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Enjoy renewed excitement in dentistry!

CDOCS workshops are hands-on opportunities to discover the power of education that will reignite your passion for modern dentistry.

When you take a workshop you:

Embrace Cutting-Edge Knowledge:
Stay ahead of the curve with up-to-the-minute information on the latest dental technologies, trends, procedures and best practices.
Expand Your Clinical Repertoire:
Master advanced procedures and techniques that will set you apart as a leader in your field.

CEREC Mastery For Dental Assistants (CL1)

Prerequisites: None. Recommended for all chairside assistants.

The most efficient offices are the ones that use CEREC with a team approach. There is no better way take care of patients than when the entire team is on board, all working together in harmony.


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Fundamentals of CEREC Dentistry (CL2)

Prerequisites: Level 1 or Basic Training from your CEREC dealer Strongly Recommended

You've completed initial training and viewed the training videos on CDOCS.com. Now it's time to expand your CEREC knowledge and learn how to make better use of the CEREC technology and the latest software. This workshop is your first step to CEREC mastery.


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Provisionalizing and Restoring Implants with CEREC (CL3)

Prerequisites: Fundamentals of CEREC Dentistry (CL2) Highly Recommended

CEREC will produce highly esthetic implant restorations with optimized occlusion and contacts, whether you are treating a single tooth or complete quadrant. Fabricating chairside implant restorations opens an avenue to be more productive in one's office whether you are temporizing an implant with a custom healing abutment or provisional restoration or fabricating the final restoration. This workshop is designed to get users familiar with all aspects of restoring implants with the CEREC technology.


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Anterior Esthetics with CEREC (CL4)

Prerequisites: Fundamentals of CEREC Dentistry (CL2) Highly Recommended

Many doctors don't realize the full potential of their CEREC technology because they don't use it to its full capacity. Some feel they can only use CEREC for posterior teeth, and consequently they lose out on the opportunities offered by anterior CAD/CAM dentistry. In fact, with CEREC you can achieve esthetic results equivalent to high quality labs.


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Comprehensive Restorative Care with a Digital Workflow (CL5)

Prerequisites: Anterior Esthetics with CEREC (CL4) Required

CEREC goes beyond just single-tooth dentistry. This workshop is a natural extension of the "Anterior Esthetics with CEREC" workshop where participants will learn techniques for comprehensive cases including: how to perform virtual wax-ups, basic fundamentals of smile design and how to stage full mouth cases.


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The Next Level of Esthetics with CEREC (CL7)

Prerequisites: Anterior Esthetics with CEREC (CL4)

Participants will focus on photography, case presentation, color and shade selection, contouring, staining and glazing as well as final esthetic cementation of an anterior case.

Attendees are expected to have already taken the CL4 workshop or have a thorough understanding of the CEREC software with regards to designing and milling.


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Cone Beam Basic Training (CB1)

Prerequisites: None

Once you have completed your initial in-office training with your Dentsply Sirona Clinical Implementation Specialist and viewed the training videos on CDOCS.com, you're ready for the Cone Beam Basic Training workshop. This workshop will focus on learning the fundamentals of Cone Beam technology including reviewing a volume in its entirety. The workshop will focus on getting users comfortable with the operation of the Cone Beam hardware as well as learning the software used to power the device


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Advanced Cone Beam Diagnostics (CB2)

Prerequisites: None

This course is hands on and case based and designed to prepare each participant to systematically review a CBCT volume, recognize and categorize signs of abnormalities and how to manage the resultant findings. Learning will be facilitated using CBCT cases from the board certified oral maxillofacial radiologists teaching the course.


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Introduction to Sleep Medicine (CB3)

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This course will follow a typical sleep apnea patient on their journey from start to finish. Over two days you'll learn how to identify, screen and diagnose patients for obstructive sleep apnea. As well as select, fabricate and deliver an oral appliance for treatment. Plus, you'll better understand the business side of sleep dentistry and how it can impact your practice.


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Fundamentals of Endodontic Therapy (CE1)

Prerequisites: None

Each step of endodontically treating and restoring a tooth is connected. This course walks the participant through each step of performing root canal therapy chairside in the most efficient manner – with each step building on the success of the previous.


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Advanced Concepts in Endodontics Therapy (CE2)

Prerequisites: Fundamentals of Endodontic Therapy (CE1) is Required.

This course builds on Fundamentals of Endodontic Therapy workshop and extends your endodontic knowledge to the next level. With extensive hands-on exercises and using advanced diagnostic tools participants will be able to perform cases of increasing complexity such as complex root morphology, difficult to anesthetize cases and more.


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Fundamentals of Implant Planning & Surgery (CI1)

Prerequisites: None

This course is for the dentist that is just starting out in their journey with implant surgery. The workshop will focus on implant fundamentals, clinical and radiographic findings, contraindications to treatment, planning utilizing appropriate cone beam technology, crown proposals as well as the basics of the software needed for implant planning and placement. 


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Fundamentals of Oral Surgery for the General Practitioner (CI7)

Prerequisites: None

This course is designed to give doctors a fundamental overview of oral surgery in the general dental office.  Participants will learn basic procedures such as 3rd molar extractions, soft tissue management, biopsies and more. 


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Fundamentals of Guided Implant Surgery with Cone Beam (CI2)

Prerequisites: Fundamentals of Implant Planning and Surgery (CI1)

This workshop will take you from A to Z in all aspects of guided-implant planning using cone beam and intraoral scanning integration, as well as provide a complete understanding of all the different guided systems that are available to work with the digitally integrated implant dentistry protocol.


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Hard and Soft Tissue Grafting in Digital Dental Implant Dentistry (CI3a)

Prerequisites: Previous implant placement experience recommended.

This workshop in the series will focus on more advanced treatment planning of complex implant cases and provide an in-depth introduction to various bone grafting procedures.

**It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED you take this workshop and Advanced Hard and Soft Tissue Grafting in Digital Dental Implant Dentistry (CI3b) in one back-to-back Thursday-Sunday trip to Scottsdale or Charlotte**


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Advanced Hard and Soft Tissue Grafting in Digital Dental Implant Dentistry (CI3b) 

Prerequisites: Hard and Soft Tissue Grafting in Digital Dental Implant Surgery (CI3a) 

This 2-day workshop is designed for advanced users and those who want to learn more ways to treat their implant patients ideally and predictably.

**It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED you take this workshop and Hard and Soft Tissue Grafting in Digital Dental Implant Dentistry (CI3a) in one back-to-back Thursday-Sunday trip to Scottsdale or Charlotte**


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Digital Full Arch Dental Implant Therapy (CI4)

Prerequisites: Fundamentals of Implant Planning & Surgery (CI1)
Fundamentals of Guided Implant Surgery with Cone Beam (CI2)
Hard and Soft Tissue Grafting in Digital Dental Implant Therapy (CI3a)
Advanced Hard and Soft Tissue Grafting in Digital Dental Implant Therapy (CI3b)

This 2-day workshop will take participants through the full digital workflow on how to treat a fully edentulous patient. Utilizing CEREC and cone beam, users will learn the tips and tricks for a systematic workflow for treatment planning, designing and executing full arch implant therapy for patients.

This is not an introductory course and is recommended for advanced users.


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Implants in the Esthetic Zone (CI5)

Prerequisites: Previous implant placement experience recommended

This workshop will focus on optimizing the esthetics for implants placed in the esthetic zone. We will discuss esthetic risk assessments, atraumatic extraction techniques to preserve bone, implant placement techniques to minimize tissue loss and more. Restorative topics such as proper abutment selection, material selection for optimal techniques will also be discussed.

This is not an introductory course and is recommended for advanced users.


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Comprehensive Digital Implant WorkflowPlan, Print, Place, and Restore (CI6)

Prerequisites: This advanced workshop is intended for those doctors who already have implant placement and restoration experience but would like to learn the workflow as taught by Dr. Ludlow. Doctors who would like to learn the fundamentals of implant placement should look at the Level 1 and 2 implant workshops.

This workshop, specifically designed for participants already placing and restoring implants and comfortable with the SICAT workflow, will focus on how to apply the fully digital pathway in an anterior esthetic case from the initial diagnostics to guided surgery all the way through the final restoration.


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Cutting-Edge Advances in Dental Implantology

Prerequisites: N/A

Designed for participants placing and restoring implants and would like to learn more about emerging implant technologies, such as the role of robotics in implant dentistry and 3D printing.


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Fundamentals of Clear Aligner Therapy (CO1)

Prerequisites: None

Attendees will participate in an engaging and informative overview of orthodontics. We will revisit the salient aspects of orthodontic tooth movement, occlusion, diagnosis, and treatment planning as it pertains to the restorative dental practice and as taught in dental school. The course will also begin to introduce aligner therapy and the SureSmile® Aligner system


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Advanced Understanding in Clear Aligner Therapy (CO2)

Prerequisites: Fundamentals of Clear Aligner Therapy (CO1) is Required.

This advanced aligner workshop features education on clear aligners using the Suresmile system. Hands-on workshops for this course will include selection and placement of attachments to express specific movements, identifying when and how to use IPR in aligner treatment planning, and reading the treatment timeline with regard to IPR, aligner templates, and attachments.


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Introduction to Digital Impressions and 3D Printing

Prerequisites: None

This course is designed for new owners of Primescan scanners and Primeprint 3D printers. The workshop will go through how users can utilize the technology to improve patient care by running a completely digital new patient experience


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Digital Denture Workflows

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This workshop will cover the reference denture workflow. We will take a poor fitting existing denture, do a physical wash impression, scan, and then design and print both a try in and final complete maxillary denture out of denture base and denture tooth resin. We will also discuss techniques for immediate dentures and complete over complete workflows.


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Fundamentals of inLab Dentistry

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Expand your inLab knowledge and learn how to make better use of the software and continue your modern dentistry journey and earn dental CE. This inLab hands-on workshop is your first step to mastering advanced dentistry!


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Advanced inLab Software Mastery

Prerequisites: Anterior Esthetics with CEREC (CL4) is Required.
Comprehensive Restorative Care with a Digital Workflow (CL5) is Recommended.

This course is not for the faint of heart!

CEREC software has become more advanced and when coupled with additional software versions, it opens a whole realm of possibilities for individual clinicians. This workshop sets the foundation to execute more comprehensive digital workflows using a combination of the CEREC and inLab 22 CAD software.

This is not an introductory course and is recommended for advanced users with significant experience with CEREC and computer software.


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