CDE Calendar of Courses

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 | 5 PM - 6:30 PM (Pacific) | LIVE WEBINAR

This lecture provides an in-depth exploration of the fundamentals of surgically facilitated orthodontic therapy, designed for dental professionals aiming to enhance their clinical practice. Participants will delve into the core principles and essential techniques that underpin this surgical approach, which combines surgical procedures with orthodontic treatment to achieve elevated patient outcomes.

Tuesday, June 17, 2025 | 5 PM - 6:30 PM (Pacific) | LIVE WEBINAR

This course will share some strategies to effectively engage with your patients to understand their needs, desires, expectations, questions and objections to successfully navigate the treatment plan presentation process using techniques from marketing, negotiation, neurosciences and shared decision-making principles.

Saturday, June 21, 2025 | 12 PM - 1:30 PM (Pacific) | LIVE WEBINAR

This course will discuss the importance of traditional and newer root canal irrigants with evidence-based irrigation protocols required to accomplish the debridement of the root canal system, which is essential for the predictable success of endodontic cases. By the end of this course, the participants will be equipped with the knowledge to implement advanced irrigation techniques, and protocols ensuring predictable and successful clinical outcomes.

Friday, June 27, 2025 | 8 AM - 10 AM (Pacific) | LIVE WEBINAR

This course outlines evidence-based possibilities and provides an applicable understanding of the different digital clinical workflows in a ready-to-use format so you can hit the ground running when you return to practice. This program is geared towards any dentist, hygienist, or dental technician, regardless of previous knowledge surrounding digital technologies, interested in improving their knowledge, gaining evidence-based protocols of digital workflows from data acquisition to subtractive/ additively manufacturing devices and restorations.

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.

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.

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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