literature shows that the incidence of true cysts among periapical periodontitis is as low as 10% and most of them heal without any surgical procedure. Apical root resorption is associated with majority of periapical lesions, thus, it is advised to create a biological seal to avoid obturation beyond the root apex. Along with the routine cleaning and shaping procedures, intracanal medication with calcium hydroxide has proven very useful in such cases. Calcium hydroxide not only disinfects the root canal in one week but also initiates the hard tissue barrier formation at the apex. This paper will discuss the basic histopathology of periapical lesions associated with non-vital teeth along with the logic behind non-surgical approach to its management followed by the presentation of clinical cases of long standing periapical radiolucencies treated with this conservative technique.

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Michelle Aubé(Simmonds) has over 25 years expereince in Dentistry. She is the Founder/Owner of Positive Impact Dental Consulting, graduate of Fanshawe (1987-89), Holland (1993) and Algonquin College (1994), past CDHO Q.A. Assessor, Fanshawe College Theory Educator, UWO Clinical Educator, Continuing Educaiton Manager and Speaker, Acteon Clinical Trainer, Strauman Implant Speaker, Oh Canada CDHA article writer and Self-Initiated Clinical Practitioner, Michelle’s knowledge and vast experience speaks for itself. Her mission: sharing knowledge and delivering organization and strategies to bridge the gap between ‘Evidence Based Decision Making’ and implementation of new knowledge into clinical practice within a a platform of ‘Best Practise’ approaches.

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Taking a ‘closer look’ at simple day to day tasks in dental settings that are major contributers to breaking the chain of asepsis. Adopting a larger view on Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) from the platform of safeguarding and risk management polices that match the needs defined by the new 2016 Centre for Disease Control (CDC) Summary of Infection Control Practices in Dental Settings Basic Expectations for Safe Care. Realizing that policies from 10 years ago may not be meeting the standards of the evolving and emerging pathogens of today’s world; this lecture will review past and current trends in IPAC based on Evidence Based Decision Making (EBDM) and Best Practice approaches. This will include review of personal protective equipment, instrument processing, disinfection, sterilization, sterilization testing and quality assurance for all steps. The proper steps for bagging and/or wrapping of instruments including storage and opening for use. Definition and appropriate usage of ‘flash’ sterilization. Record keeping and logging aspects of infection control. IPAC cross references health and safety in keeping the client safe but so do the dental professionals: Assessing resources from Organization for Safety, Asepsis and Prevention (OSAP), reflecting that time management and deplenished inventory are not justification for risks of cross contamination, empowering the dental team to strive for best practice in setting SMART goals based on identified issues from the CDC practice evaluation. Team leadership with the appointment of an IPAC Coordinator. Critical thinking throughout the course with stimulating true and false questions.