Our Courses

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!

Course Description: 

We all have complex patients, and they take more of our valuable time, and create stress in the practice.  What we all truly want is a smooth dental experience for our patients, a schedule that runs on time, a team that seamlessly guides the patient through the flow of each appointment, and a way to manage chaos when it does hit.  In this webinar, learn how to handle the time sensitive management of  these challenges, especially high fear patients.

This webinar will explore specific ways to not only improve your practice financially, but also to enjoy your days doing dentistry more than ever before. These time-tested tools, approaches, and procedures have all been of great value to all of the dentists in our practice, and they will be to you as well.  This webinar will delve to the heart of what has made our multi-doctor, multi-location practice successful over our combined 65 years-worth of practical, clinical experience.

Course Objectives:

–          Increase patient acceptance of your treatment plan

–          Tap into two highly profitable facets of dentistry that you should be doing ASAP

–          Discover how to navigate between being a caregiver and a smile provider

–          Learn clinical tips to alleviate the stress of doing dentistry on the complex patient.

Second in a series of two: Implant dentistry can improve the quality of life for fully edentulous patients. New advancements in technology and products enhance function and create the illusion of reality in patient smiles. Gain a higher level of technical knowledge and be motivated to achieve a new level of care.

Course objectives:

• Diagnosis and treatment planning for implant-retained overdentures including CT scans, surgical guides, and esthetic tooth section
• Learn impression techniques, proper abutment and attachment selection, and how to pick implant overdenture attachments intra-orally
• Learn how to present overdenture options to patients and determine a fair fee