MDIB Boston Social Summit 2023
Join us in 2023!
Our team is excited to announce our fifth Annual Social Summit, which will be hosted in Boston!
Event Details
October 13TH & 14TH, 2023
Friday, Oct. 13th, 2023
8:00AM-5:00pM
Saturday, oct. 14TH, 2023
8:00AM-12:00pM
Earn 8 CE Credits!
Location:
The Westin Copley Place Boston
10 Huntington Ave.
Boston,MA 02116
*Tickets are non-refundable*
You are able to transfer your ticket up until June 30, 2023. After this date, we will not accept additional transfers. Please email events@mommydibs.com with any questions.
Hotel Information:
Welcome MDIB to theBoston Social Summit! We are excited for our 5th Live Annual Summit!
Make sure to book early and take advantage of the MDIB special rates we have negotiated for you. These discounted rates will also apply to room nights outside the meeting block!
Purchase your Vegas Social Summit T-Shirt!
Order your official Vegas Social Summit t-shirt today, we will not be selling them at the event so make sure to order today!
Deadline for t-shirt orders is August 1st!
Purchase Ticket for Thursday Night Happy Hour!
Join us for Happy Hour on Thursday, October 13th from 5:00-7:00pm!
Register here for morning Yoga!
Join us Friday, October 14th at 6:00am for Morning Yoga with Dr. Josie Dovidio!
We are limited to 40 tickets for this event. You will receive a Yoga mat which is included in your registration.
Register for our Saturday Breakout Sessions!
Dr. Sandy Shih & Dr. Janice Liao
The Bioclear Method for Black Triangles
As strong and empowered Mommy DIBS, we all strive to be better leaders and business professionals by using new and innovative tools, but we find ourselves stuck using the same techniques like implants and computer assisted ceramics. Direct composites can offer a compelling minimally invasive alternative that will meet patients’ needs and exceed their expectations. The Bioclear Method allows you to create predictable repeatable outcomes that look natural when using composite. Esthetic treatments including diastema closure, black triangle closure, Class II, III and IV composite restorations are just the start of what can be done with the increasingly popular Bioclear Method. In this break out session, you will be introduced to the benefits of Bioclear, practice techniques on soft tissue dentiforms, and come away with the basic skills and understanding needed as a precursor to performing the Bioclear Method for patients. You’ll perform a Black Triangle restoration and learn about Class II restorations using the Bioclear Method.
This is a hands-on course!
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Sponsored by:
Dr. Marvin Berlin
Making Dental Photography Simple
Marvin Berlin, DDS, FAGD, will present a thorough understanding of all aspects and benefits of dental photography and how to best incorporate capturing photos of all your patients. He will also provide hands-on training in conjunction with Lester Dine so you walk away with the knowledge to immediately implement this with your patients.
This is a hands-on course!
Sponsored by:
Dr. Len Tau
Good Reviews / Bad Reviews: How To Get More Good Reviews and Handle The Bad Ones!
Word of mouth has always been the foundation for the acquisition of new patients by a dental practice but in our internet age, word of mouth is transformed because of reviews sites like Google, Yelp, and Facebook. Online reviews are now one of the biggest ranking factors in a local search and you need to acquire them In this seminar, Dr. Tau shares numerous tips and best practices to not only become credible by generating more new one but how to handle it when a patients leaves you that dreaded one star review. A perfect dental practice isn't one with perfect reviews, it is one that deals with reviews and feedback perfectly. He will also discuss the system that has been tried and tested in his own office enabling him to take his practice to the next level simply by marketing his reputation.
This course is FREE at request of Birdeye!
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Purchase your Boston Social Summit T-Shirt!
Order your official Boston Social Summit t-shirt today, they will be shipped directly to you.
Purchase Ticket for Thursday Night Happy Hour!
Join us for Happy Hour on Thursday, October 12th from 5:00-7:00pm!
Purchase Ticket for the Duck Boat Tour!
Join us for Duck Tours on Thursday, October 12th from 2:30-3:45pm!
Register for our Saturday Breakout Sessions!
Dr. Grace Yum
Intro to CEO Roundtable
We are brining one of our most popular events to the Social Summit!
This course is an introduction to what it means to be a CEO and how to run your practice like a CEO.
We will be discussing the various topics that practice owners find challenging from leadership to management and financial numbers. Our CEO Roundtables have been running since 2018 and each year we cover various themes that help give perspective on how to be an effective practice owner.
Get a preview of our CEO Roundtable filled with leadership and practice management topics.
Dr. Lauren Yasuda Rainey
The Bioclear Method for Black Triangles
As strong and empowered Mommy DIBS, we all strive to be better leaders and business professionals by using new and innovative tools, but we find ourselves stuck using the same techniques like implants and computer assisted ceramics. Direct composites can offer a compelling minimally invasive alternative that will meet patients’ needs and exceed their expectations. The Bioclear Method allows you to create predictable repeatable outcomes that look natural when using composite. Esthetic treatments including diastema closure, black triangle closure, Class II, III and IV composite restorations are just the start of what can be done with the increasingly popular Bioclear Method. In this break out session, you will be introduced to the benefits of Bioclear, practice techniques on soft tissue dentiforms, and come away with the basic skills and understanding needed as a precursor to performing the Bioclear Method for patients. You’ll perform a Black Triangle restoration and learn about Class II restorations using the Bioclear Method.
This is a hands-on course!
Sponsored by:
Event Speakers:
Earn 8 CE credits!
Course Title:
Risky Business: Avoid Costly FLSA Pitfalls
Course Description:
Practices juggle multiple priorities, one of which includes adherence to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). From worker misclassification to overtime traps to off-the-clock work, the FLSA presents significant risk to dental practice owners. This seminar will teach you to identify common FLSA payment errors and reduce risk by implementing best practices for your business.
Course Objectives:
- Become familiar with the FLSA and how it applies to your business
- Identify and avoid common overtime traps
- Properly classify employees (exempt versus non-exempt)
- Identify mismatches within your business (independent contractor versus employee)
- Discuss wage and hour claims and how to avoid them
- Unpack time off benefits to comply with wage and hour laws
- List action steps to initiate inclusive and diversity efforts in your practice.
Sponsored By:
About The Speaker
Grace Godlasky
Grace has been with CEDR Solutions for eight years. She is currently CEDR’s Solution Center Manager. Prior to managing the Solution Center, she served as both a Solution Center Advisor and as a Compliance Officer with CEDR. Her favorite area of HR is paid leave laws.
Grace graduated cum laude from Georgia State University’s School of Law. Prior to attending law school, Grace received her paralegal certificate from Emory University and worked as a paralegal for a large law firm in Atlanta, GA. She recently received her Diversity & Inclusion certificate from Stanford Business School. She currently lives in the Philadelphia area with her husband and three children.
Course Title:
Oral cancer – a focus on prevention
Course Description:
Preventing squamous cell carcinoma should be a goal of all oral health care professionals. This course will provide general dentists with information regarding the oral potentially malignant disease and oral cancer. Topics discussed in depth will include leukoplakia.
Course Objectives:
- Discuss potentially malignant disorders of the oral cavity, specifically leukoplakia
- Determine an appropriate treatment plan for patients with leukoplakia
- Discuss other ways in which oral potentially malignant disorders present
Dr. Ashley Clark
Dr. Ashley Clark is a board-certified oral pathologist currently serving as the Vice President of CAMP Laboratory in Indianapolis, Indiana after a nearly decade-long career serving as an oral pathologist in academia. She is on the Professional Board for Oral Cancer Cause and Digital Dental Notes and the Advisory Board for General Dentistry. Dr. Clark has won several teaching awards, has provided over 100 continuing education courses, and has authored more than 40 publications and book chapters. She is a member of both the American and International College of Dentists. For a free biopsy kit, please email aclark@camplaboratory.com.
Course Title:
Lie to me
Course Description:
We have created a life building up other people: our patients towards smiling more, our team members into growing more and our families into being loved more. Yet, when it comes to building up who we are or taking credit for how far we’ve come we have chosen to tear ourselves apart. We lie to ourselves, calling ourselves fat, weak, ugly, inferior, less-than… and the list goes on. We’ve convinced ourselves that we work too much, or too little, parent too much or not enough, are too frugal or spend money without limit.
Changing how we view ourselves may seem as simple as changing our mindset and our viewpoint; yet, if it were in fact that simple, we’d all be leading into a healthier relationship with ourselves. With scientific studies to back, and a lot of world experience, this hour will ignite within us a journey towards a less tainted self-actualization. This course will lead us:
Course Objectives:
- To understand how we’ve created a circle of lying to ourselves as a way of negotiating self- growth
- To understand how we can disassemble those lies and lean towards truth
- To understand how we can choose what to believe and how it can lead us towards a lighter, more joyful life.
Dr. Maggie Augustyn
Dr. Maggie W. Augustyn is a practicing general dentist and author. She has the distinguished honor of being voted “America’s Best Dentist” and “America’s Top Dentists” based on superior training, experience, continuing education and commitment to excellence. She completed her formal dental education earning a doctorate of Dental Surgery from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Prior to that, she was awarded two Bachelor’s degrees (UIC and Benedictine University). Immediately post graduation she completed the course sequence at the renowned Dawson Academy’s continuum in oral equilibration and cosmetic dentistry. She’s completed hundreds of hours of continuing education in areas spanning orthodontics, implantology, periodontics, prosthodontics well as cosmetic dentistry, and continue to do so every year. Benedictine University award her the Rising Star Award (2015) presented to an alumnus who has made considerable strides in their career and has demonstrated dedication to philanthropic endeavors. Dr. Augustyn has a strong social media presence in dental circles, and has an average of 20 publication per year in journals such as Dentistry Today and Dental Economics. She is a frequent contributor to Dental Entrepreneur Woman, as well. She has also been featured on various podcasts bringing attention to wellness, the importance of authenticity and burnout in dentistry. She’s a mentor to young dentists and a motivational speaker around the country.
Course Title:
Modern Maternity Leave
Course Description:
Learn how proactive leave management and up-to-date leave policies both protect and promote your business.
Course Objectives:
Maternity leave policy basics
Common return to work issues, including extensions and pumping requests
How to use parental and maternity leave as a recruitment and retention tool
Grace Godlasky
Grace has been with CEDR Solutions for eight years. She is currently CEDR’s Solution Center Manager. Prior to managing the Solution Center, she served as both a Solution Center Advisor and as a Compliance Officer with CEDR. Her favorite area of HR is paid leave laws.
Grace graduated cum laude from Georgia State University’s School of Law. Prior to attending law school, Grace received her paralegal certificate from Emory University and worked as a paralegal for a large law firm in Atlanta, GA. She recently received her Diversity & Inclusion certificate from Stanford Business School. She currently lives in the Philadelphia area with her husband and three children.
Course Title:
Patient Bullying in the Dental Setting
Course Objectives:
- Learn how to de-escalate a situation and provide tools for your team to de-escalate a situation
- Learn how to handle negative reviews
- Learning when to call your malpractice insurance and getting the malpractice attorney involved
- How to handle a threat of a lawsuit
Aimee Lipkis
Aimee Lipkis is an equity partner at Cray Huber Horstman Heil & VanAusdal LLC focusing her trial practice almost exclusively on defending medical professionals. She has extensive experience in complex medical and professional negligence cases having defended a vast array of medical professionals at depositions, mediations, and jury trials. Coming from a family of physicians, she understands how the reputation of the medical professional can be impacted by claims of malpractice and she has helped defend the reputations of hundreds of physicians and healthcare providers including, but not limited to, internists, neonatologists, anesthesiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, infectious disease specialists, dentists, podiatrists, and nurses. Aimee’s practice also includes advising medical providers in professional liability avoidance techniques. Her detailed record reviews, knowledge of the medicine, discovery and trial skills, legal strategy and fierce personality have resulted in successful resolutions of attacks against her clients
Course Title:
Leveling up with Laser Dentistry
Course Description:
Join Dr. Katie To as she shows how to get amazing results with everyday dental procedures with Laser Dentistry. Laser Dentistry has been a game changer in her fee for service practice. Not only will you distinguish yourself in this competitive market, but you will also find laser dentistry is a way to attract more patients, increase profit, and practice with more satisfaction. After successfully implementing laser dentistry in her own practice, she is now teaching laser dentistry to other dentists and teams.
Course Objectives
What is Laser Dentistry and what you need to know about the laser unit.
How it works in everyday practice.
How Dentists can implement it and grow their practice to the next level.
Dr. Katie To
Dr. Katie is a biological and cosmetic dentist and the owner of The Center for Integrated Wellness and Cosmetic Dentistry in Katy, Texas. As the only SMART certified dentist in Katy, safe patient care is a top priority. Her industry knowledge includes dental ozone therapy, biological dental surgery, cosmetic dentistry techniques and clinical nutrition. Within each area of expertise, biocompatible and nontoxic approaches are selected.
While the practice specializes in biological dentistry, Dr. Katie’s team places equal importance on proper nutrition, posture, sleep, mindset, and emotional wellness. She personalizes all dental materials, techniques, and procedures to maximize optimal wellness for each patient. This attention to detail extends to her work in cosmetic dentistry. As a Digital Smile Design (DSD) clinic, Dr. Katie uses cutting-edge technology to transform smiles and build confidence.
After graduating summa cum laude from the University of Texas at Arlington with a Bachelor of Science in biology, Dr. Katie pursued dentistry. She studied at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) with distinction in research and multiple awards in cosmetic dentistry upon graduation. Following this season of life, she married her husband, Dr. Bar Nguyen, and they traveled the world together. Since the birth of her son, Bailey, Dr. Katie actively seeks balance between her career and personal life as she embraces motherhood and a fulfilling career. She encourages others to seek harmony within their own lives by challenging her team to set and reach personal wellness goals each year. Dr. Katie’s most recent ambition includes training toward certification as a yoga instructor.
Course Title:
Coming Soon!
Course Description:
The typical dentist earns more than three times the average American. So if that’s the case, why are dentists retiring, on average, 7 years later than the average American? As dedicated professionals working with dentists for nearly 15 years, our team at Dentist Advisors has found that there are five distinct reasons dentists have a harder time retiring at an earlier age. In this course, we’ll explore these pitfalls and discuss practical tips to avoid them, so you can take your next steps toward financial confidence.
Course Objectives:
- Gain awareness of common hurdles dentists face when preparing for retirement
- Learn practical ways to avoid and proactively counter these hurdles
- Discover how to calculate and track your net worth, and why doing so regularly matters
- Understand how your annual spending impacts your ability to make work optional
- Feel empowered to take your next steps toward financial confidence
Amanda Bateman
Amanda has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Liberty University and is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional with a deep understanding of investment strategies and the holistic nature of effective planning. Her financial career began in 2008 and was honed by her experience as an advisor for high net worth clients at Vanguard. At Dentist Advisors, Amanda gives her top-tier institutional experience a personal touch as she helps dentists implement investment plans and overall wealth-building strategies.
Course Title:
Discovering how to get out of PPOs forever while increasing the fulfillment, practice profitability and take more time off with your family
Course Description: Coming Soon!
DO YOU KNOW THE VALUE OF EACH PATIENT TYPE IN YOUR PRACTICE? The difference in value from your cash patients, to membership club patients and your insurance patients? Often times you could be hemorrhaging cashflow and don’t even know it because they’re not the same value, not even close. How’ s your “INTERNAL BRAND” that guides you TO DO WHAT YOU DO, not what you say you do? I’m not talking about a logo or marketing tagline, rather an internal brand that drives you and your team to increase your referrals because your patients have something to talk about. Just like Four Season Hotels. When you visit a Four Seasons, they give you something to talk about and you are willing to spend much more per stay because of the experience you had during the stay. During this session, John will provide an objective framework to dramatically increase your patient value, bring brand loyalty, how to increase profitability and focus / attract the ideal patients to bring more fulfillment in your practice (and take off more time too).
Course Objectives: Coming Soon!
Identify the core reasons what makes you come alive each day and how to
increase those ideal days which will bring more fulfillment in your practice.
Discover how to transition your practice from a busy, chaotic practice to a busy, fulfilling practice that brings you joy each day —- while making more revenue as well!. It’s not as hard as you think. Understand how to bring your entire team on the journey with you instead of you trying to “pull the ship with a rope.”
John Riley
John Riley has been a part of Dental Revolution since 2002. Since then he has used his expertise to help top clinical dentists take their practices to a whole new level and help them achieve dream-realizing results. For dentists that have partnered with Dental Revolution, the relationships they have had with John have often spanned decades revealing his passion for dentistry, growth, and friendship.
John lives in Eugene, Oregon with his beautiful family who love to participate in their local community with various charities like “Wake the World” a Christian boating ministry that gives foster children the opportunity to boat, surf, and swim with a group of wakeboard boat enthusiasts during the summer months inspiring many in the dental community to get involved along the way.
Course Title:
Smarter Collaboration: Boosting Performance, Innovation, and Patient Care
Course Description:
In this highly interactive course, Harvard professor and best-selling author Dr. Heidi K. Gardner will engage participants in the fundamentals of smarter collaboration—showing how enhanced partnering within and between dentist offices can fuel greater profit margins, break-through treatments for patients, and a sense of fulfillment in one’s work.
She’ll draw from her new book, Smarter Collaboration: A New Approach to Breaking Down Barriers and Transforming Work, using case studies and new research to demonstrate how smarter collaboration helps achieve the outcomes that matter most to mom dentists in business. She’ll then pivot to how these women can carry out smarter
collaboration in their daily lives, from retaining patients and employees, to keeping up on the latest techniques and technologies, to balancing a successful practice with the demands on home life. Dr. Gardner will share these how-to’s through the lens of the top collaboration barriers that have emerged in her research. We expect that participants
will walk away with fresh and concrete ideas about how to move forward with smarter collaboration to unlock all of its important benefits.
Course Objectives:
- List action steps to initiate inclusive and diversity efforts in your practice.
- Understand the business and talent benefits of smarter collaboration, so they are motivated to practice and encourage it within their practice—and with other practices and third-party organizations
- Learn practical tips for collaborating smarter with patients, staff, other dental business owners, academics, and contacts within industry associations, in light of the collaboration barriers they are facing (perceived and real)
- Commit to several steps they will take in the coming week and beyond to kickstart smarter collaboration and improve the quality of their work life, their home life, and patient wellbeing and satisfaction
About The Speaker
Dr. Heidi K. Gardner
Dr. Heidi K. Gardner is a sought-after advisor, keynote speaker, and facilitator for organizations across a wide range of industries globally. Named by Thinkers50 as a Next Generation Business Guru, she is a Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School and former professor at Harvard Business School. She is currently the faculty chair and instructor in multiple executive education programs at both institutions. Dr. Gardner works extensively with her team at Gardner & Co., partnering with boards, executive teams, and other senior leaders to boost performance by embedding the principles and practices of smarter, agile, cross-silo collaboration within those groups and across the broader organization and ecosystem—resulting in concrete, quantifiable performance improvements.
Altogether, Dr. Gardner has authored (or co-authored) more than 100 books, chapters, case studies, and articles. This includes Washington Post best-selling book Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos and newly published Smarter Collaboration: A New Approach to Breaking Down Barriers and Transforming Work. Her research received the Academy of Management’s prize for Outstanding Practical Implications for Management and has been selected multiple times for Harvard Business Review’s “best of” collections. It has also been featured in major media outlets around the globe.
Dr. Gardner has lived and worked on four continents, including as a Fulbright Fellow, and for McKinsey & Co. and Procter & Gamble. She earned her BA in Japanese Studies from the University of Pennsylvania (Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude), a master’s degree from the London School of Economics, and a second master’s and Ph.D. from London Business School.
Course Title:
Non-surgical Options for Periodontal Management
Course Description:
Periodontal disease affects upwards of 80% of the population, but many patients are still hesitant to consider surgical intervention, despite the well-established oral and systemic health risks. The combination of dental anxiety, treatment time, cost, and fear of invasive procedures creates a challenge for both patients and clinicians. This course will provide alternative non-surgical treatment options that can help manage cases to minimize the progression of periodontal disease in hopes of managing their overall health.
Course Objectives:
- Discuss the primary factors patients consider when deciding on moving forward with treatment
- Expose sources of lost practice revenue and how to prevent it
- Assess which non-surgical treatment options are ideal alternatives for hesitant periodontal patients
Sponsored By:
- List action steps to initiate inclusive and diversity efforts in your practice.
About The Speaker
Dr. Sam Shamardi
Dr. Sam Shamardi earned his DMD at Tufts University and his Periodontal certificate at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and Implant Surgery and practices full-time while teaching part-time at the Harvard Division of Periodontics.
Dr. Shamardi lectures nationally and internationally on topics within periodontics and hearing loss in dentistry and has published multiple articles. He is a member of the prestigious Catapult Education Speakers Bureau and is recognized as a dental entrepreneur for his revolutionary EarAid product. He is also the author of The Financial Survival Guide for Dentists, a book geared towards helping early-career dental professionals establish a foundation in the business aspect of their careers. In his spare time enjoys traveling and spending time with his dog Luna, and is an avid supporter of his favorite team Real Madrid.
Course Title:
Dental Malpractice
Course Objectives:
- Attendees will learn the legal elements of a dental malpractice suit and will understand what constitutes malpractice.
- Attendees will learn best practices to avoid lawsuits including sample informed consent and informed refusal documentation forms.
- Attendees will learn how emailing and texting with patients can impact patient outcomes and malpractice suits.
- List action steps to initiate inclusive and diversity efforts in your practice.
About The Speaker
Aimee Lipkis
Aimee Lipkis is an equity partner at Cray Huber Horstman Heil & VanAusdal LLC in Chicago focusing her trial practice almost exclusively on defending medical professionals. She went to Indiana University for her undergraduate degree and obtained her law degree from Michigan State College of Law. She was made a partner at her law firm at the age of 32 and became an owner of her firm only three years later. She has extensive experience in complex medical malpractice cases having defended a vast array of medical professionals at depositions, mediations and jury trials. Coming from a family of physicians, she understands how the reputation of the medical professional can be impacted by claims of malpractice and she has helped defend the reputations of hundreds of physicians and healthcare providers including, but not limited to, dentists, oral surgeons, internists, neonatologists, anesthesiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, infectious disease specialists, podiatrists, nurses, social workers and athletic trainers. Aimee’s practice also includes advising medical providers in professional liability avoidance techniques. Her detailed record reviews, knowledge of the medicine, trial skills, legal strategy and fierce personality have resulted in successful resolutions of attacks against her clients.
Course Title:
The Truth About Occlusion and Rethinking "Normal"
Course Description:
What is the molar classification on the right? How about the left? What does this mean for your patient’s oral health? Malocclusion or misalignment can lead to oral maladies that increase the risk of tooth loss and periodontal disease. Malocclusion may also be a marker for airway issues, TMJ disorders, and migraines, significantly impacting the patient’s overall health. Receding gums, tooth wear, and crowding have a cascading effect on tooth health and the patient’s periodontal condition and aren’t something we should dismiss as “normal.” Identifying and treating these conditions can help us identify ways to prevent long-term damage to tooth and bone structure and create positive health outcomes– saving them from painful procedures or high costs down the line.
Course Objectives:
- Evaluate the implications of recession and enamel loss on patients and how identifying and treating these conditions can improve patients' oral health status.
- Appreciate how occlusion is related to dental and overall health.
- Discuss how to educate, treatment plan, and support patients with malocclusion or misalignment.
- List action steps to initiate inclusive and diversity efforts in your practice.
Sponsored By:
About The Speaker
Dr. Kelly Tanner, RDH
Dr. Tanner is a renowned leader at the forefront of reshaping dental care, helping teams and individuals achieve professional fulfillment. With a Ph.D. in Business and Leadership, Dr. Tanner uses her skills to train teams in a group practice setting. Kelly’s Ph.D. focused on organizational metacognition, an in-depth study of group dynamics, and how to elicit permanent personal and organizational change management.
Sponsored By:
Course Title:
Using Tech to Seamlessly Make Your Office Extraordinary
Course Description:
50 years ago, patients were perfectly content if their dentist was pleasant, clinically competent, and thorough. Today, Amazon and Google have changed our patient’s expectations of us, and completely transformed our opportunities to leverage the incredible advancements in software to make our offices modern, responsive, and extraordinary. In this 1hr CE presentation, Dr. Gupta outlines the various nuisances and inefficiencies that plague a typical dental office, and how they can be easily mitigated by utilizing these software advancements.
Course Objectives:
- Learn the current mindset and expectations of today's patient
- Understand the evolution of software advancement in dentistry's 'silicon valley'
- Challenge the audience to put themselves in their patient's shoes to better understand the communication limitations in the typical dental office
- Outline the steps to truly transform your office from ordinary to extraordinary
- List action steps to initiate inclusive and diversity efforts in your practice.
Sponsored By:
About The Speaker
Dr. Ankur gupta
After completing his General Practice Residency in 2005, Dr. Ankur Gupta started a practice from scratch. Armed with what he considered adequate dental knowledge, hand skills, and a personable demeanor, he watched as his practice floundered, finances became unpredictable, and his lower back and spirit toward his profession became worrisome. Rather than continue the trend, he made a guinea pig out of his office, family, and self; attempting any and all personal and professional “experiments” in self-improvement. More than a decade later, Dr. Gupta enjoys excellent new patient numbers and case acceptance, a solution-oriented dental team, and most importantly, a meaningful and positive identity. He shares practical, implementable, step-by-step strategies with audiences of dental professionals across the country. Attendees learn how to avoid failures, achieve successes and be better.
Course Title:
Oral cancer – a focus on prevention
Course Description:
Preventing squamous cell carcinoma should be a goal of all oral health care professionals. This course will provide general dentists with information regarding the oral potentially malignant disease and oral cancer. Topics discussed in depth will include leukoplakia.
Course Objectives:
- Discuss potentially malignant disorders of the oral cavity, specifically leukoplakia
- Determine an appropriate treatment plan for patients with leukoplakia
- Discuss other ways in which oral potentially malignant disorders present
- List action steps to initiate inclusive and diversity efforts in your practice.
About The Speaker
Dr. Ashley Clark
Dr. Ashley Clark is a board-certified oral pathologist currently serving as the Vice President of CAMP
Laboratory in Indianapolis, Indiana after a nearly decade-long career serving as an oral pathologist in
academia. She is on the Professional Board for Oral Cancer Cause and Digital Dental Notes and the
Advisory Board for General Dentistry. Dr. Clark has won several teaching awards, has provided over 100
continuing education courses, and has authored more than 40 publications and book chapters. She is a
member of both the American and International College of Dentists. For a free biopsy kit, please email
aclark@camplaboratory.com.
Course Title:
Aesthetic and functional Foundations for removable prosthetics
Course Description:
Restorative and prosthetic dentistry is in a state of crisis. With more and more
individuals in need of complete dentures therapy – social media, corporate advertising, and even the most reputable dental symposiums continue to focus a heavy emphasis on conventional fixed treatments (i.e., cosmetic crown and bridge dentistry). Much of what students have learned during their dental school education about dentures is flawed, and based on outdated, dogmatic principles. There is a new wave of clinicians/technicians that are challenging the status quo and are pushing for bold updates to the education and training of complete dentures/implant overdentures in an effort to rekindle the love affair with the original full-mouth rehabilitation. This course will go through several case studies and outline the low-cost materials and easy-to-follow techniques necessary for treating edentulous patients with efficacious, predictable, and profitable outcomes.
Course Objectives:
- Establish the parameters of complete dentures that are coincident with contemporary fixed prosthetics and how they apply to treatment planning.
- Review many of the current shortcomings that exist with all phases of removable complete dentures prosthetics.
- Develop a case-specific armamentarium for complete dentures/implant-overdentures based on aesthetic and functional demands for each patient.
- Apply new concepts and techniques to current patient base.
Sponsored By:
- List action steps to initiate inclusive and diversity efforts in your practice.
About The Speaker
Dr. Miles Cone
Dr. Miles Cone is a graduate of Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, and completed a three-year Prosthodontic residency program while serving in the United States Army before being honorably discharged as a field grade officer in the rank of Major. In addition to achieving board certification and diplomate status within his specialty, Dr. Cone has also successfully challenged all the requirements necessary to earn his designation as a Certified Dental Technician. Currently, Dr. Cone’s career in civilian life revolves around his dual role as the owner of Nuance Dental Specialists, a private practice dental clinic limited to prosthetic dentistry in the heart of Portland, ME, and his role as a Key Opinion Leader. When Dr. Cone is not at the chair, in the classroom teaching, or at the lab bench, he can be found lecturing on the international circuit, publishing extensively in peer-reviewed journals, and relaxing at home with his wife, four children, and two English Bulldogs in Maine.
- List action steps to initiate inclusive and diversity efforts in your practice.
About The Speaker
Dr. Bill Magee
William (Bill) P. Magee Jr., D.D.S., M.D., is a plastic and craniofacial surgeon who founded Operation Smile in 1982 with his wife, Kathleen S. Magee, and serves as the organization’s CEO.
Dr. Magee has trained and mentored thousands of physicians worldwide. A featured guest on many network television programs, Dr. Magee is also a sought-after keynote speaker for corporate and national meetings. In July 2013, he gave one of the keynote addresses to the National Speakers Association (NSA) in Philadelphia.
Dr. Magee received a D.D.S. from the University of Maryland, M.D. from George Washington University Medical School, served his general surgery residency at the University of Virginia Medical School, and received the Fulbright-Hays Scholarship Grant to study in Paris with Dr. Paul Tessier in 1975. He then received his plastic surgery training at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia.
Dr. Magee has been awarded honorary doctorates from some of the finest universities worldwide, including the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden in 2014. He was awarded the American Society of Plastic Surgeons’ Honorary Citation Award in 2014, the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons’ Tagliacozzi Award in 2013. Dr. Magee was highlighted in U.S. News & World Report’s issue “America’s Top Leaders” in November 2009 and was given the National Medal for Peace and Friendship Among Nations in Vietnam in 2009. In 2007, UNICEF presented the Magees with a special recognition on behalf of Operation Smile and he received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
He entered into Plastic Surgery Specialists, Inc. in Norfolk in 1978 and became president of the group, which at the time was the largest private training program in the United States. In 2016, he stepped away from the practice to invest all of his effort and energy into Operation Smile.
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