Many people need dental care are simply unable to get into the office. This presentation, led by Lindzy Goodman, DMD, of House Call Dentists, illustrates this problem in her illuminating lecture. A case study of a fee-for-service practice over a period of nearly four years found a large unmet need for house calls, an increase in house calls, and the need to convert house call patients into hospital cases. The results reveal a great opportunity for dentists to utilize house calls and their hospital skill sets to treat the vastly underserved homebound population. The hospital allows for higher quality, restorative dentistry in a controlled environment (especially for the medically compromised), prevents dentist and patient burnout, and increases practice collection. Participants can attend this lecture on Saturday, April 4th.  

Want to learn about cutting-edge technology in dentistry? Here’s your chance! This presentation will be led by Kimberly Espinoza MPH, DDS, FADPD, DABSCD, of the University Of Washington School Of Dentistry. Attendees will learn how patients with developmental disabilities (PDD) often have difficulty with dental radiographs. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an alternative cutting-edge imaging technology. A light source is projected over the teeth and images are reconstructed from the echo of the projected wave. OCT has higher sensitivity and diagnostic power than radiographs for the detection of interproximal caries. However, there is no commercial OCT dental imaging system. This study used prototype probes for dental OCT imaging for PDD. OCT was relatively comfortable and painless compared to dental radiographs. The experience gained in this project can aid in development of commercial OCT dental systems. Attendees can take part in this presentation on Friday, April 3rd. 

This presentation comes to you from the frontiers of medical and dental knowledge. This lecture will be led by Gurinder Singh, DDS, of Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) is a genetic developmental disorder characterized by slow growth before and after birth leading to short stature along with intellectual disability. This creates many challenges for the health care providers and affects the patient’s ability to receive care in a conventional dental operatory setting. The patient highlighted in this presentation is a 40-year-old female with CdLS. Teeth and jaws can be affected in patients with CdLS due to poor growth and development leading to higher risk of caries, malocclusion and greater prevalence of periodontal disease. This lecture can be experienced on Friday, April 3rd.