2025 Annual Meeting

Attendee Registration is Open!

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Morning Session: 4 CE Hours    |   Afternoon Session: 2-4 CE Hours depending on what Breakout session selected
Registration Fees: IKDDS Member Dentists ($200); IKDDS non-dentist staff ($95); Non-member Dentists ($275); Retired IKDDS Dentists ($100)
Attendee Registration includes breakfast, lunch, and event ticket.

Event Schedule:

• 7:30 am – Check-in; Breakfast served; Vendor Booths open
• 8:15 am – Program Starts
• 8:45 am – “The Epidemic of Cracked Teeth” – Session 1
• 10:20 am – Break; Vendor Booths open
• 10:45 am – “The Epidemic of Cracked Teeth” – Session 2
• 12:30 pm – Lunch; Vendor Booths open
• 1:30 pm – Afternoon Breakout Session Options:
  • Option 1: (+$250) Hands On Clinic with Dr. David Clark
  • Option 2: Ethical Treatment of Patients & Employees with H. Joseph Cohen & William Ramsey (satisfies HIPAA and Ethics licensure requirements)
  • Option3: Insurance Claim Coding: Creating Better Interactions with 3rd Party Payors with Dr. Jeffery Johnston
• 3:30 pm – Event Close (Hands On Clinic may run later than 3:30 pm)

Morning Session Event Description:

Currently the diagnosis and treatment of cracked and fractured teeth is largely symptom based and is therefore often a sad, end stage diagnosis. The fracturing process in one of dentistry’s last great mysteries and is poorly understood throughout the generalist and specialist dental community. In this engaging and entertaining lecture, you will learn to understand and diagnose pathologic cracks utilizing magnification and other modalities, and treat long before symptoms arise or the tooth becomes unsalvageable. Dr. Clark will teach routine identification of early cracks and teach the Clark Class II saucer shaped nonretentive preparation and Fissurotomy Class I that are a significant departure from the G.V. Black preparations that are a leading cause of cracked teeth. He will share his published approach to diagnosis based on 16X magnification, step by step predictable treatment, endodontic and periodontal implications, and when to extract.

Afternoon Breakout Session Options: Attendees will have their choice from the following Breakout Sessions

Option 1: Hands On Clinic: Modern Monolithic Injection Molded Composite Dentistry: Concepts-Materials-Instruments-Techniques
(+$250 Course Fee) *LIMITED AVAILABILITY – only 40 seats available* – Speaker: Dr. David Clark

Say goodbye to layering, condensing, and burnishing! Join Dr Clark to experience a unique approach to modern resin dentistry. Participants will perform injection molding to create ideal margins, rounded emergence profiles, and mirror smooth restorations in two Anterior exercises, Deep Caries and Black Triangles and two Class II exercises. Participants will restore the Clark Class II non-retentive infinity edge preparation with realistic soft tissue dentaforms, Bioclear matrices, 3M Filtek and Filtek One composites. Updated cavity preparations using Komet burs will be shown.

Objectives:
• The 6 steps to achieve rock solid posterior composite contacts in even the most difficult cases.
• Modern matrices, wedges and separators.
• How can you best combine flowable and regular composites with the injection molding technique, and when to use bulkfills.
• The next big thing in esthetics – Treating the “Dreaded Black Triangle” with gap closing, super curvaceous, color coded matrices.
• How to handle heated composites
• Get great, consistent, and predictable cavity preparations with new bur shapes.

Option 2: Ethics and HIPAA Requirements
Speaker: H. Joseph Cohen & Will Ramsey

Attendees will learn about how HIPAA impacts what can and cannot be said around the office by doctors, hygienists, and front office staff, as well as the importance of securing digital and paper files to follow all privacy rules and regulations. The presenters will also go through labor and employment laws that dictate the conduct in the office to employees and discuss from a liability perspective how doctors should talk to their patients regarding treatment and care options.

Learning Objectives:
– Apply HIPAA policies and labor laws to office protocol to ensure compliance.
– Analyze security measures for handling and maintaining patient data digitally and in print.
– Identify terminology that can and can’t be used in an office setting.
– Manage treatment and care option conversations with patients appropriately.

Option 3: Insurance Claim Coding 
Speaker: Dr. Jeffery Johnston

This course will help the practitioner better interact with 3rd party payors to facilitate accurate and timely remuneration of dental claims

Objectives:
Gain a better understanding 3rd party payer systems
The mechanics of Delta Dental of MI, OH and IN
The variables that affect claims payment (policies, contract limitations)
What happens to your dental claims
Common reasons for denial / NBTP
Review specific CDT codes / procedures to help timely payment
Review the nature and treatment of the periodontal diseases and proper coding to facilitate proper treatment and payment
What to do if a claim is not paid

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Special Thank you to our Main Event Sponsor:

Featuring Vendor Booths from:
Applied Technology Group, Barrett McNagny, C3 Construction Services, Galecki Financial Management, IDA, IDA Insurance Trust, IKDAS, Matthew 25, McMillen Health, MedPro Group, Patterson Dental, PNC Bank, State Bank, Stoller Dental Lab, SYM Financial Advisors, and more!