Course Summary

This tutorial on creating Champions League winning dental teams is kindly provided by Chris Barrow from his Extreme Business Academy.

In his 20+ years of working with dental clients he has observed that less than 5% have reported their team are on the bus and on fire.He spends much more time dealing with the consequences when one or more team members are creating more problems than solutions.

Have you ever been in that situation?In this tutorial Chris looks at 5 essential steps in creating a Champions League team:

– Assessing Performance and Behaviour and making decisions based on your conclusions;

– The ideal schedule for team communications;- How to replace appraisals (a chore) with the Personal Progress Interview (PPI) (an opportunity);

– The importance of the daily huddle in team spirit;

– Using Edward de Bono’s “6 thinking hats” to engage your team in the big decisions that matter.

Along with a 50-minute video from Chris, you can access his Powerpoint slides and 6 PDFs to share with your managers and team from the resources provided in the course module.

Speaker profile: Chris Barrow, Extreme Business.

Chris Barrow has been a trainer, consultant, coach and mentor to the UK dental profession for 23 years.

Chris combines long experience and deep expertise with the originality and independence needed to resolve the thorniest problems.

Naturally direct, assertive and determined, he can reach conclusions quickly, as well as possessing the sharp reflexes and lightness of touch to innovate, change tack and push boundaries.

As a speaker, he is dynamic, energetic and charismatic.Chris spent the first 17 years of his working life in the corporate sector and followed this with 30+ years of business ownership. The different dynamics of both worlds have given him the valuable gift of knowing how to operate – and communicate – in both.

In 1987 Chris was active in the establishment of the Institute for Financial Planning, an organisation representing the first fee-based Financial Planners in the UK; Chris specialised in working with small businesses.

In 1993 Chris decided to make the transition to business coaching and became one of the first UK students at Coach University, from where he graduated as a certified coach. Recognising the opportunity in the dental profession, 1997 saw the creation of The Dental Business School (DBS) and the development of a 12-month business coaching programme for dental practice owners and their teams, delivered to over 1000 UK dental practices in the following 10 years.

To find out more about the Extreme Business programmes please click here

Learning Content

• Assessing Performance and Behaviour and making decisions based on your conclusions;
• The ideal schedule for team communications;
• How to replace appraisals ( a chore) with the Personal Progress Interview (PPI) (an opportunity);
• The importance of the daily huddle in team spirit;
• Using Edward de Bono’s “6 thinking hats” to engage your team in the big decisions that matter.

Aims & Objectives

To learn how to effectively manage and lead a world-class team of people.

Development Outcomes

A. Effective communication with patients, the dental team, and others across dentistry, including when obtaining consent, dealing with complaints, and raising concerns when patients are at risk .

B. Effective management of self, and effective management of others or effective work with others in the dental team, in the interests of patients at all times; providing constructive leadership where appropriate.

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Course Summary

This comprehensive course provides a detailed overview of Intravenous Sedation for General Practice.

The course is divided into two sections:

Part 1 covers patient assessment and provides a wide range of situations to consider.

Part 2 deals with the pharmacology used in intravenous sedation.

Speaker Profile

Dr Andrew Jones BDShons, PgDipConSed.

Andrew offers several Dental Sedation Courses. He has been carrying out conscious sedation techniques since 2011. He has a range of experience in different conscious sedation techniques and besides numerous short courses, he has completed the prestigious Postgraduate Diploma in Conscious Sedation at Trinity College University, Dublin. He is a member of the DSTG and has written for several dental publications and journals on the topic of conscious sedation, most recently in Dentistry magazine on the topic of sedation use during full arch dental implant surgeries.Andrew is enthusiastic about improving the provision of safe effective conscious sedation for an increasingly anxious UK population. Andrew, along with a nationwide network of sedation diploma practitioners has developed the courses provided by dental sedation courses to provide the latest, fully accredited, high-quality peer-reviewed private courses available in the field of conscious sedation in dentistry.To find out more about the Dental Sedation Courses please visit here.

Learning Content

Part 1 – The success of sedation treatment is dependent on the selection and assessment of the patient.
Part 2 – An overview of the pharmacology used in IV Sedation.

Aims & Objectives

To understand the importance of a good patient assessment and its impact on the success of the treatment. To build a good rapport to provide patient confidence. To have an overview of the pharmacology used in IV sedation.

Development Outcomes

C. Maintenance and development of knowledge and skill within your field of practice

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Course Summary

This three part series about aesthetic crown lengthening is brought to you by Surgical Master , an online dental community and learning environment specifically for dentists who wish to strengthen their skill sets, increase their confidence, learn surgical procedures and grow their practice. 

Part 1: In part 1, Dr. Simon talks about meeting your patient for the first time, understanding their concerns, and helps you understand the reason for the concerns. He then reviews a treatment plan for the case and the rationale.

Part 2: In part 2, Dr. Simon covers the use of digital simulation to help the patient gain confidence and accept the treatment proposed. Creating a soft tissue blueprint.

Part 3: In part 3, Dr.Simon reviews the surgery step by step, with emphasis on important points and challenges that can occur.

Speaker Profile

Dr. Ziv Simon obtained his Dental Degree and Bachelor of Medical Sciences Degree from Tel Aviv University (where he also held a teaching position in the Department of Prosthodontics). He went on to receive his Master of Science Degree in Periodontology and a Periodontal Graduate Degree from the University of Toronto.

With an insatiable appetite for learning and growing, Dr. Simon conducted advanced research on bone engineering and dental implants. He relocated to the United States and founded the Beverly Hills Multidisciplinary Dental Study Group and served as director of the Beverly Hills Academy of Dentistry.

For more than 20 years he has been lecturing nationally and internationally on smile design, implant dentistry and tissue. He has also been teaching at the School of Dentistry, University of Southern California.

Dr. Simon explains, “Surgical Master is revolutionizing the way that continuing education for dentists is handled. We are delivering the game-changing knowledge and skill sets that dentist need to learn in order to elevate their practices and serve their patients at the highest levels. That creates more empowered dentists, more fulfilling and profitable practices, and more satisfied patients. In doing so, we’ve also developed a very positive fellowship of dentists here. It’s a supportive community of peers helping each other succeed, rather than seeing each other as a threat.”

To find out more about Surgical Master and the many courses they offer please visit their website: https://surgicalmaster.com 

Learning Content

A series of videos on aesthetic crown lengthening in which both the surgical considerations as well as the treatment options available are discussed.

Aims & Objectives

• To appreciate the principles involved in crown lengthening.
• To be able to create appropriate treatment plans for each case with the appropriate rationale and approach.​

Development Outcomes

C. Maintenance and development of knowledge and skill within your field of practice

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Course Summary

This course covers the ten Soft skills that Dental professionals need to enable us to effectively work with others. No matter what your position, organization, or industry, you work with people! Taking the time to build effective soft skills can contribute to a more efficient, and more productive workplace. 

Learning Content

The top 10 Soft Skills online presentation helps you begin to see how important it is to understand the importance of having/developing a core set of soft skills. By managing and looking at the way people interact and seeing things in a new light, all members of the team will improve in almost every aspect of their professional life.

Aims & Objectives

Through the exploration/identification and development of 10 critical soft skills the workshop will help participants enhance patient care by development of soft skills towards optimising interpersonal effectiveness, effective management of self, effective management of others, maintenance/development of skills, behaviors, and attitudes which maintain patient confidence in you, and maintenance of effective communication with patients, the dental team, and others across dentistry.

Development Outcomes

A. Effective communication with patients, the dental team, and others across dentistry, including when obtaining consent, dealing with complaints, and raising concerns when patients are at risk.  

B. Effective management of self, and effective management of others or effective work with others in the dental team, in the interests of patients at all times; providing constructive leadership where appropriate.  

C. Maintenance and development of knowledge and skill within your field of practice.  

D. Maintenance of skills, behaviours and attitudes which maintain patient confidence in you and the dental profession and put patients’ interests first.

Members can enrol now by logging in here, if you’re not yet a member you can register here.

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Course Summary

In this easy to follow, yet very detailed lecture, Dr. Hassall presents an overview of the three main ceramic materials that are currently in use:

1. Feldspathic layering: Infiltrated glass ceramic.  

2. Polycrystaline ceramic: Zirconia.

3. Pressed glass ceramic: e-max

Dr Dominic Hassall stresses that by understanding the science and the nature of these ceramic materials, the clinician is able to use this knowledge to provide the best restoration suitable to any particular situation.

Parafunction also plays an important role in the decision process and the possibility of chipping can rule out the use of the feldspathic layering in these situations.

Course presenter profile

Dominic Hassall, BDS MSc (Manc) FDS RCPS (Glasg) MRD RCS (Edin) FDS (Rest Dent) RCS (Eng), United Kingdom, general dental council registered specialist in Restorative, Periodontal, Prosthodontic and Endodontic Dentistry.

Dominic has been assessed to the highest level completing a masters degree and clinical examinations with the royal colleges in Glasgow and Edinburgh, culminating with the award of the prestigious intercollegiate speciality fellowship in Restorative Dentistry.

He has worked in private specialist practice in Harley Street and as a hospital consultant before setting up his own private, referral clinic, and postgraduate teaching institute in central England.

He is a pioneer in postgraduate dental education, initiating the UK’s first ever Masters programme in Cosmetic and Restorative Dentistry, and then the masters programme in Aesthetic and Restorative Dentistry.

4everlearning members can exclusively access more free training and information on Dominic’s Courses from within the members’ area.

Learning Content

Strength and aesthetic considerations for each of the three main ceramic materials are discussed.

Aims & Objectives

• To understand the nature of the three main ceramic materials currently in use to help the clinician decide on which material offers the best restorative and functional outcomes.
• To be able to balance the aesthetic considerations with the functional strength of each material.
• To be aware of maximum limitations in bridges and cases with parafunction​.

Development Outcomes

A. Effective communication with patients, the dental team, and others across dentistry, including when obtaining consent, dealing with complaints, and raising concerns when patients are at risk.

B. Effective management of self, and effective management of others or effective work with others in the dental team, in the interests of patients at all times; providing constructive leadership where appropriate.

C. Maintenance and development of knowledge and skill within your field of practice.

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Course Summary

In this detailed lecture you will gain more insight into when and why to use the NTI system.

Dr Boyd covers multiple subjects including The How and Why of the NTI.

Migraine Prevention: How the Dentist becomes the Neurologist’s Best Referral Source.

Chairside Splint Fabrication: From Dental Protection to Obstructive Sleep Apnoea.

Learning Content

TMJ and parafunction overview with details of the anatomical and neuromuscular origins of the symptoms and a general overview of​ the management of this condition.

Aims & Objectives

To understand the principals of parafunction control

To gain an overview of the management of headaches.

To be able to diagnose the nature and the cause of the disease.

To understand how and when to use the NTI splint therapy for the ​management of parafunction.

Development Outcomes

C. Maintenance and development of knowledge and skill within your field of practice

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Course Summary

This excellent presentation by Professor Barbosa and colleagues covers in great detail the “Laws” of Implant Dentistry. This course is designed to help both experienced practitioners and also those who are just starting in implant surgery.

The course is packed full of useful resources, videos and easy to follow explanations of each of the essential principles needed for successful implant placement.

Speaker Profile

This course is brought to you by Periospot who specialise in postgraduate training in Aesthetics, Implantology, Periodontolgy and Endodontics.

Francisco Barbosa graduated from the University of Alfonso X El Sabio, Madrid, Spain in 2004. Now he is an oral surgeon specialising in digital implant dentistry with a private practice in Barcelona. He also graduated with an MBA in 2015 where he founded Periospot, an online platform offering interactive learning content for dentists.

4everlearning members can benefit from earning verifiable CPD from a selection of the Periospot created courses on our learning platform.

Learning Content

Overview of 17 concepts in implant dentistry. The concepts covered include:
– The required papillary height between implants.
– How to select the correct abutment when an aesthetic restoration is performed.
– Why bone loss happens when an implant is placed and how to address this.
– When Alveolar ridge preservation should be used.
– The ideal 3D implant position.
– How to create space between the implant and the buccal bone wall.

Aims & Objectives

Provide dental clinicians with an overview of the im-mutable core concepts in implant dentistry to help them improve their protocols and daily practices.
Provide clinicians with different articles, books and other documents to help them take informed decisions and consider the pros and cons of all approaches and techniques in the area of implantology.

Development Outcomes

C. Maintenance and development of knowledge and skill within your field of practice.

D. Maintenance of skills, behaviours and attitudes which maintain patient confidence in you and the dental profession and put patients’ interests first.

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