The common goals of designing or remodeling your office to reflect your brand, deliver a better patient experience, and improve efficiencies haven’t changed. How you approach design has. Patients are now asking about safety – are you telling them or showing them your measures? And, you have an obligation to keep a safe work environment for your team. Now more than ever that includes designing for proper ergonomics to protect your health and theirs. How do you solve for all this? In this CE webinar, join Jeff Carter, DDS and Pat Carter, IIDA of Practice Design Group as they demonstrate how a focus on safety in design can help you differentiate your practice.
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Hey Doc, the Tooth You Restored Hurts Now! How to Avoid Post-Op Sensitivity
Presenter: Dr. Rolando Nunez CE Supporter: Bisco
Everyday dentistry requires bonding. From direct composite restorations to indirect veneers, bonding plays an important role in every clinical practice. Many dentists report that their patients are still experiencing post-operative sensitivity after treatment. Sensitivity can be contributed to the bonding technique and/or the proper treatment of the dentin surface. This CE webinar will cover possible causes for post-operative sensitivity and how to prevent it from happening.
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Retain It: Solutions for Achieving Surgical & Restorative Success in the Edentulous Mandible
Presenter: Dr. Matthew Hallas CE Supporter: Sterngold
This CE webinar will combine multiple surgical and prosthodontic procedures to help enhance the participant's knowledge in both the surgical and restorative aspects of implant overdenture therapy. The Retain It webinar series will focus on evaluation, classification, and treatment guidelines specific to a mandibular implant overdenture. This CE webinar will include diagnosis and treatment planning with a focus on dental implant and restorative attachment design, selection, and application.
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Minimally Invasive Crestal Sinus Augmentation: Evolving Concepts & Techniques
Presenter: Dr. Michael Pikos CE Supporter: Cellerant
Sinus augmentation is a highly viable technique to expand bone volume in the posterior maxilla and thereby expand the pool of patients that can benefit from dental implant therapy. The crestal approach to sinus augmentation has evolved over the years with the introduction of new instruments, novel bone grafting products, and specialized delivery systems to enhance the simplicity and predictability of the crestal technique. In this CE webinar, we are going to discuss various contemporary techniques for crestal sinus augmentation to include delivery of the bone graft via a unique unidose cartridge/gun system.
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Delivering Successful Anesthetic: Beyond What You Learned in Dental School!
Presenter: Dr. Lori Trost CE Supporter: Septodont
Dental anesthetics and pain management are routine in every dental practice. However, delivering an effective and painless injection can some times be challenging, stressful, along with schedule changing. This CE webinar will review current anesthetic agents and offer common sense approaches to easily administering dental anesthetics for a successful outcome. Go beyond what you learned in school!
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Cutting Overhead Costs
Presenter: Sally McKenzie CE Supporter: Practice Management
High overhead costs can really hold a practice back. Instead of focusing on growing your practice, you struggle to make ends meet each month. It’s frustrating and stressful. Learn how to determine the source of your overhead woes so you can finally meet your full potential.
The CE webinar will include an opportunity for the participant to assess their present whitening program and ensure best practices are being represented. The support of strong evidence-based science will be highlighted to provide the dental professional with a solid conviction to guide their decision-making in implementing best whitening practices.
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Hygiene to Restorative - How to Plan for Success
Presenter: Dr. Arthur Tomaro CE Supporter: VOCO America
The success of your treatment is based upon Diagnosis, Procedures, and Materials. With so many choices of materials, the goal is to simplify techniques and materials with an increase in efficiency. In this CE webinar, learn why varnish is a must in today's hygiene protocol and the process of preparation to the placement of both direct and Zirconium restorations.
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The 411 on Cotton Mouth: What is Xerostomia and How to Manage It
Presenter: Dr. Lauren Levi CE Supporter: Sunstar
This CE webinar will introduce the clinician to the causes of xerostomia and how to diagnose salivary gland hypofunction as well as how to conduct a salivary flow measurement exam. It will review the differences between hyposalivation and xerostomia and management considerations.
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Getting that Hot Tooth Numb
Presenter: Dr. Stuart Lieblich CE Supporter: Pierrel Pharma
Typically local anesthetics work effectively and allow the dentist to provide "pain free" care. However, teeth that are infected are often difficult to get a profound local anesthetic effect frustrating the dentist and of course the patient. This CE webinar will review the issues associated with the causes of local anesthetic failures with a focus on infected or "hot" teeth so that extractions or endodontic treatment can be comfortably performed.
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Let’s Get Chemical! Understanding How Basic Chemistry of Materials Affects Day to Day Practice
Presenter: Dr. Ron Kaminer CE Supporter: Vista Dental
We don't often think of chemistry when we think of Dental materials but chemistry is what truly makes some products work better than others. In this CE webinar, join us as we explore some materials in day to day dentistry and gather an understanding how we can achieve better success if we use those material appropriately.
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Maintaining Dental Unit Waterlines in the Era of COVID and Beyond
Presenter: Dr. Marie Fluent CE Supporter: Air Techniques
Water is a vital component of modern dentistry and water quality affects nearly every function of dental offices. Dental units supply water for most every dental procedure from routine prophies to complex restorative procedures. This CE webinar will discuss the importance of using clean and safe water, guidelines and regulations for water quality, and how to ensure continuous delivery of safe water during dental care in the era of COVID and beyond.
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How to Mill a Crown Intraorally
Presenter: Dr. Martin Jablow CE Supporter: Cellerant
One of the most exciting aspects of incorporating electric handpieces into your dental practice is what it allows you to accomplish clinically. This CE webinar will help participants become more familiar with the use of electric handpieces and how they can make your restorative dentistry better and more efficient.
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Let's Get Physical! Why Chemistry in Crown and Bridge is More Important than Ever
Presenter: Dr. Ron Kaminer CE Supporter: GC America
Our goal in fixed prosthetics should be strong, aesthetic restorations that will last our patients years. Over the past few years new materials have entered the market compelling us to make changes in the way we prepare, buildup, impression, and cement fixed restorations. In this CE webinar, join us as we review the chemistry of why these materials work and show their use clinically in routine crown and bridge procedures. The goal is to leave this CE webinar thinking "is the new better than the old."
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Velcro or Gorilla Glue – Zirconia Cementation
Presenter: Dr. Jack Griffin CE Supporter: Bisco
Corporate dentistry and the reduction in insurance reimbursement has forced most of use to become more efficient. We want to provide treatments that are a great long-term service for the patient but that are efficient for the office with nearly 100% clinical success. Proper preparation and cementation techniques are undeniably related to long term restoration success and the choice of materials is more critical than ever to meet these goals for indirect restorations. Zirconia has become popular because of its clinical acceptance and performance and this CE webinar will discuss the best techniques for routine cementation and for those times when maximum adhesion is necessary.
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Tooth Preserving Dentistry: Taking Direct Composites to the Next Level
Presenter: Dr. Richard Young CE Supporter: Kuraray Dental
This CE webinar will review, in a real world “wet fingered” dentist’s way, some of the techniques, materials, and key research, behind 34 years of advanced adhesive minimally invasive dentistry. It will help take your direct composites to the next level. New injection molding techniques combined with advanced adhesion techniques will be presented. A clinical review of successful, long-term clinical cases will be reviewed as well.
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Geriatric Dentistry: The Fastest Growing Demographic in Dentistry
Presenter: Dr. Lou Graham CE Supporter: VOCO America
As patients age, so do their teeth and yes, all the problems that come with! This CE webinar will highlight specific clinical casework that applies the restorative challenges that we see all too often with these wonderful patients.
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Integrating a CAD/CAM System Into Your Practice During Uncertain Times: What You Need to Consider Right Now
Presenter: Dr. David Juliani CE Supporter: Ivoclar Vivadent
Digital workflows enhance all clinical procedures from diagnosis, to planning, to provisional prosthesis design and fabrication, and to final restorations. This CE webinar will highlight the impact of CAD/CAM technology in the practice, the restorative materials available and the digital processes in which to produce optimal quality and esthetics in a clinical setting. Innovative digital technologies along with a clinical workflow to enhance everyday practice will be shown.
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Making Endodontics Easier for the General Practitioner
Presenter: Dr. John Flucke CE Supporter: Vista Dental
More than 80% of all Endodontic treatment is performed by General Practitioners, but many doctors could increase efficiency and decrease stress by implementing new, more efficient tools and techniques into their cases. Dr. Flucke has been performing 99% of his Endodontic cases for the past 20 years. As a General Practitioner, he understands the unique perspectives and problems the GP faces on a daily basis. As Technology Editor and Chief Dental Editor for Dental Products Report magazine, he gets to see, test, and help to design cutting edge products and techniques. Dr. Flucke’s passion is ‘technology improves patient outcomes’ and he has vast experience with devices and techniques that save the practice money while increasing efficiency and decreasing stress.
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Restoration Complete, Now What? Protect and Recharge
Presenter: Susan Wingrove, RDH, BS CE Supporter: GC America
Completing tooth-borne and implant-borne restorations are only the beginning for successful treatment. What prophy paste is safe to use on bioactive fillings, full ceramic crowns, full arch hybrid prostheses? Restorations need regular in-office maintenance and home-care recommendation with products that protect and in some cases recharge for the optimal results.
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Restorative Implantology: Putting the Pieces Together After Placement
Presenter: Dr. Chad Duplantis CE Supporter: Ceramir (Doxa Dental)
Implants have become an increasingly attractive treatment option over the past several years. With so many implant systems available, our restorative options multiply. By sticking to a few main principles, restoring implants can become an integral and rewarding part of your practice. This CE webinar is designed to minimize the confusion and provide clarity to the restorative dentist.
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Integration of BioActive Materials to Grow Your Practice
Presenter: Dr. Brittany Bergeron CE Supporter: Pulpdent
This CE webinar is designed to give a foundation for implementing bioactive materials in your daily treatment to enhance and grow your dental practice. The concept of bioactive dental materials is not new. We’ve all heard of them and have probably used bioactive materials at one time or another – but are you telling your patients about the benefits of bioactive materials? Patient education can increase case acceptance and be a large source or referrals to increase practice revenue.
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Practice Design of the Future: Safety, Ergonomics, and Workflow
