Our Courses

In the midst of today’s turbulent economy, the dental community is feeling the financial burden just like many other professions. The challenges have been well documented, from cuts to insurance benefits for employees/retirees to the outward migration of many longtime residents. This environment makes it more difficult to attract new patients and retain the ones that are currently active with their dental treatment. This program will allow the general dentist to recognize, select, and treat endodontic cases that can be profitable in their office. It will also show them how to approach traditionally more difficult cases within their own practice, while still respecting the cases where a specialist referral is optimal.

Objectives:
• Define criteria that categorize endodontic cases into level of difficulty.
• Diagnose and treatment plan more difficult endodontics.
• Select endodontic treatment that can be performed profitably and consistently.
• Be more knowledgeable about the decisions regarding case acceptance or referral with respect to your endodontic procedural skill.

The literature has shown that 25% of school-aged children will experience some kind of dental trauma and up to 65% have untreated dental caries. As a result, the dental pulp can become compromised prior to full root development creating a clinical challenge. The primary objective of endodontics is to maintain the integrity and foundation of the tooth, root and its supporting tissues. A permanent tooth with an immature root and compromised pulpal-periodontal complex presents a unique clinical challenge.

Upon completion of this course, each participant should have a better understanding of the following:

• Root growth and development
• Factors associated with the immature root development
• How pulp status influences treatment options
• Apexogenesis vs Apexification vs Revascularization
• The proper use and application of bio-ceramic silicates when treating immature teeth
• Appropriate schedule and follow-up intervals

Understanding all reasonable treatment options can have a significant impact on root development and long-term tooth survival. This webinar is designed to provide information regarding the recommended treatment protocols and techniques currently being used to establish predictable results when treating compromised teeth with immature root apices.

An introduction to digital technologies including impressions, restorations and cementation

Digital dentistry is here and it’s exciting. But making it work for your practice can be challenging. With more than six CAD/CAM systems now on the market, decision making is daunting and confusing.

 Course objectives – Isaac Hakimi will give an introduction to digital dentistry. He will describe the benefits and drawbacks of chairside digital impressions and chairside milling systems. He will discuss materials used in digitally produced restorations such as Zirconia, Emax, and Obsidian, and techniques for cementation and retrieval.

After this webinar, you will be able to:

1) recognize patient/guest(more about this later) loyalty decisions about your office
comes from how well they feel before, during and after their experiences with you
and your team.
2) create a place where your team’s actions make your office a place that your guests
can’t wait to return to…instead of looking for ways not to.
3) find ways to “dentalize” what the Big Boys(eg Disney, Ritz, Zappos) do to create
“touch points” that will bring your guest back giving you more money at the end of
the month and a team that is happier doing it. BTW this is at little to no cost to you.

4) list a few simple tweaks around what your office team is already doing that can
put money in your pocket right away.
5) bring the winks, warmth, and coziness that make guests feel so good in their own
living room or at grandma’s house to your office to create more fun, profit and ear to
ear smiles everyday.
6) take 3 minutes a day for 30 days to create a guest mindset for your team that rivals
what the “Big Boys” do.
7) quickly quantify your success without the burden of a survey.
8) create a process for guests to YELP to you…instead of your hard earned
reputation being destroyed online.
9) recognize your customer service skills are being compared to the “Big Boys”
everyday and how it affects your team, your guest’s choices and how much money
you take home.
10) understand that a patient/customer sees you as a commodity (price and
competition are considered) however a loyal guest chooses YOU (which cannot be
duplicated) and price is irrelevant.

RESCHEDULED FROM 2/23/16

No question: even under the best of circumstances, endodontic treatment is sometimes not successful. Subsequently, the clinician will typically be faced with three options: endodontic retreatment, surgical endodontics, or extraction. This presentation will provide a methodical approach to this decision making process. In addition, it will cover the basic steps for accomplishing apicoectomy procedures.

Course Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to:
• Understand why endodontic treatment is sometimes not successful
• Understand the parameters for determining the best alternative when endodontic treatment does not heal
• Assess the clinical and radiograph subtleties of non-healing endodontics
• Understand the ideal flap design, apical access, root preparation, retrograde materials, and suturing techniques

Join Dr. Brady Frank for the conclusion of his series of webinars where you’ll learn the top 4 minimally-invasive implant techniques in the U.S. today. Whether you’re just starting out, or place 50 implants per month, this series will introduce you to steps you can take to incorporate these implant services seamlessly into your practice. . The key to achieving successful implant techniques is to recognize the implant cases that should be done within the family practice, and when to send those cases out to specialists that cannot be performed in-house. See how dentists across the country have completely re-invented their practice and are now able to handle the major volume of patients in need of implants quickly and efficiently.

Learning Objectives:

– Learn why this procedure is specifically designed to be placed against the sinus floor without invasive sinus surgery or bone grafting.
– Why it allows a clinician to place an implant in maxillary areas of deficient bone height while approximating to the floor of the sinus or creating a no-graft, minimally invasive sinus bump.
– Learn why the OsteoLift allows for a “one size fits all” abutment selection and will accommodate locators, multi-unit abutments or standard customizable crown and bridge abutments.

Please Note: This webinar is not eligible for CE Credits.

Have a great dental product idea but don’t know what to do next?

Would you feel frustrated to see your great idea come to market 3 years later and develop into exciting profitable product for mega manufacturer?

If you’ve ever wanted to have your product idea become a profitable reality, this course is for you. No upselling, everything you need to know to launch your product starting tomorrow.

Course Objectives:

• The two methods to making your idea a reality and step-by-step how to accomplish each one.

• How to determine if your idea is financially viable and worth pursuing.

• How to patent an idea, the benefits of a provisional patent, and whether you need a patent at all

• Finding a manufacturer

• Communicating with manufacturers and getting a prototype

• Evaluating business costs

• How to legitimize the idea with a website to turn the idea into a sellable product

• How to co-market and find a partner.

• Complications of importing medical devices, the FDA and the harmonized tariff schedule

• Minimizing costs associated with making the idea into a prototype.

Please Note: This webinar is not eligible for CE Credits.

Have a great dental product idea but don’t know what to do next?

Would you feel frustrated to see your great idea come to market 3 years later and develop into exciting profitable product for mega manufacturer?
If you’ve ever wanted to have your product idea become a profitable reality, this course is for you. No upselling, everything you need to know to launch your product starting tomorrow.
 

Course Objectives:

• The two methods to making your idea a reality and step-by-step how to accomplish each one.

• How to determine if your idea is financially viable and worth pursuing.

• How to patent an idea, the benefits of a provisional patent, and whether you need a patent at all

• Finding a manufacturer

• Communicating with manufacturers and getting a prototype

• Evaluating business costs

• How to legitimize the idea with a website to turn the idea into a sellable product

• How to co-market and find a partner.

• Complications of importing medical devices, the FDA and the harmonized tariff schedule

• Minimizing costs associated with making the idea into a prototype.

There are many ways to fill a cleaned and shaped root canal system. And with all of the systems and techniques available, there are certainly a wide variety of methodologies within these various techniques. This course will focus on the different obturation methods and materials available as well as explaining how you can keep yourself out of trouble during this important phase of endodontic treatment.

Course Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to:
• Understand the reasons and rationale for obturation
• Understanding the limitations of obturation
• Appreciate the inter-relationship between canal shaping the obturation
• Understanding the various obturation methods and materials
• Understand how to avoid complications during obturation

This is a MUST for New Dentists! 

Stop Climbing and Start Flying Toward the Career You Dreamed Of.

Course Description:  

New Dentists are faced with a lot of tough decisions when they get out of dental school.  These decisions will affect the entirety of their career for better or worse.   The ultimate butterfly effect on your career.   When you are saddled with dental school debt or pending practice debt, the weight of these decisions is magnified.  This webinar will give new dentists a framework to decide which investments are the best ones to make to propel their career!  If you are an experienced dentist you know it all too well that we are continually pressured by our suppliers, our social status, our financial advisors, media and more to spend money.  How do we wade through all of the messages and decide what the best investments are?  What things do we spend on that truly are investments?

Hint:  These investments are not cars, houses, boats, stocks, or even mutual funds.  Find out how one dentist made an early investment in continuing education that led to over a 1000x return over the next 10 years.  Find out how a new dentist made wise investments in his dental team that led to growing the practice culture of his dreams and enjoying his work every single day.  Find out about a dentist who made very wise investments in his practice infrastructure and technology that propelled his practice into the top 1% of all practices.

Course Objectives: 

— Common pitfalls that swallow the careers of young dentists

— Amplification effect of early financial mistakes

— THE 3 Best Investments you can make at any stage of your career

— How to choose the right career path

— How to find the right mentors to guide you on your journey

— The story of 2 Divergent Dental Careers

Even if you don’t consider yourself to be a new dentist, this webinar will bring huge value to you.  Learn from a master of building the ultimate practice culture — a practice that is magnetic to new patients.  Learn from the real world examples of dentists that propelled their careers through wise investments in team and technology.  This session will be filled with pearls for dentists at all stages.  Don’t go another day without hearing this message and setting your career on the path you dreamed of!