Raymond L. Bertolotti DDS Inc. presents Fifth Quarter Seminars
Our 2021 Yosemite program was cancelled due to COVID problems with staffing the Ahwahnee Hotel. This program featured two great international guest speakers so we are very sad to have cancelled. We have rescheduled Yosemite in 2022 as announced below.
This web site in not presently taking registrations. New registrations for Yosemite 2022 will be accepted after April 1, 2022. Of course we are happy to answer your questions by telephone. (510) 483-2411
If you have previously attended one of our Fifth Quarter Seminars, most likely all we need to register is your name, credit card number and expiry date. We have the rest on file. Of course you may also send a check so that should you need to cancel, we can send you a 100% refund (avoiding deduction of bank's credit card processing fees). If you are new to our seminars, it is probably easiest to print and mail or securely FAX the following form:
REGISTRATION FORM (use after April 1, 2022 please)
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Additional dentist(s): ____________________________________________________________
Additional non-dentist(s):
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Raymond L. Bertolotti DDS Inc. , 345 Estudillo Ave, Suite 102, San Leandro, CA 94577
Phone: 510-483-2411 Secure FAX: 510-652-8729
This web site in not presently taking registrations. New registrations for Yosemite 2022 will be accepted after April 1, 2022. Of course we are happy to answer your questions by telephone. (510) 483-2411
If you have previously attended one of our Fifth Quarter Seminars, most likely all we need to register is your name, credit card number and expiry date. We have the rest on file. Of course you may also send a check so that should you need to cancel, we can send you a 100% refund (avoiding deduction of bank's credit card processing fees). If you are new to our seminars, it is probably easiest to print and mail or securely FAX the following form:
REGISTRATION FORM (use after April 1, 2022 please)
Seminar Location: ______________________________________________________________
First person: _________________________________________________________________
Additional dentist(s): ____________________________________________________________
Additional non-dentist(s):
__________________________________________________________________________
Street Address:________________________________________________________________
City: ______________________________________ State: ______ ZIP: _________
Your e-mail (used for seminar confirmation): ____________________________________
Phone: ( ) ____________________________________________________
Credit card number (AmEx, Visa, MC) and expiry date, or indicate “sending check” :
number: ___________________________________expiry date: _________
Raymond L. Bertolotti DDS Inc. , 345 Estudillo Ave, Suite 102, San Leandro, CA 94577
Phone: 510-483-2411 Secure FAX: 510-652-8729
Lake Tahoe 2020.
Sorry, cancelled due to due to COVID-19 mandates.
Yosemite 2021.
Sorry, cancelled, due to COVID-19 problems with operation of the Ahwahnee Hotel.
FYI, the Awahnee Hotel and the Lodge do not have sufficient staff to hold a group event. The COVID problem limits
how many staff can be housed in Park facilities. Besides, the Ahwahnee Restaurant only does take out service! In any event, we needed to make our decision in sufficient time for our attendees and speakers to change their plans. (Further complicating the situation, Geoff Knight cannot travel from Australia without going into two weeks quarantine upon returning.)
We have booked a reschedule for October 27-29, 2022.
New Registrations will be accepted after April 1, 2022 or earlier if
the COVID-19 situation allows us to proceed. (You may send us
an e-mail requesting our announcement of open registration
and we will contact you immediately when registration opens:
rbertolott@aol.com)
Guest speakers Geoff Knight BDS, PhD and Prof. Edward Lynch.
The tentative Yosemite program follows. The final program is currently being updated and will be announced in 2022. With two of the best international speakers, this program is not to be missed.
Location: Yosemite Ahwahnee Hotel (formerly Majestic Hotel)
Here is the preliminary list of topics from both speakers:
Prof. Edward Lynch:
Many of the latest evidenced-based methods to do better, faster and more profitable clinical dentistry
Managing deep carious lesions
When to leave infected dentine in deep cavities
When to use glass ionomer cements
Which glass ionomer cements can remineralise caries and why
How to reduce the need for root canal treatments when dealing with near pulp exposures
The latest ways to manage pulpal exposures
When to use silver diammine fluoride
The latest ways to improve your success for root canal treatment
How minimally invasive dentistry is being successfully applied in dental practice.
Learn about the new "One Visit Crowns"
When to use ozone
The latest ways to improve tooth whitening - internal and external
o learn if any "lights" can improve in-office teeth whiteningPresents
Geoff Knight DDS, PhD:
Unique, simple and effective home pharmacological adjuncts for the prevention and management of caries and periodontal disease.
SDF (silver diamine fluoride) is becoming the global gold standard for caries management.
A technique for applying KI (potassium iodide) to SDF that not only prevents staining, is faster to apply and has twice the fluoride release of SDF into a tooth.
Create a seal, impenetrable to bacteria, at the cavo-surface margins
Painless, stress reducing caries management for children, largely avoiding the harmful consequences of general anesthesia
Techniques for the restoration of interproximal caries with minimal tooth preparation required and saving the important marginal ridge.BOK NOW at:
Adhesive techniques for chemically bonding GIC to composite resin and how to triple the bond strength of GIC to enamel and dentin.
Learn a revolutionary “Open Sandwich” technique using composite and GIC for class II restorations that is super fast yet prevents exposed glass ionomer from
breaking down in the proximal area.
New fibre techniques to improve the retention and strength of composite resin, RMGIC and GIC
Many small clinical techniques that dentist’s share with each other that simplify everyday treatment protocols.
Occlusion, what’s important to know for the restorative dentist.
Masking out severe supra- and sub- gingival staining on an anterior tooth.
Closing a diastema without the black triangle.
Seminar hours: The seminar is held at the Ahwahnee Hotel, Thursday through Saturday, October 28-30, 2021. On Thursday, registration and coffee begin at 2 p.m. On Thursday the seminar will be from 2:30 to 7 p.m. (Dinner reservations should take the ending time into consideration.) On Friday and Saturday, the seminar will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Tuition is $ 500. per person. Registration at the door, add $20. per person, space permitting. Cancellations receive refunds with at least 14 days advance notice or with less notice, if we have someone to take your place.
Tuition payment: Payment can be made by check (preferred method) or credit card. If you would need to cancel, refunds for tuition paid by credit card are subject to deduction of our banking costs. These costs are avoided should you cancel after paying tuition with a check.
Since our office is closed during these COVID-19 times, please call to let us know that you are sending a check (510-483-2411, after 8am Pacific time please) and we will reserve space for you and e-mail the necessary hotel discount codes.
Alternatively you may securely FAX (510-652-8729) your registration using credit card or just write in “sending check” which will hold your space for two weeks, pending receipt of the check. Then you will receive an e-mail confirmation along with discounted hotel info.
We accept credit cards (AmEx, Visa and Mastercard) but we will defer posting the charge until about two months before the seminar. Our concern is that COVID-19 may force us to cancel. In that event, we would want to make a full refund. If we have to process and later refund credit cards, our bank processing costs are a big concern. (Posting and refunding costs us upward of 6%).
CE Credits: 14 hours. Fifth Quarter Seminars is a California recognized dental CE provider and an approved AGD-PACE provider (so OK for all states and Canada). .
Hotel: We have hotel blocks for the Ahwahnee and Lodge with discounted room rates, available after registration in seminar. We will give you the needed Group discount code number in our confirmation mail. Rates are $300.'s to 400.'s at the Ahwahnee, mid to upper $100.'s at the Lodge. There are also out of Park options, such as the Yosemite View Lodge in El Portal, just outside the Park Boundary. Their Riverview rooms are very nice (with small kitchen) and recommended for families..
Cancellation Policy: Should you need to cancel, we require at least 14 days notice for a full refund (less any credit card bank fees if you registered using credit card) or if someone takes your place. Special note: If you have rolled over your registration from 2021 to 2022, we need a re-confirmation of your desire to keep the registration. We will e-mail you at about 60 days in advance.
Yosemite travel details: Yosemite weather is usually very mild at this time of year and Yosemite is not crowded. You will have to pay a Park entrance fee (charged per car). Travel time from Bay Area airports is about 4 hours. From Fresno airport, it's about 1.5 hours.
Fifth Quarter Seminars reserves the rights to limit enrollment and to cancel a course with no responsibility to those enrolled other than to fully refund course registration fees.
A new webinar and “live, in person” series with Dr. Ruiz:
Dr. Bertolotti will be speaking with Dr. Jose-Luis Ruiz on Advanced Adhesive Dentistry & the Supra-Gingival Protocol … for Healthier Dentistry.
This live, in-person version is scheduled for August 21 at South Lake Tahoe. Program details and registration information are posted on www.ruizdentalseminars.com.
International Webinar
NOW COMPLETED, please expect a new announcement in late 2021.
Rounds #1, 2 and 3 of Controversial Clinical Concepts were completed very successfully with world wide registrations, from as far as Lebanon and Spain. Doctors Bertolotti, Milicich (New Zealand) and Knight (Australia) presented "live" several new topics, inspired by the discussions & questions from the previous webinars and their vast knowledge and experience.
If you missed it, we recommend that you register for Newsletters so that you will be promptly informed of any new webinars.
Here is some fantastic feedback from the first series of Controversial Clinical Concepts webinar presentations.
- "I watched CCC I in the afternoon after the LIVE morning session of CCC 2. Quite an intense day but what fabulous information".
- "Thank you for all the hard work you do to provide these programs for us who are followers of the men who are pioneers of innovation in our profession".
- "I would like to share with you and them an observation I have made over the years practicing as they, and many others of us do. And that is: I do not go through nearly as many diamond and carbide enamel removing drills! That's an observable result of our conservative practices".
- “It is truly amazing to have such a great, accredited educational experience available to all. In these economic times, the tuition charged, an unbeatable value, is much appreciated. Thank you to all”.
- It obviously took some effort to do the program "live" from three countries separated by 8 time zones. Your coordinator, Paulette, did this flawlessly. Outstanding.