Dental Caries: Triad of Care (Detection, Prevention and Treatment)
with
Dr. John C. Comisi

Feb. 17, 2012
Embassy Suites Philadelphia Airport
9000 Bartram Ave.
Philadelphia, PA

8 am registration and continental breakfast
8:30 am-4:30 pm *Lunch is included
7 CE Credits

PAGD members $159
Non members $199
Staff                 $129

What you will learn:
The infective process of dental decay has been a primary focus of the modern dental practice. Mountains of dental literature exist to help explain this process and yet our patients still struggle with this controllable disease.

What do we as dental professionals do to help our patients cope and manage this disease process? What procedures, techniques and materials can we use the slow down the process and perhaps reverse it? We know that the management of periodontal disease is a factor, but how can we make this aspect become more predictable? How do we stop “one step forward, two steps back” game?

This course will focus on the successes uncovered and developed by Dr. Comisi, and his dental team over the last 25 years.

• Learn how to make your patient a part of the “team”, intimately involved in his or her own care and responsible for their wellbeing.
• Learn and implement, home care, office care and follow up that will enable you to provide the best care possible to your patient.
• Understand the stages of caries development and factors that contribute to its acceleration.
• Learn what materials and techniques can help you better manage the caries process.

About Dr. John Comisi
Dr. Comisi has been in private practice in Ithaca, NY since 1983. He is a graduate of Northwestern University Dental School and received his Bachelor of Science in Biology at Fordham University. He has lectured nationally and internationally and has contributed to the dental literature in such journals as General Dentistry, Compendium of Continuing Dental Education and Inside Dentistry.
Dr. Comisi is a member of the American Dental Association and its tripartite organizations, the Academy of General Dentistry, the American Equilibration Society, the International and American Association of Dental Research, a Research Associate at New York University Dental School and a member of the PEARL Network, a practice based research network and is involved with several of its studies.
He sits on the Boards of several organizations including the Academy of General Dentistry, the Sixth District Dental Society, the New York State Academy of General Dentistry, the Baden-Powell Council, B.S.A. and is a member of the Catapult Your Practice Editorial Board.
Dr. Comisi is a Master of the Academy of General Dentistry, and holds Fellowships in the Academy of Dentistry International, the American College of Dentistry, the Pierre Fauchard Academy and the International College of Dentistry.
Technology and new innovations in dental care are of keen interest to Dr. Comisi. His investigations into the practical applications of these products and services helps his audience get a better perspective on what works and what needs further improvement.

 

Efficient Dentistry: Success thru Efficiency

With Dr. Joe Steven, Jr DDS
March 9, 2012
Regional Learning Alliance
850 Cranberry Woods Drive
Cranberry Township, PA 16066

PAGD Member $159
Non Member $199
Staff $129

Dr. Steven has often been called the “Voice of the Silent Majority.” He constantly bucks the main-stream philosophies espoused by many of the current seminar presenters. The silent majority refers to that group of dentists who enjoy a net income of three or more times that of the average dentist, and who do it off the same philosophy that Dr. Steven practices under a high volume, bread and butter practice that treats patients in an extremely efficient manner. That philosophy is hardly ever written about or discussed in our current literature or seminars, yet that’s where you will find the majority of highly successful dentists

Let’s look at some of the things that Joe’s office is doing wrong and according to our experts:

• They do first visit prophies.
• They do no “Power block” appointment scheduling
• They do not block out emergency time slots.
• They do case presentation on the first visit in most cases.
• They still watch suspicious teeth
• They have a high accounts receivable
• They do not have a laser or filmless x-ray equipment
• They do mostly single unit crowns that make up 95% of their C&B
• They still continue to offer amalgams along with posterior composites
• They do not seat every patient exactly on time
• They still play the insurance game with most companies (no PPOs or capitation thought)
• They don’t have “morning huddles

Now let’s see what Dr. Steven’s office is doing right:

• They produced over $1.3 million and collected 98% in 2006 working only 14 days a month with just one doctor
• They see 50-60 new patients each month without any external advertising
• They see a wide range of patients doing “bread and butter” dentistry in an extremely efficient manner
• The present ideal dentistry but offer less expensive options which are more readily accepted.

This fast-paced, entertaining seminar is packed full of efficiency tips that will help your practice become more profitable the very first day back in the office.

About Dr. Steven
Dr. Joe Steven graduated from Creighton Dental School in 1978 and has been in solo practice in Wichita, KS up until June 2007 at which time his daughter who graduated from UMKC Dental School joined him. His 15 member team works out of 9 treatment rooms providing all facets of dentistry.

He is a member of the ADA, the Kansas Dental Association, and the Mid America Dental Study Group. He is also president of KISCO, a dental products marketing company, providing “new ideas for dentistry” to dental offices, and is the editor of the KISCO Perspective Newsletter. Dr. Steven along with Dr. Mark Troilo present the “Team Dynamics" seminar to dental offices and organizations across the country. Dr. Steven also presents three other seminars: “Efficient-dentistry”, “Efficient-prosthetics”, and “Efficient-endo.” In addition, Dr. Steven provides the KISCO Select Consulting Program to hundreds of dentists in the form of a monthly audio cd recording. He also offers a Coaching Consulting Program called the KISCO’s 21 Club.

 

 

Business Essentials for Dental Practices

March 23-25, 2012 and June 8-10, 2012
University of Pittsburgh
Center for Executive Education
4227 Fifth Ave.
Pittsburg, PA 15260

Course Fee
$3997 AGD Member and Pitt Dental Alumni
$4997 Non AGD Member

Business Essentials for Dental Practices is a unique educational opportunity to learn real world business strategies from the prestigious faculty of the Katz Graduate School of Business of the University of Pittsburgh. In cooperation with the Pennsylvania Academy of General Dentistry the Katz School faculty have created a curriculum that is clearly focused on the needs of practicing dentists.

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