Say the word Botox on Long Island and most people picture a med spa in Garden City. Say it to a dentist and you are likely to get a different answer, one that has less to do with forehead lines than with the two muscles that close the jaw and what happens when a patient never lets them rest.

On August 15, a 16-credit hands-on course at a Hauppauge dental campus will spend the day on exactly that. It is called Botulinum Toxin & Dermal Fillers + Dental Applications, it is open only to dentists, and roughly half of what it covers has nothing to do with cosmetics at all.

The therapeutic half of the syllabus

The clinical portion of the curriculum is built around problems that walk into general practices every week and rarely leave with a solution. The course covers TMD, facial pain and headaches, bruxism, gummy smiles, angular cheilitis, asymmetric smile correction, interdental papilla filling and perioral volume loss.

Grinding is the clearest example of why a dentist ends up in this conversation first. The damage shows up on the teeth long before the patient connects their morning headaches to anything happening in their sleep. A dentist looking at flattened cusps and a cracked molar is looking at the muscle that did it. Learning to work on that muscle directly is a short step from there, and it is the step this course is built to teach.

What else is covered

The cosmetic side of the program is the part most people expect: nasolabial folds, marionette lines, oral rhytids, oral commissures, frown lines, forehead lines, eyebrow lift and crow's feet. For a practice already doing smile design, it rounds out the frame around the work rather than replacing it.

Hands-on, on real patients

The distinction that matters in continuing education is whether you leave having done the thing or only having watched it. This is a live patient course. Registration includes a model patient if a dentist does not bring one, up to 50 units of botulinum toxin for the clinical session, a full training manual, and portal access to the didactic lectures and videos so the classroom day is spent injecting rather than sitting through slides. Breakfast and lunch are included.

The day carries 16 CE credits and the provider, DentaSpa Seminars, is AGD PACE and ADA CERP recognized, which is the detail a licensing board cares about and the one worth confirming before any CE purchase.

Where it happens

The venue is the Destination Forum Teaching Entity at 400 Townline Rd in Hauppauge, the teaching arm of the Destination Dental campus led by Dr. Lynn Pierri. The campus is unusual for Long Island in that it was built as a multidisciplinary facility rather than assembled out of one practice's spare rooms: surgical suites, recovery bays, imaging and a purpose-built teaching room with a lectern, tiered tables and clinical space steps away.

That last part is the practical argument for taking the course here instead of on a hotel ballroom circuit. Hands-on training in a room built for hands-on training is a different day than hands-on training in a Marriott.

What it costs, and who it is for

Tuition is $3,850. The code DENTALCE135 brings it to $3,450, a $400 difference. Enrollment is limited to licensed dentists, and given that the format depends on live patients and instructor attention, seats are finite in a way an online CE course never is.

For a Long Island practice weighing it, the question is less about the technique than about the patients already on the schedule: the clenchers, the grinders, the ones with the headaches nobody has traced. A dentist is usually the first clinician to see the evidence. This is a course about being able to do something with it.

Registration

Registration is at dentaspa-seminars.com, or by phone with Diana at 407-488-6634. Full course details are on the Destination Dental event page.

D1: Botulinum Toxin & Dermal Fillers + Dental Applications
Saturday, August 15, 2026
Destination Forum Teaching Entity, 400 Townline Rd #135, Hauppauge, NY 11788
16 CE credits · AGD PACE and ADA CERP recognized · Dentists only