Our Courses

There are millions of patients out there looking for a Dentist they can trust, and the Smile Virtual Consult process helps you connect with them and offer them your services.  Dr. Harris will walk you through his process so you can stop using worn out marketing methods and waiting for patients to come to you….go to them!

This is a lecture on the basics of bone grafting for the general dentist.  The purpose of the lecture is to introduce the science of bone grafting, why it works, how it works, and when it is appropriate to graft.  We will cover fundamentals of site preservation, bone grafting during immediate implant placement, when site preparation moves onto a more advanced stage and how you know ahead of time that the easy graft will not be so easy. Selection of graft materials, appropriate instrumentation and technique will be covered.

Participants will Learn:

• Types of bone graft materials
• Armamentarium for grafting
• Basic techniques of bone grafting
• When to graft and when to refer.

This webinar will present dental implant treatment planning and case acceptance with a systematic diagnostic and treatment approach based on accurate three-dimensional planning combine with a restorative-driven plan.

The digital workflow for implant diagnostics can be simplified today with digitized initial impressions prior to extractions and with simple digital wax-ups to determine the tooth location.  Therefore, the amount and location of necessary bone can be planned precisely.  Modern approaches to bone preservation and augmentation with growth factors allow for minimally invasive treatment.  Surgical guides allow for utilization of the digital plan.

This lecture will provide:

1. An overview of the diagnostic and surgical digital workflow
2. Present guidelines for implant treatment planning
3. Review modern minimally invasive surgical techniques

Align is now the 2nd largest dental company in the world. Their research estimates a market opportunity of 100m patients in both the US and Europe. Learn how I transformed my dentistry and my practices by introducing Invisalign.

Session objectives:
-Understand the market potential for clear aligners
-How To create huge revenue streams from aligbers using your existing client base
-Discover it can vastly improve your dentistry and your enjoyment of it.
-Why Invisalign appeals to Millenial clients and how to attract them to your practice in droves.
-Learn how to introduce Invisalign and Digital Technology to your practice workflow and why your team will love you for it!

This presentation will provide a clinical update on minimally invasive approaches for Esthetic Implant Site Development. The utilization of recombinantly engineered platelet-derived growth factor-BB (rhPDGF-BB) has accelerated the trend toward minimally invasive surgical procedures to preserve and enhance the esthetic foundation for dental implant supported restorations. This program will present guidelines for incremental levels of flap elevation from flapless to open procedures for implant site development. The use of growth factors has increased the ability for optimal hard and soft tissue regeneration with less invasive techniques. This course will provide a decision matrix for how to manage extraction site defects including whether to raise a flap and how to sequence soft tissue grafting.

COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. Applying tissue engineering to clinical decision-making achieves optimal biologic and esthetic results for challenging dental implant cases.
2. Techniques utilizing rhPDGF-BB for combined hard and soft tissue grafting will be presented.
3. The use of technology can ease the treatment process for patients and improve the predictability for biologic and esthetic longevity.

Edentulism is projected to increase in the United States over the next several years. Multiple treatment options are available to the clinician ranging from removable to fixed prosthetics. This program will discuss the decision-making process for the treatment of the edentulous patient, different modalities as well as new materials.

Course objectives:

• Review the effects of edentulism and the current treatment options for the edentulous patient
• Present a systematic method to help with the decision making process for treatment planning
• Discuss new advances and materials in the treatment of the edentulous patient

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.