The 2023 Utah Dental Association is Just Around the Corner!!!

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New This Year

The Dental Education Platform – Presentations will be available throughout both days of the Convention.

Dental Education Platform Presentations (Thursday)

Thursday, March 30 @ 9:00

Company: Prosites

Presenter: Keith Washington

Title: Building Patient Trust to Provide a Higher Level of Patient Care

Description: Dental Practices are at a crossroad: either adopt technology and become more efficient, or stick with traditional methods and risk financial health, team well-being and patient relationships. Becoming “tech-forward” may sound daunting but the benefits gained, from work-flow efficiency to improved patient care, are well-worth the bumps in the road. Join us as we take you on a lesson-filled client journey through a technology-forward practice.

Thursday, March 30 @ 10:00

Company: DrillDown Solutions

Presenter: Stephen Nance

Title: Navigate economic ups and downs using tax planning and mitigation.

Description: The last few years have been filled with uncertainty for the US and the world. Join Stephen Nance from DrillDown Solutions and learn how to navigate the economic ups and downs. Discover how to benefit from new tax rules. Plus, he’ll cover tax strategies dental professionals can use including:

• Retirement plans

• Employee Retention Credit

• Small businesses & the self-employed deductions

• Evolving legislation

Thursday, March 30 @ 11:00

Company: Birdeye

Presenter: Dr Leonard Tau

Title: Raving Patients: Get Visible, Get Credible, Get More Patients

Description: In our internet age, you might think that Facebook ads, Yelp!, Google, or some other new marketing tactic would overtake word of mouth as the leading contributor to our new patient pipeline. While there’s some truth to that, the bottom line is those tactics haven’t replaced word of mouth. In fact they make word of mouth even more important. But word of mouth has evolved…

Today word of mouth includes what people say about you online in the form of online reviews.

Online reviews are now one of the biggest ranking factors in a local search and in whether people referred to you ultimately schedule an appointment. If people are referred to you, they search you before scheduling an appointment. If they don’t see recent, relevant, positive reviews when they search for you, they’ll ask another friend for a recommendation.

Thursday, March 30 @ Noon

Company: Biolase

Presenter: Steve Ross

Title: Innovations in Laser Dentistry

Description:

Erbium Lasers

• Highly Efficient Crown & Veneer Removal

• Restorations (with fewer injections)

• Minimally Invasive Perio

• Peri-Implantitis Treatment

• Single Visit Endo

• Frenectomies

• Esthetic Dentistry

• Herpetic Lesion Treatment

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Diode Lasers

• Wavelengths

• Non-Surgical Perio

• LBR vs LAPT

• Photobiomodulation

• Laser Whitening

Thursday, March 30 @ 1:00

Company: My Practice My Business

Presenter: Dr Rob Throup

Title: The Clinical Business of Dentistry

Description: Insurance plans shrinking your profits? Working harder and taking home less? By attending this 45-minute seminar, you will be introduced to business skills that are much needed in dentistry and truths about dental insurance (as revealed by them) that will help you be profitable!

Thursday, March 30 @ 2:00

Company: Dentist Advisors

Thursday, March 30 @ 3:00

Company: Shatkin F.I.R.S.T

Presenter: Dr Todd Shatkin

Title: Mini Dental Implants for Long Term Fixed and Removable Prosthetics and Live Implant Placement

Description: In this course Dr Shatkin will be discuss and demonstrate the following topics:

Using the MDL Mini Dental Implants for lower and upper denture stabilization.

Using the MDL Mini Dental Implants for partial dentures.

Using the MDL Mini Dental Implant(s) in fixed applications for individual and multiple missing teeth.

How and when to use the bendable Mono Mini Dental Implants.

Using the MDL and/or Mono Mini Implants for full arch fixed applications.

Dental Education Platform Presentations (Friday)

Friday, March 31 @ 9:00

Company: Dental Intel

Presenter: Steve Jensen

Title: Intelligent Dentistry – Secrets of the Top 10%

Description: Dental Intelligence actively monitors the data from 10,000+ dental practices watching industry trends, shifts, and top-performing practices. We’ll walk through the most recent trends/problems and some rock-solid solutions. There’s no fluff, no messing around, just a PROVEN formula that you can follow to improve patient care, team performance, & practice profitability. By the time we’re done, you’ll have the inside scoop on how the top practices in the U.S. are thriving in a continually evolving marketplace.

Friday, March 31 @ 10:00

Company: Prosites

Presenter: Keith Washington

Title: Building Patient Trust to Provide a Higher Level of Patient Care

Description: Dental Practices are at a crossroad: either adopt technology and become more efficient, or stick with traditional methods and risk financial health, team well-being and patient relationships. Becoming “tech-forward” may sound daunting but the benefits gained, from work-flow efficiency to improved patient care, are well-worth the bumps in the road. Join us as we take you on a lesson-filled client journey through a technology-forward practice.

Friday, March 31 @ 11:00

Company: eAssist

Presenter: Natalie Rogers

Title: Three Ways to Avoid a Dental Billing Mess

Friday, March 31 @ Noon

Company: Birdeye

Presenter: Dr Leonard Tau

Title: OMG, I got a Bad review: What do I do

Description: It doesn’t matter how hard you work or how well you treat patients, it’s only a matter of time before someone leaves you a negative review. It happens to everyone. It’s only a matter of time. Unfortunately, many practice owners make one of several big mistakes when this happens… some that cause even more reputation harm… others that can even get them into legal trouble. The truth is, the perfect practice is not the one with perfect reviews; it’s the one that deals with reviews perfectly.

Friday, March 31 @ 1:00

Company: Brasseler

Presenter: Chanda Ellis, Regional Sales Manager; Carolina Solano, District Sales Manager; Alex Thatcher, District Sales Manager

Title: Procedural and Instrumentation Solutions to Grow Your Business

Description: Brasseler is an industry leader in rotary instruments such as diamonds, carbides, and polishers with a specialty focus on Endodontics and Restorative materials. The presentation will discuss our company history, core values/vision, legacy products, advances in product line within Brasseler, partnership with customer to grow business, affiliation with institutional customers/DSOs/Group Purchasing

Friday, March 31 @ 2:00

Company: Provide

Presenters: Steve Steinbrunner and Brian Carroll.

Title: A Financial Roadmap for Your Dental Practice Journey

Description: Independent dentists and physicians often begin their journey with an eagerness to provide exceptional clinical care for their patients; however, the business of healthcare can be overwhelming and complex. This course is intended to share a financial roadmap - from a leading healthcare bank - that will help the independent practice owner understand how to buy or build their first practice, expand or grow that practice later on, and finally prepare for the proper exit or practice sale at the end of their journey.

Friday, March 31 @ 3:00

Company: Lighthouse 360

Presenter: Riley Banks

Title: Keep your patients, grow your practice

Description: On average, 1 in 4 patients leave your practice every year. Join us as we discuss why your patients are leaving and how you can lead the effort to enhance the patient experience to delight, attract, and retain more patients.

Hands On Workshops are Still Available to Register For

(These courses will require an additional fee to register)

Hands On Courses for the Dentist

Anatomy Flashback: What you NOW realize you really needed to know!

Wayne Cottam, DMD, MS

Limited to 20 participants (Thursday AM and Friday PM)

This course will review the relevant anatomy for a general community-based dentist and apply that knowledge to common procedures and therapies completed in the CHC setting. This fast-paced session will include hands on, active learning with high quality artificial skulls and interactive activities and learning. Topics will include: a review of innervation and blood supply to the oral cavity; a review of the relevant anatomy related to anesthetic injections; attachments, actions, and innervation of the muscles of mastication; basic TMJ anatomy and relevant anatomy of the floor of the mouth, tongue, palate and paranasal sinuses.

Achieving New Levels of Success in Endodontic TherapyHands

on Endo Workshop

Reid Pullen, DDS

Limited to 40 participants (Thursday PM)

From diagnosing and establishing your endo treatment plan to achieving a dense, three-dimensional fill, you’ll learn modern, step-by-step procedures for everyday use. You will also learn how to safely and efficiently maneuver around challenging curves and create and ideal glide path, when to use more complex techniques and how to avoid post-treatment disease. Take your practice to the next level with core concepts from a fresh perspective by learning how to successfully perform modern, basic techniques and why they are important.

A Mini-Residency in Pediatric Dentistry: Learning Lab

Barney Olsen, DDS, MS

Limited to 20 Participants (Friday AM and Friday PM)

This hands-on learning lab will be interactive requiring you to learn 6 important skills in Pediatric Dentistry in a lab setting: 1) Intra osseous anesthesia. 2) Hall Crown fitting and placement. 3) When and how to use SDF. 4) How to access caries risk and each patient and how that will guide your restorative therapy. 5) How and when to do minimally invasive dentistry. 6) How to fit and construct 5-minute space maintainers. We will be working on tables in groups of 5.

Hands On Course for the Hygienist

Local Anesthesia Technique Hands-On Workshop

Alberto Varela, DDS

Limited to 40 participants (Thursday PM, Friday AM, and Friday PM)

Come receive guidance and practice your local anesthetic technique at this hands-on workshop! You will be guided by licensed dentists who can help give you tips and tricks to improve your technique. In this course, you will have the opportunity to demonstrate your current technique, discuss the challenges you face in obtaining profound anesthesia, and receive guidance on methods that may enhance your success. Safety needles will be used for this course. No live needles will be present. Feel free to bring your loupes and headlight.

Hands on Courses for the Assistant

The Role of the Dental Assistant – Techniques and Technologies That Help Deliver “World Class” Dentistry –Hands On Workshop Part I

Shannon Pace Brinker, CDA

Ewa Bujalski, CDA

LaShae Steele, CDA

Ariela Myler, EFDA

Limited to 100 participants (Friday AM)

The ideal dental team must be current and knowledgeable in materials science and be proficient in the various step-by-step procedures that are now required to deliver state-of-the art dentistry to the patient. Increase your artistic skill and satisfaction by learning about materials and techniques that can help deliver to the patient the best dentistry has to offer! This is one comprehensive course that every dental assistant needs to attend!

• Infection Control: Dental assistants must thoroughly conceptualize the best means to comply with those minimum infection control requirements set forth for dental settings. Compliance is critical to adhere to state dental boards, laws, and regulations. The primary intention is to limit the threat of exposure for dental clinicians and the greater public.

• Digital Photography (Both SLR and Point and Shoot): In this digital age, effective patient and lab communication is predicated on clinical photography. This lecture will provide dental assistants with the necessary skills to shoot basic photographs for quick co-diagnosis, as well as pre-treatment, treatment, and post-treatment clinical angles required for documentation and lab communication purposes. How exquisite provisional restorations serve as an anatomic (functional) and esthetic blueprint for laboratory and lab communications.

• PVS vs Alginate. Alginate Impression Techniques: Dental impressions are essential in dental practice for obtaining accurate representations of hard and soft oral tissues. As scientific advancements continue to enhance impression materials and techniques, progress will continue to be made to simplify the impression taking process and ensure greater accuracy and material stability. Although a variety of materials are available that represent long-lasting alginate impression material that can withstand longer storage periods and times-before-pouring without losing its accuracy.

• Anterior Provisional Restorations: This session will present a philosophy of esthetics centered on the concept of natural beauty created from research in the fields of both art and science. Esthetic success depends not only on the creation of a beautiful smile but ensuring optimal function and health.

The Role of the Dental Assistant – Techniques and Technologies That Help Deliver “World Class” Dentistry –Hands On Workshop Part II

Shannon Pace Brinker, CDA

Ewa Bujalski, CDA

LaShae Steele, CDA

Ariela Myler, EFDA

Limited to 100 participants (Friday PM)

The ideal dental team must be current and knowledgeable in materials science and be proficient in the various step-by-step procedures that are now required to deliver state-of-the art dentistry to the patient. Increase your artistic skill and satisfaction by learning about materials and techniques that can help deliver to the patient the best dentistry has to offer! This is one comprehensive course that every dental assistant needs to attend!

Learning Objectives:

• Isolation Techniques from Retractors to Rubber Dam Placement: With today’s heightened awareness of infection control, patient safety, and technique-sensitive dental materials, meticulous operative field isolation is mandatory. Today the rubber dam is the standard of care for isolation during restorative procedures and should be employed whenever possible. Once the teeth are isolated for any proper restoration, we also must not forget about tissue management. This management begins with rapid profound knowledge of hemostasis. For every restoration— direct or indirect—controlling hemostasis is necessary.

• Fluoride, Coronal Polishing, and Sealant Placement: Mouth rinses, fluoride varnishes, and dental sealants provide excellent resources for preventative care and maintenance of good oral hygiene. Mouth rinses combat periodontal diseases, dry mouth, and bad breath. Fluoride varnishes and sealants both work toward specifically preventing dental caries. Fluoride varnish, well accepted by children, provides an ideal fluoride treatment. Similarly, the improvements in sealants over the past 40 years make them a cost-effective and reliable preventative measure.

• Posterior Provisional Restorations: Provisional restoration is a critical phase in the treatment of the dental patient. The design for the provisional restoration begins with a gathering of diagnostic information, which includes the desires of the patient and dental team. The hardest part of the fabrication process is not the trimming or the finishing, but the carving of the anatomy and the occlusion.

• Whiter, Brighter, Healthier Teeth: The course will cover practical techniques for in-office and take-home whitening. Fulfilling the desire and demand to have a bright and white smile is the goal of every dental practice. A bright smile not only presents a healthy and beautiful impression but also increases one’s interest in oral hygiene, allowing the patient to have higher self-confidence. Before the patient can go through the whitening process, we must have a proper consultation to understand the patient and their desires—and determine which of the various product options to recommend.

Team Luncheon

Thursday, March 30

Noon–1:45 pm

Marriott City Creek Hotel

75 S West Temple

Admission by ticket only

Cost $25 per person, must pre–register at www.uda.org

Oh That’s Bad… NO, That’s Good!

John Bytheway, BS, MA

Life is never easy. But some of the hardest situations in life can bring positive results when approached with the right attitude. We’ll talk about a three–word formula for creating perspective, and how to deal with others on your team with respect and optimism to bring out the best they have to offer. Expect to laugh. Outloud! A lot. And to learn a thing or two along the way.

Seating for the team luncheon is assigned when you register. Group tickets must be purchased together so you can be seated in the same area. There are 10 seats per table. Tickets with table numbers will be mailed to you with your name badges. There are no refunds or changing of tables after tickets are mailed from UDA.