Allied Staff Programs
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2010
Smile Design and Advanced Provisional Fabrication
8:00 am – 10:00 am
Mike Malone, DDS
Learning Objectives: After completing this course the participants will understand:
- Principles of smile design to be used to develop an ideal diagnostic wax-up
- How to transfer the information in the diagnostic wax-up into a completed provisional that rivals the final restoration
- Systems to help communicate the results of the completed prototype to your technician so you can deliver a predictably ideal restoration
Implant Practice Growth Management: Consultations, Case Presentation, Financial Arrangements for Prospective Implant Patients
11:00 am – 12:00 noon
Cindy Rothenberg, RDH
Implant Treatment Planning Coordination (both within office and referring offices)
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Cindy Rothenberg, RDH
An empowered Implant Coordinator can be the greatest asset your practice has for promoting and sustaining implant dentistry. Through leadership and education this trained colleague can position your practice for future growth and success. Participants of this program will gain not only gain insight to the responsibilities of an Expanded Function Implant Coordinator but a strategy for obtaining these skill sets. Highly motivated team players that attend can expect to be inspired and re-energized about this amazing profession.
Learning Objectives: After completing this course the participants will understand how to:
- Increase case acceptance by customizing your consultation to incorporate patient psychology and patient profiling
- Develop guidelines and strategies for effectively discussing fees
- Optimum interaction between doctor, hygienist or assistant and patient
- Gain a command of the verbiage necessary to educate any type of patient who could benefit from implant dentistry
- Expanded Function Implant Coordinator: Job description list and explanation of those responsibilities
Patient Monitoring during Sedation: Sense and Non-Sense
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Daniel Becker, DDS
Sunday, January 31, 2010, seemed like the perfect day to fly along the northern shoreline of Borneo over the rainforest and small mountains. Unfortunately weather conditions changed and a staff general surgeon, who is also a recreational pilot, found himself in the midst of a grave situation. He was hanging from a tree with multiple compression fractures, as his friend and lone passenger lay on the jungle floor dead. What went wrong? They were flying without instrument ratings in an aircraft that was not equipped for poor weather. Advanced technology and advanced training would have saved the passenger’s life.
Piloting sedation cases has potentially deadly pitfalls. The monitors we use and our skill in using them can keep our patients off the jungle floor and flying smoothly through even the most challenging of procedures. During this one-hour presentation we will help you work on your instrument rating.
Learning Objectives: At the completion of this presentation, participants should be able to:
1. Distinguish the sensible and legal requirements for patient monitoring
2. Understand technical aspects of monitors and describe limitations for each
3. Compare and contrast the cost-benefits of various monitoring systems
4. Discuss suggested clinical pearls for patient monitoring
Friday, October 22, 2010
Capture the Perfect Smile! Digital Photography Techniques for Patient Documentation
8:00 am – 12:00 noon
Rita Bauer
Are you using patient photography to its fullest but not satisfied with the results? Do you use your clinical photographs only for treatment planning and patient records? Then you are missing out on an excellent communication tool with the lab and the patient. Learn the techniques to consistently take excellent patient views and the preparation of marketing and education material. You will be amazed how easily digital photography can be learned and immediately incorporated into your practice.
Learning Objectives: Attendees can expect to learn the following from the presentation:
1. Camera choices for your practice and exposure setup for patient photography
2. Techniques for standardized patient photography with mirrors and retractors
3. Using photography as a communication tool with the patient and the dental lab
4. Photography as a marketing tool: use your patient photographs as practice enhancers and prepare customized patient presentations in seconds
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Women’s Health Issues – It Is a Quality of Life Issue!
8:00 am – 12:00 noon
Claude Hughes, MD, PhD
As women age in the late reproductive years (ages 40-50), ovarian function changes. This has often appeared chaotic and confusing to patients and their physicians. New research suggests that there are understandable underlying patterns during the menopause transition. These new endocrine insights should lead to more specific individualized approaches in terms of low-dose pharmaceutical interventions and more explicit guidelines for nutritional and lifestyle changes to improve the quality of life for women in this lifestage interval.
Learning Objectives: Attendees can expect to learn the following from the presentation:
1. New insights about hormonal changes in the menopausal transition that are beginning to explain some of the experiences women have in this phase of life
2. Nutritional, lifestyle and pharmaceutical steps that may all play complementary roles in individualized responses to problems that a woman may experience allied staff programs