CE0831: A New Standard for Caries Management: A Team Approach Using Chemical Treatments and Minimally Invasive Dentistry

Douglas A. Young, DDS, MBA, MS

The University of Washington thanks
GC America
for its generous educational grant in support of this program.

Course Description:

This presentation will review the newest areas of prevention and early caries management using chemical and microsurgical approaches. The course is of interest to dentists, hygienists and dental assistants. Dr Young is on the scientific advisory board for a 4-year $7 million state grant to educate 47,000 dental professionals and over 9,000 medical professionals in California about this approach to caries prevention and treatment.

This presentation will include the newest information about dental decay as an infectious disease that children get from their parents. Learn how to prevent and even reverse early lesions using oral disinfectants, modified sugars, and fluoride rather than traditional surgical techniques. Dr. Young will also present research showing that not all caries should be treated alike and the site-specific way to manage each carious site will be presented. The latest caries detection devices such as DIAGNOdent, QLF, and DIFOTI will be reviewed as well and strategies on how they are used in the practice of minimal invasive dentistry. New technologies such as ultra-small carbide burs, air abrasion and lasers in dentistry will be outlined. Come see why new glass ionomer products represent “smart” materials that could change the way you practice. Learn how change your hygiene department and dental assisting staff into a new profit center for your practice using preventive, as well as hard and soft tissue procedures. The presentation is an interesting and excellent update that is clinically relevant.

Instructor:

DOUGLAS A. YOUNG is an active and ardent educator in the field of minimally invasive dentistry, dental materials, and cariology. He serves on several boards and has presented at congresses around the world including the World Clinical Laser Institute, the Academy of Laser Dentistry, the World Congress of Minimal Invasive Dentistry, as well as several universities. Dr. Young has also been published in several peer-reviewed dental journals and textbooks.

In addition to speaking and publishing, Dr. Young also conducts extensive research on minimal invasive dentistry, lasers, and cariology. He has performed clinical trials using lasers, as well as studying caries inhibition by laser irradiation, and optical caries detection technologies.

Dr. Young is an Associate Professor, University of the Pacific and is also an Associate Clinical Professor, Adjunct, at the University of California- San Francisco.

Dr Young also has an AB in Bacteriology from the University of California, Berkeley, a DDS from the University of California, San Francisco, a MBA from the University of the Pacific, Stockton, and a MS in Oral Biology from the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Young completed a General Practice Residency at the VA Hospital, San Francisco in 1982. He decided to pursue full time teaching after 15 years of successful private practice in California. He is currently active in teaching clinical dentistry to the students at Pacific and research at UCSF.

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