The Dallas Study Club

15th Annual Dallas Study Club Kickoff Dinner

Brandon Barnum

Dental Profit Organization: Taking Your Practice to New Heights

Full-day lecture for doctors and staff.

Whether you are a general practitioner, surgeon, or a dental specialist, a profit organization approach can help you attract more business for your practice so you achieve the financial success you desire and deserve.

SmileBangladesh Benefit Dinner

SmileBangladesh is a New Jersey-based nonprofit medical organization dedicated to caring for children and adults afflicted with facial cleft deformities in Bangladesh and around the world. It is estimated that there are up to 300,000 children and adults in Bangladesh with unrepaired cleft deformities. Conversely, it is estimated that there are less than 30 surgeons in the country with formal training in cleft surgery. This translates to about 10,000 cleft patients per surgeon.

The greatest hurdle in caring for cleft patients in Bangladesh is access to care. Most Bengalis with cleft deformities are from the more rural areas of the nation. Many don’t even know that clefts can be repaired; those who do are often unable to access or afford care.

To learn more about SmileBangladesh or make a donation, please visit their website here.

Lauralee Nygaard, DDS, MS, PS

A Treatment Planning Workshop for Hygienists: Coaching Periodontal Patients in Oral Rehabilitation

Lecture screening for hygienists.

Dental hygienists play an important role on dental teams in building relationships with patients. Those relationships establish trust and provide opportunity to educate, encourage and motivate the behavior change necessary to achieve oral systemic health and smile rehabilitation. To best educate and inform, it is important for hygienists to have knowledge of medical history, periodontal treatment, periodontal recall, restorative options for occlusal rehabilitation, and informed consent for tooth replacement.

Dr. Nygaard will introduce a challenging case for participating hygienists to consider possible treatment options. They will be able to think about ways to restore periodontal health, enhance chewing function and the patient’s smile, and develop an ideal plan to increase longevity. Dr. Nygaard will share the completed treatment and the impact of this case as an example of the life-changing dentistry dental teams create every day!

Álvaro Blasi, DDS, CDT; Gonzalo Blasi, DDS, MS; Ignacio Blasi, PhD, DDS, MS

Streamlining the Multidisciplinary Approach

Lecture screening for doctors.

This treatment planning session will provide attendees the opportunity to learn from one of the world’s great interdisciplinary teams—Drs. Álvaro, Gonzalo and Ignacio Blasi, from Spain. Their captivating case presentation will challenge participants to develop a multidisciplinary treatment plan for a patient with undersized teeth due to attrition and altered passive eruption. The Blasi brothers will then share their case planning solutions, including a novel digital approach to treatment for this patient and for patients with or without tooth wear.

Wael Garine, DDS; Parag Kachalia, DDS

Connect: Leveraging Digital Technologies So You Can Focus on Patient Care

Lecture screening for staff.

Do you fear checking the office voicemail Monday morning or looking at your email inbox knowing patients are cancelling or rescheduling appointments? Do you have difficulty getting patients to complete their forms prior to the appointment? Do you hate having to remember which patients may need treatment when you are trying to fill the schedule? These, along with many others, are practice issues we confront daily. While there is no magic wand to make these issues disappear, you may be able to leverage technology to ease our workflows and get back to focusing on caring for patients.

This program will focus on how technology can be leveraged today to create more office efficiencies. Drs. Garine and Kachalia will discuss a host of technologies, ranging from bill pay via text message to artificial intelligence that can search every radiograph taken in the last 18 months and provide a report identifying patients that may benefit from scaling and root planing.

Wael Garine, DDS; Silvia La Rosa, DDS; Todd Schoenbaum, DDS, MS; Hooman Zarrinkelk, DDS

Collaborative Debate: Save or Extract

Lecture screening for doctors.

hroughout your lifetime, some of the most difficult choices you will ever have to make are in deciding whether to let go or to hold on a little longer. As clinicians, we are not immune. Save or extract is undoubtedly a daily dilemma, and while we strive to make clear-cut choices, it is hard not to second guess ourselves in the decision-making process. A thorough understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of each treatment option will aid in making better decisions.

Side 1: Over the last two decades, dentistry has seen an increase in tooth removal and replacement with implant-supported prosthesis. This trend is largely attributable to better predictability of dental implants and the patients’ demand for quick results and immediate gratification.

Side 2: The decision to remove otherwise reasonable teeth is technical as well as philosophical. As clinicians, we are ultimately facilitators of patients’ desires, tasked with treating their current dental condition to help them achieve their desired outcome. Most patients simply want an esthetically pleasing smile as quickly as possible.

Gordon Chee, DDS

Achieving Exceptional Dental Photography with Simple Workflows

Lecture screening for doctors and staff.

Photography is an indispensable tool to optimize lab communication, assist with case presentation, and market your dental services. This program is intended to educate the dental team about how to take proper dental photography, both individually or in tandem with the dentist and/or other team members. During the session, attendees will learn proper camera settings for intraoral photography and patient portraiture. They will also learn techniques for proper retraction, angulation and shade matching.

Travis Campbell, DDS

Simplifying Dental Insurance Management

Lecture screening for administrative staff.

Managing dental insurance claims can be frustrating and time consuming. The main challenges creating these frustrations are unnecessary and come from common myths surrounding insurance. These myths and misunderstandings are what drive offices to spend too much time fighting claims that can be easily approved with changes in documentation. This course will focus on understanding how to simplify the process, improve collections, and ultimately have happier patients who enjoy the more favorable reimbursements you can achieve for them.

David Clark, DDS

Better, Faster, Stronger Direct Composites with the Injection Molding Technique

Lecture and workshop for doctors.

Ceramic restorations have long been considered the optimal choice for predictable aesthetics and longevity. “Bonding” has been considered a short-term solution that can be both technically challenging and aesthetically unpredictable.

The injection molding technique with ultra-thin Bioclear anatomic tooth forms has created a “Third Modality” with monolithic restorations that can endure and sparkle for decades.

In this course, Dr. David Clark will present restorative possibilities with the Bioclear Method. A complete update of the science of bulk filling and crack tooth avoidance will be presented. Four hands-on exercises will be included. First, attendees will restore a deep class III without a wedge, using anatomic Bioclear matrices to create a perfect gingival seal and emergence profile. Second, they will measure, pick correct Black Triangle matrices, then injection mold a Black Triangle case. Third, they will set up and then restore an Infinity Edge Class II restoration. Fourth, they will perform matrix placement and deep margin techniques for deep, wide decay in a class II.

Marcos Vargas, DDS

Creating Beautiful, Esthetic Composite Restorations in Both the Anterior and Posterior

Lecture and workshop for doctors.

Dr. Marcos Vargas will discuss both anterior and posterior direct restorations. Emphasis will be placed on using the latest techniques to take the esthetics of anterior restorations to the next level. Attendees will also complete a posterior restoration using bulk-fill composite material with the correct curing light procedures.

Irene Iancu, RRDH

Managing Expectations vs. Managing People

Lecture screening for hygienists.

Unfortunately, staff expectations are rarely addressed proactively in practice. This increases the risk of workplace conflicts and can threaten organizational performance. Why do dentists frequently neglect managing expectations and insist on managing people? This overly assertive behavior can (and will) increase staff turnover and decrease office productivity. During this presentation, you’ll learn how to structure expectations, professionally convey them, differentiate positive feedback from affirmative statements, and establish processes to manage expectations vs. managing people.

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Vinay Bhide, DDS, MSc, FRCd(C)

Cleaning Up Your Own Mess: A Tale of Redemption!

Lecture screening for doctors.

In this rescue mission workshop, Dr. Vinay Bhide is faced with the task of reconstructing the anterior maxilla after implants have failed due to peri-implantitis. Sounds straightforward, doesn’t it? It is, until it isn’t! Surgical reconstruction of a deficient ridge in preparation for dental implant therapy has been shown to be a successful and predictable modality of treatment. Now, superimpose a history of peri-implantitis and failed implants onto this scenario and things aren’t so linear anymore.

This workshop will showcase a 47-year-old patient who had implants placed in the anterior maxilla and restored with a fixed bridge and subsequently developed peri-implantitis after more than five years in function. The implants were lost to the disease process, leaving Dr. Bhide the formidable task of reconstructing the deficient, residual ridge for implant therapy…again! While the reconstructive surgery went well, the post-operative healing events that ensued did not. Faced with an already compromised site which was now healing poorly: How could the initial peri-implantitis and bone loss have been prevented in the first place? What would Dr. Bhide have to do to change the course of treatment so this case could be restored successfully? Attendees of this workshop will get an insight into surgical complications and how to deal with them effectively so the ultimate goals of esthetics and function can be achieved!

David Lee Hill, Jr., DDS

Medical Updates and How They Influence Treating Our Patients

Lecture screening for staff.

Dentistry is an ever-changing field, with the newest technologies and clinical information being introduced daily. This program will review systems/protocols that are currently used within the oral and maxillofacial surgery office and reexamine how these, in turn, affect patient care. Additionally, this session will review updates on pharmacology and various medical topics, including sleep apnea, hypertension, obesity, diabetes, drug use and more.

Darria Long, MD, MBA

An ER Doctor’s Secrets to Managing Stress & Chaos: Lessons for Everyday Life

Lecture screening for doctors and staff.

Dr. Darria Long is a Harvard and Yale-trained ER doctor who functions amidst uncertainty and continual unpredictability. She is forced to make critical decisions with incomplete information daily—a hallmark of life in the ER! The stress can seem unbearable at times, and yet nowhere is it more crucial to make good decisions and lead teams through threatening circumstances.

So, what are Dr. Darria’s secrets to handling stress and chaos? Wouldn’t each of us like to know how she and her ER team do it? She has spent her entire career preparing for this new normal and can help dentists and their teams adjust as well. She will introduce and teach participants a system that allows flexibility, minimizes cognitive load, and helps maintain presence—a system everyone can use to prevent or minimize stress and chaos in both their personal and work lives.

Augusto Robles, DMD, MS

Time is Money! Beautiful Composite Veneers Done Fast

Lecture and workshop for doctors.

Through the utilization of a digitally designed printed matrix we can create highly esthetic restorations in a very time-efficient manner. The goal is to elevate our esthetic outcomes in our daily practice while maintaining costs and keeping time usage under control. This course is designed to present the benefits of the matrix system and have time for hands-on experience.

Bobbi Stanley, DDS, MAGD, DICOI, FLVI

Building Your 5-Star Service Practice

Lecture screening for administrative staff.

Delivering excellent customer service begins with establishing a team culture that fosters an enduring commitment to delivering extraordinary patient care. In her presentation, Dr. Bobbi Stanley will share her years of experience in creating a harmonious office environment. This is a setting in which patients feel cared for as individuals and team members are engaged, collaborative and committed to providing 5-star service. She will also share her formula for creating and maintaining a synergistic team spirit.

Rebecca Bockow, DDS, MS

A Treatment Planning Workshop for Hygienists: The Enigma of the Open Bite

Lecture for hygienists.

As a hygienist, you frequently see patients with open bites. Have you ever considered why they occur? Did you know treatment can be quite different for adolescents vs. adults? Are you aware of the complications that can occur if this is not treated/corrected? You play a key role in informing and educating patients on oral manifestations of airway and sleep issues such as opens bites, malocclusion, dental wear, and so much more. You can also encourage and motivate the behavioral changes necessary to achieve optimal oral health, thereby increasing patient acceptance of interdisciplinary treatment plans.

This program will elevate your skill level so you can better understand and play a role as a true contributing member of the interdisciplinary treatment team. Dr. Bockow will uncover the origins of open bites in children and adults and explore many treatment pathways that can prevent future and potentially serious complications.

Audrey Yoon, DDS

Airway Design for Better Breathing: Made Easy

Lecture for doctors.

Most current dental treatments for sleep-disordered breathing focus on changing the anatomy to increase airway space. However, most dentists do not understand the mechanism of how anatomical changes affect the pathophysiology of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Dr. Yoon will show her extensive research for a better understanding of the relationship between anatomical factors and the physiology of OSA. Dr. Yoon will discuss early identification of the etiology and understanding the pathophysiology to prevent diseases.

DSC End-of-Year Party

For doctors, spouses, and kids.

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