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Along the same lines as Ron:
Among the more interesting things I learned-
Ditto plus.
Cranking the waterlase down. That is using 1.75W with 60A and 30Water to cut enamel at 1mm . Have not done a Class 1 yet. But Holy cow it worked and use a bunch less water.
I was right on with Treating that geographic Tongue and two of biostim lectures were great . More on that later.
Use of Iodine rinse .
The Colonna reduction tips!!!!!!Things I liked-
Getting to meet everyone . Putting that face to a name.Seeing old friends.
Seeing smoke come out of Ron’s ears after the advanced perio. program!!!
Allen, saving my hide by repeating everyones name for me at least 10 times a day.
Busting Larry’s chops about not buying the waterlase and threating to put him out on the street on our way to the airport.
Ditto the food!!!
Disappointments-
Not getting to take Sameer’s and Tarun’s course.
Several evil people who told my wife how much I am on the forms!
Not having a real certification course.
Not being aable to bust Stu’s chops about getting a lobster dinner anymore!!.
The two hour plane delay along with not being able to get out of the plane once we got to Tampa!Over all a great meeting. Another one of those rare meetings that you find easy to talk with the lectures and they were very giving of information.
David
Learned:
About new Colonna bulk reduction tips for large preps
Concept of pk? settings and how they may affect patient sensitivity(I still don’t know what a “pk” is)
Treating caries comprehensively by Doug Young(Xylitol gum, baking soda)
Graeme Milicich – peripheral rim theory around tooth AND – when you get those erbium white spots on your cavosurface margin that tend to show through your composite, take a hand instrument and scrape them off til they dont show when water is applied and then they wont show in your composite
Dmitri Boutoussov:
2940 minus 2780 = 630(red) minus 470(blue)
2940 is absorbed by H20 300% > 2780(I knew it was greater but did not realize that much)Likes:
Meeting the LDF gang; meeting Bill Chen, Paul Bradley, John Karna(at one table); the Starbucks coffee in the gift shop; Young/Milicich and Kammer/Kaminer/Tracey lectures; hangin’ at the bar with with Dmitri Boutoussov, Dave and Susan Kimmels free transportation
Dislikes:
Overemphasis on hydrokinetic theory
Overemphasis on 2780
I sneezed during the History of Lasers lecture on
Holmium:YAG/Erbium:YAG(seemed like a strange grouping) and missed everything that was said the entire weekend regarding Er:YAG
Dave Kimmel’s Guided Tour Between the Airport and the Seaview
Mark Colonna blowing us off at the Friday lunch Rountable Discussion(yeah you’ll get a raincheck!)
Gerald Bittner’s stupid photo taken with MY camera(Ron Kaminer and I snickered, told him he should have used macro and quickly deleted that silly thing)
Al
MArk don’t give Al a hard time. He was still recovering from motion sickness from my guided tour the night before. That and the fact that I was the one dancing with the blond in the pictures!
DAvid