Mark Malterud, DDS
Courses Offered
Mark Malterud, DDS is an accomplished speaker available to speak at your event for half-day, full-day and multi-day lectures, custom courses, and hands-on workshops.
From Here to Eternity: How to Set Up Your Treatments and Your Practice for Long Term Success
This lecture will present a diverse mix of diagnostic, restorative, and complex treatment protocols that embody the philosophy that the best dentistry is no dentistry. Early detection of dental pathologies and the use of minimally invasive procedures can set a patient up for long term oral success. The materials, equipment, and techniques that have led to nearly 35 years of clinical successes will be explored, along with many of the problems along the way. Learning from these problems and the techniques used torecover can offer clinicians important learning points.
When the National Institute of Health prints that composite resins only last 5.7 years and the main reason for replacement is recurrent decay and fractures, we need to step back and examine how this impacts our patients and practices. The reasons for this lack of success will be presented and techniques for creating long term success will be taught. More complex care will also be presented that follows along the lines of this minimally invasive philosophy.
Learning Objectives:
When the National Institute of Health prints that composite resins only last 5.7 years and the main reason for replacement is recurrent decay and fractures, we need to step back and examine how this impacts our patients and practices. The reasons for this lack of success will be presented and techniques for creating long term success will be taught. More complex care will also be presented that follows along the lines of this minimally invasive philosophy.
Learning Objectives:
- This course will delve into the full palate of dental care, from diagnostics to final restoratives and maintenance protocols that create and maintain long term success with minimal impact on the patients’ health
- Minimally invasive preparation designs, restorative techniques, and subsequent equipment utilized will be presented to help the participants tweak and fine tune their current procedures to help their patients
- Course participants will understand biomimetic restorative treatment protocols for more severely destroyed teeth to enhance long term success
- Through complex diagnostics and case presentations the participants will understand not only how they can transition patients into more definitive care but also how to maintain these cases for long term health
- Various advanced diagnostic technologies will be presented that will help the participants understand how these technologies can diagnose early to prevent future complex care and to intervene early to enhance success
Creative Problem Solving: Economic Solutions That Don’t Compromise the Quality of Restorative Care
Often, we are presented with challenges to provide quality care for our patients in the form of rampant caries control, emergency fractures, or even emergency same-day restorations. Couple these challenges with the patients’ budget restrictions, and you find yourself thinking hard about how to provide services that will accomplish a satisfactory resolution.
This lecture will present a technique of using a Nanohybrid heat and pressure cured composite crown shell to rapidly fabricate a high quality long term restoration. With this procedure in your little bag of tricks, many of the day to day issues that you deal with in your practice can have a simple solution that fits any patients’ economic situation. This very inexpensive technique, which can be mostly delegated to your team members and fabricated in your office lab, will help solve these emergency challenges. Using subtle variations of techniques that assistants are currently trained on to fabricate temporary restorations, these same team members can create a more permanent restoration.
Learning Objectives:
This lecture will present a technique of using a Nanohybrid heat and pressure cured composite crown shell to rapidly fabricate a high quality long term restoration. With this procedure in your little bag of tricks, many of the day to day issues that you deal with in your practice can have a simple solution that fits any patients’ economic situation. This very inexpensive technique, which can be mostly delegated to your team members and fabricated in your office lab, will help solve these emergency challenges. Using subtle variations of techniques that assistants are currently trained on to fabricate temporary restorations, these same team members can create a more permanent restoration.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will be introduced to a new concept of fabrication of an in office laboratory composite resin crown that their team can accomplish in a very short period of time
- Participants will understand the many situations where the composite resin crown can help them provide their patients with a viable lower cost alternative to their current crown techniques
- The economic viability of a resin crown will be discussed, showing how it can be a better alternative, in many instances, over a CAD/CAM restoration
- Participants will understand the entire process from diagnosis to fabrication and be able to return to their practice ready to work with their team to delegate the creation of new solutions for their patients
- Hands-on participants will actually have an opportunity to fabricate a crown from a prepared tooth on special models so that they will get the full experience of the process
Restorative Centric: You Need to Start Somewhere
This lecture will explore the use of an anterior midpoint stop splint (AMPS) as a starting point to deciding what directions to take on a restorative case. By recognizing where the joint wants to be in its most relaxed position, we can establish records that guide us along the restorative path to a beautiful healthy smile. Knowledge of the basic anatomy of the joint and muscles of mastication will be taught to help the participants understand the physiology of function and parafunction. An AMPS such as the NTI will not only establish a restorative starting point but can also help many of the patients in your practice who suffer from migraines or tension headaches.
This course will also cover the indications and contraindications of use of the AMPS and how the clinician can problem solve using the signs and symptoms that manifest from the devices.
This course will also cover the indications and contraindications of use of the AMPS and how the clinician can problem solve using the signs and symptoms that manifest from the devices.
Learning Objectives:
- Walk away with a better understanding of joint anatomy and how excess muscle activity can trigger tension headaches and migrainous activities
- Gain a step by step approach to achieve predictable results from understanding a starting reproducible jaw position
- Learn to establish the vertical dimension of occlusion, whether for a denture or a full mouth reconstruction, and find a relaxed and comfortable long-term position for the patient
- Understand the relationship between migrainous activity and nocturnal parafunctional activity and that this is all an extension of sleep disorders
- Learn the steps to fabricate an immediate in-office AMPS and adjust it properly
- Learn the technique for creating a laboratory fabricated device, as many of these patients don’t want to go a night without wearing their AMPS and often desire a back up
- See varied uses of the device and understand how each of the different designs can help in creating a more comfortable patient
Creating Predictable Results When “Opportunity” Happens: Delivering Success When Emergencies Knock or Your Daily Treatment Takes an Unexpected Twist
Stimulate your creativity as we examine how to handle situations that arise during routine treatment, ranging from minor to complex. Learn how to turn potential failures into success as we delve into all aspects of patient care from diagnostics to advanced restorative care. Let my 35 years of screw-ups and lessons learned help guide you to more successful strategies in patient care.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- How new technologies can be incorporated to help problem solve complex situations
- New and old products that can make our lives easier during routine dental treatments
- How to leverage the inevitable failures that are associated with problems created by neglect and poor home care
- To develop techniques that help to prevent these unintended consequences
Super-Generalist: The Pathway to Independence and Fulfillment
Super Generalist is a term that came across my radar screen over 35 years ago while I was in dental school.
Upon graduation, I resolved to make it a personal goal to seek for my entire dental career. Having trained heavily over the years to master everything from basic bonding to complex implant and prosthetic restoratives dentistry, this resolve has allowed me to help a lot of my patients and keep a lot of dentistry that might have been referred out within the confines of our office. This lecture will explore the avenues available to expand your dental school training beyond the limits you may feel that you as a general dentist are restricted to.
Upon graduation, I resolved to make it a personal goal to seek for my entire dental career. Having trained heavily over the years to master everything from basic bonding to complex implant and prosthetic restoratives dentistry, this resolve has allowed me to help a lot of my patients and keep a lot of dentistry that might have been referred out within the confines of our office. This lecture will explore the avenues available to expand your dental school training beyond the limits you may feel that you as a general dentist are restricted to.
Through presentations of various cases from simple to complex, utilizing technologies and techniques learned through experience and continuing education, participants will learn how they can help more of their patients and keep many procedures within the confines of their practices.
We are not all interested in being everything to everybody but all of us are interested in learning more in areas that are of interest to us or that we have never been exposed to in depth. This course will help expand your knowledge into areas that you may not have thought about before.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- A better understanding of what procedures they may choose to perform for their patients
- Exposure to many new products, techniques, and procedures which can make the office more profitable
- A better idea of areas that they may want to seek out training for in order to enhance their knowledge and provide services that their patients are seeking
- A better understanding of places they may go to seek out advanced training
- A better understanding of procedures that they can do if trained appropriately
- Fewer limitations on the scope of their care and heightened confidence to expand their menu of services and help more of their patients
In this presentation, Dr. Gupta shares the most effective strategies for restoring general dentists to communicate, plan, and market dental implants in their office. This lecture will provide fully-implementable steps from the very beginning of the process, gaining patient interest and trust, to the most cutting-edge techniques and solutions in the realm of dental implant restorative therapy.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Discover communication and case presentation that will get patients excited about implant therapy
- Explain the ideal communication process between surgical specialist and restorative dentist, maximizing successful and predictable long-term restorations
- Learn the newest and most dynamic strategies that are effectively being used by the leaders in dental implantology
- Understand the difficulties and potential conflict when introducing a new service/profitcenter in an already busy office, and learn steps to reduce that frustration
When faced with either partial or full edentulism, the options that are available to most patients are often limited to either conventional dentures, which are poorly retained, or implant-retained fixed prostheses. These prostheses can be very expensive, complicated, and stressful for the dentist. Implant retained removable dentures are a wonderful “middleground” option. The only problem is that they require knowledge and comfort with all the tiny parts and pieces needed for successful execution.
In this entertaining and highly practical presentation, Dr. Gupta simplifies this process, providing a simple, step-by-step guide from the new patient consult all the way to final seating.
Learning Objectives:
This course is ideally positioned as a full-day course with a hands-on component. If needed, it can be compressed to a half-day course. Content is relevant to dentists and their teams.
In this entertaining and highly practical presentation, Dr. Gupta simplifies this process, providing a simple, step-by-step guide from the new patient consult all the way to final seating.
Learning Objectives:
- Gain a general overview of all long-span replacement options, understanding the benefits and limitations of each
- Discover the long-term benefits that implant retained removable options uniquely create
- Attain clear understanding of the details, steps, and supplies needed from start to finish
- Understanding several internal and external marketing strategies to individuals in your community who are frustrated with their ill-fitting dentures
This course is ideally positioned as a full-day course with a hands-on component. If needed, it can be compressed to a half-day course. Content is relevant to dentists and their teams.
Dental case acceptance and refusal often cannot be rationally explained. Our profession has taught us that the ability to smile and properly function is tremendously valuable, yet we often find patients seemingly incapable of understanding such value. Instead of negatively judging these patients, it is important that we understand what is actually going on inside our patient's heads at the time when complex dental recommendations are made. By understanding our patients, we will become much more successful at getting them to understand us and realize the value of what we have to offer.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Discover communication and case presentation that will get patients excited about implant therapy
- Develop a patient-centered, emotion-based clinical exam, shedding the coldness and objectivity taught in dental school
- Understand the major psychological barriers preventing patients from moving forward with treatment, and learn the best ways to uncover and empathize with those concerns
- Discover the value in starting the new patient interview during the initial phone call
- Return to your office with immediately actionable tools that will get your patients to say "yes" to complex full mouth treatment
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