Distinguish yourself as a general dentist and show your commitment to continuing education by pursuing your AGD Fellowship or Mastership. These prestigious awards give you the opportunity to expand your clinical knowledge and enhance how you treat your patients.
Members who have achieved AGD Mastership can go on to earn Lifelong Learning and Service Re
cognition (LLSR).
With this designation, AGD recognizes Masters’ commitment to continuous learning and staying active both in organized dentistry and their communities.
Fellows, Masters and LLSR recipients are recognized annually during the AGD Convocation Ceremony, which is held during AGD’s Scientific Session. Recipient of the AGD Dr. Thaddeus V. Weclew are also recognized during this time.
Stand out through continuing education. Get started today!
Benefits of a FAGD/MAGD
AGD Fellows and Masters have made a commitment to care that goes above and beyond traditional education and licensing requirements. They have dedicated themselves to learning, growing and staying current in the field so that they can provide the best oral care to patients and their families.
Only 6% of dentists have earned their AGD Fellowship, and only 4% have earned their AGD Mastership.
AGD's KnowYourDentist.org website provide information to help you patients understand the value of these awards and learn more about finding an AGD dentist. Take advantage of these resources and start promoting the benefits of these awards to current and prospective patients today!
Promote Your Achievements
AGD Fellows, Masters, and Lifelong Learning and Service Recognition recipients can inform the public and their patients about the award they received through a series of tools and resources that highlight you and the only achievement-based award in general dentistry. Learn more about these opportunities.
Access CE
AGD offers Fellowship (FAGD) and Mastership (MAGD) awards to members who truly go above and beyond in their learning. To earn a Fellowship award, a dentist must complete at least 500 continuing dental education hours, pass a rigorous and comprehensive exam, and maintain AGD membership for three continuous years. To receive the Mastership award, a dentist must first receive his or her Fellowship award. Then, the dentist must earn an additional 600 approved CE hours within specific dental disciplines. Access cutting edge CE through AGD today!
EVENTS
Wear of Dental Hard Tissues — It’s More Than You Realize
Date(s)
Dec. 9, 2021 at 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Warden H. Noble, DDS, MS, MSEd
Subject: 250 Operative (Restorative) Dentistry
Credits: 1.5
Thursday, Dec. 9: 7:30–9 p.m. CST
Audience: Dentists, Dental Hygienists, Dental Assistants
Fee: Free
Description
Wear of dental hard tissues and restorations is receiving increasing attention. Formerly, wear was mainly attributable to bruxism and parafunctional behaviors related to mandibular movements. Recent research has expanded causation to include erosive tooth wear, frictional forces from attrition and abrasion, and possibly abfraction. Wear is discussed from a global aspect, meaning that what patients use and how they care for their teeth is perhaps more important than the actual tooth-to-tooth contact.
This presentation will review the actual processes involved in management of tooth wear. Strategies for prevention and restorative care will be emphasized.
Learning Objectives
- Diagnose various aspects of tooth wear, including attrition, abrasion, acid erosion, bruxism and noncarious cervical lesions/abfractions.
- Explain ways in which dentists and dental hygienists can help patients control risk factors related to tooth surface loss.
- Discuss how practitioners can help with the management of tooth wear utilizing minimally invasive procedures, which can be performed by various members of the oral health team.
Warden H. Noble, DDS, MS, MSEd, graduated from the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) and then completed a prosthodontic residency program at the University of Michigan. After being in private practice and teaching at UCSF for 35 years, he is now a professor at the University of the Pacific School of Dentistry in San Francisco, where he has received Excellence in Teaching awards from both the faculty and students. He recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pacific Coast Society of Prosthodontists. He has given over 250 presentations both nationally and internationally and has published numerous book chapters and articles.
Additional Information
This course is sponsored by Crest Oral-B.
Add this Event to your Calendar