DentalEDU.TV Course Catalogue

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Beyond Your Bottom Line will allow the dentist and team members to: evaluate expenses in the practice and compare to range norms, set realistic production goals for the next year, set up practice indicators to monitor monthly trends, utilize team input to solve problems in the business.

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Is there enough profit at the end of the month? If not, learn how to take the principles from Beyond Your Bottom Line and create a plan to address business weaknesses. You will learn how to evaluate your expenses, which practice indicators to evaluate monthly, set realistic goals and meet as a team to unite in your approach to the monthly trends.

Credits: 3.5

Price: 140.00

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To learn how to successfully market your practice

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Making Tracks! Keys to maximizing the return on your Marketing Strategy Investment. Daniel demonstrates, through case studies and “class participation,” the essential ingredients to structuring and maintaining a complete, accurate, timely, and reliable marketing strategy tracking system. Key concepts presented include: The Tangible Benefits Of The Team Being , Call Handling Gurus, Putting Technology To Work: Reliably Monitoring Results, and ROI, SOPs to ensure Team Buy-In and more. Of Caterpillars and Butterflies Success With Web-Based Marketing After gauging the experience level of the audience, Mr. Bobrow presents the three keys required for a successful practice website: Attracting the visitor, Generating a Qualified Patient Lead (QPL), Converting the QPL into a Patient.

Credits: 4.5

Price: 150.00

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This course explores the underlying types of dental fear and the impact on a patient’s personality. Skills to identify these fears and alternatives to treat the patient’s fears will be discussed. Offices are encouraged to attend as a group. Principles learned will benefit dentists, clinical assistants, hygienists and business staff.

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Research indicates that an overwhelming percentage of patients find dental care to be an anxiety-producing experience. At the same time, dentists and dental teams are frustrated when techniques that comfort one patient backfire on another.

Credits: 4.5

Price: 170.00

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Understand the belief systems and thought processes of men who batter which enable them to rationalize abusive or destructive behavior. Identify warning signs or red flags of domestic violence in a family where all members deny its existence. Identify the characteristics of men who are likely to batter.  Identify common tactics of men who batter. Describe the various treatment approaches for men who batter, and understand which forms of treatment are most effective, which are least effective, and why. Recognize the effects of domestic violence on children. Conduct an interview with a victim of domestic violence that will encourage her to reveal whether or not she is abused, and inform her of the resources available in the community that can help. Recognize when a referral to batterers intervention would be helpful to the family. Understand the relationship between substance abuse, mental health issues and domestic violence.

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This program presents critical information for healthcare providers about domestic violence in an unusual and exciting learning format. The award-winning instructors (one a former police officer, prosecutor and judge and the other a licensed mental health counselor and jury trial consultant), will engage the viewing audience by sharing their personal and professional experiences in a dynamic fashion, mixing didactic instruction, story-telling and interactive learning, in such a manner that the audience will come away with a new-found understanding regarding the myths and realities of domestic violence and how it affects us all. The content does not shy away from controversial questions such as: What type of woman falls for a batterer? What is she doing that is making him batter and what can she do to make him stop? Why doesn’t she just leave? Why doesn’t he just stop? Aren’t women just as violent as men these days? If the kids don’t see it, are they really domestic violence victims? Won’t he change if he just quits drinking? Red Flags for the Healthcare Provider. Are there really more dog shelters than battered women shelters? What should I say to a battered woman?

Credits: 2.0

Price: 87.50

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• Convert more calls to appointments • Increase return-on-investment from advertising callers • Improve success with: • Price Shoppers • Insurance-driven patients • Emergencies • “Cleaning only” patients • Learn 4 easy steps to a great call • Juggle multiple calls with finesse • Analyze a real new patient call • Customize your own information intake form • Preheat patients for cosmetic treatment • Have patients hanging up saying, “WOW! I’m so glad I found this office.”

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Throw out those scripts! You can be better and still be YOU! In this presentation, Katherine Eitel, one the nation’s leading experts in patient communications, will show you how to throw out the scripts and tap into your own instinctive greatness to be better than ever! By following a few simple steps, everyone can improve their results on the phone and their value to the practice. Katherine will give you four simple yet innovative steps that will increase your productivity tomorrow with new patient phone calls. Also, improve your success with price shoppers, insurance-driven patients, emergencies, and “cleaning only” patients.

Credits: 2.5

Price: 87.50

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Knowledge of the procedures that can be cross coded Knowledge of the process needed to diagnosis Documentation and its importance Writing a letter of medical necessity

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Review treatment that can be coded medical Define the questions patients need to answer Define the questions we need to ask insurance Understand the medical process

Credits: 1.5

Price: 52.50

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We are moving into the threshold of a golden age of molecular diagnosis and biotech-therapy. Sound like your practice? Maybe not yet, but very soon there will be no choice. You or your practice might not be embracing this brave new world but the insurance industry will take us there whether we want to go or not. Without the connection to current research, practitioners can feel helpless, hopeless and a victim to changes made by others. The alliance between evidence-based (EB) decision making and the insurance industry is already being established. Clinicians need to understand this changing arena to prepare for the future and step up to do their part to optimize patient benefits.

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We are moving into the threshold of a golden age of molecular diagnosis and biotech-therapy. Sound like your practice? Maybe not yet, but very soon there will be no choice. You or your practice might not be embracing this brave new world but the insurance industry will take us there whether we want to go or not. Without the connection to current research, practitioners can feel helpless, hopeless and a victim to changes made by others. The alliance between evidence-based (EB) decision making and the insurance industry is already being established. Clinicians need to understand this changing arena to prepare for the future and step up to do their part to optimize patient benefits.

Credits: 2.0

Price: 70.00

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Understand the new marketing arenas of the internet Discuss how a blog can help attract new patients Learn how Facebook and Twitter is changing how to reach potential patients

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Your practice deserves all the attention the public can give to it! This course will discuss ways to market your practice to expand your existing client base and attract quality new patients. Newer marketing venues such as Facebook, Twitter and blogs will be discussed. These are methods used by both large corporations and small businesses to successfully promote their services.

Credits: 1.5

Price: 52.50

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Once the student completes the Laws and Rules Governing the Practice of Dentistry in Florida, he or she will be able to better understand the legal obligations imposed on them by the Florida Statutes and Administrative Code. The student will know where to access these laws and rules to ensure better compliance. Moreover, the student will know his or her rights during the disciplinary process and will not be caught unprepared should a complaint be filed against them. Lastly, the student will have gained an understanding in how to remain in good standing with the Board of Dentistry and to avoid common practice problems.

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This course covers the laws and rules governing the practice of dentistry in Florida. Specifically, the lecture discusses Chapters 456, and 466, of the Florida Statutes, as well as Chapter 64B5 of the Florida Administrative Code. Chapter 456, F.S. covers the general provisions applicable to all health professions and occupations. The course discusses common grounds for disciplinary action under Chapter 456, as well as lesser known provisions that are important to dental professionals. Chapter 466, F.S. is the Dental Practice Act. The course covers the purpose of the Act, the creation of the Board of Dentistry, and grounds for disciplinary action. Chapter 64B5 of the Florida Administrative Code is covered in the most depth. This Chapter covers all the rules promulgated by the Board. The course covers these rules as they are applied to education, experience, and examination requirements, grounds for disciplinary proceedings and disciplinary guidelines, advertising and solicitation guidelines, license requirements, status, renewals, reactivation, and exemptions, continuing education requirements, and delegation of remediable tasks. The course goes on to discuss the disciplinary process in Florida. Each step is described, including filed complaints, the investigation stage, probable cause determination, litigation, board action, and appeal. Samples of common documents received in the disciplinary process are included. Most importantly, the course covers the rights and obligations imposed on dental professionals during the investigatory and disciplinary process. Next, the course provides information on recent rule changes and newly enacted laws. One of the most important new laws passed during the 2009 legislative session was SB1986. It is covered in detail, along with its application to dental professionals. Lastly, the course lists 10 ways for dental professionals to avoid getting in trouble with the Board. These include such matters as verifying the credentials and licensure of dentists, hygienists, and assistants employed under a dental practitioners practice, ensuring accurate and timely renewal of the practitioner’s license, and maintain comprehensive documentation.

Credits: 3.0

Price: 105.00

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Understand how patient care is changing. Learn the chart updates necessary for comprehensive health care. Understand the basic principles of Motivational Interviewing. Review nonverbal communications impact on patient relationships. Skills for active listening. Learn the value of effective questions. Understand the new team approach to care. Develop skills to communicate with health care professionals outside dentistry. Understand the role of referrals to and from health care professionals. Learn how to market and ask for referrals from health care professionals.

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The evidence is in and the practice of dentistry is changing. Will you be ready? The scientific data linking the oral cavity to the body’s systemic system is shaping the future of all care that patients receive. Dentistry and Medicine are merging – no longer are they separate disciplines taking care of separate parts of the body. In this seminar you will learn what you can do to integrate your practice into the health care arena – for the well being of your patient and the expansion of your business. From chart updates to motivational interviewing, developing a comprehensive practice is the future. These easy changes allow you to learn it today and use it tomorrow. The future is here. So expand your knowledge and power up your practice!

Credits: 1.5

Price: 50.00

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• Review of reversible and irreversible memory related conditions. Our focus will be directed toward the two most common being Alzheimer’s disease and Stroke. • Identify medications that may be taken for Alzheimer’s disease in effort to delay memory loss. You will also be able to compare medications taken by both Alzheimer’s disease and Stroke patients. • Learn how to simplify appointment to adapt to patient’s behavior, discover caregiver’s stress symptoms and maintain your memory.

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Ever walk into a specific room, only to forget what it was you wanted? Have you lost your train of thought stating, “I’m having a senior moment.”? Senior moments aren’t the only traits associated with aging. Protect both your loved ones and patients by arming yourself with the facts concerning our aging population. The truth is that the number of Americans turning 65 daily will jump from 6,000 today to 10,000 per day in 2011. This enlightening program will prepare you to act now as age related ailments will indeed occur within the appointment. Discover how to maintain a healthy oral environment by overcoming the challenges due to medications, nutrition, and behavior.

Credits: 2.0

Price: 70.00

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The objectives of this course are to provide the dental clinician with no-nonsense, practical risk management information relating to dental office procedures and clinical situations. The practicing dentist will appreciate the everyday scenarios and specific clinical examples presented in the program, especially as they relate to alternative treatment plans, clinical judgment, patient cooperation, dental records, and patient termination.

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The course will address the most important, everyday, risk management issues in the clinical practice of dentistry, including the critical first impressions created by the dental office staff, confidentiality of office records, proper patient selection and patient (when necessary) termination, staff selection and termination, the distinction between substandard dental care and malpractice, and informed consent issues. The program will also discuss the essential contents of patient dental records, including all underlying diagnostic information and treatment plans. The relationship between alternative treatment plans and clinical judgment, in context with the standard of care, will also be discussed.

Credits: 3.0

Price: 105.00

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At the end of the session, the attendee will be able to: Perform at least ten exercises, specifically for the dental professional, to help prevent or maintain muscular-skeletal health. Discuss the importance of movement throughout the day to allay back, neck and shoulder aches.

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Join Juli in this engaging genuine Pilates exercise class like no other and experience joint release stretches and classic Pilates matwork designed specifically for the dental professional. Correct pitiable posture and learn to sit tall, stand strong and work without pain! Your abs, back & buns will thank you! Exercise mat or large towel recommended for the course. For participants with neck issues, please have an extra smaller towel.

Credits: 1.5

Price: 52.50

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At the end of the session, the attendee will be able to: Identify the cause of forward flexion of the spine while seated. Discuss the prevalence of neck and shoulder injuries for the dental professional. Explain neutral pelvic position while seated, including neutral spinal alignment. Recommend appropriate strategies for sitting as well as ergonomic strategies in the dental treatment room to minimize physical strain or injury. Demonstrate at least five exercises, specific for the dental professional, that can be performed chairside, to help prevent or maintain muscular-skeletal health.

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Fed up with lower back or shoulder aches? Want to get rid of that pain in your neck, once and for all? Learn the causes and solutions to these distressing conditions in addition to chairside exercises to help you sit tall, stand strong, and work without pain!

Credits: 2.0

Price: 70.00