Update my Contact InformationAdvanced Dental CE Seminars
Dr. Todd Rowe
In Person Seminar
Fri-Sat 12/5-6/2025 | 8:30 AM – 5:00 PMOn-site Registration Friday 12/5/2025 | 8:00 AM
Case Diagnosis with Drs. Rowe, DiSanto-Rose, Moren, Sefranek, & Ungerleider
Friday 7:00–9:00 PM (EST)
included in registration for in person seminar
Optimizing Straight-wire Orthodontics & Invisalign® - Tips, Nuggets, Pearls & some Good Advice
Over the course of two days, we will investigate 20-30 patient cases to tease out ideas that make orthodontic treatments work or stumble.
We will evaluate appointment by appointment progress photographs and discuss what to expect to happen as we apply orthodontic mechanics to various malocclusions. By offering more than simple before and after photographs, we will gain a more in depth look into, and a better understand of what can go right and what can go wrong during treatment, and help keep our desired treatment goals realistic and on track.
We will examine child, teenage, and adult patients, some treated with braces, some treated with Invisalign clear aligners, to point out similarities and differences in treatment goals and expected outcomes.
Our primary goal will be to point out “pearls” learned from over 30 years of clinical practice for you to evaluate and consider applying to your patients. Hopefully you will experience some “aha” moments that will make you excited to see patients the following week.
Participants will learn the following:
Strategies to help reduce debonded brackets
Techniques for establishing a final vertical overbite at the start of treatment using
composite turbos
Comparing bonding techniques between braces vs aligner attachments
Examine the relationship between tooth sizes/arch shapes and anterior torque for
optimal buccal seating during orthodontic finishing
Managing tooth size discrepancies
Focus on revision aligner plans to see how to evaluate treatment progress using the
ClinCheck® software
Discuss if we should keep vs replace attachments with revisions
Discuss how to know when it is time to consider an aligner revision
Discuss the impact of changing the number of aligners in a ClinCheck® and strategies
to modify aligner numbers to make treatment more predictable
Examine overcorrections to add to ClinCheck® plans
Common Bending Errors and how to avoid them.
Predictable technique for adding anterior torque to a rectangular finishing wire.
Filling aligner attachment templates to reduce flash.What to bring:
Laptops & thumb drive with Cases on it.
Your typical finishing arch wire: 17x22 vs 19x25 TMA or SS, Arch forming plier (Hollow chop plier), Tweed plier + bird beak plier, vs 2 bird beak pliers, Wire bending template (if you use one)
An Unfilled aligner attachment template, Composite you typically use for attachments, Composite instrument you use for placing composite restorations.
Instructor
Dr. Todd Rowe is a diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics practicing in Leominster, Ma. He received his DMD and MPH from Harvard School of Dental Medicine (where he is currently a clinical instructor), and his MS in Ortho from Univ. of Michigan.
Drs. H. Michael Sefranek & Michael Ungerleider - Advanced Orthodontics 3rd Yr Class
Hands On Participation Seminar
Fri-Sat 11/6-7/26 | 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Case Diagnosis with Drs. Sefranek & Ungerleider
Friday 7:00–9:00 PM (EST)
included in registration for in person seminar
Participants will learn the following:
Forward Facial Growth Enabling Straightwire Mechanotherapy
Mandibular non-surgical Advancement
Encouraging Proper Airway Development
Vertical Development
Anterior Maxillary Alveolar development
Non-Extraction, Non-IPR, Non-Retractive approach
Anterior Centric Early Treatment with coupling & torque control
Guided Eruption
Myofunctional Therapy
Avoiding: Relapse, Root Resorption, Gingival Recession, TMD, Sleep Apnea
Unilateral & bilateral impression-free chairside fabricated Space Maintenance
Tweed & Roth plier finishing techniques for lower anterior crowding and upper esthetics
Piggyback wire arch development
Preprosthetic Orthodontics
Bidimensional treatment ( Gianelly / Epstein approach) 0.018 Ants, 0.022 for 3-5
Course Description:
This course displays a technique based on over 25 years of attending and video reviewing orthodontic CE at the local and national levels at approximately 80 credits per year. The lecturer has contracted speakers for the IAO New England for close to 20 years and has made it a point to incorporate elements from many of the presented techniques to develop this treatment philosophy, which has recently gained much publicity with the Dr. John & Mike Mew Article in The New York Times Aug. 20, 2020. The approach is based on over 20 years of photographically documented cases and case follow-ups.
Instructors
H. Michael Sefranek DMD, MAGD completed his DMD degree at the University of Connecticut in 1989. The presenter has lectured on orthodontics at New York University School of Dentistry (where he completed a 2 year continuing education program in orthodontics), the New York County Dental Society, the Rhode Island AGD (Academy of General Dentistry), the International Association for Orthodontics (IAO) national meeting, and IAO New England (where he has taught the Advanced in-house Seminar Series of 10 lectures spanning 2 years). He is past president of the IAO New England, past president of the Rhode Island AGD, as well as past president of New England Mastertrack. Dr. Sefranek has been the National Delegate, Marketing Director/Webmaster and Speaker Coordinator for the IAO New England for the past 18 years. He has also been a clinical faculty member at the Advanced Education in General Dentistry program at University of Connecticut where he lectured on cosmetic dentistry and has been a clinical research associate with the PEARL Network at NYU School of Dentistry. The lecturer has owned a cosmetic / orthodontic & pediatric, general dental practice since 1991 and completed construction on a new 7,500 sq. ft. dental office building in 2017. The lecturer gave a summarized version of the material in this course at the IAO National Meeting in Puerto Rico.
Michael Ungerleider DMD, MAGD completed his DMD degree at the University of Connecticut in 1988. The presenter has lectured on orthodontics at the IAO New England since 2005 and lectures for the CT Study Club for Dental Excellence (a chapter of the Seattle Study Club) and annually at the New England Annual Dental Symposium at Jay Peak. He is past president of New England Mastertrack, past president of the Hartford Dental Society, past president of the Connecticut State Dental Association as well as the current IAO New England president. He has Incorporated Orthodontics into his general practice for the past 31 years. The lecturer has owned a high tech restorative & cosmetic dental practice since 1991 and completed construction on a new dental office building in 1994. He will share how technology can enhance the patient experience and how to have a patient centered practice. Annual Collections In the Top 5% Nationally.
