CDE Calendar of Courses

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 | 5 PM - 7 PM (Pacific) | LIVE WEBINAR

This course reviews 3 different types of partial coverage restorations: veneers, inlays, and onlays. During the presentation, the advantages and disadvantages of these types of restorations along with various factors important to consider will be discussed. Onlays will be compared to crowns to consider the ideal clinical situation for each of these options. The preparation designs, clinical procedures, and materials used for partial coverage restorations will be thoroughly discussed.

Friday, July 18, 2025 | 8 AM - 9:30 AM (Pacific) | LIVE WEBINAR

In this course, participants will explore the intricacies of immediate anterior dental implants, focusing on case selection, surgical protocols, and the biological principles guiding immediate placement in the esthetic zone.

Tuesday, July 22, 2025 | 5 PM - 7 PM (Pacific) | LIVE WEBINAR

QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer — the 3 simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help.

Friday, August 1, 2025 | 8 AM - 10 AM (Pacific) | LIVE WEBINAR

Understanding what drives our behaviour can help us communicate better with everyone in our lives, including ourselves, our teams, and our families. In this seminar you will learn the neuroscience behind how we think and act, allowing us to deal with the people with more confidence, and most importantly, less stress. Additionally, you will also learn the steps and wording required to help encourage mental wellness in addition to self-care strategies.

Friday, August 8, 2025 | 8 AM - 10 AM (Pacific) | LIVE WEBINAR

This presentation provides a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms and timelines crucial to successful dental implantology. This knowledge enables dental professionals to optimize treatment planning, improve patient outcomes, and advance the field with innovations that promote long-term, seamless implant integration and the effective management of complications.

Tuesday, August 12, 2025 | 5 PM - 7 PM (Pacific) | LIVE WEBINAR

The course is a broad introduction to obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). It will define what OSA is and cover the epidemiology and prevalence of the disease.

Monday, August 18, 2025 | 5 PM - 7 PM (Pacific) | LIVE WEBINAR

This course is designed to help dental professionals understand the clinical relevance of location of dental implants. This will promote critical thinking with regards to implant placements in complex rehabilitation cases and potential complications with mal-positioned implants. It also addresses the current challenges with integrating digital planning and analog execution for complex implant rehabilitation cases. The course aims to showcase recent developments and workflows with robotic implant placements and workflows.

Thursday, August 21, 2025 | 5 PM - 6:30 PM (Pacific) | LIVE WEBINAR

This presentation offers examples to help clinicians identify both common and rare, challenging clinical presentations and associate them with possible underlying systemic diseases.

Wednesday, August 27, 2025 | 5 PM - 7 PM (Pacific) | LIVE WEBINAR

In this course, you will learn how to support primary care providers (PCPs) in managing medically complex patients and understand when and how to obtain consultations for treatment. We will review a variety of care examples to illustrate these concepts.

Friday, September 26 - Sunday, September 28, 2025 | HANDS-ON AT UBC | Limited Enrolment

This hands-on course offers instruction in all aspects of adult minimal sedation to include nitrous oxide/oxygen inhalation and oral sedation, as well as effective methods in dealing with anxiety control in general practice. Participants will learn various techniques and will have the opportunity to try several types of nitrous oxide and oxygen delivery units. The three day course satisfies the requirements for state or provincial dental boards or colleges who require 21 hours of continuing education to certify for combined inhalation and oral adult minimal sedation. The two day course is designed to achieve certification in nitrous oxide/oxygen inhalation sedation, with 14 hours of continuing education.

October 18 - 19, 2025 | HANDS-ON COURSE AT UBC

This Comprehensive Review of Local Anaesthesia program runs in tandem with UBC’s full Local Anaesthesia program. The course is a two-day course designed to teach and revisit basic and current concepts of local anaesthesia and administration of local anaesthetic agents. Come and participate in two full days that include lectures and an opportunity for hands-on practice of clinical techniques. Participants must be currently registered to practice in British Columbia and must be authorized and certified to administer local anaesthesia. As participants practice on each other, you must be able to receive local anaesthesia or you must provide a consenting stand-in for your partner.

October 18 - 19 and November 7 (evening) - November 8, 2025 | HANDS-ON COURSE AT UBC

UBC CDE’s Local Anaesthesia for Dental Hygienists program is a three and a half day course, designed to teach basic and current concepts of local anaesthesia, and administration of local anaesthetic agents. This course is comprised of two sessions. Participants practice on each other, therefore you must consent to receive local anaesthesia and related treatments or you must provide a consenting stand-in for your partner.

• Session I: October 18 and 19 (full days), consists of lectures, clinical instruction, and application of clinical techniques.
• Session II: November 7 (evening) and 8 (full day), written and clinical evaluations.

Saturday, October 25, Sunday, October 26 & Monday, October 27, 2025 | LECTURES, HANDS-ON & CLINICAL OBSERVATION | Limited Enrolment

This course will provide you practical, up to date, and clinically relevant information in Geriatric Dentistry with two lectures at UBC on Saturday and Sunday, including a hands-on glass ionomer workshop, and half a day on Monday observing clinical activity in a dental clinic located within a long-term care facility in downtown Vancouver. Participants have the option to register for the three day program or the two day program.

October 2025 - June 2026 | LIVE WEBINAR, MONTHLY STUDY CLUB | Limited Enrolment ~ On-going study club, registration for this event is open and new members are welcome!

This study club will guide dental professionals to develop an approach to recognize and manage oral soft tissue changes that can be incorporated into their daily clinical practice. The group will examine case studies of oral soft and hard tissue lesions that have been seen in dental clinical settings. Each case will be reviewed with respect to the process of recognizing the tissue change and establishing the process for moving to a final diagnosis. Participants in the course will be encouraged to bring examples from their own private practices and all cases reviewed will have been initially identified in a general dental practice.

October 2025 - May 2026 | ONLINE STUDY CLUB (6 SESSIONS), LIVE WEBINAR | Limited Enrolment
NEW! On-going study club, registration for this event is open and new members are welcome!

This study club will guide general dentists and dental specialists in the development of a systematic and biologically-based approach to radiologic image interpretation. Together, we will examine radiologic images that have been made in dental clinical settings, including intraoral, panoramic and cone beam CT images, review the scope and adequacy of the imaging examination, identify important imaging features of abnormalities, and develop a differential or definitive diagnosis for the abnormalities we have identified. Participants in the course will be encouraged to bring examples from their own private practices and all cases reviewed will have been initially identified in a general dental practice.

CERTIFICATE IN DENTAL PRACTICE MANAGEMENT: Building a Business Worth Smiling About

October 24 - 26, November 28 - 30  &  January 9 - 11, 2026 (Three 3-day modules, held Friday to Sunday)

As in all successful organizations, the efficient management of systems, costs and revenues is critical to success. For dental professionals, understanding how to manage these factors and improve customer retention through quality of care, are key to developing a sustainable, patient-centric practice. Designed and delivered by UBC Sauder professors and successful dental practitioners, and based on industry best practices and key measurements, the concepts and skills presented in this certificate program will help you work more effectively with your staff, streamline your systems and make smart decisions for the future.

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February 9 - 13, 2026 | TRAVEL & LEARN | Limited Enrolment

Join Drs. Pliska, Saldarriaga and Wyatt on the beautiful island of Maui this winter to learn about obstructive sleep apnea, managing complex dental patients, the orthodontic - prosthodontics connection, and personalized care for healthy and frail older adults.