Our Courses

Understanding the surgical and restorative fundamentals of implant dentistry is imperative to properly manage cases and grow this side of your practice. The goal of this presentation is to tackle these fundamentals. We will explore what variables to look for at the pre-treatment visit, the surgical plan, proper space requirements, and understanding soft tissue development. Finally, we will discuss proper abutment choice and crown designs.

Guided surgery for implant placement is not a new concept in implant dentistry. Restoratively driven implant placement is a well-accepted and often quoted dogma, when clinicians consider implant positioning. However, guided surgery, which I believe to be the apogee of restoratively driven implant planning and placement still struggles to find wide scale acceptance.

In this presentation, I will put forward the case for computer guided surgery. Discussing the benefits of planning your surgery virtually before going to the patient’s mouth and the clinical advantages of guided surgery. Before looking to the future and how this fast-evolving technology may look.

Learning objectives:
-Learn how planning your implant cases virtually is a benefit to the surgeon, restoring colleague (if different to the surgeon) and patient.
-Learn how using guided surgery protocols can simplify all aspects of implant dentistry.
-Learn how guided surgery can be used to increase profit.
-Learn how patients benefit from guided surgery

Join Dr Elaine Halley to learn how developing a systematic approach to analyzing cases before we begin treatment planning solutions leads to more predictable outcomes. These strategies also provide a framework for discussion with patients which helps to educate and motivate them and opens the door for more comprehensive treatment opportunities. This webinar will cover the key stages of taking a patient from the first visit through to presenting treatment options.

Course Objectives:
-To understand the common mistakes made when treatment planning and how to avoid them
-To understand how to organize and review clinical examination findings
-How to ask questions in a systematic way that leads to enhanced diagnosis
-How to maximize the use of digital technology for patient communication

The key to a successful and thriving practice extends beyond treating teeth in isolation. By looking at entire mouth, we have the ability to provide more comprehensive treatment to create a more stable environment for the patient. This presentation will highlight several principles that are essential for the practitioner to consider in treatment planning an interdisciplinary case. Identifying the criteria to determine the need for multiple disciplines will be explained through evaluation of a clinical case. This treatment planning case presentation will include clinical conditions commonly found in everyday practice. Participants will be shown a simple but effective set of parameters that can be used immediately in their treatment planning process

Learning Objectives:
– Learn simple criteria to distinguish between a routine restorative case and an interdisciplinary case
– Learn how to leverage digital workflows to enhance diagnosis and patient engagment
– Learn how to leverage your interdisciplinary team to optimize outcomes

Based on his new textbook series, the COMPLETE Book On Dental Marketing, in this webinar Dr. Phelps will take you through the Attraction stage of the dental marketing cycle. Utilizing Dr. Phelps’ 7 Pillars of Marketing you will learn how to attract the right quantity and quality of new patients to your practice. Learning to become an effective CEO of your marketing department. The lessons learned in this webinar are the same Dr. Phelps’ learned while transitioning his marketing from spending $35,000/month but only netting 60 new patients, to spending 74% less per month and attracting over 300 fee for service patients. A move that helped both of his practices grow by over $1,000,000 each, for two consecutive years.

Objectives:
-Discover the two sides of the marketing coin that you need to master.
-Learn how to identify your target market, really understanding which new patient you want more of this year.
-Create strategic messages that grab your target market’s attention and influence them to want to learn more.
-Use written and visual content that speaks to your target market and targets what stage they are at in the consumer buying cycle.
-Create Offers that don’t discount your services but instead attract a higher quality patient. One who’ll pay your full fee.
-Utilize Dr. Robert Cialidini’s 6 Principles of Persuasion to influence more people to respond to your marketing efforts.
-Learn tips and tricks from the different mediums you can use to find your new patients. From print and online mediums to lead generation, parasite vs symbiote network marketing, to public relations and more.
-Realize the 5 main areas you need to track to verify that you got a positive ROI or “actual” return for your marketing investment.

Full Mouth Rehabs with a combination of natural teeth and implants requires proper treatment sequencing to provide the most favorable outcome. A case example will be shown in this lecture along with discussing proper diagnosis, surgical and restorative steps, implant selection, material selection and follow-up protocols.

Learning Objectives:
1. Understand proper diagnosis and treatment planning for natural tooth and implant combo cases.
2. Explore the ideal treatment sequence with these types of cases.
3. How to effectively communicate with patients and your multi-disciplinary team to manage expectations and outcomes.

We all deal with dental insurance in some capacity, whether we file claims for patients or help them file their own. However, many of the myths surrounding dental insurance plaque all dentists and increase their overhead and decrease their reimbursements. This course will bust these myths and help teach you and your team how to play the insurance game for better reimbursement, less denials, and best practices for your patient’s benefit in less time.

There are simple and practical steps all throughout this CE course that will guide you to a better understanding of insurance and how you can manage the process.

Are you ready to change dealing with insurance from a nightmare to just a mild annoyance?

Course Objectives:

• Bust common dental insurance myths
• Improve insurance management tactics and profitability
• Achieve more predictable reimbursements for patients
• Remove pitfalls and stress for the team

You don’t have to love doing root canals to understand endodontics. “Endo” goes far beyond accesses, working lengths, and gutta-percha. Often misunderstood and typically only associated with the procedure it’s known for, root canal treatment merely represents the physical arm of a more complex process. The aspects of endodontics that hold the most weighted value are the skills, knowledge, and ability to understand diagnostic and prognostic probability. This session outlines the framework that drives decision-making and case selection from the perspective of a clinically practicing endodontist using a case-based, scenario-driven format. The adoption and application of this framework can significantly improve the clinician’s ability to make sound clinical judgments and more confident recommendations when faced with the choice to treat or extract pulpally compromised teeth.

Upon completion of this session, attendees should be able to:
• Gain a deeper understanding of the clinical systems and protocols that revolve around the endodontic diagnostic process.
• Recognize the primary and secondary influencing factors that impact prognosis and case selection.

An in depth discussion on cases and diagnostic criteria for GPs to feel more comfortable keeping cases in house.

-Clear aligner capabilities and limitations
-When braces are the only option
-Interceptive orthodontics for the mixed dentition
-Clinical and Non Clinical reasons to refer
-How to resolve complications

Dr. Robert Martino retired from working on patients at the age of 38. Eighteen years later he owns 7 practices, co-founded and runs a national mouthrinse company (OraCare), co-founded and runs an international Aircraft Maintenance company (EASW) and has found a charity that gives back to our military and veterans every year (Freedom Day USA).

Many dentists want to own multiple practices and put down the handpiece but don’t know how or haven’t defined why they want to do it.  The following course will go through the reason why you should (or why not), when can you do it and steps on how to do it.