Welcome to the Glidewell Online Study Club

Learning Objectives

1. Understand how airway dysfunction differs from sleep dysfunction and obstructive sleep apnea.
2. Observe how many of the disorders that dentistry has struggled with for decades are fully understandable when seen in the context of airway dysfunction.
3. Learn to screen for and assess airway-centered disorders.

Learning Objectives

1. Review what stackable guides are, and the different types of surgical guide supports.
2. Understand that the best way to treat complications is through prevention.
3. Execute a plan if complications do occur, either after the surgical placement or the prosthetic restoration.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the four key principles for achieving long-term success in immediate implant placement after extraction.
2. Differentiate the three types of sockets after extraction and their subsequent treatments.
3. Examine ways to achieve primary stability in compromised extraction sites.
4. Understand methods of grafting labial sites in absence of buccal plates at the time of implant placement.
5. Learn how to select the most predictable bone grafting material when grafting.

Learning Objectives

1. Summarize implant complications in early and late time frames.
2. Understand that the best way to treat complications is through prevention.
3. Execute a plan if complications do occur, either after the surgical placement or the prosthetic restoration.

Learning Objectives

1. Choose the appropriate laser to achieve effective procedural results.
2. Utilize lasers to improve intraoral scanning.
3. Determine how lasers can create restorative crown length.
4. Review time savings using lasers to remove zirconia veneers and crowns.

Learning Objectives

1. Review material thickness guidelines for monolithic crowns.
2. Describe how tooth preparation impacts key design characteristics.
3. Understand how the prep’s long axis and adjacent teeth affect the path of insertion and contacts.
4. Learn how to digitally design a functional and esthetic restoration.

Learning Objectives

1. Explore what supplies to have on hand in your practice.
2. Identify when to save a tooth and when to extract.
3. Understand treatment options for periodontitis.
4. Demonstrate effective communication tools.
5. Review cases treating caries and periodontal disease.

Learning Objectives

1. Review basic concepts of periodontal disease and the updated 2018 Classification of Periodontal and Peri-Implant Diseases and Conditions.
2. Discuss non-surgical treatment concepts and options to treat periodontal disease.
3. Illustrate and discuss surgical treatment concepts of periodontal disease including resective surgery, regeneration and laser therapy.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn the step-by-step use of technology in smile design and treatment.
2. Review current technology and offer rational for implementation.
3. Understand limitations of technology and offer solutions.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify patients who would benefit from oral appliance therapy.
2. Implement tools to improve device selection in your practice.
3. Understand types of oral appliances for bruxism and muscle pain.
4. Review appliances with partial coverage and their recommended uses.
5. Identify patients who would benefit from an oral appliance for joint pain and joint noise.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the indications and benefits of implant overdentures.
2. Understand options for case design and attachment systems.
3. Learn predictable techniques for chairside attachment pickup.
4. Implement skills to adjust and maintain overdenture cases.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the benefits of botulinum toxins for cosmetic restorative cases.
2. Review muscles of the face that surround the lips.
3. Understand the Lip Drop procedure to correct a “Gummy Smile.”
4. Understand the Lip Flip procedure for upper lip volume enhancement.
5. Discuss practice growth opportunities with botulinum toxins.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the importance of the facial-incisal line angle in implant aesthetics
2. Learn strategies to retain and protect thin facial plates in extraction/immediate implant cases
3. Review graft options for stabilization of the facial plate
4. Understand the advantages and treatment steps for socket shield cases

Learning Objectives

1. Identify unique cumulative stress and musculoskeletal disorders that affect dental professionals
2. Learn and apply ergonomic techniques to reduce the risk of developing an injury
3. Develop a chairside stretching protocol to prevent injury and preserve health

Learning Objectives

1. Understand proper planning as the key to a successful outcome.
2. Understand that some conventional dogmas may not be evidence based.
3. Understand why you do not need a flange.
4. Highlight the benefits of fixed teeth versus an overdenture.
5. Understand the science that guides the determination of the optimal number of supporting implants.

Learning Objectives

1. Achieve the skill of adding specific nasal breathing strategies to your airway practice.
2. Summarize the neurologic and physiologic reasons why nasal breathing is critical to health.
3. Understand OTC and prescription products aids and why they work.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn extraction techniques that ensure hard and soft tissue preservation.
2. Define three classifications of the “sockets” and their recommended treatments.
3. Understand how to achieve maximum primary stability for immediate loading.
4. Review techniques for grafting and materials to grow bone and enhance the soft tissue.
5. Learn hard and soft tissue manipulation to achieve gingival harmony with the adjacent teeth.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the latest studies showing decreased efficacy of clindamycin use in implant dentistry.
2. Learn alternative antibiotics for prophylactic and therapeutic use in implant dentistry.
3. Learn an easily to understand antibiotic protocol in implant dentistry.

Learning Objectives

1. Determine when implant treatment is needed.
2. Highlight the benefit of implant treatment for your patients.
3. Understand the practice growth opportunity of dental implants.
4. Summarize treatment options for single tooth, multiple teeth, and full arch replacement.

Learning Objectives

1. Summarize the difference between small and conventional diameter implants.
2. Learn how small diameter implants can be useful in general practice.
3. Understand when to select small diameter implants over conventional diameter implants through case studies.
4. Evaluate when not to use small diameter implants.

Learning Objectives

1. Explore the benefits of digital scanners and how to maximize their use.
2. Apply best practices to capture an accurate digital impression for a variety of indications.
3. Evaluate digital scans before submitting to the laboratory.

Learning Objectives

1. Review the concept of EBD and its translation into daily practice.
2. Evaluate the current evidence base supporting the use of digital workflows.
3. Discuss the reality of clinical outcomes when comparing classic gold restorations to modern ceramics.
4. Explore the advantages of partial coverage restorations compared to conventional crowns.
5. Evaluate traditional layered restorations with current monolithic ceramic options.

Learning Objectives

1. Summarize the different forms of dementia and their medications.
2. Articulate signs, symptoms and what to look for in this patient population.
3. Prepare appropriate questions for new and recurrent patients on their Patient Information Forms.
4. Understand the importance of an Emergency Contact.
5. Highlight the different types of Power of Attorney: Property, Financial, Medical.
6. Understand when it is appropriate to include an Emergency Contact on Treatment Planning for our geriatric and dementia patients.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the principals of mucogingival defects that affect natural teeth and how they can occur around dental implants.
2. Identify hard tissue defects associated with dental implants.
3. Interpret common treatment strategies such as gingival augmentation, bone augmentation, and biologics.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn how to become a more effective leader and build better relationships with team members and patients.
2. Understand how improved leadership skills will help achieve the goals and objectives you have set.
3. Learn the 4 levels of leadership and the 10 leadership principles to improve as a practice leader.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe the technique of immediate placement in infected and affected sockets.
2. Learn what to do when there is minimal or absence of facial plate.
3. Implement placement techniques to improve the esthetic outcomes.
4. Understand when to graft infected sockets and when to do immediate placement.

Learning Objectives

1. Summarize implant complications in early and late time frames.
2. Understand that the best way to treat complications is through prevention.
3. Execute a plan if complications do occur, either after the surgical placement or the prosthetic restoration.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand how to simplify the jaw records appointment.
2. Review alternative methods for determining vertical dimension.
3. Learn tips and tricks to maximize denture esthetics.

Learning Objectives

1. Compare the differences between analog and digital fabrication methods.
2. Identify material options for removable partial denture prostheses.
3. Present framework adjustment recommendations for each identified material.

Learning Objectives

1. Define the factors that influence occlusion for implant cases.
2. Apply strategies to ensure accurate impressions and bite registrations.
3. Understand the value of the utilizing a central-bearing device.
4. Determine the optimal occlusion for single-unit implants, partially edentulous patients and full-arch cases.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand how the choice of restorative materials affects the design of your preparation.
2. Prepare teeth to simplify the CAD/CAM process.
3. Learn tissue management principles to ensure successful digital impressions.

Learning Objectives

1. Become familiar with the evolution of implant treatment planning for partially edentulous patients.
2. Understand microenvironmental differences between teeth and implants from a biological and mechanical standpoint.
3. Learn the influence of basic science on evidence-based implant treatment decision-making and minimally invasive dentistry.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn the pros and cons of providing same-day crowns in your practice.
2. Understand the evolution of in-office designing and milling solutions.
3. Determine if your practice is ready for implementing digital solutions.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn about the differences between normal and abnormal maxillary sinus CBCT anatomy.
2. Identify which pathologic conditions contraindicate dental implants.
3. Determine when patients should be referred to an otolaryngologist.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the basic anatomy of the TMJ in both normal and internal derangement states.
2. Learn to easily recognize and diagnose the two most common TMJ issues.
3. Determine when treatment is needed and what to do (and who to work with).

Learning Objectives

1. Review the fundamentals of immediate implant placement following extraction.
2. Understand anatomical classifications of extraction sockets.
3. Achieve ideal implant positioning and primary stability.

Learning Objectives

1. Manage your emotions when things go wrong chairside.
2. Apply techniques to defuse difficult patient interactions.
3. Develop team attributes that lead to happier patients.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand how the choice of restorative materials affects the design of your preparation.
2. Prepare teeth to simplify the CAD/CAM process.
3. Learn tissue management principles to ensure successful digital impressions.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the steps and materials required to achieve highly esthetic results.
2. Apply a protocol using provisionals in order to closely mimic the final esthetic result.
3. Create a template to guide your dental laboratory to better results.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn the different types of full-arch implant prostheses and factors that influence cleansability.
2. Understand the difference between peri-mucositis and peri-implantitis.
3. Develop an in-office protocol for maintenance visits.
4. Describe current at-home oral hygiene tools available for plaque removal.

Learning Objectives

1. Find your "sweet spot" to increase career satisfaction.
2. Describe three tactics to increase meaning, joy and well-being throughout your dental career.
3. Apply a strategy to change the lives of you and your patients for the better.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn six key performance indicators, along with practical applications for the information provided by each.
2. Assess and improve practice performance relative to these indicators.
3. Identify the advantages of the four entrepreneurial stages of a dental practice.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand what CBCT is and how it differs from 2D digital X-rays.
2. Identify anatomical structures using CBCT.
3. Evaluate a site for implant placement.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn how to build a system that will have more patients saying yes to esthetic dentistry outside the limits of dental insurance.
2. Utilize smile design principles to create chairside mockups.
3. Use photography to help analyze proportions, shape and restorative design.
4. Implement better communication.

Learning Objectives

1. Discuss the key ingredients of courage.
2. Identify how courage creates happiness in the dental practice setting.
3. Encourage courageous behavior that will propel your practice to new heights.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn material options and clinical techniques for soft tissue control and gingival retraction.
2. Identify and prevent common mistakes when capturing both digital and analog crown & bridge impressions.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the indications and benefits of implant overdentures.
2. Learn how to design the case and select the correct attachment system.
3. Apply techniques for chairside attachment pickup to achieve predictable results.
4. Adjust and maintain overdenture cases.

Learning Objectives

1. Apply principles for analyzing and efficiently solving problems.
2. Keep an open mind in order to spot better solutions.
3. Recognize and eliminate time-killers and wasted effort.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand when a planned, skill-based surgery should be considered for implant reconstruction.
2. Apply step-by-step sequencing of computer-guided implant placement for quadrant and full-arch restorations.
3. Understand pre-op requisites for full-arch restorations.
4. Describe prosthodontic principles utilized for implant reconstruction.
5. Understand periodontal and surgical considerations for sequencing complete-arch reconstruction.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the possible connections between bruxism and obstructive sleep apnea.
2. Learn when a nightguard may be contraindicated (and might even make a condition worse).
3. Develop a simple plan to screen your patients for possible sleep-related breathing disorders.

Learning Objectives

1. Apply a state-of-the-art restorative technique utilizing new materials.
2. Perform Class II procedures faster, easier and more effectively.
3. Generate increased profit from your Class II restorations.

Learning Objectives

1. Implement a workflow for restoring the edentulous arch with a screw-retained, full-arch zirconia prosthesis.
2. Develop a rationale to determine optimal implant sites and sizes.
3. Perform a presurgical workup for a digital surgical guide.
4. Understand how to utilize an interim prosthesis to provide validation of prosthesis design.

Learning Objectives

1. Find your "sweet spot" to increase career satisfaction.
2. Describe three tactics to increase meaning, joy and well-being.
3. Identify three tactics to manage stress.
4. Apply a strategy to change the lives of you and your patients for the better.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand how smile design impacts treatment planning and tooth preparation.
2. Learn material selection and cementation tips for optimal seating and retention.

Learning Objectives

1. Review reported modalities and treatment methods.
2. Understand in-office maintenance with case examples.
3. Learn correct patient home care for dental implants.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand basic principles of implant-protected occlusion.
2. Integrate occlusion principles into your practice.
3. Learn implant occlusal schemes for various prosthesis types.

Learning Objectives

1. Find your "sweet spot" to increase career satisfaction.
2. Describe three tactics to increase meaning, joy and well-being.
3. Identify three tactics to manage stress.
4. Apply a strategy to change the lives of you and your patients for the better.

Learning Objectives

1. Compare the advantages and disadvantages of fixed full-arch prostheses vs. implant overdentures.
2. Review techniques for successful placement of full-arch prosthesis.
3. Identify key clinical and laboratory considerations.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify common issues in partial dentures and learn how to avoid them.
2. Review key steps to make partial fabrication easier for you and your lab.
3. Simplify the clasp and major connector selection process.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn simple techniques to capture esthetic intraoral shots.
2. Understand principles of editing.
3. Optimize case photos with iPhone apps.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the functional classification of oral appliances.
2. Review types of appliance adjustment mechanisms.
3. Recognize the clinical considerations for proper appliance selection.

Learning Objectives

1. Recognize behaviors and practices that will prevent burnout.
2. Utilize practice tools to lead successfully through any circumstances.
3. Acquire skills that allow dentists to cope with daily stress.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand how to educate your patient about bruxism and the benefits of appliance therapy.
2. Describe the different categories of oral appliances.
3. Apply a standardized protocol to identify and treat coexisting issues.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn indications and contraindications for implant overdentures.
2. Evaluate patients for implant overdenture implementation.
3. Compare surgical and restorative techniques for successful implant overdentures.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify various medications that contraindicate dental implant treatment.
2. Understand surgical and prosthetic considerations of various medications.
3. Learn the correct protocol on modifying medication dosage.

Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

1. Understand which cases have better outcomes with the use of temporary veneers.
2. Utilize temporary veneers for increased patient acceptance.
3. Apply temporization principles across a wide range of single- and multi-unit cases.
4. Administer preparation techniques in critical areas for high-esthetic outcomes.

Learning Objectives

1. Develop optimal treatment plans that meet patient desires without compromising results.
2. Identify conversation points during the first appointment to clarify budget and gain acceptance of treatment.
3. Utilize visual and diagnostic aids that increase patient acceptance.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand atraumatic extraction techniques.
2. Utilize bone grafting materials to increase implant predictability and stability.
3. Recognize common mistakes & complications related to bone grafting techniques.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand peri-implant diseases and their diagnosis.
2. Describe the etiologies and risk factors associated with peri-implant disease.
3. Review reported modalities and treatment methods.
4. Understand in-office maintenance and patient home care for dental implants.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn preparation and impression principles to avoid remakes.
2. Use provisionals to simplify the final crown delivery.
3. Prevent cementation and post-op complications.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the importance of standardized scripting for better patient communication.
2. Apply scripting principles for higher case acceptance.
3. Implement a scripting system across your team for increased practice success.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the trends that will shape dental practices over the next few years.
2. Discuss current innovations and processes changing how dental practices operate.
3. Apply business and legal strategies to protect and grow your practice.
4. Learn how to manage your team when there is a shortage of trained staff.

Learning Objectives

1. Discuss restorative implant options with a digital workflow.
2. Understand clinical protocols utilizing a scan body.
3. Identify common mistakes when acquiring a digital implant impression.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand implant placement technique to achieve optimum position and stability.
2. Learn restorative techniques for sustained soft tissue health.
3. Understand gingival biotype and how it can influence the final esthetics of implant restorations.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand which clinical indications are high in risk/liability.
2. Learn how to properly handle implant complications as they arise.
3. Satisfy legal requirements of informed consent.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the significance of speech problems related to the use of full-arch prostheses.
2. Diagnose prosthesis-related speech issues.
3. Prevent and correct speech-related complications.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand which cement protocol to use for various clinical situations.
2. Learn material selection and cementation tips for optimal seating and retention.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify common issues in partial dentures and learn how to avoid them.
2. Review key steps to make partial fabrication easier for you and your lab.
3. Simplify the clasp and major connector selection process.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand how to treat snoring and sleep apnea in the general practice.
2. Learn potential side effects and how to mitigate them.
3. Utilize provisional mandibular advancement device therapy.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the eight trends that are driving change in dental practices.
2. Learn how these trends will impact all practices and alter the trajectory of dental careers.
3. Recognize and understand the importance and relevance of these trends to dental practice success.

Learning Objectives

1. Review principles for atraumatic extraction, socket grafting, implant positioning and placement.
2. Understand abutment design to maximize esthetics.
3. Design the optimal occlusal scheme for single-tooth implants.
4. Streamline the treatment sequence for predictable results in fit, form and function.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand when adding additional services to the general practice is beneficial.
2. Determine when to treat and when to refer.
3. Utilize the proper diagnostic tools, including CBCT.
4. Learn considerations for adding sedation to your practice.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the indications and contraindications for local antibiotic use.
2. Learn the most ideal local antibiotics to use.
3. Apply a step-by-step protocol on using local antibiotics with bone grafts and membranes.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand an efficient atraumatic extraction protocol.
2. Utilize the appropriate bone graft material.
3. Demonstrate proper flap design and suture technique.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn techniques to communicate with the laboratory in order to fabricate an immediate denture.
2. Demonstrate the management of extraction sites and soft tissue on the day of surgery.
3. Illustrate day-of-surgery reline techniques to ensure a comfortable healing process.

Learning Objectives

1. Apply protocols for the efficient planning of esthetic cases.
2. Learn how to phase treatment for increased patient acceptance.
3. Manage occlusion to ensure a perfect balance between form and function.
4. Utilize photography to design and document cases as well as build your practice.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand and treatment plan smile design concepts.
2. Incorporate aligners as part of an esthetic treatment plan.
3. Gain patient acceptance of esthetic procedures.

Learning Objectives

1. Review principles for atraumatic extraction, socket grafting, implant positioning and placement.
2. Understand abutment design to maximize esthetics.
3. Design the optimal occlusal scheme for single-tooth implants.
4. Streamline the treatment sequence for predictable results in fit, form and function.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn indications and contraindications for bone grafting.
2. Identify the ideal bone substitutes and membranes for augmentation procedures.
3. Learn how to avoid bone grafting complications.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn about classification of orofacial pain.
2. Select cases for treatment in the general practice.
3. Apply common treatment methods.

Learning Objectives

1. Differentiate between normal aging and Alzheimer’s disease.
2. Learn systemic effects of common medications.
3. Determine the optimal treatment plan.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn preparation and impression principles to avoid remakes.
2. Use provisionals to simplify the final crown delivery.
3. Prevent cementation and post-op complications.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the use and application of neurotoxins for treatment of parafunction, bruxism, and clenching.
2. Recognize anatomical considerations of the masseter and temporalis muscles when utilizing neurotoxins.
3. Apply various treatment modalities using the appropriate mapping and injection technique.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn the various types of extraction sockets that dictate grafting techniques.
2. Understand various bone substitutes and membranes used in socket grafting.
3. Review etiology, management and prevention of socket grafting complications.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the importance of keratinized tissue for overall health and esthetics.
2. Ensure long-term success of the full-arch prosthesis.
3. Select the appropriate grafting technique.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand what literature says about implants in older patients.
2. Learn how to improve success of implant treatment in older patients.
3. Recognize the importance of comorbidities on implant treatment.
4. Apply various treatment modifications you can make to improve treatment safety and outcome.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand how to add evaluation and management telehealth services to your practice.
2. Profitably utilize a “no-hands” dental approach with your staff, including home health hygiene training and nutritional counseling.
3. Identify telehealth billable codes.
4. Utilize an efficient pathway to reimbursement.

Learning Objectives

1. Determine issues to consider when immediately placing an implant in an extraction site.
2. Describe use of allografts and alloplastic materials.
3. Understand when a membrane is necessary.
4. Identify surgical considerations for success.

Learning Objectives

1. Apply protocols to adjust contacts and occlusion.
2. Understand which burs and polishers provide optimal results.
3. Determine which cement protocol to use for various clinical situations.
4. Administer cementation and bonding protocols.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify common problems that occur when delivering complete dentures.
2. Understand and address frequent concerns patients have with new dentures.
3. Describe how to correct common issues patients experience with new dentures.

Learning Objectives

1. Review how to prepare the soft and hard tissues for an impression.
2. Compare various impression materials.
3. Understand the benefits of gaining patient confidence during the provisional treatment phase.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn predictable atraumatic extraction techniques that preserve bone and soft tissue.
2. Learn protocols for socket preservation including flap design, bone grafting, membrane placement and suturing.
3. Understand principles for successful immediate implant placement.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn indications, contraindications and handling properties of today’s most popular dental materials.
2. Identify the appropriate tooth preparation based on patient presentation and restorative material to be used.
3. Utilize the most efficient instruments to achieve the appropriate tooth preparation.

Learning Objectives

1. Apply a strategic planning blueprint in order to maintain efficiency as well as generate and track practice growth.
2. Implement the appropriate technology and equipment based on defined practice goals, including digital dentistry.
3. Demonstrate the skills that are essential to lead and inspire a high-performing dental team.

Learning Objectives

1. Define goals and a strategic plan for improving your practice by utilizing Dr. Levin’s framework of recommendations, examples and guidelines.
2. Understand the creative process of strategic planning and answer the singular question: Where do you want your practice to be in five years?
3. Apply a step-by-step process to identify and activate your growth plans using specific deadlines and timelines.
4. Identify 10 achievable goals and determine what must be done to reach them, including goals in production, revenue, cash and income using real-life, current examples and practical recommendations.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe the four major loading categories.
2. Identify implant-, patient- and clinician-based facts that contribute to achieving a high primary stability.
3. Review of prosthetic options relating to the loading categories.

Learning Objectives

1. Knowledge of training and credentialing requirements for forensic dentistry.
2. Overview of civil/criminal litigation and expert testimony.
3. Understand the science of age estimation via dentition.
4. Interpret bite mark evidence.

Learning Objectives

1. Taxes 101 and beyond: Plan for year-end, implement tax strategies and make 2021 a better year.
2. Leverage loans and tax credits for your practice: PPP, HHS, FFCRA and ERC.
3. Understand the impacts of legislative updates on your dental practice.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the surrounding anatomy and how to develop the pretreatment diagnosis.
2. Learn the indications for vertical and lateral lifts, as well as how these procedures are provided.
3. Utilize the most favorable prosthetic designs for either cementation or screw retention.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand critical treatment planning factors for patients with psychopathological disorders that affect oral health.
2. Select the appropriate restorative materials for patients recovering from eating disorders.
3. Apply digital workflow to aid in smile design and restoration of deteriorated dentition.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify critical conversation points during the first appointment in order to clarify budget and gain acceptance of treatment.
2. Utilize direct mockups and visuals to motivate patients to accept elective and cosmetic dentistry.
3. Apply tooth templates for patient Rx and communication with specialists and laboratories.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify the indications for a fixed implant prosthesis and overdenture.
2. Explain the benefits of fixed prostheses and overdentures for maximum patient satisfaction.
3. Prevent the most common complications with fixed implants prostheses and overdentures.

Learning Objectives

1. List the 10 most essential infection control action steps.
2. Explain why “control at the source” is so critical.
3. List two reasons why “cleaning” before chemical disinfection is dangerous.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the surrounding anatomy and how to develop the pretreatment diagnosis.
2. Learn the indications for vertical sinus lifts and lateral sinus lifts and how these procedures are provided.
3. Utilize the most favorable prosthetic designs for either cementation or screw retention.

Learning Objectives

1. Protect your practice and employees by evaluating and choosing the right insurance and indemnification policies.
2. Increase employee retention, satisfaction and output in the time of COVID-19.
3. Understand requirements to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace and how to protect your practice.
4. Know the rules for document retention to protect yourself from patient claims, staff issues and the IRS.

Learning Objectives

1. Diagnose and treat esthetic zone emergencies.
2. Apply atraumatic extraction techniques.
3. Place implant for optimum position and stability.
4. Identify immediate esthetic provisional restorative options.
5. Manipulate soft tissue to preserve papilla and maintain gingival harmony.

Learning Objectives

1. Discuss the key strategies to ensuring a full and speedy practice recovery.
2. Learn the expected recovery cycle in order to create a successful practice financial plan.
3. Understand the three phases of emerging from business interruption to quickly return to full production.
4. Learn implications of recent legislation and SBA programs.
5. Understand loan and forgiveness options from recent legislation.
6. Review the laws and regulations for managing practice staff during the crisis.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the benefits of implant treatment for your patients and practice.
2. Learn the indications for implant treatment.
3. Summarize the treatment options for replacing single teeth, multiple teeth and full arches.
4. Create a pathway for gaining proficiency with dental implants.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn the importance of gingival biotype and how it can influence the final esthetics of implant restorations.
2. Understand the benefits of zirconia implants in areas of thin gingival biotype.
3. Determine the correct treatment plan for providing zirconia implants.
4. List the steps required for safe and effective placement of zirconia implants.
5. Learn the steps for restoration of zirconia implants.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the difference between conventional cementation and resin bonding.
2. Identify the indications and usage for each type of cement.
3. Learn bonding protocols for various restorative materials.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand proper flap design for ideal esthetics and healing.
2. Learn the different types of sutures and surgical needles.
3. Understand suturing techniques that will deliver predictable healing.
4. Review clinical tips for extractions and grafting in preparation for dental implants.

Learning Objectives

1. Discuss seating of both screw-retained and cement-retained restorations.
2. Review recommended cementation techniques for cement-retained restorations.
3. Identify and compare various materials used in closing access channels.

Learning Objectives

1. Define the protocol, including steps and techniques, for digitally guided implant placement.
2. Demonstrate understanding of necessary steps, from CT scan to lab-created digital treatment plan for doctor approval.
3. Identify anatomy and sources of inaccuracies.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn the three stages of staffing that will have a direct impact on practice production and practice recovery. Staffing will be the single biggest challenge facing dental practices over the next three to four years.
2. Review the “essential eight” key performance indicators that should be tracked every day, week and month so the practice can understand its current state and make rapid adjustments.
3. Understand the role of five-star customer service and the positive effect it will have on patient acquisition and loyalty during this difficult economic time.

Learning Objectives

1. Manage important systemic conditions commonly encountered when treating older patients.
2. Recognize and treat prosthetic problems found in older adults.

Learning Objectives

1. Use intraoral scanning as a potential intra-office communications device.
2. Advance treatment protocols and diagnostics with intraoral scanning.
3. Apply digital tools for improved patient acceptance.

Learning Objectives

1. Review of changes to office procedures caused by the recent coronavirus outbreak.
2. Strategies for increasing practice growth.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn the various types of extraction sockets that dictate grafting techniques.
2. Understand various bone substitutes and membranes used in socket grafting.
3. Review etiology, management and prevention of socket grafting complications.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand proper flap design for ideal esthetics and healing.
2. Learn the different types of sutures and surgical needles.
3. Understand suturing techniques that will deliver predictable healing.
4. Review clinical tips for extractions and grafting in preparation for dental implants.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand facial esthetics and how they determine proper smile design.
2. Treatment planning for patient acceptance of budget and esthetic goals.
3. Apply the Golden Ratio principle for esthetic tooth proportion.
4. Manage soft tissue contours.

Learning Objectives

1. Discuss material choices for screw- and cement-retained restorations.
2. Review techniques for both soft and hard tissue shade selection.
3. Understand laboratory communication needs for successful results.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand how to make implants a frequent and profitable part of your practice.
2. Learn to present implant treatment and financing options to gain patient acceptance.
3. Explore a predictable surgical and restorative protocol for successful clinical outcomes.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify the different impression armamentarium.
2. Review how to prepare the soft and hard tissues for an impression.
3. Compare various impression materials.
4. Discuss the implant verification jig (IVJ).

Learning Objectives

1. How smile design impacts treatment planning and tooth preparation.
2. Material selection and cementation tips for optimal seating and retention.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand loan and forgiveness options from recent legislation.
2. Understand the laws and regulations for managing your staff during the crisis.
3. Learn the three phases of emerging from business interruption to quickly return to full production.
4. Discuss the key strategies you must embrace to ensure a full and speedy practice recovery.
5. Learn the expected recovery cycle in order to create a successful financial plan for your practice.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn the important things that need to be communicated to your patients for successful practice reopening.
2. Learn highly effective yet inexpensive marketing strategies you can implement immediately.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the changing parameters for dental practice success after COVID-19.
2. Learn effective techniques to maximize your practice in the new dental economy.

Learning Objectives

1. Accurately diagnose and determine case difficulty.
2. Completely anesthetize a patient for root canal procedures.
3. Perform palliative care.

Learning Objectives

1. Treatment planning the terminal dentition.
2. Review of full-arch surgical principles.
3. Restorative options for the full arch.
4. Long-term results of hybrid prostheses.
5. Rationale and clinical steps involved in the full-arch monolithic implant-supported restoration.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the signs of sleep-disordered breathing.
2. Manage sleep-disordered breathing with a provisional mandibular advancement device (PMAD).
3. Satisfy the legal requirements of screening and utilize the appropriate appliance prior to final diagnosis.

Learning Objectives

1. Business and marketing to increase success during post-crisis recovery.
2. How technology may help.
3. How to empower our team.
4. How to strengthen our mindset and behavior.

Learning Objectives

1. Demonstrate an understanding of clinical photography and its importance to practice marketing.
2. Identify the requirements and equipment for perfect portrait and intraoral photography.
3. Understand different camera settings (F-Stop, ISO, shutter speed, flash power, etc.) required for clear and customized photographs.
4. Create stylistic photographs to market your practice.

Learning Objectives

1. Compare natural teeth and implant crowns.
2. Optimize occlusal schemes through implant positioning and crown design.
3. Evaluate occlusal contacts under various biting forces.
4. Learn the effects of an increased proximal contact area.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand market risk and your own risk capacity.
2. Review how markets have recovered after past declines.
3. Understand what actions you should take now.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the importance of creating a shared vision with your patient.
2. Know the tools to communicate your vision to the laboratory.
3. Understand the benefits of gaining patient confidence during the provisional treatment phase.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the loan and grant programs made available through recent legislation.
2. Review the application process.
3. Understand the regulations governing payback and forgiveness.

Learning Objectives

1. Understanding the three stages and 12-month timeline for recovery in the COVID-19 crisis.
2. 20 practical and essential strategies that need to be implemented in the recovery phase from COVID-19.
3. Why having a COVID-19 one-page strategic recovery plan is critical to a successful practice recovery and turnaround.

Learning Objectives

1. Compare the advantages and disadvantages of screw- vs. cement-retained restorations.
2. Identify key clinical and laboratory considerations to keep in mind.
3. Review techniques for successful cement-retained restorations.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn the three phases of emerging from business interruption to quickly return to full production.
2. Understand the laws and regulations for managing your staff during the crisis.
3. Understand loan options from recent legislation and SBA programs.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the indications for small diameter implants.
2. Learn surgical and restorative protocol for treatment with small diameter implants.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand proper flap design for ideal esthetics and healing.
2. Learn the different types of sutures and surgical needles.
3. Understand suturing techniques that will deliver predictable healing.
4. Review clinical tips for extractions and grafting in preparation for dental implants.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn indications, contraindications and handling properties of today’s most popular dental materials.
2. Understand which cement protocol to use for various clinical situations.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the causes of common surgical complications and learn how to prevent them.
2. Understand how to manage complications when they occur.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the laws and regulations for managing your staff during the crisis.
2. Learn the three phases of emerging from business interruption to quickly return to full production.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand benefits of ridge preservation techniques.
2. Learn materials and techniques for grafting sockets after tooth extraction.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the options available for managing debt during this business interruption.
2. Learn about new business loans available through recent federal legislation.
3. Understand the options available for managing student loans during this interruption.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the equipment and materials needed to protect your staff and patients.
2. Delineate the necessary changes to your office procedures caused by the recent coronavirus outbreak.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand how the patient’s systemic health considerations and medications will impact your treatment.
2. Learn the benefits of proper usage of antibiotics, steroids and pain medication.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the guidelines and recommendations provided by the Business Advisory Board Panel.
2. Review the current treatment protocols for improving clinical outcomes in each topic area.
3. Understand recent advancements in materials and equipment that contribute to excellent clinical outcomes.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the guidelines and recommendations provided by the Business Advisory Board Panel.
2. Review the current treatment protocols for improving clinical outcomes in each topic area.
3. Understand recent advancements in materials and equipment that contribute to excellent clinical outcomes.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the guidelines and recommendations provided by the Business Advisory Board Panel.
2. Review the current treatment protocols for improving clinical outcomes in each topic area.
3. Understand recent advancements in materials and equipment that contribute to excellent clinical outcomes.

Learning Objectives

1. Discuss the legal issues emerging because of the COVID-19 outbreak.
2. Discuss employer-to-employee issues related to office closures and slowdowns.
3. Discuss issues related to loan payments, rent and other financial obligations effected by the current situation.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the short-term, long-term and immediate challenges to your practice.
2. Understand the options you have regarding short-term financial obligations.
3. Prepare a 30/60/90-day conditional plan to get through the crisis and emerge even stronger.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the guidelines and recommendations provided by the Business Advisory Board Panel.
2. Review the current treatment protocols for improving clinical outcomes in each topic area.
3. Understand recent advancements in materials and equipment that contribute to excellent clinical outcomes.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the guidelines and recommendations provided by the Business Advisory Board Panel.
2. Review the current treatment protocols for improving clinical outcomes in each topic area.
3. Understand recent advancements in materials and equipment that contribute to excellent clinical outcomes.