Course Calendar 2025

ECU School of Dental Medicine Continuing Education Series

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All sessions take place in Ross Hall unless otherwise indicated.

January

No courses currently scheduled.

February

Chair-side Pick-up Protocol for Implant Retained Overdentures

By: Dr. Magded Abdelaal, Dr. Lakshmi Senkumar, Dr. Moamen Sheba, and Dr. Asha Sude
Audience: Dentists
Date: Saturday, February 15, 2025
Start: TBD
End: TBD
CEUs: 3
Registration Fee: $750
Registration opening soon.

Objectives:

  • Understand the steps associated in restoring implant overdentures.
  • Select the appropriate locator abutment for an implant overdenture.
  • Perform a chair side pick up of Locator denture caps.
  • Polish the overdenture and selection of appropriate retention of the Locator housing.

Diastema Closure Mastery: Techniques & Innovation

By: Dr. Hanan Elgendy
Audience: Dentists
Date: Saturday, February 22, 2025
Start: TBD
End: TBD
CEUs: 5
Registration Fee: $1,000
Registration opening soon.

Objectives:

  • List the prognosis and treatment options for the diastema closure.
  • List the clinical steps when closing the diastema.
  • Identify different techniques for closing the diastema.
  • Recall the common mistakes of handling the composite material with the diastema closure.

March

No courses currently scheduled.

April

Implant Impression Techniques and Provisionalization

By: Dr. Magded Abdelaal, Dr. Lakshmi Senkumar, Dr. Moamen Sheba, and Dr. Asha Sude
Audience: Dentists
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025
Start: TBD
End: TBD
CEUs: 4
Registration Fee: $900
Registration opening soon.

Objectives:

  • Describe different impression techniques for implants
  • Recognize the indications for and differences between the “open” and “closed” tray impression techniques.
  • Recognize the indications and technique for a customized impression coping in the esthetic zone.
  • Describe indications for implant provisionalization
  • Identify the techniques and steps to fabricate an implant provisional with an adequate emergence profile.

May

No courses currently scheduled.

June

All Ceramic Screw Retained Implant Crown Restoration with Digital Workflow Using Scan Body and Cerec System

By: Dr. Magded Abdelaal, Dr. Lakshmi Senkumar, Dr. Moamen Sheba, and Dr. Asha Sude
Audience: Dentists
Date: Saturday, June 21, 2025
Start: TBD
End: TBD
CEUs: 4
Registration Fee: $1,000
Registration opening soon.

Objectives:

  • Describe digital workflow of implant restoration
  • Scan implants using scan bodies.
  • Design and mill screw retained implant crowns.
  • Cementation protocol for all ceramic crowns on Titanium-base abutments.

July

No courses currently scheduled.

August

Peri-implant Tissue Health and Stability: Treatment Modalities to Obtain, Maintain, and Restore

By: Dr.Alex Gillone and Dr. Acela Martinez Luna
Audience: Dentists and Specialists
Date: Saturday, August 9, 2025
Start: TBD
End: TBD
CEUs: 4
Registration Fee: $300
Registration opening soon.

Objectives:

  • Review current clinical evidence and materials used to achieve long-term tissue stability and peri-implant health.
  • Analyze peri-implant health from the treatment execution.
  • Review protocols to treat peri-implant diseases and strategies for prevention.

September

Lens to Impress: Comprehensive Training in Dental Photography

By: Dr. Hanan Elgendy
Audience:  Dentists, Dental Hygienists, and Dental Assistants
Date: Saturday, September 13, 2025
Start: TBD
End: TBD
CEUs: 4
Registration Fee: Dentists $900, Dental Hygienists $350, and Dental Assistants $250
Registration opening soon.

Objectives:

  • Become familiar with digital SLR cameras.
  • Learn essential principles for taking high-quality clinical photos. Learn when and how to use retractors and mirrors.
  • Learn practical skills for taking good intra- and extra-oral photographs (hands-on session).
  • Learn several tips and tricks and learn how to avoid common pitfalls.

October

Transforming Smiles with Technology: Advances Digital Smile Design Course

By: Dr. Hanan Elgendy
Audience: Dentists
Date: Saturday, October 25, 2025
Start: TBD
End: TBD
CEUs: 5
Registration Fee: $1,000
Registration opening soon.

Objectives:

  • Identify the relationship of achieving a successful, healthy, and functional results with the esthetics diagnosis and smile design.
  • Identify the principles of smile design to be used to develop an ideal diagnostic wax-up.
  • Recall the differences of the digital and regular smile design.
  • Recognize how to transfer the information in the diagnostic wax-up into a completed provisional that rivals the final restoration.

November

No courses currently scheduled.

December

No courses currently scheduled.

East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition.