2024 Virtual Summer Meeting - International Association for Orthodontics

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IAO Orthodontic Refresher Course

Dr. Mike Lowry

Recorded Lecture CE Hours: 6

Release Date: 09/18/2024

Expiration Date: 10/18/2024

Course Description:
Dr. Lowry will be providing an orthodontic refresher course. This lecture targets practitioners who have recently finished an introductory course and would like a quick review. It is also perfect for those that have not been to an orthodontic course for an extended period of time and want a refresher on the critical points.

Outcomes:

-Diagnosis
-Records
-Ceph Analysis
-Facial Analysis
-Models/Photos
-Early and Fixed Treatment
-Airway and TMJ awareness

Background of Speaker:
I have been in practice for over 30 years and have been involved in orthodontics since taking my first course with Dr. Rondeau in 1987. Over the time since then, I have studied with Rondeau Seminars, United States Dental Institute, various instructors teaching TMD and facial pain, a facial beauty institute, and the IAO (International Association for Orthodontics) in an instructors institute and a ground breaking pediatric OSA program. I currently hold the designation of Master Senior Instructor with the IAO. I have served as president of the IAO and was on the executive committee for 5 years. Until recently, I was a member of the International Board of Orthodontics which is responsible to design and administer the requirements for members to achieve the level of diplomate in the International Association for Orthodontics. I am currently serving as education chair for the IAO. My practice consisted of roughly 50 % orthodontics and I treat all phases of

orthodontics including orthopedics, TMD, and sleep related breathing disorders. I have achieved the level of Diplomat in the IAO tier advancement program and served as an examiner for students involved in undertaking that process. I am also a reviewer for the peer review program for the IAO journal articles awaiting submission. I am currently assisting Dr. Rondeau with a 4 session level 1 orthodontic program in Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton. I am the mentor for 3 study clubs in Alberta and one in Vancouver. I have presented at conferences in several locations including India, Philippines, Poland, Las Vegas, Milwaukee, Austin, Scotsdale, and Newark, to name a few. I very much enjoy speaking to dental professionals.

Conflict of Commercial or Promotional Interests: None

Areas in Orthodontics Well Suited to General Dentists

Dr. H. Michael Sefranek

Recorded Lecture CE Hours: 2.0

Release Date: 09/18/2024

Expiration Date: 10/18/2024

Course Description:
This course’s central focus is on identifying orthodontics treatments that best fit a general practioners practice. Dr. H. Michael Sefranek will cover Preprosthetic Orthodontics – Adult orthodontics combined with crowns, bridges, and implants. His lecture will also incorporate Orthodontics combined with Myofunctional Therapy, which is often done during Phase I in mixed dentition. If the Myofunctional Issues are not addressed…the case will relapse. Dr. Sefranek will cover Mandibular non-surgical Advancement Advancement / Increasing Vertical treatment for OSA, TMD health, addressing ClassII as well. Finally he will explore Early Treatment

Outcomes:

-Demostrating Forward Facial Growth Enabling Straightwire Mechanotherapy
-Avoiding:
- -Relapse, Gingival Recession, Sleep Apnea, Root Resorption, TMD Dysfunction
-Encouraging Proper Airway Development
-Non-Extraction, Non-IPR, Non-Retractive approach
-Anterior Centric Early Treatment with coupling & torque control
-Guided Eruption
-Non-Lab based straightwire approach, avoids lab fees
-Piggyback wire arch development
-Anterior Maxillary Alveolar development

This course displays a technique based on over 25 years of attending and video reviewing orthodontic CE at the local and national levels at approximately 80 credits per year. The lecturer has contracted speakers for the IAO New England for close to 20 years and has made it a point to incorporate elements from many of the presented techniques to develop this treatment philosophy, which has recently gained popularity due to its focus on addressing OSA & TMD. The approach is based on over 20 years of photographically documented cases and case follow-ups.

Background of Speaker:
H. Michael Sefranek DMD, MAGD completed his DMD degree at the University of Connecticut in 1989. The presenter has lectured on orthodontics at New York University School of Dentistry (where he completed a 2 year continuing education program in orthodontics), the New York County Dental Society, the Rhode Island AGD (Academy of General Dentistry), the International Association for Orthodontics (IAO) national meeting, and IAO New England (where he has taught the Advanced in-house Seminar Series of 10 lectures spanning 2 years). He is past president of the IAO New England Section, past president of the Rhode Island AGD, as well as past president of New England Mastertrack. Dr. Sefranek has been the National Delegate, Marketing Director/Webmaster and Speaker Coordinator for the IAO New England Section for the past 18 years. He has also been a clinical faculty member at the Advanced Education in General Dentistry program at University of Connecticut where he lectured on cosmetic dentistry and has been a clinical research associate with the PEARL Network at NYU School of Dentistry. The lecturer has owned a cosmetic / orthodontic & pediatric, general dental practice since 1991 and completed construction on a new 7,500 sq. ft. dental office building in 2017.

Conflict of Commercial or Promotional Interests: None

Start Easy!

Dr. Hannah Szekely

Recorded Lecture CE Hours: 2.0

Release Date: 09/18/2024

Expiration Date: 10/18/2024

Course Descpription:
Dr. Hanah Szekely has selected numerous Class I, Class II, and Class II cases. The selections move from cases suited for less experienced practitioners to more complex treatments. The course highlights one truth in orthodontics. No matter how similar the case, each patient is different. Practicing orthodotnics is not just straightenting teeth, it is about changing lives.

Outcomes:

-Case selection
-Learn about different bracket types,
-Bracketing
-Case finishing
-Retention

Background of Speaker:
Dr. Olna Hanna Szekely graduated from Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie, Targu Mures, Romania with a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree and from Boston University with a Doctor Medicine Dentaire degree. Dr Szekely is a Diplomate and Certified Instructor with the IAO and a member of ADA and ISDS. She has been practicing orthodontics for 15 years in the Chicagoland area- treating children, adolescents, and adults. Her passion is management of dental development with TWO-PHASE treatment. Correcting malocclusions early by using a patient’s growth potential allows her to achieve stellar results with great function and balanced beautiful faces. Her personal philosophy of orthodontics is based on correcting malocclusions early, taking advantage of the patient’s growth, and finishing with a second phase as needed, most of the time with non-extraction techniques.