Continuing Education

Maxillofacial Trauma

Address: 601 Skyway Rd, San Carlos, CA 94070


TOPIC

Maxillofacial Trauma for the General Dentist

SPEAKER
Gary K. Roberts, DDS

CONTINUING EDUCATION
3 CE Unit (Core)


Learning Objectives:

  • Be in a position to help more patients and generate more goodwill for your practice, as well as feel good about your efforts to help those in need.

  • Increase revenue by being able to treat more traumatic injuries

  • Understand what traumatic injuries can be treated by a general dentist vs. when referral to an OMFS or hospital with a Dental Medicine and Surgery Service is a better choice

  • Safely and effectively practice to the full scope of your dental degree and license


SPEAKER BIO:

Gary K. Roberts, DDS hails from Hawaii. He is currently faculty with the Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, Dental Medicine & Surgery Service at Stanford University Medical Center and Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital, where he has performed hospital dentistry and surgery since 1995.  He is also on faculty at the UOP Dugoni School of Dentistry. Dr. Roberts was awarded his DDS from UOP in 1988, completed his General Practice Residency at Navy Hospital Oakland in 1989, and earned his Navy oral surgery subspecialty designator in 1992 while on active duty as a Naval Officer.  During nearly a quarter of a century of military service, Dr. Roberts was one of the leading researchers on combat trauma and the pathophysiology of projectile wounds. He has been an Anesthesia Evaluator for the California State Dental Board and is the only individual to have served three consecutive terms on the CDA Council for Peer Review. He is a Police Academy graduate and has been a sworn Reserve Police Officer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Dr. Roberts was a US Soccer Federation Referee and now spends his leisure time enjoying Masters alpine ski racing. He has also enjoyed hiking and backpacking, sport rock climbing, bicycle road racing and mountain biking, tournament water skiing, as well as SCUBA diving. His three children have all gone into healthcare.