Dr. Joel H. Berg
Department of Pediatric Dentistry
University of Washington School of Dentistry
1959 NE Pacific St. B242
Box 357136
Seattle, WA 98195-7136

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Joel H. Berg, DDS, MS, is Professor and Lloyd and Kay Chapman Chair for Oral Health of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He is also Director of Dentistry at Seattle Children’s Hospital. He is a Board Certified Pediatric Dentist, and is a Trustee of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. Dr. Berg previously held positions as Vice President of Clinical Affairs at Philips Oral Healthcare from 2000-2003, Head of the Scientific Department for ESPE Dental AG from 1998-2000, and Director of the Postgraduate/Residency Program in Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Texas, Houston from 1989 through 1995, where he conducted numerous clinical trials evaluating restorative materials. He is the author of over a multitude of manuscripts, abstracts and book chapters regarding a variety of subjects, including restorative materials for children and other work related to biomaterials. His current research interests include the development of dental caries prevention programs using risk assessment models and early childhood oral health.


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Lecture Topics

“Early Caries Diagnosis: New Technologies!”

This course will provide the attendee with the most up-to-date information regarding emerging technologies in pediatric dentistry. Dental caries, the most prevalent disease in mankind, affects 97% of the population in their lifetime. Yet, dental professionals are still primarily using >100 year-old technologies to diagnose this most prevalent infectious disease. Recently, new ways of assessing and dealing with dental caries as an infectious disease have been proposed, and new products have been introduced. It is anticipated that the progression of this most significant technological development in dentistry will do more to change the way we practice than anything in recent decades. This half-day course will review the science behind these developments, and will introduce clinically relevant information to practitioners to prepare them to understand related new information as it is introduced to the professionals and consumers. The course will talk about how our practices will need to change to accommodate this evolving technology.


Restorative Dentistry For Children

This course will provide the attendee with the most up-to-date information regarding restorative dentistry technologies in pediatric dentistry. The course will review a variety of dental material including glass ionomers, resin-modified glass ionomers, and resin composites, and their specific use in children. Adhesives and their delivery systems and proper utilization will be elucidated from a clinical application perspective. With so many new choices out there, including a variety of new categories of materials, the clinician can find it challenging to differentiate properly between the materials and techniques available. This course will review newer categories of hybrid composites, and of adhesives. With the trend toward simpler “1-step” or “all-in-one” and “self-etching” adhesives, the clinician needs to know what the constraints and requirements are of these materials. The course will also describe and discuss pulp therapy techniques and will guide the clinician through a step by step approach to pulp therapy for primary teeth.


"Caries Management for Children - Knife Doctor AND Pill Doctor"
This lecture will provide the attendee with the most up-to-date information regarding emerging technologies in caries detection and risk assessment in children. Dental caries, the most prevalent disease in humans, affects 97% of the population in their lifetime. Yet, dental professionals are still primarily using >100 year-old technologies to diagnose this most prevalent infectious disease. Recently, new ways of assessing and dealing with dental caries as an infectious disease have been proposed, and new products have been introduced. It is anticipated that the progression of this most significant technological development in dentistry will do more to change the way we practice than anything in recent decades. This course will review the science behind these developments, and will introduce clinically relevant information to practitioners to prepare them to understand related new information as it is introduced to the professionals and consumers. In addition, application of these techniques to early intervention protocols to mitigate the incidence of early childhood caries will be described.

Restorative techniques, using glass ionomer materials, and some combined with resin composite will be described in detail for primary teeth, as well as for young permanent teeth. Management of early childhood caries from a restorative perspective will be reviewed, and combined therapy with both medicinal therapeutics and restorative methodologies will be described.

Objectives

After attending this course, the participant will be able to:

• List currently available caries detection devices
• Describe new technologies and how they will detect caries at a very early stage
• Describe methods of risk assessment in infants and toddlers
• Describe restorative interventions

Make and Infant and Toddler Program Work in Your Office: The ABCD approach

This comprehensive program will give you the science, information, clinical tools and logistics you will need to make an infant and toddler program work in your office. We all know that caries is the most prevalent infectious disease in humans and is chiefly preventable A key to effective prevention is seeing patients early. AAPD and ADA guidelines dictate a first dental visit no later than age 1, and soon after the first teeth erupt. If you’ve always wanted to bring a program into your office but haven’t had access to all the pieces of information you need to make it work, here’s your chance. You will learn the proper periodicity – how often to bring kids back based on their individual risk assessment – and you will learn how to manage all of your patients individually, based on their caries risk. Logistics of implementing a comprehensive program in your office will be provided.

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