Trade Shows & Events

Date & Time: October 10th, 8:30am-3:30pm PST

Descriptive Summary: This course offers comprehensive insight on treating anterior and posterior aesthetic cases with direct composite and indirect ceramic restorations. Participants will learn bonding techniques, composite resin applications, and ceramic cementation. The focus will be on preparation design, material selection, and the steps necessary for successful cosmetic and functional outcomes. Emphasizing facially driven aesthetic treatment planning, this course will equip clinicians with the skills to achieve rewarding results for both patients and themselves.

Learning Objectives: 

• Participants will be introduced to materials and methods to improve their performance, save time, and reduce their overhead and failures.
• Discuss concepts and techniques in preparation design and bonding of direct and indirect restorations.
• In depth review of procedure steps and workflow for direct and indirect aesthetic cases, with a focus on facially driven aesthetic treatment planning and smile design.
• Understand important characteristics and criteria when selecting a bonds, composites, and cements as they relate to bond strengths, handling, and color stability for long term success.

For more information or to register contact: Colin Reagan colin.reagan@envistaco.com

Date & Time: Friday (10/23/2026): 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Saturday (10/24/2026): 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Descriptive Summary: 2-day course designed to jump-start your practice with hands-on techniques for more efficient and effective prepping of full mouth dentistry.  This includes temporization techniques, composite training, opening VDO, scanning and laser practice.  The Course also includes advanced smile design considerations, photography, orthotic splint designs and wax-up diagnostics and treatment planning.

Learning Objectives: To build confidence in comprehensive dentistry and optimize occlusal schemes to better service your patients. 

For more information or to register: https://drdickbarnesgroup.com/courses/ 

Date & Time: November 6th & 7th, 2026 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Descriptive Summary: From deep margin elevation to diastema closure, participants will explore how to elevate their everyday restorative outcomes using contemporary adhesive techniques and minimally invasive principles. Topics will include managing challenging Class II restorations, injection molding, advanced Class III and IV composites, ceramic overlays, and rubber dam isolation.

Learning Objectives: 

• Apply modern adhesive principles to manage deep margins and subgingival restorations.
• Execute predictable Class II restorations in challenging scenarios.
• Utilize injection molding techniques.
• Evaluate when and how to perform minimally invasive caries removal while preserving tooth vitality.
• Integrate overlay restorations into a minimally invasive treatment plan for long-term success. 
   

For more information or to register: https://mnagd.org/events/ Minnesota AGD 612-412-4366. minnesotaagd@gmail.com

Date & Time: Friday (11/6/2026): 8:00 am - 4:00 pm, Saturday (11/7/2026): 7:30 am - 1:00 pm

Descriptive Summary: Every practice day, you need to provide practical and profitable preventive procedures; predictable, esthetic long-lasting restorative procedures; as well as single crowns. See, use, evaluate, and take home samples of the newest, best, most highly essential restorative materials and techniques. Gordon will help increase your expertise in all phases of restorative dentistry and show you how to be more profitable in your everyday dental procedures.

Learning Objectives: 

• Decide which esthetic restorative procedures to include in your practice
• Class II resins – predictable, non-sensitive, fast, profitable, and easy
• Tooth-colored inlays & onlays, both laboratory made and in-office milled. Learn high-quality techniques and how to receive optimum third-party and patient payment!
• Zirconia-based and full-contour zirconia restorations – are they working?

For more information or to register: Email: courses@pccdental.com
Or go to their website here: https://www.pccdental.com/products/ce-courses/hands-on-courses/restorative-dentistry