DSC Team Track

The DSC Team Track series provides your team with quality education and training on par with our core Dallas Study Club lectures. At no additional cost, doctors and their staff members are invited to attend several educational lectures and workshops designed with the dental team in mind.

Our Team Track lectures are scheduled in tandem with our main Dallas Study Club course track every year, and enrolled doctors are invited to attend all lectures if desired. Some lecture screenings intended for specific staff teams or team members are scheduled to be held alongside doctor-only lectures, allowing doctors and their office teams to attend relevant lectures simultaneously, yet separately.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.