Our Courses

This continuing education course is designed to provide dental professionals with a comprehensive understanding of dental endoscopy and its advanced techniques and applications. Dental endoscopy is a minimally invasive and cutting-edge technology that allows dental practitioners to visualize and diagnose oral health conditions with exceptional precision. Throughout this course, participants will gain in-depth knowledge of dental endoscopic indications, utilization, different treatment modalities and financial implications.

Learning Objectives

• Diagnostic Imaging with Endoscopy: Learn how to interpret and analyze endoscopic images and videos for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning.
• Advantages and Limitations: Understand the benefits and limitations of dental endoscopy compared to traditional dental diagnostic methods.
• Integration into Dental Practice: Discover strategies for integrating dental endoscopy seamlessly into the dental practice, optimizing patient outcomes, and enhancing practice profitability.
• Case Studies and Interactive Discussions: Analyze real-world case studies and engage in interactive discussions to enhance problem-solving skills and critical thinking when using dental endoscopy.

A methodology to mechanically and chemotherapeutically eradicate, suppress, or alter the colony of pathogens to correlate to health and/or healing.

Learning objectives:
1. The total mouth decontamination protocol will help maintain implants with peri-implant disease for longer.
2. Achieving and maintaining health/stability requires a significantly higher commitment by patients and treating team, much more detailed protocols and increased frequency of care.
3. If the disease process for peri-implantitis can be managed or even arrested, it would be merited to consider the use the same principals and methodology in disease prevention.

Over the years of dental implant development there has been a focus on implant design and bone dynamics to achieve and maintain integration. With periimplantitis still affecting a significant percentage of implants, there are other factors to consider, specifically the transgingival zone. In this area, the abutment design and material as well as the quality and volume of the soft tissue play a major role in esthetics and health of dental implants. Dr. Mugford will review the importance of selecting restorative components to enhance the gingival attachment and surgical procedures to enhance esthetics while stabilizing the biological width and crestal bone level.

Course Objectives:
Following this course, attendees will:
– Understand the importance of the soft tissue attachment apparartus around teeth and implants.
– Gain an appreciation forhow restorative factors may be more important than implant design in preserving bone levels.
– Learn protocols that integrate surgical and restorative procedures to enhance final outcomes and stability.

You didn’t go to dental school to be a salesperson, but like it or not, dentistry is a unique profession that combines medicine with sales and service. This webinar is aimed at reducing the friction between us dentists and our patients, allowing us to be portrayed as healers, rather than people with a financial agenda. Better communication in the dental office has the power to not only increase revenue and lower your litigation risk, but also to create a happier and healthier you.

In this webinar, you will:

• Understand the power of a first impression. Learn keys to building quick and efficient trust in patients.
• Learn how to identify different patient types, and understand how they make decisions.
• Understand the “no.” Analyze negotiation tactics and find out how they can apply to your treatment plan presentations.
• Learn how to listen. Simple techniques that will maximize your communication and help you better connect with patients and your team.

This course will help dentists better understand key risks in their practices and how to mitigate them. It will review the most common malpractice claims and State board complaints, explain the professional standard of care, discuss ways to communicate more effectively with patients, and describe requirements and best practices for informed consents and patient charts.

Upon completion of this course, attendees will be able to:
-Identify key clinical and business risks in their practices;
-Apply risk reduction techniques;
-Teach their staffs how to be more risk-aware;
-Improve the clarity and effectiveness of communications with patients; and
-Strengthen clinical documentation to enhance patient treatment and reduce their own liability.

Every year dentists are leaving millions of dollars of profit on the table due to poor systems, unmotivated employees, ineffective guidance and leadership. Sound familiar? The good news is that it’s not too late for your practice to rise up and achieve practice, financial and lifestyle independence. While the path itself may not be easy, it is clear and proven.

Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the one thing that makes the top 10% of dental practices successful. (In the presentation I’ll mention this as Profitability).
2. Discover the 3 qualifications that all successful dentists share. (Big dream, open to change, desire to take part in and be supportive in a community)
3. Learn why working harder will only take your practice so far. Often bringing more headaches than rewards.
4. Start implementing these 3 things and rise up to achieve your practice, financial and lifestyle independence.

The IAOCI annual congress is about to take place for the 12^th consecutive years. This 2-day event will be held at the Westin Buckhead in Atlanta. We have an impressive roster of speakers who are some of the world’s foremost biomaterials experts, bioceramics industry leaders and experienced clinicians in the field of ceramic implantology.

There will be workshops conducted by world class clinicians and published authors on clinical skills but also the implementation and business aspect of promoting and presenting ceramic implants in your practice. Metal-free implant dentistry expert researchers, and others committed to best practices in ceramic implantology will be on hand for open discussions at the end of each day in a moderated Q & A speaker forum.

These presentations, workshops and speaker forums have been carefully selected and organized in order to deliver a scientific, evidence-based and above all a clinically relevant event for our attendees. This is an excellent opportunity for you to familiarize yourself with a fast-growing aspect of dental implantology. You will meet and connect with like-minded industry players and though leaders at the forefront of improving the quality of oral implantology and health care. I hope that you will be able to join.

See you in Atlanta!

Registration: https://www.iaoci.com/iaoci-2023/  Click on the red Tab once on the event website

All of us have experienced patient consultations where the patient has severe dental wear. How many times do you hear a clinician default to recommending a night guard?  What if the wear is actually occurring during the day during normal function?  In some cases, even modest changes in tooth position could offer dramatic assistance to other members of the interdisciplinary team to improve their ability to provide their highest quality treatment where the patient with a worn dentition is the ultimate beneficiary.

This presentation will include numerous patients where ortho was used in combination with other disciplines to set up these worn patients for successful restorative care.

Learning Objectives:

• To provide an overview of what types of malocclusions lead to excessive tooth wear.
• To illustrate the advantages aligners has over traditional orthodontic treatment in treating a variety of cases.
• Identify how controlling teeth in 3 dimensions can have such a positive impact on restorative care.