CE Series: October 16, 2024

In-Person at the Aqua Turf

Part I: Long Term Effects – Realistic Expectations with Implant Restorations
Part II: Battlefield Prosthodontics

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Presenter: Vincent Celenza, DMD

6 CE Credits
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location:  In-Person at the Aqua Turf
(566 Mulberry St, Plantsville, CT)

This is designed to be interactive and I am sure we can learn a few things and have a lot of fun too….

Part I: Long Term Effects – Realistic Expectations with Implant Restorations

The use of dental implants has changed prosthodontics forever. We will ask the questions: "Are implants better than teeth?” and “Are teeth better than implants?”

This presentation will raise issues on the positive and negative aspects of our use of dental implants focusing on the timing of when to make decisions to utilize this relatively new technology. In addition, we will delve into questions regarding the retention of questionable teeth and what we might do as prosthodontists to keep healthy teeth healthy.  Expectations from appropriate periodontal treatments to save ailing teeth 
will also be discussed.

Part II: Battlefield Prosthodontics 

This presentation will use cases requiring dental prosthetics to illustrate how, in certain situations seeing no obvious solutions, we may choose to break a rule or two in our quest to not simply satisfy but exceed expectations. Our world has mechanical dimensions, artistic limits, uncertainty, and even teamwork as we depend upon others like our indispensable technical colleagues, to produce our results.  Such is the chosen profession of the prosthodontist where compromise, creativity, ingenuity, skill, talent, experience, and resourcefulness may all come into play. And then, choosing within a range of alternatives, there’s that judgement thing that is so hard to quantify.  

 

About the Presenter: 

Vincent Celenza, DMD is a Board-Certified Prosthodontist since 1988 and received his graduate training from Boston University in 1979. He has taught at New York University and Columbia dental schools and has presented nationally and internationally on Prosthodontics and how it relates to other specialties. He is currently in full-time private practice in New York City. Christine, his wife of 35 years, works as a hygienist part time in their office.