Our Courses

Implant dentistry has evolved since dental implants were first introduced to North America in the early 1980s. The patients’ esthetic needs and social demands led to the increase of same day implant placement and restoration. This program will discuss the biology, patient selection, and clinical procedures leading to successful clinical outcome.

Course objectives:

• Understand the concept and the requirements for immediate loading implant prosthesis
• Discuss patient selection and esthetic guidelines for immediate load procedures
• Describe abutment and provisional design to achieve optimal esthetic outcome

Endodontics continues to be one of the hottest ways to grow your dental practice. Learning to treat the emergency patient, or convenience patient can play a big part of your dental practice growth. Data from OnCall Dental Urgent Care shows that 38% of the population haven’t seen a dentist in the past 5 years for 4 reasons. The top 2 procedures in Urgent dental care are: root canal therapy and extractions. A unique way dentists can tap into dental practice growth is by improving the way they attract, treat and retain the emergency patient and convenience patient.

Many dentists are experiencing the dreaded open chair syndrome or holes in their schedules. Root canal procedures can be the answer to fixing this syndrome. Improved apex locators, irrigation and disinfection techniques, new biocompatible sealers and obturation predictability makes the attraction to do root canals very high. Discount niiti rotary files are making it more affordable and profitable to do root canals correctly and efficiently. Soon we will see a one file rotary system that truly works.   Also, is it possible that a no file root canal is on the horizon?   Ninja accesses and endodontic dentin conservation protocols will be the rage. How do you as the general dentist keep up with the changing endodontic landscape unfolding right before your eyes and use it to your advantage for practice growth?

Fill the chairs through Social media. It has proven to be a vehicle to unlock and reach the 38%.

It will be come more and more important to find ways such as SEO, Adwords and platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to make sure we set ourselves apart as the social media experts. The 38% will search for their dentists and procedures needed online. Then of course, they will be sharing their experiences, which gives us reason to protect our google and yelp ratings. A good root canal review can help build our practices, but a bad one can kill it.   How do we make sure from the roots up we optimize our root canal procedures and provide the highest quality in endodontic care?

General dentists should do root canals to grow their practices, however, they cannot fall victim to poor out comes because of case selection and case management. Patients are getting smarter and will continue to demand better root canal outcomes and efficient easy procedures.

Learning objectives:
1) Create a basic understanding of how emergency, unscheduled and convenient care patients can help grow your practice through better root canal therapy protocols and skills.
2) Discover the advantages of improved endodontic diagnosis and technology to create peace of mind for you and your patients.
3) Excellent reviews through predictable efficient endodontic therapies.

6 Handed Dentistry can revolutionize your practice. In this webinar, Dr. Phillips will teach you what it is, how to implement it, and the benefits that 6 Handed Dentistry can provide to any doctor or practice.

Course Objectives
• Increased Efficiency
• Reduced Chair Time
• Increased Productivity
• Increased Profitability
• Fully Trained Staff

Piezoelectric instruments are not new to the general dentist however there is a widening use of these instruments beyond scaling teeth. These devices offer a safe, precise, atraumatic and bloodless method to perform oral surgery with less effort. Traditional crank, yank and tearing a tooth from the socket is replaced with releasing and floating a tooth out with better more rapid post op healing. Safe, predictable, atraumatic oral surgery, root canal procedures, implant placements and conservative tooth preparations make this technology useful for general dentists. General dentists using this technology are finding more peace of mind, preciseness, patient acceptance and profits.

Learning objectives:
1) Create a basic understanding of how Piezoelectric technology works and what procedures it can perform
2) Discover the advantages of everyday use of this technology to create a peace of mind for you and your patients and an easier way to approach your work day.
3) List the risks and contraindications of using a piezoelectric device.

Piezoelectric instruments are not new to the general dentist however there is a widening use of these instruments beyond scaling teeth. These devices offer a safe, precise, atraumatic and bloodless method to perform oral surgery with less effort. Traditional crank, yank and tearing a tooth from the socket is replaced with releasing and floating a tooth out with better more rapid post op healing. Safe, predictable, atraumatic oral surgery, root canal procedures, implant placements and conservative tooth preparations make this technology useful for general dentists. General dentists using this technology are finding more peace of mind, preciseness, patient acceptance and profits.

Learning objectives:
1) Create a basic understanding of how Piezoelectric technology works and what procedures it can perform
2) Discover the advantages of everyday use of this technology to create a peace of mind for you and your patients and an easier way to approach your work day.
3) List the risks and contraindications of using a piezoelectric device.

Of all dental procedures, endodontic treatment has had the most dental malpractice claims filed, mainly involving cases directed against general dentists. These claims revolve around breaches in the standard of care with regard to informed consent, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up care. The purpose of this presentation is to elucidate the typical problems associated with endodontic care so as to help prevent the catastrophe and misfortune of a dental malpractice claim.

Learning Objectives:
1. To understand the definition of what is meant by the standard of care
2. To understand what is required with regard to proper informed consent.
3. To be able to describe how to document a proper diagnosis.
4. To understand the most common procedural mishaps in endodontics and how to avoid them.

Dr Mark Hughes has built the most successful dental practice in London, England, starting from scratch with zero patients and opening its doors for the first time just before the global recession. The Harley Street area of London is home to some of the world’s top medical practitioners, including over 400 registered dentists, within and area less than a quarter square mile! Learn how a practice grew from one dental chair to 9, in the most competitive dental environment in the world.

Part 2 concentrates on Marketing. What does this mean for the 21st century dental practice? Do you need to market and if so in what ways? Learn what works and what doesn’t in digital and web marketing. Learn why sometimes we need to go “back to basics”.

Course Objectives (Part 2):

– What is ‘Marketing’?
– Marketing in 21st century dentistry
– Do I really need a new website?
– Digital and Social Media Marketing
– How to create raving fans
– The 38%

To show how utilizing a range of digital tools in implant dentistry can streamline treatment and increase profitability.

Course objectives: Through a light hearted lecture, I plan on highlighting how digitization is changing the face of implant dentistry as we know it (even if we don’t know it’s happening) and how these technologies can be harnessed to streamline treatment and increase profitability. I will conclude by discussing some short falls in digital implant dentistry and answer the question… “Is it time to move out of the Stone Age with simple implant dentistry?”

Dr Halley will present a simple system for capturing and analysing our patients dynamic smile in day to day practice. She will describe how simple smile design analysis can aid communication, increase case acceptance and greatly enhance treatment planning and therefore consistency of results.

Learning Objectives :
• To understand the role of the smile in our culture and how the patient journey in general dentistry can be related to this universal human communication tool
• To understand how to improve patient communication and presentation to aid case acceptance – including the workflow for dentist/treatment co-ordinators
• To understand the step-by-step process including simple digital aids to consistently treatment plan comprehensively starting from a facial perspective
• To have an understanding of how to simply capture smile images and dynamic data and use of simple digital analysis for smile design

Corporate DSOs and Private Equity groups are some of the fastest growing business models in dentistry today. One group that comes to mind is actively buying or building 50 dental offices/month. Think about dental insurance companies who are starting to own dental practices and are doing everything they can to take away or reduce our insurance reimbursement rates considerably. When you add it up it doesn’t take a mathematician to know that the dental landscape is going to look considerably different 5-10 years from now. What’s the solo practice dentist to do? Can you continue in the PPO insurance space? The short answer is Yes. Yes you can but not if you continuing doing things the way you’ve always been doing things. In this session I’ll be covering the top 20 things I think your practice will need to do to succeed not only today but also in tomorrows competitive dental economy.

Learning objectives:
-Learn the 3 ways to survive the corporate Tsunami that’s coming.
-Discover why your vision today may need to change for what’s coming tomorrow.
-How to make maximize every marketing effort.
-Why you need an in house membership savings plan to find a better quality patient.
-How to build a better hiring system to find superstar employees.
-Why you need more capacity at your office to differentiate and compete.