Can I afford it? What's the learning curve? Do I really need it? If you're not 3d printing in your practice, I'm guessing you're having a difficult time answering one of those three questions. A few years ago, I felt the same way. Today, I can't imagine practicing without it. Join us and learn how to create more time, increase your profits and luxaprint money without adding an ounce of stress to your days.

Educational Support Provided By: DMG America

This webinar was the third of five presentations delivered as part of the GC America World Tour - USA Symposium entitled "Minimal Techniques to Maximize Esthetic and Functional Restorations." This program was presented by Victor Cedillo Felix, DDS. Dr. Felix is in private practice in Chula Vista, California. He graduated from La Salle University in Mexico. Dr. Felix has been both a national and international speaker since 2015 with special focus on restorative dentistry. He has multiple clinical articles published in scientific journals. After Dr. Felix's presentation questions from the audience were address in a live Q&A session.

Educational Objectives:

• Learn valuable clinical tips for to improve the efficiency and quality of daily dentistry treatments
• Understand the most current cementation protocols of indirect restorations
• Discuss different ways to make quality treatments in a fast paced clinical environment

In this time of great uncertainty, it is crucial that dental practice owners stay financially resilient. Vincent Cardillo -- who has owned and sold DSO’s for over 25 years -- is uniquely equipped to help you navigate the New Normal. He will show you how to manage your cash wisely and keep the right amount of cash on hand while still focusing on your practice’s growth. He will also identify unique financial opportunities happening today that all practice owners should take to secure long-term success.

Educational Objectives

• Learn the most important operational, clinical and financial metrics you should be tracking today
• Learn how to build and manage your Cash Flow Forecast
• Learn the top financial opportunities practice owners should pursue in the current environment

Now, more than ever, patients seek the reassurance of safety and ease when undergoing dental care. To encourage patient appointments and confirm financial responsibility, practices must facilitate a clear line of communication and offer contactless options and convenient payment tools. The adoption and utilization of digital technology continues to drive necessary improvements in practice productivity and profitability.

Educational Objectives:

• Payment options make financing more manageable for both the practice and patient.
• Digital tools can enhance the patient experience and automate workflows.
• Technology implementation can smooth the way to operational and financial improvements.

Educational Support Provided By: Rectangle Health

Light Curing is a complex issue. Curing lights vary by spectrum and intensity while curing times vary for adhesives and cements. In addition, varying tooth shades and incremental thicknesses require different curing requirements. Infection Control can alter light quality, and different photo-initiators and composite/tooth transmission can require various lengths of curing time. Incorrect use of the curing light can result in debonding, fracturing and discoloration as well as post-operative sensitivity, pain and escalation in care. Demystify your light and resin requirements using both quantifiable and quantitative measurements to assess that your light is being used to it’s full potential.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Enhance your knowledge base of the clinical importance of proper light curing
• Evaluate the key components to establish an efficient curing technique with LED curing lights for you and your staff
• Learn about new technology to accurately determine and monitor how your light interacts with the composites you use in your office every day

The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated modifications to existing operations for dental practices throughout the U.S. Providers are tasked with reducing unnecessary contact at every point of care to meet heightened patient expectations for safety and efficiency, while simultaneously searching for immediate solutions to recover lost revenue from the slowdown in operations. Learn how to make rapid and effective improvements to your practice operations to enhance safety for both staff and patients while also maximizing patient payments, for a return to business sooner.

MOST DOCTORS THINK, “I tell the patient what they need and they get it.” But a funny thing happens when patients leave the operatory and walk to the parking lot. The clearly established “need” starts to fade from memory. This is just one reason why case acceptance is lower than most doctors would like.

According to a Unified Smiles survey, the national average for case acceptance is between 55% and 60%, a far cry from most dentists’ expectations. This webinar will provide SIMPLE and EASY ways to increase your case acceptance.

Educational Objectives:

• How to Track Case Acceptance and What to Do with the Results
• Identifying your Patient’s Value System and Using it to Overcome Objections
• How to Facilitate an Effective Patient Handoff
• Inform Before You Perform!

Educational Support Provided By: United Smiles

Learn More About:

Why NOW is the time to understand your practice value
What buyers/partners want, what they don’t want and why
Sell all or sell part and stay to grow?
Who are the various buyers?
What are real transaction values, not appraised values?

Educational Support Provided By: Large Practice Sales (LPS)

This course will detail the necessary steps required to work on dentures chair side. It will include relining the existing denture, repairing the broken denture and polishing. 

Educational Support Provided By: SS White

Significant changes to the way dentistry is practiced have been set in motion by two influential factors — science and evidence-based decision-making. Accurate evidence-based diagnosis is the best method to determine appropriate treatment. The question often asked is if dental or medical insurance will cover important care. Determining and documenting dental-medical necessity is the basis for all successful dental and medical coding. During this 90-minute session participants will learn the steps of determining dental-medical necessity to optimize dental benefits and medical-dental cross-coding.

Objectives:

Understand the metrics current CDT codes provides in decision-making and profitability
How to write concise Twitter-style dental-medical necessity narrative
Select the most accurate ICD-10 medical codes for use on dental claims to optimize payment and medical cross-coding

Educational Support Provided By: Lighthouse

Lighthouse: Championing Small Businesses Since 2002

We speak with hundreds of our customers every day so we know: When it’s your business, every minute and every dollar counts. That’s why the entire Lighthouse 360 team is dedicated to giving our 11,000+ customers the tools and support they need to succeed.

For more information contact:

Hannah Piland
512-774-7654
hannah.piland@lighthousepmg.com

In this insightful presentation, Dr. Roger P Levin will review the major transformations that are reshaping dentistry and how they will impact today’s practices. Using data from the Levin Group Data Center and the Dental Economics/Levin Group Annual Practice Survey, Dr. Levin will also highlight key scenarios and opportunities for dental practices to remain highly successful. In the second part of his presentation, he will reveal the 8 most important actions that every dental practice should immediately implement in order to maintain long-term success and higher production.

Educational support provided by: CareCredit

About Care Credit: When patients have a patient portion, your team can save the day and fill the schedule by letting them know you have the CareCredit credit card as a financing option — before cost can become a barrier to care. It’s a super easy and super powerful way to help more patients get care.

Ready to add CareCredit? Call 866-246-6401 or visit online at: www.carecredit.com

The detection and diagnosis of the TSC is perhaps the most difficult aspect in the management of the cracked, fissured and fractured teeth in dental practice. In this five parts series the 4Rs operational diagnosis protocol(4RsOD) is used as a best dental diagnosis practice.

The protocol was specifically developed to remedy the shortcomings of the conventional Endodontic diagnosis tests.

The protocol helps the clinician to use the skills of: hearing, seeing and acting to accurately learn the patient problem.

The(4RsOD) protocol provides the clinician with multidisciplinary, systematic approach for collecting, analyzing, and synthesizing the examination data into diagnostic, treatment planning, and prognostic decisions.

The 4Rs OD consists of the followings assessment tests:

R1: Report of the patient assessment
R2: Radiographic assessment
R3: Response testing assessment
R4: Restorative and tooth structure assessment

Clinical management of cracked teeth in dental practice is an area replete with misunderstanding and misinformation. First, the literature lacks prospective studies and clinically useful universal definitions. Second, although cracked teeth problems vary significantly in diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. The literature terminology does not specifically differentiate between “Fractured teeth”, “Cracked teeth”, “Cracked Tooth Syndrome”, “Green stick fractures” and “Incomplete coronal fractures”.

The author’s 3x3 Tooth Structure Cracks (TSC) classification, grouped the various terminologies which relate to the cracked or fractured teeth problems, under one term “Tooth Cracks”. Then defined and classified the “cracks” according to their anatomic, physical and pathologic characteristics.

Physically, “Tooth Cracks” are classified into:

• Line Cracks
• Fissure Cracks
• Fracture Cracks

Anatomically, “Tooth Cracks” are classified into:

• Marginal Ridges
• Grooves
• Surfaces

Pathologically, “Tooth Cracks “are classified into:

• Contributory
• Noncontributory
• Partially Contributory

The webinar presentation shows how to differentiate between the harmless “noncontributory crack” and the harmful “contributory crack”.

Contributory cracks cause reversible and irreversible pulpitis, pulp calcification, pulp necrosis, periapical and periradicular lesions. On the other hand, noncontributory cracks could be microscopically visible microcracks or clinically visible line. These cracks remain at the early initiation or development stages for years. They remain still and stationery, cause no pulpal or periodontal pathology as long as they are not pressured, and stressed by new forces or loads. Forces such as root filling condensation or traumatic fitting of a post.

Updated information about the etiology and initiation mechanism of tooth cracks is presented focusing on:

• Abusive restorative procedures that cause coronal cracks
• Abusive mechanical endodontic procedures that cause radicular cracks
• Abusive post placement procedures
• Dental occlusion factors

In the introduction of the program, the author reveals an alarming 24%-60% global prevalence of Apical lesions in teeth with inadequate root canal treatment. The literature’s histopathologic term used in describing these lesions is Apical Periodontitis. (AP). The statistics are alarming because the “Standard Normal” prevalence of Apical lesions in endodontically untreated teeth is 1½% - 7%.

This program stands for the management of teeth with substandard endodontic treatment failures because of the evidence-based relationship between abusive endodontic treatment, and root structure cracks initiation and propagation. Abusive endodontic treatment is one form and a principal cause of substandard endodontic treatment. More on this relationship discussed in Part III of the master class series.

The program is composed of Seven (7) Chapters planned to include the most clinically relevant facets of the inadequate or sub-standard endodontic treatment.

This program offers concepts, methods and guiding principles based on evidence, and tested clinical practices. The goal is to enhance the clinicians understanding of endodontic treatment diagnostics and the relationship between endodontic treatment and tooth structure cracks.

What story about you are they telling? During this program, we will discuss the psychology of internet reviews. We will review how our prospective patients feel about them and what literature is available from academia. A thorough discussion of which websites are most important and impactful for dental practices will occur. The group will also review the systems and scripting needed to incorporate into our practices to ensure success in getting our patients to leave positive reviews. A significant portion of the program will also be devoted to how we should handle responding to a negative review should one occur. This fast-paced, enlightening program is sure to help demystify the world of online reviews in fun & casual manner! Dental team involvement is highly recommended for this program.

Educational support provided by: Henry Schein One

About Henry Schein One: In today’s crowded dental marketplace, keeping the patients you already have, attracting new patients, and differentiating from the competition is more critical than ever. This requires precise and effective marketing, using multiple activities across different channels. Take the 5-minute Practice Marketing Assessment to identify marketing opportunities your practice might be missing out on. https://assessment.henryscheinone.com/?utm_source=dental-economics&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=practicemarketingassessment&utm_content=june2019&tname=

For more information please contact: Henry Schein One at 833.471.7253 

Selecting the right composite for every clinical indication doesn't always have to be complicated and time consuming. This webcast will describe the technology behind a single-shade composite compared to composites with multiple shade options. The various classifications of composites will be described and techniques to achieve predictable aesthetic restorations will be demonstrated.

Eductional Objectives:

• Describe the difference between structural and chemical color technology in composite materials
• Recognize the various indications for each classification of composite
• Learn a technique using a single shade composite system for anterior restorations
• Learn a technique to select the correct composite for predictable aesthetic results

Educational Support Provided By: Tokuyama

Silver Diamine Fluoride (SDF) is a revolutionary approach to combating caries in a non-invasive manner. Following a widely publicized 2016 feature in the New York Times, there has been tremendous interest surrounding the use of SDF from patients and dentists. In October 2018, the ADA released its first ever evidence based clinical practice guideline for nonrestorative treatments for carious lesions, including SDF. Learn the principles of case selection, informed consent, treatment planning, and a clinical protocol for SDF. Find out how offering minimally-invasive options like SDF can attract new patients, improve patient satisfaction, and increase internal marketing and word of mouth referrals to your practice.

Eductional Objectives:

• Describe the evidence for using SDF to treat and prevent dental caries
• Review informed consent, coding, and billing of SDF
• Describe case selection, materials, and a clinical protocol for SDF

Educational Support Provided By: Elevate Oral Care

It is estimated about 75% of restorative needs are identified through hygiene visits, so keeping the hygiene department productive and efficient should be a priority in the general practice.  In this course, we will examine productivity models comparing solo hygiene vs. assisted hygiene.  We will also look at strategies aimed at keeping a full schedule and reducing disappointments.

Educational support provided by: Tax Saving Professionals

Tax Saving Professionals: Legal Tax Saving Strategies That Work

For 20 years, Tax Saving Professionals has offered advanced tax saving strategies for business and medical professionals seeking to keep more of what they earn by highlighting powerful solutions to build and preserve their wealth. We apply years of extensive, in-depth knowledge in specialized areas of the tax code to assure our client’s savings will meet or exceed our guarantee. A+ rated. ADA recognized. Thousands of successful clients can’t be wrong. 

For more information contact:

Will Gardner
Client Advisor
772-257-7953
w.gardner@taxsavingpros.com

The secret to managing a successful practice is systems. Whether you’re figuring out how to improve accounts receivable or market to new patients, your approach should be the same. There is no single playbook that will work for every practice but there is a leadership philosophy that will consistently get results. In this webinar we’ll reveal the critical dental practice systems and give you the skill set you’ll need to customize and implement them into your own business. You'll also discover how to use your practice management software to its fullest potential.

Educational Support Provided By: Curve Dental

In this webinar, participants will learn about patient-centered communication styles and strategies that can help patients find their motivation for making behavior changes and treatment decisions that lead, not only to improved oral health, but also to an improved relationship between patient and practitioner. 

Education support provided by: Elevate Oral Care