Our Courses

All too often in business we find ourselves carrying out a post-mortem of what went wrong!

In the Dental Office, things can go wrong both in our clinical practice of dentistry or indeed in the the Practice Management of our Dental Offices.

How good would it be, if we could predict the future and use the tool used by many businesses outside of dentistry to minimize failures?!

In this webinar, Dr Fitzharris will explain the technique of “premortem” and show you many examples that she and her dentists and auxiliary staff use in her own DentalOffice to minimize failure and make life less stressful!

For a dentist in private practice, we are always using our CEO skills to increase profitability in the practice.  The way to increase profitability is increase production or decrease expenses. There are other more less obvious ways to thrive. What can a dentist consider incorporating in the practice to make the leap to a more profile business.

For a dentist in private practice, the question of when and how to add an associate to your practice is daunting. When is the right time? How do I find a good associate? What do I need to look for in a potential associate? What should be in an employment agreement? We will cover each of these questions to help guide your decision making when the time comes for an additional doctor to be added to your practice.

Course Objectives:
– Stimulate thought for the listener for their readiness to add an associate to their practice
– Address current trends in dentistry, dental students, and business that can affect a practice transition
– Present ideas for where and how an established doctor can recruit an associate
– Present legal considerations for an employment agreement
– Understand how an associate can be added as seamlessly as possible to your practice

This course will illustrate the versatility of using composite to create an invisible Class IV restoration using a naturally shaded composite system. Understanding the fundamentals of color and how to decide when to use different systems will be discussed. Topics to be covered include shade selection, material placement and finishing and polishing. Participants will learn a systematic technique to achieve proper contour, form, texture and achieve a beautiful result.

Objectives:
1. Understanding color, translucency, opacity and how to simplify hue, chroma and value.
2. Learn how to make a fracture line disappear
3. Learn how to layer in a polychromatic approach
4. Learn finishing and polishing steps to create surface texture, satin finish or high gloss
5. Simplify tooth anatomy and contours and the role of transitional line angles.

• The benefits of adding sedation to your implant practice
• The available sedation options, and the advantages of each
• How to combine sedation and dental implant placement
• The criteria for selecting the sedation candidate
• What training you will need

The Dahl principle is one of the most misunderstood yet powerful and underused treatment techniques in dentistry.

If used on the right patient at the right time, it can be used to carry out interceptive restorative treatments in many wear cases that can give many more of your patients a chance to avoid tooth preparations and be far more affordable too. Arguably if every dentist understood how to use it, no patient who saw a dentist regularly would ever need a full mouth rehabilitation.

This short course is designed to help you understand the Dahl principle to not only improve appearance but to improve function, guidance, and gain better long term occlusal stability in your cases.

In this course, Dr. Qureshi will show you techniques that will allow you to carry out truly minimally invasive predictably, and cover some of the basics of Simple Edge Bonding via the reverse triangle technique.

He will also cover how the Dahl principle works for direct restorative treatment as a direct splint and to gain space and in orthodontics and to place retainers with a functional safer outcome.

This unique course will also demonstrate many cases and long term follow up of restorative and orthodontic cases. Tif has been using the Dahl principle and created a unique protocol to make these direct bonding techniques with and without orthodontics predictable for nearly 25 years and has pioneered and developed the concept of ABB for 15 years with hundreds of cases completed and numerous long term follow ups documented.

In a majority of dental practices, social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc.) are commonly misused, underutilized, or worse, not adopted at all. Before trying to understand how social media fits into your practice, a few basic questions must be asked, otherwise your effort, time, and sometimes money, might be wasted.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to utilize social media in order to network with dental colleagues, educate existing patients, increase treatment plan acceptance, and bring new patients to your practice
• Learn how to use social media to enhance your clinical work and stay current on the latest dental materials, techniques, and technologies

Whatever your current level of production, learn how to take it to the next, from one of the top producing dentists in the United States. In this course, you will be given the tools to identify blockages that prevent you from achieving your maximum potential. We will also explore what a productive practice looks like. Once there is a fundamental understanding of obstacles and opportunities, this course can help you develop systems to grow your practice. Join us to learn how to take your practice to the next level!

Co-sponsored by 3M!

The demographic of older adults is growing and likely will be a large patient group in dental practices in the coming years. Older adults are retaining their natural detention at a higher rate than in the past. This patient population will present with dental conditions commonly associated with aging such as caries, xerostomia, oral cancer and periodontal disease. Are we prepared to meet the oral health needs of the aging population? Participants will learn about oral disease management and prevention strategies to care for the older adult patient.

At the completion of lecture, the learner will be able to:

• Understand aging population demographics
• Identify common dental conditions (caries, periodontal disease, oral cancer and xerostomia) associated with the older adult
• Explain treatment options for caries, periodontal disease, oral cancer and xerostomia in the older adult