Course Objectives
CANCELLED---ADAA Roundtables
  • Learn about new products and techniques
  • Use products in a small-group setting
  • Interact with your colleagues

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    Basic Oral Hygiene Instructions that Work
  • Define a healthy mouth and learn how to determine if your mouth is healthy.
  • Learn how to identify plaque in photographs of the mouth and as well as in your own mouth.
  • Learn how you can reveal where your patients have plaque around braces.
  • Learn how plaque collects around braces and causes decalcification, decay, and gum disease.


    • Behind the Mask: Is it safe?
    On surfaces: What lives? Let’s hold hands… and share!
  • Touch, feel, use, and compare infection control products
  • Share ideas on respiratory protection and face protection, surface disinfection, and hand hygiene.
  • Dispel infection control misconceptions and misunderstandings
    • Collecting Your Due - Demystifying the Collections System
  • Learn communication techniques for positive results in reducing the accounts receivable.
  • Learn how to make effective financial arrangements.
  • Learn how to better manage insurance.

    • DANB Forum
  • Understand more about the DANB certification process
  • Learn what certification options are available for dental assistants
  • Learn why certification is important for dental assistants

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    Esthetic Dentistry: Whitening Techniques and Esthetic Maintenance
  • Review trends influencing esthetic dentistry.
  • Discuss types of bleaching products in today's market.
  • Recognize restorative materials that are currently available.
  • List current types of esthetic restorative materials with applications for use.
  • Demonstrate color selection techniques.
  • List the advantages and disadvantages of custom tray fabrication.
  • Explain the importance of patient education as it pertains to esthetic dentistry.
  • Discuss polishing techniques with the effects on esthetic materials.

    • Glass Ceiling or The Highest Star
  • Learn the 10 characteristics of the ideal dental assistant (the one all dentists dream of having on their team). At the end of this session, attendees will grade themselves and leave with a report card.
  • Learn what areas of your behavior or skills are already ideal or how they can improve.
  • Learn how to reach for the "top star" and be proud to be a dental assistant.

    • Green and Growing: Meeting the Oral Care Needs of the Health Conscious Consumers
  • A current overview of "green" trends in the news that is relevant to dentistry
  • A comprehensive understanding of the Health Conscious Consumer
  • Communication tools that encourage relationship building thru evidenced-based recommendation
  • A review of compliance concerns within the framework of lifestyle needs
  • Ways to help their patients discern fact from fiction with escalating internet information

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    Hands On Implants: A Guide to Auxiliaries
  • Identify challenges and realistic implementation of strategies to create an ideal patient experience.
  • Understand clean vs. sterile environment and techniques for set up.
  • Identify surgical and prosthetic components and appropriate usage.
  • Review different impression techniques and materials applicable to implant therapy.
  • Explore cement options suitable for implants.
  • Review implant specific hygiene tools and their adaptation.

    • Intraoral Radiography: Basic Principles and Digital Application
  • Describe the production of dental radiation.
  • Discuss ways to minimize radiation exposure for patients and the operator.
  • Identify exposure factors that affect the quality of the radiograph.
  • Describe the various types of examinations and define indications for each.
  • Correctly utilize paralleling technique instruments to obtain diagnostic quality images.
  • Identify common exposure errors and methods to avoid such errors.
  • Demonstrate proper infection control procedures during radiograph exposure and processing.
  • Recognize the advantages and disadvantages of digital radiography.
  • Apply the basic principles of the film paralleling technique to digital paralleling technique.
    • Keeping the Flame Alive
  • Learn how to sharpen the tools and talents you already possess
  • Examine the benefits of recognizing different leadership styles.
  • Empower yourself to walk "the road less traveled" with creative thinking
    • Preheating the Patient for your Dentist, Using High-Tech Equipment from Beginning to End
  • Learn how to maximize production and efficiency using the latest equipment that technology has to offer.
  • Learn how to make the sale without "selling" to your patients.
  • Allow the dynamics of dentistry to do the work for you by using Isolite, Diagnodent, and the intraoral camera.
  • Become comfortable with the knowledge and confidence to enhance patient care.
    • Preparing for a Chair Side CAD/CAM Appointment
  • To learn about supplies needed to complete CAD/CAM restorations
  • To observe designing and finishing processes that the assistant can complete
  • To develop knowledge of the CAD/CAM method and the benefits to patients

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    Producing and Using Photographs Effectively in the Dental Practice - Part 1 & 2
  • Student will be able to produce the nine views in the documentation series for dentistry and orthodontics including:
  • Extraoral Serious View
  • Extraoral Smiling View Criteria
  • Extraoral Profile View
  • Close-up View of the Smile
  • Intraoral Frontal View
  • Intraoral Left Lateral View
  • Intraoral Right Lateral View
  • Maxillary Occlusal View
  • Mandibular Occlusal View

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    Solving the People Puzzle
  • Discover strategies to create workplace harmony with decreased stress
  • Learn enhanced effectiveness skills to accomplish tasks by improving their relationships with others
  • Explore techniques to increase the quality of patient service resulting in decreased patient dissatisfaction
  • Applying these solutions will have teams experiencing improved morale and motivation leading to increased practice productivity and profitability

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    Temporization Made Easy
  • The reasons for growth in implant and neuromuscular dentistry
  • The vital role of the assistant in treating these patients
  • Strategies for professional enrichment and advancement



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    The Role of the Front Office, Implant Coordinator
  • Learn how to help your office attracting new patients
  • Marketing
  • Office brochures
  • Customized informational packets
  • Pre-treatment planning
  • Fee presentation
  • Expanded payment options
  • Learn the importance of documentation, record keeping and consent forms.
  • Learn new ways of appointment scheduling, inventory control, and communicating with the lab as well as within the office
    • The Assistants Role in Specialized Dentistry
  • Why insurance companies are paying attention to implant services
  • Coding for implant-specific procedures
  • Tips to help obtain reimbursement for your practice and your patients

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    The Communication Express… Getting Your Message Across Successfully
  • Learn how to speak and be heard, resulting in getting your message across successfully.
  • Learn by role playing in several day to day in-office scenarios.
  • Discover the secrets of gaining cooperation, dealing with difficult patients, and confronting others.
  • Master the techniques to enhance your effectiveness to maintain a successful communication style within your office.

    • The Joys and Challenges of Clinical and Business Assisting
  • Learn dozens of ideas you can take back to your practice and use immediately
  • Learn how to create an office environment that has great camaraderie and an atmosphere of teamwork
  • Learn how to be more efficient in your work, increase productivity, and create a caring environment for your patients
    • Special Consideration for the Dental Professional in Managing Patients with Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
  • To understand the adverse effects of chronic infection and inflammation on overall health
  • To appreciate the importance of optimal dental health in people with diabetes and cardiovascular disease
  • To consider new approaches to improve on oral health
  • To facilitate communications between patients and health care providers regarding oral-systemic connections

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    Train the Trainer Course for OSHA Safety Managers
  • Identify which state and federal agencies have authority over occupational safety standards in their work setting.
  • Identify the safety occupational standards that apply to dentistry and their work setting.
  • Organize a system for compliance with safety standards and requirements.

    • Troubleshooting Tips for Adhesive Dentistry
  • Review the different generations of bonding agents and their applications
  • Learn how to properly utilize new composite shades and the layering technique.
  • Examine troubleshooting tips to make bonding easy and effective.

    • Troubleshooting Tips for Adhesive Dentistry
  • Experiment with the composite layering technique.
  • Practice effective methods for shade selection.
  • Work with the different generations of bonding resins for proper handling and placement.

    • Unravel the Mystery of Implant Insurance
  • Discover why insurance companies are paying attention to implant services.
  • Learn coding for implant-specific procedures.
  • Learn tips to help obtain reimbursement for your practice and your patients.

    • Women's Wellness- An Oral Health Perspective
  • Discuss the historical medical approach to women's health
  • Understand current facts and statistics regarding the status of female health in the US
  • Recognize the impact of gender based biology as it reveals biologic, disease presentation, and treatment response differences between men and women
  • Identify the most prevalent diseases and how they affect woman differently and uniquely
  • Determine key health issues from puberty through menopause
  • Recognize changes in the oral health status of women as it relates to systemic conditions
  • Employ oral health treatment strategies for women throughout the lifespan
  • Promote and model health-promoting activities for female patients
  • Identify and access various resources to obtain up to date information for promoting women's health and oral health.
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