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I’ve Heard About It but I Haven’t Used It!

Speaker:

Shannon Pace Brinker

May 3, 2025

Date:

3

CE Credits:

About the Course

This course is designed to provide the entire dental team with the latest updates on dental materials and equipment This course will emphasize how new technologies and products can enhance patient care. From infection control to restorative materials, this course will empower the dental team to make informed choices and material selection ensuring superior treatment, outcomes patient satisfaction and efficient workflow integration.

Educational Objectives:

  • The dental team will be introduced to new dental equipment and technology software.

  • Gain knowledge on new dental disposables, instrumentation, and isolation devices.

Your Instructor

Shannon Pace Brinker

Shannon Pace Brinker, CDA, is a national and international speaker and published author. She has been a full-time practicing dental assistant for

more than 25 years and works for Dr. Robert Korman in Virginia Beach, VA.

She is an active member of the AACD, was the first auxiliary to sit on the AACD Board of Directors, and was awarded the AACD Rising Star Award. Shannon was selected one of Dentistry Today’s Top 100 Clinicians. She was also selected as Dental Products Report’s 25 most influential women in dentistry and Dr. Bicuspid’s dental assisting educator of the year.


She has written more than 300 articles about clinical applications and has a current column in Dental Product Reports for team evaluations of dental

products and materials. She has her own publication for dental assistants in partnership with Schein Dental called Side by Side. She has started one

of the first online platforms designated for dental assistants called the Academy of Chairside Assisting.

Conflict of Interest Disclosure

None reported 




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