Dr. Presley-Nelson and Staff enjoy a continuing education day out of the office!

 

 

Here you see Dr. Presley-Nelson and staff learning ways to take better care of patients at a recent continuing education day, held at the Burlingame Marriott Hotel. It was an intense day-long event featuring different classes for different staff vocations. Kathleen, our illustrious hygienist attended seminars for hygienists, the assisting staff went to lectures for chairside assistants, and office personnel learned better ways to serve patients in insurance, appointment booking, and telephone matters.

 

Dr. Presley-Nelson attended a very stimulating day-long seminar by Dr. Atlas of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry. One of the many topics was how to increase bond strength to the tooth in white fillings. As usual when a class is good, this promoted the purchase of new materials. Dr. Presley-Nelson was particularly impressed with a certain unfilled, flowable resin for lining the pulpal floor that actually shrinks upon curing toward the tooth structure instead of AWAY from the tooth. This was demonstrated by a new technique involving an "ultrasonic movie or film" that actually showed the material's action during its hardening phase. Marvelous new things are happening in dentistry all the time!

 

A lot of learning and a great lunch later, we are all back with the best and the latest, to take care of our first priority OUR PATIENTS!