The 2025 PEAK I Fall Meeting will be at the Radisson North Philadelphia in Bensalem from October 9-12, 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
PEAK Presentation from your Colleagues
Join your PAGD colleagues over dinner as they present cases demonstrating their learning from previous meetings.
Friday
Introduction to Injection Molding: An Overview of Concepts, Techniques and Applications with Dr. Marc Geissberger
This fast-paced program will introduce clinicians to multiple injection molding concepts, techniques and applications. Treatment planning and case selection from simple to complex cases will be reviewed. A variety of techniques will be introduced and reviewed, giving the participant a better understanding what is required to optimize results. Materials and armamentariums that lend themselves to injection molding will be explored. Proper bonding, placement, and finishing techniques will be discussed.
At the completion of this program, clinicians will:
- Understand how injection molding may fit into your clinical practice with step-by-step techniques
- Gain a working understanding of various techniques and when to consider their use
- Learn the proper armamentarium for various injection molding techniques
- Learn protocols for finishing and polishing to yield the most esthetic results
AGD Course Code - 250 Operative (Restorative) Dentistry
7.5 Credit Hours Available
Friday Evening - Host Home with Dr. Michael Kaner
Saturday
Start to Finish Cosmetic Workflow with Dr. Jennifer Derse
This course will provide a guide to cosmetic cases. It will begin with pearls on the patient interview and documentation, evolving into the clinical workflow to create a collaborative process in achieving your patients' smile goals.
Learning Objectives:
- Treatment planning
- Photography tips/documentation
- Ortho involvement
- Prepped and prepless veneer design process
- Lab communication
AGD Subject Code - 780 Esthetic/Cosmetic Dentistry
7.5 Credit Hours Available
Sunday
Adverse Drug Reactions of Importance to the General Dentist with Dr. Elliot Hersh
This presentation will focus on two areas. 1) Serious adverse drug interactions that may occur in the dental patient because of drugs the dentist prescribes or administers and 2) Serious adverse drug interactions that may occur in the dentist himself/herself because of drugs that they are taking for various medical conditions. It is important for clinicians to understand the theoretical basis behind these often-predictable interactions, and comprehend the evidenced-based-science that supports their existence.
This course will enable the participant to:
- Discuss the pharmacological mechanism behind the potentially lethal metronidazole or fluconazole/warfarin interaction.
- Identify the common characteristic shared among most drugs involved in the most serious adverse drug: drug interactions
- Identify which class of anti-hypertensive drugs where high doses but therapeutic doses of local anesthetic plus epinephrine is most likely to cause a a pressor response with a reflex bradycardia.
- Discuss the rationale of why recommending ibuprofen (Advil®) and naproxen sodium (Aleve®) for pain control is a bad idea in a bipolar disorder patient taking lithium (Eskalith®).
- Identify a common food product that greatly increases blood levels of simvastatin (Zocor®) and atorvastatin (Lipitor).
