CDE1810 - 2025 Alumni Lecture Series

Course Description

8:00am – 8:45am: Comprehensive Dentistry lS Airway Dentistry by Dr. Abby Neville

This is not about learning “airway”. This is about our comprehensive dental exam. It’s dentistry with a different eye and mindset.  We as dentists have the ability to not only create and maintain a beautiful, healthy smile; We also have the opportunity to help our patients breathe better and live longer doing everyday dentistry. As I continue to learn and evolve in this field, my goal is to educate and encourage dentists and medical professionals to be advocates for our patients.  Let’s focus on diagnosis, treatment options and most importantly, stress the need for interdisciplinary care.

Upon course completion, the participant will:

•             Understand diagnosis, treatment options for airway and most importantly, communicating the need for interdisciplinary care.

9:00am – 9:45am: Connecting the Dots Using Case Review: An Introduction to Dental Photography in Achieving Comprehensive Functional and Cosmetic Results by Dr. Todd Fleischman

Enhance your practice by understanding the power of presentation in communication, sales and esthetic visualization. Dr. Fleishman  will demonstrate methods of case presentation and case sharing, by utilizing high-quality photography. He will also demonstrate that photography can be best utilized in treatment- planning, communication and case presentation. Find out how to improve your case acceptance for cosmetic dentistry.

Upon course completion, the participant will:

•             Understand and review a system to getting started using digital photography in their daily dental life.

•             Learn how to implement digital photography including camera choices, settings, lighting, positioning and more.

•             Discuss how photography is an asset to improving your treatment planning and restorative care while communicating with your patients, team, laboratory and specialists.

•             Celebrate comprehensive functional and cosmetic results while showing off your photos.

10:00am – 10:45am: Implants and those pesky teeth:  Free gingival grafts to allografts to biologics. Case selection and treatment options by Dr. Jeff Felzer

The lecture will focus on anatomic considerations, applications, autogenous grafts - free gingival, connective tissue, palatal, tuberosity, Allografts/xenografts, applications: for teeth, implants, bulking Pontic sited, biologics, complications and future considerations.

Upon course completion, the participant will:

•             Understand solutions for mucogingival defects, and Case selection and treatment options.

11:00am – 11:45am: Seeing is believing:  Using 6Ds to Change Perception to Reality in Dentistry by Dr. Prashant Kaushik

As dentists, we work so hard to gain the skill set and knowledge to provide our patients the best dentistry has to offer.  With so many different services to offer our patients, we have the ability to create smiles that are functional, comfortable, healthy and esthetic.   The challenge is how to do we get our patients to come from the mindset of "I am here just for a cleaning" to "I WANT to obtain the smile of my dreams!"  This presentation helps to simplify the process of presenting treatment options in a safe, comfortable and open environment.  When we ask the right questions and make the patient feel heard, understood and validated, the patient obtains a different experience in being more open minded in what is possible.  Tap into the emotional side of the brain and get our patients to go from feeling hesitant and uncertain to saying YES and excited about what is possible!

Upon course completion, the participant will:

•             Understand the 6Ds:  Discussion, Data, Discovery, Design, Dentistry, Deliver.

•             Understand and change our mindset from tooth dentistry to comprehensive dentistry.

•             Using case examples, explain to patient what is possible.

•             Discuss a 6 step process in how to get patient's to say yes for comprehensive treatment.

•             Understand, learn and go from logical thinking to emotional thinking of understanding the WHY to treatment and relate it to the patient.

Notes

Presenters:

Dr. Abby Neville

Dr. Neville is a general dentist practicing in suburban Philadelphia. Dr. Neville graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University with a B.S. in Biology in 2000. She pursued her dental studies at Temple University School of Dentistry, graduating in 2004. She has over 19 years of private family dental experience and opened her own practice, Neville Dental Care, in 2013 in Holland, PA. Dr. Neville also has extensive experience in oral healthcare for older adults and has treated patients in nursing homes in the Bucks County area for the last 8 years. She opened The Traveling Dentists to treat this underserved clientele to bring excellent and compassionate mobile dentistry care to her community. She’s now expanded her dental care to include airway and sleep dentistry creating The Better Sleep Dentists after learning about dental sleep solutions that can drastically impact the overall health, wellness, and quality of life with quality sleep. For the past few years, she has been lecturing to family and emergency medicine residents Jefferson Hospital about oral health. She presented at the Annual ACOFP Conference 2023.  She lives in Holland with her husband, Gabe, and their four children, Eric, Claire, Anneliese and Drew.

Dr. Todd Fleischman

Dr. Todd Fleischman received his undergraduate education from NYU with a degree in psychology followed by his doctoral dental degree at Temple University.  He completed a post-graduate AEGD residency program with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.  Dr. Fleischman is an advocate for continuing education and has studied numerous dental curriculum including SPEAR Education in Scottsdale, Arizona and became a 2023 graduate of the Kois Center in Seattle, Washington. Since September of 2010 he has run a fee-for-service, general dental practice in the Rittenhouse Square area of Center City Philadelphia focusing on comprehensive and cosmetic care.

Dr. Jeffrey Felzer

Dr. Jeffrey Felzer was born and raised in Philadelphia. He graduated from the William Penn Charter School, and went on to obtain is B.S. From the University of Wisconsin at Madison.  After college, he returned to Philadelphia and obtained his dental degree from Temple University.  He later completed a general practice residency at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY.    Dr. Felzer completed his residency in Periodontology at the joint program between the New York VA Medical Center and New York University in 2008, his last year being designated at Chief Resident of the Department.   Dr. Felzer was previously clinical assistant faculty at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, and is currently on staff at Christiana Medical Center.  Current research interests include: Guided bone regeneration and the use of growth factors to enhance periodontal and dental implant outcomes, and the relationship between periodontal disease and the diabetic state. Dr. Felzer is an active member of the American Academy of Periodontology, the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology, the Academy of Osseointegration, and serves on the committee for continuing education in the Delaware State Dental Society.  Dr Felzer currently owns and manages multiple periodontal practices in Wilmington and Newark Delaware.

Dr. Prashant Kaushik

Dr. Kaushik's dental career enters his 20th year.  After leaving dental school, he was 1 of 5 students accepted into the Harvard/Brighham and Women's Hospital GPR program.  His scope of dental training expanded to treating medically compromised patients, in particular cancer patients through the world renowned Dana Farber Cancer Institute.  Some of his instructors and mentors included Dr. Sook Bin Woo, author of the book ORAL PATHOLOGY  and  Dr. Stephen Sonis, author of the book DENTAL SECRETS.  The take home message from his residency is its more than teeth, its quality of life.  Dr. Kaushik ended up in Maine for 8.5 years and was trained under his mentor Dr. Daniel J. Armstrong and completed the Frank Spear Continuum based out of Scottsdale, Arizona.   He attributes one course:  THE ART OF TREATMENT PLANNING that changed the course of his career in how to see a patient's oral condition and treatment plan with the end in mind.   With 20 years of clinical experience and 6000 CE+ credits, Dr. Kaushik will share his knowledge about a simple system that not only gets patient's to say yes, but to present comprehensive dentistry in a predictable and life changing manner.