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Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
Esthetic Dentistry for Tots and Teens
Presenter: Dr. Fred Margolis, D.D.S.
Sponsor: Heraeus
Tue  5/22/12    7:00 PM ET    4:00 PM PT
Tue  5/22/12    11:00 PM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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This CE webinar will discuss the use of glass ionomers, resinomers, flowable composites and bulk composites in the restoration of children and teen’s teeth for function and esthetics. In addition various types of crowns will be shown that are available to restore more severe caries on children and adolescents. Esthetic facings for stainless steel crowns will be illustrated and the chairside steps necessary will be given.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
Stop Watching Caries and Start Managing It
Presenter: Parag Kachalia, D.D.S.
Sponsor: VOCO America
Tue  5/22/12    8:15 PM ET    5:15 PM PT
Wed  5/23/12    0:15 AM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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In this CE webinar Dr. Kachalia will provide strategies on implementing a caries management protocol in your practice. The course will look at advances in chemotherapeutic agents as well as restorative materials and techniques that allow your patient's health to be protected while being profitable for the practice.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
Optimal Treatment of the "Dreaded Black Triangle" with Direct Composite
Presenter: Dr. David Clark
Sponsor: 3M ESPE
Wed  5/23/12    5:45 PM ET    2:45 PM PT
Wed  5/23/12    9:45 PM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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“Black triangles” are a surprisingly common esthetic and functional dilemma. Many of the treatments in the past were unpredictable, overly aggressive, or damaging to the long term health of the tooth and the peridontium. Composite treatments of the past often turned brown, had marginal stain, and occasionally simply fell off. Find out why patients are flying from all over the world to Dr. Clark’s office in Tacoma WA and how he can provide a 10 year warranty without worry.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
Non-Invasive Veneer Technique to Correct Incisal Attrition & Diastemas
Presenter: Dr. Robert Ibsen, DDS, OD, FACD, FICD, FAGD
Sponsor: Smile Simplicity
Wed  5/23/12    7:00 PM ET    4:00 PM PT
Wed  5/23/12    11:00 PM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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This month, we review a patient who was referred for SmileSimplicity by a dentist who was once doubtful of the procedure—until that dentist became a SmileSimplicity patient himself. With SmileSimplicity, the patient was able to avoid hours of uncomfortable tooth reduction or (once again) undergoing months or years of orthodontic treatments.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
Digital Impressions, CAD/CAM Restoration and High Technology Products-In Your Office and In The New Dental Lab
Presenter: Paul Feuerstein, D.M.D.
Sponsor: DentalEZ®
Thu  5/24/12    5:00 PM ET    2:00 PM PT
Thu  5/24/12    9:00 PM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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Digital impressions have been around for over 27 years beginning with the CEREC system. In the past years 3 more systems have entered the marketplace with four or more coming during this year. These systems have had enhancements in both the devices and the software. Some allow the practitioner to create restorations in the office while all now allow images to be sent to dental labs. With this process, labs have an option to eliminate models but still create traditional restorations using new digital technology. There have also been a large number of NEW high tech products being introduced to the industry. Dr. Feuerstein will take a look at digital impressions and high tech products in the industry today and possibly in the future.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
Minimally Invasive Recommendations for a Maximally Productive Dental Hygiene Department
Presenter: Pamela Maragliano-Muniz, D.M.D.
Sponsor: GC America
Tue  5/29/12    7:00 PM ET    4:00 PM PT
Tue  5/29/12    11:00 PM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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This CE webinar will provide an approach for implementing CAMBRA into the private practice. This easy-to-implement approach will detail the caries risk factors and how they play a role in the disease process, who implements CAMBRA, documentation in an electronic patient record, strategies for risk management and potential profits for a private dental practice.


Live Webinar

2 CE Credits
Posterior Restorations – How to Make Your Life Easier with New Materials and Equipment
Presenter: Dr. Louis MacKenzie
Sponsor: Dentsply UK
Wed  5/30/12    2:30 PM ET    11:30 AM PT
Wed  5/30/12    6:30 PM UTC
CE Credits: 2 Interactive CEU
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All the latest restorative filling materials for posterior teeth will be discussed and demonstrated with a special focus on the circumferential matrix system Automatrix and the new sectional matrix system Palodent Plus.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
Infection Control in Dental Practice: A Practical Approach
Presenter: Eve Cuny
Sponsor: Miele
Tue  6/5/12    7:00 PM ET    4:00 PM PT
Tue  6/5/12    11:00 PM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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This fast-paced CE webinar provides an overview of best practices for infection control in dentistry with an emphasis on how to adapt guidelines and recommendations into every day practice.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
It is ALL in the Details - How to Excel your Practice Forward while Providing a Higher Level of Service
Presenter: Sarah Cottingham
Sponsor: Premier Dental
Tue  6/5/12    8:30 PM ET    5:30 PM PT
Wed  6/6/12    0:30 AM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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Expected outcomes • Understand which details you must never overlook and why • Answers to the burning question: "how do I get it all in" • Understand how product choice CAN make the difference


Live Webinar

2 CE Credits
Simplifying Dental Radiography – Latest Developments from DENTSPLY Rinn
Presenter: Barbara Lamb
Sponsor: Dentsply UK
Wed  6/6/12    2:30 PM ET    11:30 AM PT
Wed  6/6/12    6:30 PM UTC
CE Credits: 2 Interactive CEU
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Within this webinar radiographic techniques will be demonstrated with a special focus on newly developed equipment. Barbara welcomes all questions you might have regarding detailed techniques.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
The Proper Pre-Bleaching Examination for Optimal Patient Satisfaction
Presenter: Van Haywood, D.M.D.
Sponsor: Heraeus
Tue  6/19/12    7:00 PM ET    4:00 PM PT
Tue  6/19/12    11:00 PM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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Prior to initiating any form of tooth bleaching or whitening, a proper examination should be performed to render a proper diagnosis of the cause of discoloration. This diagnosis guides the treatment times, techniques and materials so that the patient is satisfied with their results, and has realistic expectations for what bleaching can do as well as whether other treatments are needed in addition to or instead of bleaching to achieve the smile they desire.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
The Magic of Composites - Simple Tips for Everyday Dentistry
Presenter: Paresh Shah, D.M.D.
Sponsor: VOCO America
Tue  6/19/12    8:15 PM ET    5:15 PM PT
Wed  6/20/12    0:15 AM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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This CE webinar will present simple and predictable tips to achieve consistent esthetic results utilizing current materials and technologies. Participants will learn various ways to recreate natural contour, shape and function of their direct restorations. They will also learn how to recreate natural esthetics using various multi-shade layering techniques that are simple to implement the practice.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
Performance Measurements for the Dental Team
Presenter: Sally McKenzie
Sponsor: Practice Management
Wed  6/20/12    7:00 PM ET    4:00 PM PT
Wed  6/20/12    11:00 PM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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Learn what it takes for employees to perform consistently on a high level. This CE webinar teaches doctors and managers how to implement accountability and measure the employee’s performance. Learn quickly if the employee’s actions are having a positive, negative, or no affect on the practice. Show them how to take their job description to greater heights; Scheduling, Financial, Business, Patient and Treatment Coordinators, Hygienists, Clinical Assistants and Doctors.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
MBT™ Versatile+ Appliance System Lacebacks and Tiebacks
Presenter: Dr. John McDonald
Sponsor: 3M Unitek
Fri  6/22/12    12:00 PM ET    9:00 AM PT
Fri  6/22/12    4:00 PM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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The MBT™ Versatile+ Appliance System was designed around light force mechanics that utilize simple techniques to achieve better treatment outcomes without any additional work. Finishing and arch coordination are easier because the orthodontist controls tooth position, not the wire. Dr. John McDonald uses the MBT system to deliver board quality results in a busy clinical practice. In this webinar, Dr. McDonald describes these simple tools as well as the rationale behind them. You will learn how easy it is to implement these techniques into any practice and delegate to chairside assistants while maintaining full control of the case.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
Today's Improved Glass Ionomers: A Therapeutic Alternative to Direct Composite Restorations
Presenter: Dr. Daniel Ward, D.D.S.
Sponsor: GC America
Tue  6/26/12    7:00 PM ET    4:00 PM PT
Tue  6/26/12    11:00 PM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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Glass ionomer materials are easy to place, can reduce post-operative sensitivity and enjoy a stable long-term ionic bond to dentin. Learn how this bioactive material can be a therapeutic alternative to composite resin materials.


Live Webinar

2 CE Credits
Impression Techniques
Presenter: Dr. Nicolas Martin
Sponsor: Dentsply UK
Wed  6/27/12    2:30 PM ET    11:30 AM PT
Wed  6/27/12    6:30 PM UTC
CE Credits: 2 Interactive CEU
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This webinar will discuss different types of impression material and their relative uses. Effective techniques for impression taking in fixed and removable prosthodontics will be shown. You will learn how to optimise the use of addition-cured silicone materials.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
Creating a “Miracle Match” Chameleon Effect, and Reduce Your Composite Inventory
Presenter: Dr. Tony Tomaro
Sponsor: Tokuyama Dental America
Wed  6/27/12    8:15 PM ET    5:15 PM PT
Thu  6/28/12    0:15 AM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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Dr. Tomaro will walk you through the ideal technique from prepping to finishing a restoration, and leveraging composite filler technology to create a “Miracle Match” integration with the surrounding tooth. This process will showcase minimal invasive dentistry, and instruct how you can do more with less.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
Impeccable Impressions: The Key to Successful Indirect Restorations
Presenter: Dr. Greg Gillespie
Sponsor: DENTSPLY
Thu  6/28/12    7:00 PM ET    4:00 PM PT
Thu  6/28/12    11:00 PM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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This CE webinar will focus on clinical steps to efficient, predictable impression taking that will reduce the stress of this vital step with indirect restorations.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
Incognito™ Appliance System Wires & Ties: How, When and Why
Presenter: Dr. Brandon Comella
Sponsor: 3M Unitek
Wed  7/18/12    12:00 PM ET    9:00 AM PT
Wed  7/18/12    4:00 PM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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In this CE webinar, Dr. Brandon Comella addresses frequent questions about wires and ties used in the Incognito™ Appliance System. Dr. Comella discusses the process and rationale for the wire sequence and the goals for each wire in the sequence. You can become more confident with your Incognito System cases after you hear Dr. Comella’s tips on when you should change wires and which ties work best with specific wires to achieve your treatment objectives.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
Marketing – Making The Most of Your Practice
Presenter: Sally McKenzie
Sponsor: Practice Management
Wed  7/25/12    7:00 PM ET    4:00 PM PT
Wed  7/25/12    11:00 PM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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Marketing is not an event….it is a system and must be a priority to succeed. Marketing is the cornerstone for attracting new patients and keeping existing patients intersted in your services. It is an investment in the present and future of your business and requires continuing action, a defined annual budget, careful monitoring and staff training. Learn the top 5 pillars of effective marketing, inside and out.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
Bonding For Phased Treatment
Presenter: Susan Hollar, D.D.S.
Sponsor: Heraeus
Tue  8/14/12    7:00 PM ET    4:00 PM PT
Tue  8/14/12    11:00 PM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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Have you seen patients that desperately need help, but their life circumstances prevent them from affording ideal dental care? Bonding can be the answer, to get them through life looking nice until their situation improves. The techniques used in this CE webinar allow the dentist to restore anterior teeth with composite in order to phase the comprehensive treatment plan.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
Telephone Techniques to Awe and Inspire Your Patients
Presenter: Sally McKenzie
Sponsor: Practice Management
Wed  8/15/12    7:00 PM ET    4:00 PM PT
Wed  8/15/12    11:00 PM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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Telephone scheduling requires skill, professionalism, confidence, and finesse- not necessarily qualities that anyone off the street will just walk in with. Patients cannot hear facial expression. They form a picture of the person answering and an opinion of the professionalism of the practice based exclusively on the quality of that phone conversation. Learn what goes in to having a prepared presentation and developing communication objectives as well as how to overcome patient objections


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
Predictable Temporization for Effective Prosthetic Restoration
Presenter: Dr. John Flucke, DDS
Sponsor: DENTSPLY
Thu  8/23/12    8:15 PM ET    5:15 PM PT
Fri  8/24/12    0:15 AM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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This CE webinar, presented by Dr. John Flucke, addresses key techniques and a variety of products that help streamline chairside temporization of single unit and multi-unit prosthetic restorations.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
Dentistry’s Top Practice Management Issues Affecting Growth
Presenter: Sally McKenzie
Sponsor: Practice Management
Wed  9/12/12    7:00 PM ET    4:00 PM PT
Wed  9/12/12    11:00 PM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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This CE webinar will help you identify the “top” practice issues affecting dental practice growth. Learn the most common causes and effective building techniques as a result of practices analyzed by McKenzie Management.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
Better Bonding to Non-Enamel Surfaces
Presenter: Fredrik Bergstrand, DDS
Sponsor: 3M Unitek
Fri  9/14/12    10:30 AM ET    7:30 AM PT
Fri  9/14/12    2:30 PM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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As cosmetic and restorative dentistry continues to rise, orthodontists are increasingly faced with the challenge of bonding to non-enamel surfaces. Dr. Fredrik Bergstrand has studied and practiced the clinical application of modern bonding materials to non-enamel surfaces. In this webinar he provides easy to follow tips for bonding to porcelain, gold, amalgam and composite.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
Nuts & Bolts Impressioning: Predictable Excellence in the Everyday Restorative Practice
Presenter: Dr. Michael Melkers
Sponsor: DENTSPLY
Wed  10/10/12    7:00 PM ET    4:00 PM PT
Wed  10/10/12    11:00 PM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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Coming soon.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
How Personality Types Affect Your Practice Success
Presenter: Sally McKenzie
Sponsor: Practice Management
Thu  10/11/12    7:00 PM ET    4:00 PM PT
Thu  10/11/12    11:00 PM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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Typically, the greatest cause of conflict in the dental practice is the fact that individuals fail to really understand one another. Differences in temperament types, within your office, can surface in the form of arguments, pouting, ignoring, gossip, manipulation, etc. Temperament types that are not suited for specific skills can result in systems breaking down. There are some very practical reasons why you're not firing Betty. Even though you know you've lost business because of her. Learn what personality characteristics are needed for specific positions in dentistry.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
Increasing Case Acceptance from Whitening to the Esthetic Dental Procedures
Presenter: Ms. Shannon Pace
Sponsor: Heraeus
Tue  10/16/12    7:00 PM ET    4:00 PM PT
Tue  10/16/12    11:00 PM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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As clinical procedures in aesthetic dentistry continue to expand and improve, the dental assistant’s role continues to evolve as well. As we connect with the patient and understand their desires, it allows them to become more open and honest with their expectations. Increasing case acceptance is easy when we know what to ask and say. This CE webinar takes the dental assistant through proper records gathering, treatment planning and case acceptance and how to include whitening and esthetic dental treatment.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
Dental Trilogy - The Art of Oral Health
Presenter: Gwen Smukowski, RDH, BS, MBA
Sponsor: Heraeus
Tue  11/6/12    7:00 PM ET    4:00 PM PT
Wed  11/7/12    0:00 AM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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A trilogy is defined as a set of three works of art that are connected. Connecting the periodontal, dental and epithelial aspects creates the art form of oral health. Today’s health oriented world is keenly aware of the intimate connection between oral health and overall health. As a dental community, it falls upon us to provide current guidelines and tactics to aid our patients in attaining and maintaining oral health.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
Hygiene Department - Tracking for Success
Presenter: Sally McKenzie
Sponsor: Practice Management
Wed  11/14/12    7:00 PM ET    4:00 PM PT
Thu  11/15/12    0:00 AM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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Improving hygiene is a multi-step process and the first place is to start tracking what is happening right now. This CE webinar will teach you how to determine if your hygiene department is helping or hindering the practice profitability. You’ll learn how to measure hygiene business systems, understanding how your hygiene numbers stack up and provide clear information to determine if you’re meeting patient demand and practice needs. Learn: the causes, the issues and effective solutions.


Live Webinar

1 CE Credit
New Patients “Rule” the Practice
Presenter: Sally McKenzie
Sponsor: Practice Management
Wed  12/12/12    7:00 PM ET    4:00 PM PT
Thu  12/13/12    0:00 AM UTC
CE Credits: 1 Interactive CEU
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Making the new patient experience positive boils down to a few key rules. Patients want to believe they are not just another appointment This CE webinar will teach you how to manage the new patient’s expectations through excellent phone communications. Learn to understand why new patients either don’t show or fail subsequent appointments. Develop a system to convert emergencies and turn them into new patients. Determine how many new patients you need for practice growth and where you’re going to get them.



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