Bonjour from Saint Barth... By choosing our island, the Pearl of the Caribbean, for your vacation and for some of the best continuing education programs in dentistry, you will join the ranks of the Privileged in Dentistry.
Our programs include a full week of morning lectures by world renowned lecturers spanning all phases of dentistry. The pearls of wisdom that you will leave Saint. Barth with will stay with you for years to come, which only help enhance your ability to deliver the very best dental care to the valued patients in your dental practice.
Without a doubt, a week in Saint. Barth in January creates lots of smiles. And, its hard not to capture them. Enjoy and come back often. (Pictures taken by and and site maintained by Dr. Richard Weledniger - rmw5@nyu.edu)
- A Week With Dr. Jack Hahn
Dr. Jack Hahn has been actively involved in implant dentistry for over thirty years, having successfully placed over 30,000 dental implants. He has developed implant techniques and devices that are used worldwide. Dr. Hahn is the principal inventor and investigator of the NobelReplace™ implant, which is the number one implant system in the world today. For the past twenty years, he has been teaching general dentists all over the world simple, safe, and successful implant dentistry. Participants of Dr. Hahn’s courses learn and develop the skills to perform the surgical placement and prosthetic restoration of Dental Implants. Dr. Hahn's practice is located in Cincinnati, Ohio and focuses on implant surgery and implant prosthodontics.
Dr. Hahn will discuss the following:
• Identifying the implant patient - Anatomy, clinical, medical evaluation, radiographic examination and interpretation
• Tips and tricks for fabricating surgical guides and provisional restorations
• Single tooth replacements posterior - Eliminating three unit bridges, flap or not to flap - that is the question
• Single tooth replacements in the esthetic zone - achieving optimum esthetics hard and soft tissue consideration and Step by step surgical placement and provisionalization - abutment selection and final restoration
• Overdentures - which is better, two, three, four or five implants - factors to consider
• Partially edentulous and fully edentulous fixed cases - diagnosis and treatment planning - surgical considerations - Occlusal configuration, screw or cement retained, advantages and disadvantages
• All-On-Four concept - 4 implants for fully edentulous fixed restoration - patient selection
• Socket grafting and ridge preservation - choice of materials - fact or fiction - when to use membranes and which one
• Immediate extraction replacements, single, partial and fully edentulous
• The Emergency Implant - non-traumatic extraction techniques, site preparation achieving primary stability, sealing gaps and fenestrations, temporary abutment and final abutment selection
• Marketing Your Implant Practice - "selling", patient education, communication, motivation
- A Week With Dr. Lou Graham
Dr. Lou Graham has always approached his practice of dentistry with a progressive yet conservative methodology. Dr. Graham is an internationally recognized lecturer extensively involved in continuing education for dental professionals, focusing on incorporating current clinical advancements through “conservative dentistry”.
He emphasizes in his teachings the same things he practices: dental health diagnosis, treatment plans for medically compromised patients, conservative treatment, cosmetic dentistry, and customized approaches to periodontal care, implants and laser dentistry. Dr. Graham is a graduate of Emory Dental School. He is the past Dental Director and holds a part time faculty position at the University of Chicago. He enjoys providing dental care at his private practice, University Dental Professionals, in Chicago, IL.
- A Week with Barry Zweig
Dr. Barry Zweig is Professor and Vice chairperson of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He is also Director of the New Jersey Dental School Center for Implantology.
Dr. Zweig is a recipient of the Master Educators award given to that University faculty who set the highest standards of academic excellence and have a true gift for teaching and mentoring. He is a graduate of Rutgers University and the New York University, College of Dentistry. He received his Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery training at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-University Hospital and was the director of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery residency-training program at that institution for nine years.
He is a Diplomate and past examiner of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and a Fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and has authored numerous articles and lectures nationally and internationally.
- A Week with Gary Reiser
- Saint Barth Bucket
"The Saint Barths bucket - hosted by one of the best ports in the Caribbean... brings the best sailors in the world to sail the largest and finaest yachts in the world wwith st Barth as the stsage..." Hank Halsteed
The St. Barth’s Bucket is an invitational regatta set in the Corinthian spirit. The regatta is open to yachts over 100’ (31 M) L.O.A., Yachts participating will do so at their own risk. This is a fun regatta and safety is the primary concern of the Race Committee.
The St. Barths Bucket will include three days of sailing with racing scheduled for Friday through Sunday, March 28 - 30.
- A Week With Dr. Lou Graham
Dr. Lou Graham has always approached his practice of dentistry with a progressive yet conservative methodology.
He lectures nationally and internationally including Canada, Hong Kong, Russia, Thailand, Vietnam and Taiwan. Dr. Graham is a published author including recent articles for JADA, Dental Economics and General Dentistry. He is extensively involved in continuing education for dental professionals, focusing on incorporating current clinical advancements through conservative dentistry. He emphasizes in his teachings the same things he practices: dental health diagnosis, treatment plans for medically compromised patients, conservative treatment, adhesion and cosmetic dentistry, and customized approaches to periodontal care, implants and laser dentistry
Recent Innovations in Restorative Dentistry
The explosive advances in the technology and materials in Restorative Dentistry continues unabated. The last five years has brought our profession a profusion of choices that further enhance the quality of care that can be provided our patients. These included the latest in oral cancer detection devices as well as software programs that greatly improve our ability to communicate with our patients and our laboratories. Dr. Graham introduced us to the newest in imaging technology and wel also learned about new chair-side scanning systems that allow you to scan preparations and send them directly to your lab over wireless communications.
New materials continue to permeate our practices. Dr. Graham reviewed many of these products as they relate to Restorative Dentistry, Periodontics, Implantology, and numerous other areas of our profession. It was a great week! Thank you Dr. Graham.
- A Week with Dr. Marty Zase
- A Week with Dr. Roger Wise
Comprehensive Treatment: Inter-relationships of
Periodontics, Orthodontics and Resorative Dentistry
- A Week with Dr. Howard Glazer
What's Hot & What's Getting Hotter: New Products, Materials and Technologies
- A Week with Dr. David Federick