Title: FOCUS: Achieving Your Highest Priorities
Program Length: evening, half day or full day program
Type: Workshop
Intended Audience: Dentist, Dental Specialist, Hygienist and Assistant
James Cathcart
Achieving Your Highest Priorities workshop is the anchor of the Franklin
Covey Focus Solution. This session teaches productivity skills integrated with a
powerful planning system that helps individuals clarify, focus on and execute their
highest priorities, both personally and professionally. You will understand how to
establish a goal-setting process to help you become more focused and receive
technology tips and best practices to help you manage the onslaught of information you
receive daily.
Objectives
- Apply a goal-setting process that gets results.
- Stay focused every day with a reliable planning system that integrates the
tools you use (planner, PDA, desktop).
- Achieve balance and renewal in your life to avoid burnout and cycles of
frustration.
- Gain control of the competing demands on your time: e-mail, voice mail,
meetings and interruptions.
- Reduce stress by recognizing and eliminating low-priority activities and
distractions.
Sponsorship:
We will sponsor a percentage of Mr. Cathcart’s honorarium.
Title: An Introduction to the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®
James Cathcart
Build a Foundation of Effectiveness throughout Your Organization
Successful organizations and teams depend on personal performance, and personal effectiveness is nowhere more important than with your non-managerial, administrative and staff-level employees. True, fully-aligned workforce performance demands that all employees share a common vision around your organization's mission, values, and goals, and that individuals are effective, both personally and professionally. With Franklin Covey's one-day 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Introductory Workshop, you can achieve sustainable superior performance across your entire organization. The universal principles taught in this workshop allow you to develop a common framework for improving character and harnessing the capacity of your workforce. This is even more critical as a new generation enters the workplace with a new set of values, perceptions and expectations.
Apply Proven Principles that Promote Personal Growth and Achieve Results
According to a recent study, losing an employee costs organizations 70% to 200% of the employee's salary. The solution is to increase the sense of involvement of all employees towards the company's mission and goals. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Introductory Workshop for Associates helps all employees tap into the best that they have to give. The workshop will empower them to resolve work/life imbalances, understand their potential, manage time, increase accountability, and achieve their goals.
Invest in your staff-level employees' potential with the dynamic 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Introductory Workshop for Associates. This workshop will help your employees develop the skills needed to improve personal and professional
effectiveness for better results.
Your organization will:
- Increase retention rates, especially in high-turnover positions
- Improve teamwork
- Increase alignment between work activities and the company's mission and goals
- Increase productivity and accountability
Delivering on the Promise of Effectiveness
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Introductory Workshop for Associates minimizes off-line time and is taught as a one-day, facilitator-led workshop in a corporate or on-site setting. The workshop follows a reinforced learning process that includes the following:
Participant Manual
Participant Resource Audio CD
Participant Job Aid
Rich peer-to-peer learning experience
Title: Understanding Digital Radiography
Program Length: 3 hrs
Type: Didactic with demonstrations
Intended Audience: Dentist, Dental Specialist, Hygienist and Assistant
Dr. David Gane
Dr. Gane will demonstrate and discuss the latest in digital radiography technologies and
demonstrate how they play an integral role in creating efficiencies within the general
and specialist practice. This presentation will present practical tips and techniques
designed to help enhance your understanding of digital radiography and will also
demonstrate best practices designed to improve your diagnostic abilities while
enhancing your level of patient care and practice productivity.
Objectives
- Review current digital intraoral and extraoral radiography technologies, comparing
their advantages and disadvantages, and explaining their optimal implementation
within a general or specialty dental practice.
- Discuss and demonstrate the optimal implementation and best practices of digital
radiography within the modern dental office.
At conclusion, participants should be able to:
- Describe the different digital radiography technologies currently available and the
differences between them.
- Demonstrate how digital radiography can assist in diagnosis and treatment planning.
- Understand how to optimize digital image quality and how to enhance radiographic
diagnosis through the correct use and sequence of digital imaging processing tools.
Sponsorship:
We will sponsor Dr. Ganes’ honorarium and travel expense.
Title: Digital Dental Photography Made Easy
Program Length: 3 hrs
Lecture: Unlimited Attendance
Type: Didactic with Hands-On Learning
Intended Audience: Dentist, Dental Specialist, Hygienist and Assistant
Rita Bauer
Lecture: Unlimited Attendance
Your digital images are a vital tool for treatment planning, medical/legal documentation, lab communication, patient education and marketing.
Rita Bauer will take the mystery out of digital photography in this fun filled program and share her tips and techniques to consistently take excellent clinical pictures with the proper camera set-up and standardized patient positioning.
This program is full of practical information and will discuss the latest camera selections and technical requirements, review basic photographic principals, as well as the use of mirrors and retractors.
This class also provides a hands-on learning experience using the KODAK Dental Photography Systems, where you can fine-tune your skills or transform from an inexperienced photographer into an enthusiastic, competent digital camera user. Practice standardized patient positioning by photographing each other with proper camera set up, lighting and composition techniques.
KODAK Dental Digital Photography Systems will be provided for classroom use.
Hands-on Class size is limited to 30 people.
Session Objectives:
- Present an overview of current digital photographic systems appropriate for dental photography, comparing their advantages and disadvantages and explaining their optimal implementation within the general and specialty dental practice.
- Review of dental photographic requirements for standardized patient documentation and portrait techniques.
Learning Objectives:
At conclusion, participants should be able to:
- Take standardized photographic views of the new and re-care patient with appropriate magnification ratios.
- Understand how digital photography can be used to assist in diagnosis, treatment planning and lab communication.
- Prepare case presentations and marketing material which will help your patients understand your treatment plan like never before.
You will be amazed how easily this technology can be learned and implemented in your practice.
Sponsorship:
We will sponsor 50% of Ms. Bauer’s honorarium.
Title: How to Achieve Predicatble Excellence on Cosmetic Dentistry
Program Length: full day
Type: Didactic
Intended Audience: Dentist, Hygienist and Assistant
Dr. Mike Malone
Dr. Mike Malone has combined the occlusion and restorative teachings of L D Pankey,
Alvin Filastre and Pete Dawson with a passion for learning from the best and brightest
in cosmetic dentistry. He has developed systems for combining predictable restorative
techniques with ideal cosmetic procedures. This full day lecture will highlight the
systems he uses to achieve predictable excellence in cosmetic procedures every day in
his practice in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Overview:
Getting Your Patients To Say Yes To Cosmetic And Restorative
Dentistry
This seminar will highlight those key areas that guided Dr. Malone in developing a
highly successful cosmetic-oriented, fee-for-service practice during the economic
uncertainty of the 80’s and 90’s in a blue-collar, middle-class community. He will
discuss techniques he uses to get most patients to schedule, to look forward to and to
rave about their comprehensive new patient examination. He will go over his step-bystep
process (utilizing advanced digital photography, digital radiography and
presentations) for achieving predictable case acceptance for optimum dentistry. He will
also present his Dental Health Program, a preventive periodontal program that
produces predictable results in any size practice.
Predictable Cosmetic And Restorative Dentistry
Dentists often find that crown and bridge insertion appointments turn into “try-in”
appointments. When the margin is open, the occlusion is high or the bridges will not
seat, who is responsible, the dentist or the technician? With the growing popularity of all
ceramic veneers, crowns and bridges, predictability becomes even more important. This
presentation will review techniques designed to reduce the stress of cosmetic and
restorative dentistry in a general or prosthodontic practice.
At completion of this course module participants will be able to:
- Complete the preparation phase faster and with more control.
- Manage soft tissue and take ideal impressions every time.
- Complete and seat finished restorations with predictability.
Smile Design And Advanced Provisional Fabrication
High quality provisional restorations are essential in a dental practice dedicated to
comprehensive restorative dentistry. Cosmetic reconstruction is much more predictable
when using superbly made provisionals to serve as a blueprint for the final restoration.
This presentation will provide the details of a technique used to fabricate multilayered
composite provisional restorations for porcelain veneers and complex full-arch cases.
After completing this course module 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.
Sponsorship:
We will sponsor 50% of Dr. Malone’s honorarium.
Title: Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) for 3-Dimensional Dental Imaging
Program Length: 3 Hours
Type: Didactic with demonstrations
Intended Audience: Dentist, Dental Specialist, Hygienist, Assistant, Radiology Technician
Dr. James Mah, DDS, MSc, MRCD, DMSc
Session Description:
This is the first of a two part lecture series on CBCT and serves as an introduction to 3-dimensional imaging. Dr. Mah will discuss the technology behind CBCT, compare different devices, demonstrate software features and provide a general overview of how 3-dimensional imaging is used to solve clinical problems. In addition, 3D visualization methods and radiological exposure and interpretation will be discussed.
Session Objectives:
- Introduce the technology of cone beam CT and show how it is used in dentistry
- Educate participants on technical differences between devices, software features and data management
Learning Objectives:
- General knowledge and understanding of one of the most revolutionary technologies in dentistry - CBCT.
- Understand how 3D imaging can be used in specific clinical situations
- Understand radiation dosimetry
Title: Clinical Applications of Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT)
Program Length: 3 Hours
Type: Didactic with demonstrations
Intended Audience: Dentist, Dental Specialist, Hygienist, Assistant, Radiology Technician
Dr. James Mah, DDS, MSc, MRCD, DMSc
Session Description:
This is the second lecture of a two-part lecture series on CBCT and focuses on the applications of CBCT in dentistry. Beyond the initial scan of the patient, there are numerous steps and approaches to optimizing the data for diagnostic and therapeutic benefit. This lecture will provide general "roadmaps" to the primary applications of CBCT. Dr. Mah will discuss data acquisition, reformatting and management. Demonstrations of 3D volume rendering using specific clinical situations will be provided. Clinical applications for impacted teeth, orthodontics, periodontics, TMJ and airway assessment, as well as implant dentistry will be discussed. At the conclusion, audience members will be familiar with specific applications of CBCT in dentistry.
Session Objectives:
- Demonstrate how data is managed and reformatted to produce traditional dental views such as a panoramic, occlusal or cephalogram
- Demonstrate 3D volume rendering and how it is used in dentistry
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion, participants should be able to:
- Identify clinical situations that could benefit from 3D imaging
- Have an overall idea of how data is reformatted for both 2D and 3D views
- Be prepared to discuss 3D imaging and CBCT with their patients
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