JOIN US ON A FREE ZOOM WEBINAR:
Managing the inflammatory response of dentine to dental caries
Join Us: Saturday, February 21st, 3:00 pm Eastern Time / 9:00 am Pacific Los Angeles Time
What You Will Learn
This webinar will bring participants to the forefront of how the Dentine Pulp Complex initiates an inflammatory response to advancing caries.
It will demonstrate how the correct application of SDF and KI act as a non staining medicament to assist dentine to heal and arrest further caries
proliferation.
It will show the minimal cavity preparation techniques required by various restorative materials to achieve optimal outcome.
Participants will walk away with a restorative protocol for restoring dental caries that rarely requires local anaesthetic and because of the minimal intervention to tooth structure, can be achieved in a fraction of the time required for more conventional procedures.
- 👉 Define the structure of the pulp Dentine Complex during a challenge by cariogenic bacteria.
- 👉 Explore the current understanding of how the Pulp Dentine Complex has an inflammatory and physical type response to caries.
- 👉 Demonstrate how the application of a topical medication enhances the healing process.
- 👉 Show the types of restorative protocols required when using different restorative materials
February 21st
3:00 pm ET
Duration 90 minutes
Our presenter:
About Dr. Geoffrey Knight
BDSc MSc MBA PhD FICD FADI FPFA
Geoff Knight has been involved in general dentistry for over 50 years and is an internationally noted dental speaker from Melbourne, Australia, with special interests in Minimal Intervention Aesthetic Dentistry. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Dentistry & Oral Health at La Trobe University, Victoria.
He has pioneered protocols for the pharmacological management of dental caries and periodontal disease. He has introduced the concepts of tunnel restorations and co-curing to minimal intervention dentistry and developed a number of innovative aesthetic techniques for the placement of direct laminate veneers, direct resin bridges and occlusal rehabilitation using composite resins. He has developed a non staining protocol for SMART and holds several patents within the dental industry.
Apart from his broad clinical base, he has been President of the state branch of the Australian Dental Association and has had extensive political and economic experience within the profession.
He has consulted widely across the dental industry and is currently a Non Executive Director of SDI Pty Ltd.
He has been published in Quintessence International, Australian Dental Journal and Journal of Periodontal Research. He has produced a series of clinical videos and webinars that have had well over 1 million hits on YouTube. He has published over 100 articles on aesthetic and adhesive dentistry, some of which, have been translated and published internationally in several languages.
He has a contributed a chapter to “Glass-Ionomers in Dentistry (S. Sidhu: Springer publishing)” and has published a text “Silver Fluoride and Glass Ionomer Cements: A SMART Operative Guide for Working with Teeth”