HANDS-ON Advanced Minimally Invasive Exodontia and Adjunctive Techniques plus Oral Biopsy Techniques
June 7, 2025 @ 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
HANDS-ON Advanced Minimally Invasive Exodontia and Adjunctive Techniques plus Oral Biopsy Techniques
Presented by Dr. John Alonge
Take advantage of this hard-to-find opportunity to improve your surgical techniques through hands-on training using custom life like manikin-mounted models. Dr. Alonge will guide you through hands-on exercises allowing you to become more proficient with surgical instrumentation, routine and surgical exodontia, third molar extractions, socket preservation bone grafting and more. Review of terminology, description of lesions, oral cancer screening, biopsy consent, biopsy armamentarium, technique of biopsy, specimen handling and submission. You will return to your office with new skills that will allow you to perform your surgical procedures with greater efficiency and predictability.
Objectives
– Utilize specialty anatomic forceps for efficient and atraumatic surgery
– Position instruments, patients, and yourself to accomplish proficient routine and surgical dentoalveolar procedures
– Perform alternative incision and flap designs to remove mandibular third molars
– Utilize surgical burs, handpieces and elevators for rapid removal of teeth
– Removal of exostoses
– I & D of abscess
– Selection of material and master suturing
– Understand the pathogenesis of oral soft tissue lesions
– Understand the value of diagnostic and surgical adjuncts
– Perform soft tissue biopsies using conventional techniques
Dr. John Alonge is a retired oral surgeon from Erie, PA. He served in the US Air Force as Chief of Outpatient Oral Surgery at Hickam AFB in Hawaii and Oral Surgery Training Officer for the Advanced Education in General Dentistry Residency Program at Wright-Patterson USAF Medical Center in Ohio. He separated from the Air Force in 1994 to enter private practice. Dr. Alonge has extensive teaching experience and served on the Examination Committee of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Date: Saturday, June 7, 2025
Time: 8:00am – 3:00pm (one-hour lunch)
Rate
$995 MDDS Member – by March 1, 2025
$1,195 MDDS Member – after March 1, 2025
$1,195 Non-MDDS Member – by March 1, 2025
$1,395 Non-MDDS Member – after March 1, 2025
CE Credits: 6
Format: Hands-on
Cancellation Deadline: May 16, 2025
2 Easy Ways to Register
Online – available 24 hours/day
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Phone-In
Available Monday – Friday 8:00am – 5:00pm at (303) 488-9700
Cancellation Policy
Cancellations will be accepted and are entitled to a refund provided they are received at MDDS by the cancellation deadline. Refunds will not be given for cancellations after the cancellation deadline.
MWDI Parking Information
For your convenience, we have free parking in two retail garages within the Beauvallon building (east-facing side). Both garages are accessed from Lincoln Street between 9th and 10th Avenues. Parking in these garages is available on a first-come, first-served basis. **If you are attending a large course/event at the MWDI, we recommend arriving early in case the garages fill and alternative parking must be secured. Be aware – the garages come up quickly after you cross 9th Avenue and both have left lane entrances. All numbered spaces within both retail parking garages (without “Reserved” signs) are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Do not park in any spaces with a red sign that says “KCNC.” Do not park in the residential parking. Residential garages are at the back of the retail garages. The north and south garages are not connected. Both have open parking available.