CDM Aesthetics Group

CDM Aesthetics Club Presents: Aesthetic Dentistry Beyond the Classroom with Dr. Joseph Salim. Dr. Salim is an accomplished cosmetic dentist practicing here in New York City. He is an active member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry and the American College of Forensic Examiners. He has also completed special training in sleep apnea, the use of Botox in TMJ disorders, and correction of “gummy” smiles. Please join us for the opportunity to learn from Dr. Salim! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HwYc6mS-3pVx2oW4v5uKmKlUMbivzdA217CqMIQ2sDs/edit

Happy Friday! ✨🤗!! The Aesthetics Club has a very exciting event coming up. This Tuesday, we will be hosting Dr. Natalie Monette on Zoom. She will be discussing her experience in the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry (AACD) residency program. This is a new, highly competitive residency program that trains dentists to deliver the highest quality of cosmetic dentistry to patients. She will also be walking us through some of her favorite cosmetic cases completed during her residency! For students planning on pursuing any branch of dentistry, this is a talk you do not want to miss. Sign up link in bio! See you there! 🤩

Happy Thursday, we’re close to the weekend!
Meet Chelsea, our co-president ✨
Chelsea is from Bethesda, Maryland. She likes to relax with a good TV show after long days in clinic - her favorite guilty pleasure series Rupaul’s Drag Race! Her favorite comfort food is sushi.

Chelsea says if she didn’t have to sleep, she’d learn more about 3D printing and laser cutting because she wants to make furniture! (Check out her handy creations in the last pic 👀)

She wishes her friends outside of dental school could understand “the DRAMA and that dental school IS 4 years.” (😂)

The single most thing she appreciates about CDM is her classmates. 💛

Happy International Women’s Day! ✨

Today spotlight is dedicated to Rumi Lazarova (D3). Rumi is from Dartmouth, MA and originally from Sofia, Bulgaria. She was first exposed to dentistry, when she was young, watching her mom go through dental school in NYC. That’s when she first fell in love with what she does for her patients and the city she was in. 13 years later, Rumi is here in the city, pursuing what she loves where it all began for her family. She’s drawn to aesthetic dentistry because beautiful smiles empower patients in more ways than we can comprehend. 😁

Rumi loves to relax by taking walks in the park, good takeout and a Netflix binge. Chipotle is her go to comfort food and her favorite guilty pleasure media is “literally anything on TLC.”

Something she wishes her friends outside of dental school could understand is that, “we don’t go into dentistry because we are obsessed with teeth.” (True!) She was also surprised to find out that if you manage your time wisely, you’ll have time to enjoy the city with your friends while staying on top of your work. Rumi loves CDM for the integrated biomedical curriculum, which helped her appreciate the ways in which our systemic health affects our oral health. These are things she teaches her patients everyday.

Happy Thursday! 🙌🏼

Meet Erika (D2), one of our events coordinators! Erika immigrated to the U.S. from Russia at the age of 10. Some of her hobbies that help her de-stress include Pilates Mat, Reformer Pilates, and Barre classes! She loves the beautiful combination of art and medicine that dentistry has to offer and found interest in aesthetics because it provides the opportunity to enhance a patient’s confidence by improving both aesthetic form and function. Her favorite comfort food is ramen from Tampopo Ramen in WaHi (she has one 🍜 per week 🙈) and likes to watch anything/everything on Netflix top 10! If she didn’t have to sleep and had more hours in a day, she says she’d experiment with all the fun recipes she promises herself she’ll get to when “things slow down a bit.” In dental school, Erika was most surprised to find out that the greatest moments of learning often come from collaborative experiences with her classmates.

Have a great rest of your weeks everyone!

Hey, happy Tuesday! Hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend 😊

The aesthetics club is up and running again at CDM and we’re back on IG with a member spotlight series!

Meet Jenna, our co-president. Jenna is from Livonia, MI. Her spark for dentistry is rooted in the confidence-change in patients after a beautiful outcome because who wouldn’t want to make people smile?! She also loves the ability to change not only teeth, but the entire face to create a harmonious outcome with aesthetic dentistry. Jenna likes to try new restaurants in the city during her off time and says that she’d get around to those books she keeps saying she’d read if we had a couple extra hours in a day (I think a lot of us can concur)! Something that surprised her the most about dental school has been that there is still time to relax and have fun and she loves CDM for the lifelong friendships she’s made. 💕

✨✨TOMORROW✨✨
Join us at tomorrow, April 6th @ 6 PM EST for a webinar with Dr. Arthur Volker! Dr. Volker is a Columbia graduate and accomplished cosmetic dentist with a practice in Sunnyside, NY. He offers a unique perspective on combining the artistic and scientific aspects of dentistry, and as accrued over 500 hours of continuing education. Come hear his words of wisdom about how to “Simplify Smile Design”— you won’t want to miss it!
(Zoom meeting info to follow)

Sign up link in Bio!
The CDM Aesthetics Group is proud to announce the next lecture in our summer speaker series: New Boundaries of Dentistry with Dr. Miguel Stanley, who is the clinical director of the White Clinic based in Lisbon, Portugal founded 20 years ago. A passionate advocate for high quality dental care, his career has been focused on restoring smiles with his interdisciplinary team, using state of the art technology, software and materials and a strong sense of ethics and minimal invasiveness to better protect his patients. This is the reason he created the No Half Smiles® treatment philosophy and Slow Dentistry® both aimed at improving the patient experience and the overall quality of care. With training in implant dentistry, cosmetic dentistry and functional occlusion, his Advanced Biological Cosmetic Dentistry approach incorporates the full scope of action of modern dentistry. With over 200 keynote lectures given in over 50 countries, Dr Stanley’s lectures are critically acclaimed by dentists of all ages and specialties, for the open dialogue and simple and beautiful manner complex cases are presented.
He recently was nominated one of the top 100 dentists in the world by his peers in 2020.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
* How to explain to patients the importance of using the best technologies and how it elevates the quality of treatments preformed;
* How to introduce new technologies in your day-to-day workflow and how it helps save time and stress; * How to run a successful practice and why choosing the best products and technical solutions is the foundation of success;
* The logistics behind working with the cloud and interdisciplinary teams around the globe and its importance;
* How technology brings high quality affordable dentistry to everyone;
* The concept of Slow Dentistry®: How can it get you to another level?
* How to establish basic staples of high-quality dentistry that are focused on ensuring that the patient has a safe, pain-free consultation: the 4 basic cornerstones of Slow Dentistry®;
* How to solve each individual case for optimal outcome and how to say NO to your patients and still succeed.

See you there!

We are so excited for the next speaker in our virtual summer lecture series: CDM alum, Dr. Jay Lerner!
Learning objectives of this lecture include:
1) The importance of provisionals to the success of the case.
2) How to create exceptional looking provisionals step-by-step.
3) How to utilize smile design principles in shaping teeth.
4) How to create illusions with the use of contours, surface texture and color.
5) How to use the provisionals to test aesthetics, phonetics and function.
6) How to use your provisionals to communicate to the laboratory the desired final result.
See you there!

We are so excited to announce that the CDM Aesthetics Club will be hosting world famous celebrity dentist, Dr. Michael Apa, on April 16. Trust us,this is NOT an event you want to miss!!

Sign up here to reserve your spot:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AHVlzF4uJqEVyGNYDmyP-aO61YYF1DFLRCQ-acqDLk4/edit?usp=sharing

Sign up before all spots fill up!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Veu4gdYEzx0MXqny9031E63pey8-ubHffLjMau1WpxE