Summary:

Where: San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront
1800 Old Bayshore Hwy. Burlingame, CA

Speaker: Dr. Michael Melkers

Friday, January 24, 2025:
Lecture, 9:00am to 5:30pm
AGD Subject Code: 610/780 (Fixed Prosth/Esthetics)

Saturday, January 25, 2025:
Participation Workshop, 8:00am to 5:00pm
AGD Subject Code: 610/780 (Fixed Prosth/Esthetics)

Tuition: Attend in person or livestream lecture
Friday—lecture only:
AGD members:$449
Non-AGD members: $799

Friday—livestream lecture:
AGD members: $349
Non-AGD members: $699

Friday & Saturday: (lecture and hands-on)
AGD members: $1299
Non-members: $1899

Friday, January 24, 2025

Lemons to Lemonade
Achieving Aesthetics in a World of Challenges

9:00 – 5:30pm
AGD Subject Code: 610/780 (Fixed Prosth/Esthetics)

Beauty may be the eye of the beholder but the patient, technician, team and clinician-each have a hand in what defines a successful outcome. There are many obstacles and challenges on the path to it. During this interactive lecture, Dr. Melkers will share his real-world experience from communication, diagnosis, case planning and achieving that success. From single tooth to sextant to full mouth rehabilitation, from brown to bleach white, Dr. Melkers will share his career experience of helping patients and clinicians achieve their goals and their smiles.

Course Objectives:

• Have a better understanding of patient-driven, aesthetic goals
• Appreciate photography for diagnosis, color, lab communication and case acceptance
•  Recognize the key components of smile design
•  Appreciate material choices and how they affect outcome and longevity
•  How staging and phased treatment are possible

Saturday, January 25, 2025

Participation Workshop

8:00am to 5:00pm
AGD Subject Code: 610/780 (Fixed Prosth/Esthetics)

Building on day one, participants will experience the nuances of shape, color and contour. Together we will explore how modifications of each can help us achieve successful outcomes through a sea of challenges.

Course Objectives:

• Understand the impact of modifying shape and contour
•  Know how to correct over-bulked and misshaped restorations
•  Be able to fabricate provisional matrices and shell provisionals
•  Stain and characterize provisional restorations

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Albert Schweitzer once said, “Patients carry their own doctor inside. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the physician who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.” As a Hanover dentist, Dr. Melkers lives by this philosophy every day, dedicating his career to delivering high-quality dentistry to patients and dentists.

• Fellowship in The International Congress of Oral Implantologists (ICOI)
•  Mastership with Academy of General Dentistry
•  Author and editor for top dental publications
• Former visiting faculty of The Spear Institute
•  Lectures and travels to dentists worldwide to enhance their skills –
•  Current visiting faculty for The Pankey Institute

Refund and Cancellation Policy:

• Registrations are subject to a $100 non-refundable processing fee.
• Cancellations made by email prior to 1/3/25 will receive a refund less the $100 processing fee.
•  Cancellations made after 1/3/25 are completely non-refundable.
•  Transfer of a registration to another name will be considered by email request through 1/3/25.

Registration:

Book your group rate for CA Academy of Dentistry Educational Annual Meeting –

San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront for 184 USD per night

Group Rate Marriott Waterfront