Register now for our Live Distance CE Program on March 13th.
Register here: https://apps.dentistry.uiowa.edu/CodCERegistration/Home/CELogin
Cost: $99
CE Credit Hours: 4
8:30 am - 10:30 am | Dental Trauma Preparedness: Equipping Your Office for Effective Emergency Management
Course Description
Dental trauma can occur at any time, and a well-prepared dental team can make the difference between saving and losing a tooth. This two-hour course focuses on practical strategies to ensure your dental office is ready to manage traumatic injuries efficiently and confidently. Participants will learn how to establish protocols, organize emergency kits, train staff for rapid response, and implement evidence-based treatment for common traumatic injuries. Through case-based discussion and actionable checklists, this course empowers clinicians to create a trauma-ready environment that improves patient outcomes and reduces stress during emergencies.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
1. Develop a dental office trauma preparedness plan, including staff roles and communication protocols.
2. Assemble and maintain an emergency trauma kit with essential materials and medications.
3. Apply evidence-based emergency management techniques for common injuries such as avulsion, luxation, and fractures.
4. Train the dental team for rapid response and effective triage during trauma cases.
5. Implement documentation and medico-legal best practices for traumatic dental injuries.
6. Plan for follow-up care and referrals to optimize long-term treatment success.
7. Fabricate effective dental mouthguards for use in athletic practices and competitions.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Matthew Geneser, D.D.S., is clinical professor of pediatric dentistry and full-time faculty member in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry. A native central Iowan, he attended the University of Iowa (BS 2002, DDS 2006) before obtaining his certificate in pediatric dentistry from St. Joseph Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island (2008). After a short stint in private practice, Dr. Geneser took on a full-time academic role at the University of Iowa in 2011.
Dr. Geneser served as graduate program director at the University of Iowa Department of Pediatric Dentistry from 2012-2019 and currently directs the undergraduate pediatric dentistry clerkship experience for dental students. He also currently serves as a consultant for the AAPD’s Scientific Program Committee as well as being a board examiner for the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry and a member of the ABPD’s Qualifying Examination Committee.
10:30 am – 12:30 pm | Beyond the Handpiece: How Digital Treatment Planning Is Reshaping Dental Education
Course Description
Digital dentistry is often introduced as a collection of tools, yet its greatest impact lies in how it transforms clinical thinking, decision-making, and collaboration. This two-hour course explores digital treatment planning as a cognitive framework rather than a technology tutorial, emphasizing how structured planning enhances education for students, faculty, patients, and dental technicians alike.
Through real student cases participants will examine how digital workflows support facial and occlusal analysis, promote additive and minimally invasive decision-making, and improve interdisciplinary communication. The course highlights how integrating digital planning into clinical education helps students visualize outcomes, avoid overtreatment, and develop confidence before irreversible procedures are performed.
By blending traditional analog principles with modern digital workflows, this course demonstrates how dental education can move beyond procedural training to cultivate reflective clinicians who plan comprehensively, communicate effectively, and deliver predictable, patient-centered care.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
1. Describe digital treatment planning as a thinking framework that supports clinical reasoning, not merely a technological workflow.
2. Apply facial, dental, and occlusal analysis principles through digital wax-ups to guide esthetic and functional decision-making.
3. Differentiate additive versus subtractive treatment strategies and explain how digital visualization encourages minimally invasive care.
4. Demonstrate how digital planning improves communication among students, faculty, patients, and dental laboratory technicians.
5. Evaluate student cases using digital treatment planning to increase predictability, confidence, and patient-centered outcomes.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Hiromi Saisho, D.D.S., M.S., is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry in the Department of Family Dentistry with a background, expertise, and passion pertaining to the areas of prosthodontics, esthetics, and conservative dentistry, with a strong focus in Family Dentistry on direct patient-care, and didactic and clinical instruction of D4 predoctoral students. She began her dental journey by receiving her certification as a dental laboratory technician at Cayetano Heredia University in Lima, Peru, in 2010. Subsequently, she received her certification as a master ceramist at Master Ceramist School in Tokyo, Japan, in 2011. She received her Bachelor of Dental Surgery in 2017 from San Martin de Porres University in Lima. She then completed a two-year post-graduate master’s degree in Operative Dentistry form Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil. In 2021, she completed a certificate in Prosthodontics from Cayetano Heredia University in Lima.