September 17, 2018:

TEAM – Together Everyone Achieves More!

An interactive workshop to exploring the interdisciplinary approach for the best in patient care. Patients today have many options in who they choose as their dental provider, understanding who your customers are and what motivates their choices is essential for a successful practice. By defining your practice and exploring strategies to create the ideal day, you can raise your team from good to GREAT, ensuring your patients choose YOU!

Learning Objectives:

• Define your practice and clinical philosophy
• Understand how to differentiate your practice from others
• Define the influence of interdisciplinary care on patient experience
• Establish patient centered communication
• Identify barriers to patients saying “yes” to treatment

October 22, 2018:

Why Implants?

Implant dentistry is quickly becoming the accepted standard of care to replace missing dentition and patients are expecting long-term, predictable options for their dental treatment. Being comfortable with explaining the differences between dentures, bridges and implants and the expectations for treatment outcomes increases patient/clinician relationships and case acceptance.

When the dental team uses an interdisciplinary approach to patient care, having an expanded knowledge of periodontal and restorative options ensures the patient receives the best treatment available to them, based on their individual needs. As dental professionals, it’s our responsibility to know how to evaluate, when to treat, when to refer, and how to discuss the options with our patients.

Learning objectives:

• Review of periodontal disease and non-surgical therapies – then and now
• Implant knowledge – terminology, parts, anatomy
• Establish periodontal guidelines to know when to refer
• Complete patient care through collaboration

November 19, 2018:

Implant Maintenance – Dental Hygiene and the Implant Patient

As dental implants become the standard of care for tooth root replacement, it’s up to the dental clinicians to know how to treat implant patients in their chair and how to teach our patients the best ways to maintain implant health at home. Recognizing the signs of peri-implant mucositis and peri-implantitis and knowing how to prevent and treat these issues can be the difference between success and failure of dental implants.

Learning objectives:

• Identify basic parts and components of implants
• Define peri-implant mucositis and peri-implantitis
• Discuss primary etiologies of peri-mucositis and peri-implantitis
• Non-surgical treatment of peri-implant mucositis: in office and at home
• Understand current techniques for instrumentation
• Recognize the importance of implant maintenance