The 2025 PEAK I Spring Meeting will be at the Cork Factory Hotel in Lancaster from May 1-4, 2025. PEAK Track I is one of two PAGD Mastertracks, and keeps its meeting intentionally smaller for those inclined to learn in a more intimate setting.
Thursday, May 1
Presentations from your Colleagues
PEAK I will continue the format it began in 2023 meeting, where presenters will show what they learned from previous meetings over dinner on Thursday evening. The group will meet at LUCA in Lancaster
Friday, May 2
The Role of Periodontal Prosthesis in Contemporary Dentistry with Dr. Howard Fraiman
Periodontal Prosthesis was developed and is associated with managing the dentition ravaged by disease. Perio Pros involves inter-disciplinary treatment using concepts of periodontics, occlusion, and restorative dentistry to save dentitions and achieve predictable long- term results. With the ever- growing use of dental implants, esthetic dentistry, and digital dentistry, is there still a role for Periodontal Prosthesis? This presentation will address Perio-Pros concepts and how they can help improve contemporary dentistry outcomes.
AGD Subject Codes - 490 Periodontics
7.5 Credit Hours Available
Saturday, May 3
Using Tech to Seamlessly Make Your Office Extraordinary with Dr. Ankur Gupta
50 years ago, patients were perfectly content if their dentist was pleasant, clinically competent, and thorough. Today, Amazon and Google have changed our patients' expectations of us and completely transformed our opportunities to leverage the incredible advancements in software to make our offices modern, responsive, and extraordinary. In this presentation, Dr. Gupta outlines the various nuisances and inefficiencies that plague a typical dental office, and how they can be easily mitigated by utilizing these software advancements.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn the current mindset and expectations of today's patient
- Understand the evolution of software advancement in dentistry's "silicon valley"
- Challenge the audience to put themselves in their patient's shoes to better understand the communication limitations in the typical dental office
- Outline the steps to truly transform your office from ordinary to extraordinary
AGD Subject Code - 130 Electives
7.5 Credit Hours Available
Sunday, May 4
Implant Retained Removables: The Least Stressful Replacement Option with Dr. Ankur Gupta
So many dentists either hate dentures, are intimidated by implants, or both. In a world where the average patient simply isn't satisfied with a traditional removable prosthesis, every dentist needs to feel comfortable providing the magic of implant stability combined with the affordability of removables. This is the course where participants can finally gain high level confidence in all scenarios from marketing to patients who are dissatisfied with their ill-fitting dentures to hearing that final satisfying click as they deliver the final product.
Implant overdentures are the perfect middle-ground for patients suffering from partial or full edentulism. They are stable, comfortable, functional, and affordable. They are also incredibly gratifying and profitable for the dental team. The problem is, they are also complicated. In this course, Dr. Ankur Gupta aims to eliminate the mysteries of attachments, cuff heights, retention caps, drivers, and all the other stuff that make this stressful and burdensome.
Learning Objectives
- Gain a general overview of all long-span replacement options, understanding the benefits and limitations of each
- Discover the long-term benefits that implant retained removable options uniquely create
- Attain clear understanding of the details, steps, and supplies needed from start to finish
- Understanding several internal and external marketing strategies to individuals in your community who are frustrated with their ill-fitting dentures
AGD Subject Code - 670 Removable Prosthodontics
4.0 Credit Hours Available
