Continuing dental education

The UF College of Dentistry Office of Continuing Dental Education is committed to dental excellence. We pride ourselves on providing world-class courses, backed by quality and outstanding customer service.


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Endodontics in Today’s Practice

Up-to-date and clinically relevant information on all aspects of root canal therapy, including diagnosis, access, instrumentation, irrigation, obturation, and post-endodontic restorations. Participants will leave the course with the knowledge and the tools to improve the predictability and effectiveness of their endodontic procedures. This course will review the art of locating canals, obtaining isolation, initial posterior endodontic therapy, and the importance of patient positioning. Participants will also learn current information streams to determine when to save the compromised tooth.

October 4, 2024
Seminole, FL

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Orthodontics for the General Dentist

This comprehensive course provided by orthodontists is designed to enhance the general practitioner’s fundamental knowledge of facial growth and development, to facilitate the skills needed to identify malocclusions, and to develop a working understanding of orthodontic diagnosis and treatment. Additionally, the practitioner will be taught to recognize and treat occlusal and skeletal problems indicating interceptive, limited, and comprehensive orthodontic treatment, as well as recognize more complex and severe occlusal and skeletal problems, which should be referred to an orthodontic specialist. Clinical skills involving fixed orthodontic treatments (braces) and Invisalign techniques will be reviewed. Workshops include hands-on experience bonding brackets, changing archwires, and placing finishing bends. Workshops at which the participants will gain hands-on experience bonding brackets, analyzing lateral cephalograms, and placing finishing bends will also be provided.


November 1, 2024- 6 seats remaining
Gainesville, FL

Ortho

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Dental Fall Weekend

This 1.5-hour course explores post-operative pain management and is designed for healthcare professionals seeking to enhance their understanding and application of pain control strategies. Attendees will gain knowledge of the physiology of pain, non-pharmacologic pain management techniques, and pharmacologic pain management.

November 15, 2024
Gainesville, FL

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Pediatric Dentistry Workshop: Don’t Be Afraid of the Pulp!

This 8-hour continuing education course will provide the clinician with a comprehensive, evidence-based, didactic, and clinical (simulation) experience in diagnosing pulp status and conservatively treating deep carious lesions and traumatic dental injuries affecting vital primary and young permanent teeth. New materials and restorative techniques will be introduced, discussed, and practiced.
At the end of the course, participants will feel more confident in treating their young patients using modern concepts to increase treatment success and patient satisfaction.

January 11, 2025-6 seats open
Gainesville, FL

Pedo

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FL AGD MasterTrack: UF Comprehensive Dental Program


The collaborative initiative between the UF College of Dentistry and the Florida Academy of General Dentistry marks a significant milestone in the realm of dental education. This pioneering Joint provider represents a dynamic partnership to deliver a cutting-edge, two-year postgraduate course in comprehensive dentistry. Designed with the utmost precision, this program is tailored to empower general practitioners with a meticulously organized and structured educational journey through the expansive field of dental sciences.

Invest in yourself and seek your FAGD, MAGD, and CDP certificate from the University of Florida.

June 2024 -June 2026
Gainesville, FL

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Basic Airway Management Course for Dentists

Any dentist performing sedation or providing care to a sedated patient should be able to provide airway management and ventilation for a patient encountering respiratory distress. The goal of the basic airway course is to educate the practitioner in basic airway assessment via history and physical assessment of the patient and to review relevant anatomy, physiology, and equipment. The practitioner will learn the motor skills necessary to initiate basic airway management with regard to relieving obstruction, insertion of airway adjuncts, mask ventilation, and intubation. Motor skills will be developed under supervision utilizing simulation. Participants will complete a post-course evaluation of their airway skills.

January 25, 2025
Gainesville, FL

Airways management

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Full-Arch CBCT Guided Surgery and Immediate Restoration – Smile in a Box

This two-day course will focus on the technology utilized to plan and order (“smile in a box”) CBCT-guided templates and provisional restorations for treating the full-arch patient. Participants will be given presentations demonstrating the step-wise patient evaluation and planning process, followed by hands-on sessions executing the principles taught. Participants will also experience using the co-DiagnostiX software to import a DICOM file and merge it with a dual-scan prosthesis. In addition, techniques for segmenting and planning implant placement and abutment selection will be covered. On a patient-simulated model, the participant will use CBCT-generated stackable templates to place four dental implants, followed by abutment placement and indexing of a pre-fabricated interim restoration. All course participants will keep the hands-on model as a valuable patient education tool for their practice.


January 31, 2024
Gainesville, FL

Smile in a Box

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22nd Oral Pathology and Radiology Symposium

This seminar will present a potpourri of interesting case studies in oral and maxillofacial pathology and radiology covering a variety of conditions encountered in general and specialty dental practices. The presenters will utilize an interactive audience participation platform (such as Poll Everywhere) which will enable participants to anonymously respond and interact with the presenters throughout the presentations. In addition, the lecture will be customized by the audience responses and questions to better facilitate learning.

January 31-February 1, 2025
Orlando, FL

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Orthodontic Assistant Training Course

This two-day course is designed to train and develop dental assistants with little to no experience in Orthodontics. Participants will develop the skills necessary to assist the Orthodontist with their everyday practice.

February 8-9, 2025
Gainesville, FL

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FLAGD MasterTrack Course

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This two-year postgraduate course in comprehensive dentistry offers something for everyone and meets the requirements for AGD Mastership.

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Director of Continuing Dental Education

Dr. Alex J. Delgado

Delgado, a clinical associate professor in the UF College of Dentistry's Department of Restorative Dental Sciences, was appointed the Director of Continuing Dental Education in May 2021.

Delgado has been with the UF College of Dentistry since 2014. He served as Division Director of Operative Dentistry for five years.

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