Comprehensive Orthodontics for the Family and Pediatric Dentist

with Dr. Howard Friedman, DDS

Dates: Thursday - Tuesday, October 13-18, 2011    

Not providing orthodontics services yet? 

Taken other courses and still find yourself in a bit of a fog?

This is your opportunity to participate in a program that will open new horizons and provide excellent predictable orthodontic treatment results for your patients.  Start treating your patients immediately.  Dr. Friedman offers an exciting, comprehensive, intensive program for motivated family and pediatric dentists who wish to provide expanded, high quality, orthodontics services.  This is one of the few orthodontic continuing education programs presented by an orthodontist exclusively at universities across the country.  To insure that participants learn and master the principles of orthodontics with minimal loss of productive office time, this limited attendance, “hands-on” program is presented in a continuous six-day format.  Upon completion, you will be invited to participate in our follow-up advanced orthodontic study club to provide continuing support of your orthodontic endeavors.  For the last twenty years, dentists have come from all over the country to attend Dr. Friedman’s seminars.

End the mystery of orthodontics and embark upon a new and exciting part of your dental career.  During these sessions you will experience the most enjoyable, profitable, stimulating and challenging time you have ever encountered in a continuing education course.  Participants have said "Best program available.”  “Most valuable CE course ever.”

YOU WILL LEARN:
•  Diagnosis and treatment planning                
•  Straight wire appliance therapy
•  Recognition, etiology, classification              
•  "State of the art" predictable treatment results
•  Prevention, interception, and treatment        
•  Six Keys to Normal Occlusion
•  Cephalometric anatomical landmarks         
•  Orthodontic force vectors & mechanics
•  Cephalometric tracing & analysis                   
•  Case selection and treatment timing
•  Understanding growth & development           
•  Proper banding and bonding procedures
•  Transitional & permanent dentition treatment       
•  Use of passive self ligating brackets
•  Modified, controlled Serial extraction              
•  When to refer- Case Selection
•  Transitional dentition space analysis             
•  Use of arch wires, elastics, springs, auxiliaries
•  Functional appliance therapy and indications       
•  Treatment of extraction and non-extraction cases
•  Removable appliance treatment indications         
•  Administration, management &  incorporating orthodontics into your practice

Participants will receive a complete course manual and course kit which includes a complete set of brackets, necessary bands and auxiliaries.  You will be required to bring a minimal number of instruments.  List of items with source and cost will be sent with confirmation.  Available on request.

Dates& Times:
(Thursday - Tuesday):  October 13-18, 2011 
Time:  8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Credit:  48 hours
Tuition:  $5880.00 Includes manual, lunch, parking and course kit.            
Deposit:  $800 is required to hold your position
Location:  OHSU School of Dentistry - Continuing Dental Education

Special Offer:  Save $1000 off total tuition if you are one of the first 5 participants that sign up and  make final payments on or before the first day of course.  Each participant is responsible for the entire tuition whether or not you attend all sessions.

Speaker:  Howard D. Friedman, DDS, received his dental degree at New York University and then served a residency in a Veterans Administration hospital.  He earned his graduate orthodontic certification at New York University and served a tour as an orthodontist with the US Army.  He then went into the private specialty practice of orthodontics.  He is a member of the American Association of Orthodontists and the American Dental Association.  For many years, he was a delegate to the State House of Delegates.  Dr. Friedman has been presenting courses and seminars at Universities across the United States.  This is Dr. Friedman's 21st  anniversary of presenting his programs at OHSU.