Upcoming CDE Lecture: The Healthy Face
January 29, 2026
THE HEALTHY FACE:
Understanding Growth Patterns and Creating Harmony
Dental practitioners are invited to a full-day continuing education course focused on facial growth, airway health, and interdisciplinary treatment planning. Rebecca Bockow, DDS, MS, a board-certified orthodontist and periodontist, will present the 2026 Ernest M. Jones Memorial Lecture at the University of Washington.
Course Details
- DATE: Friday, March 27, 2026
- LOCATION: University of Washington Kane Hall, Room 130
Seattle, Washington 98195 - TARGET AUDIENCE: This course is designed for dental practitioners.
- TIMES: Registration and Continental Breakfast: 8:00am – 8:30am
Course: 8:30am – 4:30pm -
TUITION: Until March 25, 2026 (after, $25 more) $150 for CDE credit* Complimentary for no CDE credit**
*This fee helps to cover the costs of this event that exceed the available annual funds of the Ernest M. Jones Memorial Lectureship Fund.
**If you plan to attend for no CDE credits, you still need to register.
Optional lunch is available for $25 with advance reservation. Parking is available in the Central Parking Garage below Kane Hall using the PayByPhone app.
This course is designed for dental practitioners who want a deeper understanding of growth patterns, airway health, and collaborative care that supports stable, long-term outcomes.
For full details, visit https://dental.washington.edu/condented/ernest-jones-2026/
For registration or questions, contact University of Washington Continuing Dental Education at dentalce@uw.edu or (206) 543-5448.
Course Description
The healthy face depends on harmony between the lips, tongue, joints, periodontium, airway, and teeth. When that balance is disrupted, the results are skeletal and dental compensations that influence function, esthetics, and long-term health.
This full-day course explores why we see the malocclusions we see in our practices from early childhood through adulthood and how to design treatment plans that restore harmony and function. Through four interactive segments, participants will review early skeletal growth and development, vertical, anterior/posterior, and transverse discrepancies, and modern interdisciplinary treatment planning for adults, including custom MARPE (expansion) and surgical collaboration.
Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of skeletal growth, airway health, and the role of interdisciplinary collaboration in creating long-term, stable, and beautiful outcomes.
Overall Course Objectives
As a result of attending this course, you will be able to:
- Understand how breathing patterns, soft-tissue posture, and function influence skeletal growth.
- Diagnose and differentiate vertical, sagittal, and transverse skeletal patterns in growing and adult patients.
- Formulate interdisciplinary treatment plans that restore balance and harmony across all ages.
- Apply surgical and non-surgical treatment options for growing and non-growing patients.
- Integrate airway, esthetic, and functional principles into comprehensive, patient-specific treatment plans.
About the Instructor
Dr. Rebecca Bockow received her dental degree from the University of Washington School of Dentistry. Upon graduation, Dr. Bockow practiced as a restorative dentist in Seattle, WA. In 2013, she completed her dual training in both Orthodontics and Periodontics from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, where she also earned a Master's in Oral Biology.
Dr. Bockow is a board-certified orthodontist and periodontist. She is a resident faculty member at Spear Education and lectures to audiences internationally on topics including interdisciplinary treatment planning, airway and sleep disorders, skeletal growth and development, surgical treatment planning, and skeletal expansion with MARPEs.
Dr. Bockow maintains a private practice in Seattle and Bellevue, limited to orthodontics.
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