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Fall 2025 Dental Conference


 
North Central Iowa District 
State Dental Association  
 
Monday, September 15, 2025
 
NIACC Auditorium
500 College Drive
Mason City, IA
Presenting...
Thomas Dudney, DMD

Thomas Dudney, DMD

Thomas Dudney, DMD is a 1977 graduate of the University of Alabama at the Birmingham School of Dentistry. He has previously served as the Clinical Director for the Aesthetic Advantage hands-on programs taught by Dr. Larry Rosenthal at New York University and the Eastman Dental Clinic in London.

Presently he is the clinical director of the Pacific Aesthetic Continuum (PAC) hands-on programs. In addition to teaching hands-on programs, he has presented workshops and lectures at dental meetings and has authored several articles on aesthetic and restorative dentistry.

He is a member of the American Dental Association, the Alabama Dental Association, and the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. He is also a fellow of the American Society for Dental Aesthetics and a Diplomate of the American Board of Aesthetic Dentistry as well as a member of Catapult Education’s Speakers Bureau.

Agenda

  • 8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.

    Registration & Refreshments

  • 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

    What's A Dentist To Do?: Diagnosis Treatment Options & Rehabilitation of Difficult & Unusual Cases  |  Thomas Dudney, DMD

—Break—

  • 10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

    What's A Dentist To Do?: Diagnosis Treatment Options & Rehabilitation of Difficult & Unusual Cases  |  Thomas Dudney, DMD

  • 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

    Lunch & Business Meeting
    (Registration for afternoon session)

  • 12:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

    MACdentistry: The What, When, How, and Why of Current Indirect Restorative Materials, Adhesives, & Cements  |  Thomas Dudney, DMD

—Break—

  • 2:30 p.m. - 4: p.m.

    MACdentistry: The What, When, How, and Why of Current Indirect Restorative Materials, Adhesives, & Cements  |  Thomas Dudney, DMD

Registration Information
  • Dentist 
    Both AM & PM Sessions  |  $80

    Lunch included

  • Dentist 
    AM Session Only  |  $75

    Lunch included

  • Dentist 
    PM Session Only  |  $75

    Lunch included

  • Dental Asst./Hygienist/Office Staff  |
    Both AM & PM Sessions  |  $62

    Lunch included

  • Dental Asst./Hygienist/Office Staff
    AM Session  |  $48

    Lunch not included

  • Dental Asst./Hygienist/Office Staff 
    PM Session  |  $48

    Lunch not included

CEUs
    • Professionals attending only one of the AM or PM sessions: 3.0 CEHs
    • Professionals attending both the AM & PM sessions: 6.0 CEHs
    NOTE: Participants must be present for the entire program to receive Continuing Education Credit.

  • Continuing Education providers are not required to submit course information to the Dental Board for pre-approval. It is the licensee’s responsibility to determine if the continuing education program they attend meets the requirements of their professional licensure board. As a courtesy, NIACC lists contact hours for programs anticipated to qualify for professional continuing education.

 

AM SESSION

What’s a Dentist to Do?: Diagnosis, Treatment Options, & Rehabilitation of Difficult and Unusual Cases

Sometimes the restorative dentist encounters clinical situations that are out of the ordinary and can often pose a challenge to treatment planning. This lecture will examine several such cases in order to explore treatment options and develop treatment plans, often utilizing a multi-disciplinary approach.  Treatment results will be demonstrated along with helpful clinical tips on: material selection, how to determine incisal edge position, intra-oral composite mock-ups, opening bites, taking CR records, avoiding biologic width violations, fabricating and evaluating provisional restorations, multiple unit adhesive cementation, bonding to porcelain in the mouth, and fine-tuning occlusal adjustments.

At the conclusion of the program, attendees will be able to list treatment options and examine clinical results for:
  • Primary failure of eruption
  • Class III anterior crossbite
  • Matching a dark anterior tooth
  • The gummy smile
  • Traumatic avulsion
  • The aging face

PM SESSION

MACdentistry: The What, When, How, and Why of Current Indirect Restorative Materials, Adhesives, and Cements

As restorative materials, adhesives, and cements continue to evolve, change, and improve, it becomes more difficult for restorative dentists to keep up with the latest advances. With increasingly higher patient expectations for long term clinical success, it is important that the dentist has an understanding and working knowledge of these materials in order to make sound decisions. This half day lecture will discuss factors affecting the selection of indirect restorative materials that will satisfy the aesthetic and functional goals of the patient as conservatively as possible. Cases will be used to demonstrate the use of these materials, bonding agents, and cements in different clinical situations.

Learning Objectives:
  • List the factors affecting material selection.
  • Differentiate between monolithic vs. layered restorations.
  • Combine aesthetics and function with emax lithium disilicate.
  • Describe the advantages and disadvantages of full contour zirconia.
  • Present the benefits of the new universal adhesives.
  • Describe which cements to use, when, and why.
  • Describe how to treat the tooth and the restoration when conventionally cementing or adhesively bonding.
  • List the long-term benefits of bioactive cements.

Presented at:

NIACC Muse Norris Conference Center
500 College Drive
Mason City, IA
 
In partnership with the North Central Iowa District State Dental Association
 

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