Continuing Education in 2010

Regardless of your career, continuing education is always important. Learning new skills, techniques and abilities, can help you advance in your job and improve the quality of your work. In dentistry, this is no different, and we spend many hours each year in ongoing continuing education courses to improve and expand our services to give our patients an even better dental experience.

We've been quite busy with CE in 2010. Below are a few highlights:

October will mark Dr. Marie Stiles' induction into the International College of Dentists at the annual American Dental Association national conference. The ICD is a worldwide organization of dentists working to share and contribute advances in the field of dentistry. Dr. Marie will join Dr. Dennis as a fellow of the ICD, an honor only extended to dentists for significant contributions to their profession. Dr. Marie Stiles will also be attending a sedation dentistry conference to further expand her expertise in this area.

Dr. Dennis Stiles has spent time in continuing education for a variety of specialties, including Implant Dentistry (38 hours), Prosthodontics (16 hours), as well as a 16 hour course on the brain and learning. Interestingly enough. its been found that some conditions related to the brain, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can have an affect on sleep patterns and sleep disorders. Dr. Stiles' specialties is in customized sleep apnea devices, which may be prescribed by a sleep specialist to treat this disorder.

It is our goal to pass the value of continuing education courses like these to our patients, in the form of effective and long lasting dental health!