Our Courses

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.

It doesn’t matter how good your root canal looks if you’ve treated the wrong tooth, treated the wrong problem, or if tooth survival is unlikely. Gaining a deep understanding of long-term prognosis is traditionally developed over the lifetime of practice— where prior clinical experiences and observations help guide future decision-making. But what if there’s a way to shorten this learning curve?

Systematic pathways have been developed to assist in decision-making for the pulpally compromised tooth from the endodontic perspective. Every aspect you need to know to understand prognosis has been mapped out into easy-to-follow and easy-to-understand flowcharts, using three independent and intertwining
variables. Learn exactly what these variables are and how these pathways can help you improve your prognostic confidence.

By the completion of the course, attendees should have a better understanding of

• The dominant variables that need to be considered when making endodontic treatment recommendations.
• How evidence-based systems can be used to develop a thorough understanding of long-term prognosis

In this easy to implement session, Cally will cover the key focuses of your marketing with key tips on conversion, measurement and content creation.

Ceramic implants have been in clinical use for over forty years. They had difficult beginnings mostly due to limitations of the materials used in the early stages but also because of early designs that were not adapted to ceramics. Their superior biocompatibility however was never put into question. The last twenty years the manufacturing protocols of load bearing ceramic such as zirconia have made significant progress in terms of the mechanical behavior of zirconia when used as an implant material. The last decade has been one where we have witnessed an “explosion” in the use of zirconia in dentistry. Along with this phenomenon the manufacturing protocols and advanced formulas of zirconia have been created which have led to zirconia
becoming a stable, biocompatible, bioinert and structurally stable implant material. Today load-bearing implant bioceramics can be categorized in two major groups, namely Yttria Stabilized Tetragonal Zirconia (Y-TZP) and Alumina Toughened Zirconia (ATZ). Thanks to these improvements, clinicians now enjoy increase flexibility and a wider range of applications for ceramic implants as the one-piece implants are now available in two-piece configurations similar to conventional implants. Therefore, cementable and screw-retained prosthetics have become possible in a broad range of edentulous situations. Questions have been raised and remain about their osseointegration and long-term performance under function in the oral environment. This presentation will present case selection, clinical and systemic patient management and case planning workflows that contribute to the long-term success of ceramic implants in different
scenarios and levels of complexity of oral rehabilitation.

Objectives:
-The evolution of zirconia as a load-bearing bioceramic
-Case selection and treatment planning
-The biological behavior of zirconia in the oral environment
-Minimizing the occurrence of complications

This course will introduce and discuss simple but advanced clinical techniques for direct & indirect restorations that can have a dramatic effect on clinical outcomes in your practice on a daily basis. The key research papers that give scientific support to these techniques will also be reviewed and discussed. The first of these papers was published in 1994 on the immediate sealing of dentin & then resin coating. In the 28 years since the introduction of this clinical technique there have been numerous research papers confirming a dramatic increase in dentin bond strengths, as well as partial coverage restorations. Additional studies have also shown that the pulp is insulated and protected from bacteria, temperature and electrical conductance more than even a natural tooth.

Learning Objectives:
• How to perform immediate dentin sealing & resin coating with direct and indirect restorations
• How to perform deep margin elevation
• How to bond and seal dentin after RCT to help prevent retreatment (leakage)
• Technique for bonding partial coverage restorations after IDS & Resin Coating
• Temporization techniques after ID