This clever advertisement was seen at the Scottsdale, Arizona rodeo on Dr. Seminara’s last trip out there to the Spear Dental Education Centre. Keeping up with the latest techniques and technologies in any field is important, but particularly when it affects your health and welfare. Dental Implants are just one of the many topics that are covered in depth at a typical two to three day session at the Spear Centre. Advanced classes in Occlusion (how your teeth come together), Treating the Worn Dentition, and Treatment Planning are also taught.

It is essential for a dentist to engage in as many high quality continuing educational activities as possible, and Dr. Seminara has made it his mission to learn all he can from the best dentists around. In any given year, he takes two to three times the amount of courses recommended by the Order of Dentists of Quebec. Many of these courses are given by McGill, many others by local study clubs such as the Montreal Dental Club, of which Dr. Seminara currently sits as President. He has also traveled to seminars in Arizona, Vancouver, Chicago, North Carolina, Atlanta, Toronto and will be heading to Boston in May and June for advanced courses on dental implants.

The crowd at a conference on Treating the Worn Dentition in Chicago that Dr. Seminara attended in 2015

Dental Implants are one of the most successful, yet complex treatments that we perform at the office. We have restored hundreds of implants over the years and helped hundreds of people regain their smiles, chewing function and confidence. It is amazing to consider that from the mid 1980s to today, the use of implants in dentistry has increased by over 1000%! We are fortunate to be able to help our patients benefit from this service, and it is through diligent training and study that we have maintained our cutting edge knowledge. A final thought about the cowboy from the rodeo. Not so long ago, he’d have to make due with a partial denture, or perhaps even go without teeth at all. Well that certainly isn’t the case anymore. Now he can replace the teeth he lost falling off his bull with implants!

The rodeo cowboy seconds before being thrown from his bull. He will very likely soon be in the market for some “Cowboy Tough Dental Implants”