Minutes

National CODE meeting

02/19/04

Fairmont Hotel

Chicago, IL

The meeting was called to order at 4.15 P.M. by Dr. Larry Haisch. Dr. Haisch made some general comments regarding the CODE web-site and once again encouraged CODE members to keep working with regional licensure boards. He gave information regarding the past year’s regional CODE meetings and applauded Dr. Scott Shaddy’s efforts to get the slot prep accepted for the Central regional boards.

Dr. Kevin Frazier mentioned the name change for CODE- it is now officially the “Consortium of Operative Dentistry Educators” and went on to introduce the speaker for the evening- Dr. Ivar Mjor from the University of Florida.

Dr. Mjor spoke about ‘practice based research’. For the first time, NIDCR is recognizing the need for private practice based research. Controlled clinical trials are good feasibility studies but do not provide long term data. Also, because of specially trained dentists, assistants, patients with specific inclusion and exclusion criteria and unlimited time availability to place restorations, these trials are not representative of the real clinical situations. Therefore, practice based research needs to be encouraged.

Dr. Mjor also spoke about secondary caries around composite restorations, mainly class V restorations. He said more than 50% of composite restorations are removed due to the diagnosis of secondary decay and more than 50% of the time, this diagnosis is wrong. He showed several examples of class V composite restorations with marginal stains that proved to be caries-free when removed.

The meeting was adjourned at 5.45 P.M.

Respectfully submitted by:

Dr. Poonam Jain

Associate Professor

SIU School of Dental Medicine