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Through AGD/PACE approved provider DC Dental, we are thrilled to bring you live, interactive, ultra high-quality webinars. DC Clinical courses are hand picked based on our mission to deliver actionable, skill building knowledge that makes your “dental life” more efficient, more productive and ultimately, more rewarding.

At the end of each archived course, a quiz will automatically pop up. Once you receive 100% on the quiz, you will then be emailed your CE Certificate within 1 business day.

Upcoming Archived

Date	Time	Category	Faculty Member	Webinar Title
07.11.17	8:00 PM ET	Practice Management and Human Relations	Wayne Silverman, DDS	Generate More Revenue Through Coding Part 3
REGISTER! Generate More Revenue Through Coding Part 3 Credits: 1.5 Cost: Free Time: 8:00 PM ET Part 3: CDT Coding for Implants, Oral Surgery and Miscellaneous Services Correct coding of implant services is critical to prevent revenue loss. When to code for surgical extractions, root removal and the proper record keeping and supporting documentation. Reporting habit appliances and the letters you never use.
06.20.17	8:00 PM ET	Practice Management and Human Relations	Wayne Silverman, DDS	Generate More Revenue Through Coding Part 2
REGISTER! Generate More Revenue Through Coding Part 2 Credits: 1.5 Cost: Free Time: 8:00 PM ET Part 2: CDT Coding for Crowns, Build-ups, Endodontics and Periodontics The correct supporting documentation for crowns, build-ups, root canal therapy and scaling and root planning submitted with claims speeds up reimbursement. How to deal with Delta Dental and Met Life for crown build-ups. Scaling and root planning and the new code, D4346, get paid!
05.23.17	8:00 PM ET	Practice Management and Human Relations	Christopher Phelps, DMD	Why You Need A Membership Savings Plan For Your Practice
REGISTER! Why You Need A Membership Savings Plan For Your Practice Credits: 1.5 Cost: Free Time: 8:00 PM ET As DSO’s and other corporate dental groups continue have continued their growth in our profession, many of us have felt the consequences start to sink in. Every year, these groups leverage their numbers and size to get rewarded with higher and higher dental insurance reimbursement rates while the solo practitioner has seen their rates decline at an alarming rate. Today you may have to place 10 crowns on an insurance patient to equal what you’d be paid for placing 7 crowns on an uninsured patient. Tomorrow, you may have to do 15 crowns to get paid for those same 7. Ultimately, staying in the insurance game is a race to the bottom. So what are you to do? How are you going to compete and thrive in tomorrows dental economy? You need to change your practice model and attract a different type of patient. One who values their oral health. One who is interested in the care you can provide and is willing to pay the fee you deserve to do those procedures. Why aren’t you seeing these patients now? Where are they and what’s the one thing we can do to attract this amazing fee for service patient? Create your own Membership Savings Plan. In this webinar we’ll discuss the answer to all of these questions and more that could very well change the course of your practice. Setting the stage for a future and job security you didn’t think possible. Behavioral Objectives: -Discover why over 108 Million Americans have not been to a Dentist in the last year. -Learn what mindset barriers are keeping them from coming into see you now. -Understand why a Membership Savings Plan is the answer you’ve been looking for to get you out of the PPO rat race. -Learn how best to promote and sell your Savings Plan to attract the fee for service patient your practice needs to succeed today and survive tomorrow’s tough dental economy.
05.03.17	8:00 PM ET	Practice Management and Human Relations	Jeff Gray, DDS	Become More Confident in Recognizing, Presenting and Treating Bigger Cases
REGISTER! Become More Confident in Recognizing, Presenting and Treating Bigger Cases Credits: 1.5 Cost: Free Time: 8:00 PM ET How to predictably and comfortably move from single tooth dentistry to quadrants, arches and even full mouth restorations. Learn the keys to being a more productive, fulfilled and complete DDS from a veteran with 30 years in the trenches. This is the second in a series of Webinars that can help you and your team be able to “play in the big leagues” Do you feel like you are trapped doing “single tooth” dentistry? Would you like feel more confident recognizing, presenting, treating and temporizing “Bigger Cases”? Join us for a revealing and entertaining hour of clinical and emotional keys to realizing your full potential as a practitioner. Discover the critical questions to ask your patients BEFORE you even look in their mouths that can dramatically change your results. Understand how to discuss and present “bigger cases” without feeling like a “used car salesman” Did you realize you might be your own worst enemy in moving towards more complex care and “bigger cases” Learn how your expectations and thoughts are critical to the patients deciding to move forward with you and your team. One key step you can incorporate for less than $200 in your new patient exam that will have your patients saying “wow, we need to fix that” This could be one of the most important hours you will spend to grow your practice and satisfaction. Learn how to “talk like a human being, not a dentist”. What the taught you in dental school is likely wrong being better technically is not the key to having a more productive and happy practice. At the end of this webinar you will leave with at least 5 things you can implement tomorrow in your office that can make a difference for this month.
04.25.17	8:00 PM ET	Practice Management and Human Relations	Wayne Silverman, DDS	Generate More Revenue Through Coding Part 1
REGISTER! Generate More Revenue Through Coding Part 1 Credits: 1.5 Cost: Free Time: 8:00 PM ET Part 1: CDT Coding for Preventive, Diagnostic and Restorative (Direct Restorations) Participating or non-participating practices with PPOs, gain a better understanding of insurance company frequency limitations for preventive and diagnostic services. Stay off of the insurance company radar screen for direct restorations. Code accurately to maximize practice and patient reimbursement.
04.19.17	8:00 PM ET	Endodontics	Diwakar Kinra, DDS	Obturation: How many ways can you fill a tooth?
REGISTER! Obturation: How many ways can you fill a tooth? Credits: 1.5 Cost: Free Time: 8:00 PM ET Proficient cleaning and shaping of root canals needs to be backed up with state of the art obturation. As time has evolved, so has our methods of obturation. This webinar will review these techniques and concentrate on the latest technologies available in cutting edge dentistry. Learning objectives: -Be able to determine different techniques of obturation -Define the role of sealers in obturation -Define when different situations require a specific type of obturation
04.06.17	8:00 PM ET	Implant Dentistry	Amy Creech-Gionis, DMD	Socket Preservation Bone Grafting for the General Dentist: You Can Do It!
REGISTER! Socket Preservation Bone Grafting for the General Dentist: You Can Do It! Credits: 1.5 Cost: Free Time: 8:00 PM ET Dental implants are one of the fastest growing treatment modalities in general dentistry. Whether you are placing implants or treatment planning them with a team approach/specialist, or even if you are planning to place a fixed bridge after an extraction, there are distinct advantages to preserving the patient’s alveolar ridge at the time of tooth removal. By making socket preservation bone grafting part of your daily routine, you can add a new revenue source to your bottom line while providing a valuable service to your patients. This course will focus on the following objectives: -Review of physiology of bone healing after an extraction -Types of grafting materials available, including bone and membranes -Advantages of preserving ridge dimensions at the time of extraction -Simple techniques for socket grafting -Dental coding and terminology that your staff can easily incorporate into practice
03.15.17	8:00 PM ET	Practice Management and Human Relations	Matt VanderMolen, DDS	The Most Profitable One Hour in Dentistry
REGISTER! The Most Profitable One Hour in Dentistry Credits: 1.5 Cost: Free Time: 8:00 PM ET In today’s world, there is a plethora of information available at any time to anyone with access to Google or any of the many search engines on the internet. However, as most people know, the abundant information is often incomplete, inaccurate, or even completely wrong. The information related to the field of dentistry on the internet, in print media, and on television is the same – incomplete, inaccurate, or even completely wrong. You, as a dentist, know this – and your patients and potential patients know this as well. There are millions of people searching for answers to their dental problems and concerns from a resource they can trust. So, if the internet isn’t that trusted resource – what is? It could be, and it should be YOU. The top 3% of income earners in any profession are speakers. Public speaking in your own community is one of the best public services you can provide for your community – and you will be highly regarded and well compensated for it. Course Objectives Why should a dentist become a public speaker? What does it take to become a good public speaker? What dental topics does the public want to know about? What are the steps to setting up a successful seminar? When and where should the seminar be? What about advertising? How should the presentation go? ROI – Is the time and money to put on a seminar really worth it? If you are an average dentist, and you want to stay that way – public speaking is not for you. If you are willing to step a little out of your comfort zone and to passionately share with your community all the great things our great profession has to offer – you and your community will all be better for it!
03.07.17	8:00 PM ET	3D Imaging	Judd Vetock	Become a More Efficient and Predictable Implant Practice
REGISTER! Become a More Efficient and Predictable Implant Practice Credits: 1.5 Cost: Free Time: 8:00 PM ET Dental technology is advancing at a pace that is difficult for dental professionals to keep up with. CBCT scanners and computer guided surgery has existed for well over a decade, yet there are few offices utilizing these proven resources. Why are these tools being overlooked or ignored by the majority of dentists? This CE course will demystify the barriers of adopting 3D technology and provide a process for incorporating a more efficient and predictable implant practice. Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to achieve the following: • Understand the misconceptions surrounding computer guided surgery. • How they can have complete control over the entire implant treatment modality, from the fixture location, to the abutment position, and to the final restoration. • Appreciate the advantage of CAD/CAM surgical guides vs lab or office fabricated guides. • Comprehend how to incorporate this process into their practice and increase case acceptance and profitability. • Understand how to communicate effectively with patients when presenting computer guided surgery as an option.
02.21.17	8:00 PM ET	Endodontics	William Nudera, DDS, MS	To Retreat or Not to Retreat: When is it appropriate to retreat a root canal?
REGISTER! To Retreat or Not to Retreat: When is it appropriate to retreat a root canal? Credits: 1.5 Cost: Free Time: 8:00 PM ET Root canal retreatment is traditionally consider an “all or none” treatment approach. Meaning, all restorative and obturation material must be removed from the entire root canal space of all roots regardless of the individual periapical status. In contrast, surgical endodontics is not viewed as an “all or none” approach. It is a generally accepted that only the diseased root(s) should be addressed via root end resection and root end filling. Knowledge gained from CBCT imaging has introduced a new reasonable treatment option for endodontically treated teeth presenting with post treatment disease. This new concept allows the clinician to make predictable treatment decisions based on the periapical status of an individual root(s) rather than make assumptions about the tooth as a whole. A “selective root retreatment” combines the approach of an non-surgical retreatment with the selectivity of a surgical root resection. Upon completion of this course, each participants should have a better understanding of the following: – The current recommendations for root canal retreatment and associated risks. – The conflict between the root canal retreatment model and the endodontic surgical model. – A literature based rationale justifying a more conservative approach to endodontic retreatment. – The importance of CBCT imaging when determining the presence or absence of periapical pathosis. – The CBCT image to create a guided precision slot access designed to selectively treat one or more roots of a multi-rooted tooth diagnosed with post treatment disease. We may be “over retreating” previously root canal treated teeth that present with recurrent or persistent apical pathology. This presentation is designed to make a reasonable argument using our current “accepted evidence” and logical reasoning to defend the clinician’s choice to approach root canal retreatment in a different way. It is being suggested that retreatment could be limited to a single root or roots clearly demonstrating periapical pathology while leaving the root(s) with no visible or perceived pathology untouched.