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Dental Enhancements offers an array of courses and lectures designed to help dental practices grow and prosper. Presented either at your professional meeting, in your office or online via private webinar, these in-depth workshops will help lift your dental practice above its present plateau to new heights of profit and patient satisfaction.
 We are proud to represent Crest and Oral-B as a select member of Procter & Gamble's Professional Oral Health National Speaker's Program. Our courses and workshops are empowering, state-of-the-art and can be combined to fit your study group or dental societies interests. GET YOUR NEXT STUDY GROUP OR DENTAL SOCIETY MEETING SPONSORED BY PROCTOR & GAMBLE! EMAIL US FOR MORE INFORMATION. . .
Email or call us at (941) 587-2864 to schedule your evaluation.
BUILD YOUR OWN WORKSHOP
for your office, study group or dental society meeting...
You can choose to have your workshop in-person or online.
In-Person - Our Interactive Workshops offer education and an unforgettable team-building experience with a Dental Enhancements Empowerment Coach in your office for 1-day, 2-day, 3-day workshop or 4-Part Series (8 days of workshops over several months).
Online - Our Web-Enabled Workshops provide a convenient and affordable way to improve staff skills with a web-hosted coaching session with a Dental Enhancements Empowerment Coach utilizing the Go-To-Meeting™ service. Available in 1-hour, 2-hour, 4 hour or 4-Part Series (Four 2-hour sessions over several weeks).
Below is a brief description of each of our workshops. Choose the workshop(s) that best fit your needs and budget.
 The New Era of Patient Motivation
Behavioral Change / Lifestyle Coaching
Reaching beyond the typical co-discovery & co-diagnosis, this course helps the dental clinician gain a new-perspective on motivation for their patients. The result is a life-long “Paradigm-Perspective Shift” for the patient. The “ah-ha” we all wish to initiate as clinicians now can occur with great frequency! Learn how to ask the “right” questions, get into your patients “world” and change what they do to care for their teeth & gums for their lifetime!
A review of:
- Conventional & New-Formulation Pastes & Rinses
- Power Brushes
- Water Irrigators
- Matching Products & Homecare appropriately to Patient Needs
- Patient Profiles: Examples of Patient Cases and their change in perspective
- Change that must occur on the part of the Clinician
- Chairside Presentation
Behavioral Lifestyle Coaching brings a whole new healing dynamic to the practice of clinical hygiene. It is the new-psychology of long-term health for patients.
 Email or call us at (941) 587-2864 to learn more about this workshop.
 Patient Product Solutions
From Pastes to Piks...The choices are endless and can seem overwhelming especially to patients.
Take a candid look at the products your patients use and want to know about: Tooth Pastes, Mouth Rinses, Power Brushes, Water Piks, New Oral Medicines & Natural Remedies.
This workshop will help you to:
- Gain OTC Product Clarity
- Review Old vs. New Formulations
- Recommend Optimal Homecare Regimen / Patient Specific
- Customize a Product Philosophy for your Practice
- Make Product Recommendations based on Factual Findings
- This is a fully researched workshop that brings you the current facts and references clinical findings.
Your entire dental team will feel more confident having this valuable information and be more accurate in advising patients on the products that are available to them.
Email or call us at (941) 587-2864 to learn more about this workshop.
 FYI: Finding Your Information
Answers to Contemporary Fact Finding
It’s a new era of “Information Gathering” for Dental Professionals. While information is readily available, where you get it and how you sort it out is paramount! New parameters for evaluating clinical studies are mainstream and all clinicians need to be aware of them. Enjoy this easy-to-understand update on vital clinical information gathering.
Learn about:
- Differentiating Credible Sources
- Web Searches & Competent Clinical Trials.
- Evidence-Based Decision Making
- Meta-Analysis & Systematic Reviews
This course will help you gain powerful insight for your information searches and resources ! Knowledge is Power.
Email or call us at (941) 587-2864 to learn more about this workshop.
 OSHA Made EASY™
Every State requires dental offices have Annual Employee OSHA Training and operate your facility at full-compliance. But, how do you really know if you are completely in compliance and meeting all State and Federal required standards? With so much to research, know and implement it can become overwhelming! Never fear, the OSHA super-hero is near!
A fun and novel approach to meeting OSHA required standards delivered by one of the few Dental OSHA Experts in the country. This workshop gives a comprehensive overview and easy-to-follow guidelines to ensure your OSHA efforts payoff… and won’t leave you frazzled and frustrated. Learn what is required and how to ‘get it done’!
This workshop will review:
- What is required of your team
- What is required of your Facility
- What you may be overlooking or missing
- How your team can work together to ‘get it done’
- What are the NEW HIPAA--- HI TECH LAWS & Red Flag Rules for Dental Offices
Enjoy DENTAL TRIVIA…. For unforgettable learning with cool dental prizes!
Email or call us at (941) 587-2864 to learn more about this workshop.
 W.I.N.E.
WINNING INFLUENCES FOR THE NOW ECONOMY
A “tasteful” approach to learning that helps remove “the bite” that today’s economy could be taking out of your dental practice! This course offers Practice Growth Secrets from a learned expert who has visited hundreds of dental offices over the past 2 years to discover what’s working best! Everyone wants to have ‘the edge’ in today’s uneasy market. Join our tasty learning workshop for valuable ideas that will enable your practice to really soar, in spite of today’s economy.
Learn how to :
- Authentically inspire patients to accept and schedule needed treatment
- Hone your best marketing tool: Your Team!
- Discover & fill gaps in your schedule / production
- Create value added health programs within your Hygiene Department
- Learn the NEW / NOW Marketing Techniques that attract great patients
- Save time and money ordering supplies, the secrets only sales reps know
- Explore new technology and plan your techno-blueprint
- Use resources you already have and get the most return on new investments
All of this, while you sip on several delectable varietals of wine!
*Optional: Wine Sommelier can attend and co-host or bottles can be integrated as prizes if venue will not allow alcohol service!
Email or call us at (941) 587-2864 to learn more about this workshop.
 Mineral Infusion Therapy
Fluoride just got a facelift
Mineral Infusion Therapies now replace conventional Fluoride Treatments. Learn the new CDA & ADA recommendations for chairside and home prevention. Get up-to-date and on track with this new protocol for your Hygiene Department. Calcium, Phosphorous and Fluoride formulations are new and revolutionizing preventative efforts. Use of chairside-varnishes, glass ionomers and innovative formulations of home pastes are the new standard-of-care according to the ADA, CAMBRA, National Institute of Health, John Featherstone. PHD UCF, Gordon Christenson.
Learn how to:
- Create the NEW Standard-of-Care Prevention Program in your Hygiene Department
- (All Forms, Price Structure and Insurance Codes included!)
- Generate consistent new revenue stream within Hygiene Department
- Implement the New-Age of Prevention
- Work with Pertinent Products that Fit Specific Patient Needs
- Obtain the List of Lifestyle Tendencies, issued by the ADA, that deem a patient to be at low, medium or high risk for future decay
- Differentiate between Novamin™, Recaldent™ & ProHealth™ and where they “fit”
- Use powerful Coaching Techniques to Enlighten Patients
- Protect your existing C & B, low-saliva flow and poor OHI patients as never before!
- Differentiate between Old & New Formulations: A Complete Fluoride Review
Email or call us at (941) 587-2864 to learn more about this workshop.
 Tne NEW Prevention Paradigm
The Science of Prevention in dentistry has drastically changed over the past 5 years
From how we analyze data to how we should be influencing patients. From over-the-counter products to dispensing product choices within the dental office, there has been a significant shift and gain in preventative alternatives. Learn how to best advise your patients and grow your hygiene department.
This course will review:
- How to use Evidence-Based Decision Making for your Patients
- Using the Cochran Report and the Web for your Research
- Best Prevention Products: Over-the-Counter + Dispensing Products
- Mineral Infusion Therapy--- The New Fluoride Era
- Ask Don’t Tell—Influencing Your Patients’ Homecare Habits for Life!
- Making It work-- as a Profit Center within your Practice
- Move your Prevention Program into Twenty-first Century gear. This is a powerful and enlightening workshop!
Email or call us at (941) 587-2864 to learn more about this workshop.
 Perio Fitness
An Update & Up-Grade to Traditional Soft Tissue Management
If you have not updated and re-created your Soft Tissue Management Program since the version taught in the 1980s -- it’s time! This overview provides a progressive yet conservative, periodontal treatment approach, utilizing three proven principles for magnificent periodontal stabilizing results.
- Full-Mouth Disinfection & Layering: Clinical Techniques
- Homecare Irrigation: Venturi Theory
- Behavioral Change through Lifestyle Coaching
- Clinical and psychological insights for Hygienists that yield better healing/outcomes with less strenuous demands.
This engaging program facilitates Lifestyle Coaching for your patients that will inspire them as never before, to seek and implement care! The results: pristine healthy tissues, dedicated and elated patients! Renew your hygiene department, restore patient health and commitment, revive your hygiene profits.
An Introductory Study Group Workshop: 4 - 8 hours or Taught as a 6-Day / 4 part series (In-Office), for Teams.
Email or call us at (941) 587-2864 to learn more about this workshop.
 White NOW !
Whitening options are abundant and more affordable than ever! Learn the current commercial vs. clinical options and which will fit the best into your practice and your patients’ budget.
Create an in-office Whitening Program that includes:
- Creating a Functional Whitening Menu with Suitable Options for Your Patients
- Affordable Promotions
- Patent Presentation Skill Set for your Team
- Pairing Whitening with other Products for better Outcomes
Don’t let your patients get their whitening in “the mall.” Create a Whitening Education Program that will be fitting for every patient need. Touch-and-Feel various Whitening Products for a hands-on experience. Enjoy samples too!
Email or call us at (941) 587-2864 to learn more about this workshop.
 Top Ten Things NEW Dentists Need to Know…
Every new or young dental graduate wishes they had the voice of reason and experience on their side to springboard themselves into success! This workshop serves as an invaluable guide for the young practitioner who wants to be sure they get it right, from the get-go! Industry tips and secrets from the country’s top-producing, most savvy teams.
- What are the most important attributes in a Team?
- Technology “Must Haves” & “Have Not-s”
- Best Values on Supplies
- Salaries, Commissions, Bonuses, Benefits
- How to Create the Most Dynamic Dental Hygiene Protocols
- Effective Dispensing of Healing Products
- OSHA & HIPAA “How-To”---Made EASY
- Keeping your Employees IN-LOVE with Work
- Best Marketing Investments for Your First 5 Years
- “Branding” Your Practice---Set Yourself Apart
- What type of LEADER will you be---How will it effect your progress?
A compelling workshop that will serve as a long-term guide for the young dentist to effectively navigate these challenges be them apparent or allusive. A future-forecast for success!
Email or call us at (941) 587-2864 to learn more about this workshop.
 Dental YOGA
Effective Ergonomics for the Dental Professional
Developed with ergonomics and proper work-posturing in mind, this healthy-movement workshop showcases simple maneuvers that can add years to your clinical life and keep your body pain-free! Avoid the crippling effects of poor work-posturing and habits. This is a “come comfortably dressed” workshop, as we will be doing the moves that will keep you sitting pretty for an entire career! You’ll use this course daily for the rest of your dental-life and love it! Proven Techniques to Mitigate Stress, plus, keep your body and mind in proper motion at Work.
This workshop will review:
- Helpful Workplace Stretching
- Deep Breathing & Revitalization Techniques
- Strategies for Sitting Properly
- Ergonomic Instrument Handling
- Get your entire team Healthy, Happy and Balanced! (Light stretching required)
Email or call us at (941) 587-2864 to learn more about this workshop.
 POWER Huddle
How to have the best huddles… ever!
Dental teams have long known the power of having morning meetings known as “huddles.” Discovering patient needs, ease-in-flow for your day and filling in cancellation gaps can prove most productive and optimizes stress reduction. But how long will this take? And what exactly should you include in your office huddle? Learn efficiency tips for having the Best Huddle… Ever!
This is a course will cover:
- 7- Step Pre-Huddle Preparation
- 10- Step Power Huddle Guidelines
- How to be Accountable and have Fun doing it!
- Team Cohesiveness & Hitting Goals
- Efficiency & Effectively
Not having a morning meeting to discuss your schedule flow and patient needs will lose a dental practice an average of $1000 per day! Are you exposing yourself to this kind of a loss? Then, Stop it! Get some serious substance out of your huddle.
Business Image Transformation
Email or call us at (941) 587-2864 to learn more about this workshop.
 How Team Appearance Effects Your Bottom-line
First impressions really “do” matter especially with so many dental practices for patients to choose from. Discover how to incorporate distinctions into your dental practice that “sets-you-apart” from the rest. Design “the image” that is best suited to attract the patient sector you desire! Learn how you dental office and team looks, how your team speaks (with eloquent command of the English language) how they carry themselves, how they do or do not make eye contact and yes, even how they dress can deeply effect patient relations. This seminar provides insight that will ensure your continued success to attract desirable patients and have them accept needed treatments.
Learn how to:
- Get a “Fresh, New Look” for your team
- Redecorate your office (with minimal investment)
- Make the most of “the Patient Experience”
- Apply Improved Verbal Skills and Hospitality Tactics
- Tailor all of the fore-mentioned to your comfort level & your target market. This course lays out these step-by-step nuances that will attract wonderful patients into your present reality and influence patient perceptions!
- Tooth Talk-- Speaking to Patients On Their Terms
Email or call us at (941) 587-2864 to learn more about this workshop.
 DISC Personality Typing & Powerful Verbal Skills for All Occasions
How many times per day do you find yourself in a situation where you are paralyzed for a lack of what to say to convey comprehension of necessary treatment to your patients? You may know what you want to say, but have trouble articulating it, or patients just “don’t want to hear it”. Why is it that we can many times not “find the right words”, much less convey health and necessity to our patients?
Learn a proven, practical technique for identifying Personality Types, and how to use them within all of your human relations! This up-beat, interactive seminar provides creative strategies that will take the headache out of Treatment Presentation and Patient Acceptance. Emphasis on relating to the patient “in their own terms” to create vivid understanding is a focal point.
This workshop provides instruction on:
- DISC Personality Training & Survey
- The Magic of Metaphors---Applied Chairside
- The Art of Affinity & Persuasion
- Cohesive Succinct Team Verbiage
- How to Overcome Challenging Patient (& Co-Worker) Relations
- How to Create an Outstanding Practice via “the Spoken Word
- Discover the immense benefits that lies within your daily application of “the spoken word”!
Email or call us at (941) 587-2864 to learn more about this workshop.
 Maximize the Effectiveness of the Intra-Oral Camera
Learn and master the skills necessary to execute flawless & time-efficient Intra-oral images
This workshop will provide: Intra-oral camera (IOC) handling tips, how to use images with innovation, plus, powerful verbal & non-verbal strategies for performing the “touch-less cavity exam.”
Learn how to Maximize your IOC use:
- During Hygiene Visits on Every Patient
- With the Dental Assistant while the Doctor is in or out of the operatory
- During New Patient Examinations
- During Treatment to Track Progress and Conditions
- For maximum Insurance Benefits Coverage
- For communication with Specialists
- Within Treatment Plans for Patient Reference and Visual Understanding
This course is geared to the entire dental team because intra-oral images involve a coordinated team effort . The hygienist, dental assistant and doctor may “host” and operate the intra-oral camera but, the business team’s involvement will have significant impact to support intra-oral imaging benefits!
Email or call us at (941) 587-2864 to learn more about this workshop.
 Phone Etiquette & 5-Star Service Training
From the moment your receptionist answers your phone, she’ll have an average of 5-20 seconds to make and create a memorable first impression on a potential new patient caller. The hospitality industry has many Customer Relation Techniques that can have a powerful impact when used within your dental practice. This workshop focuses on “High-Impact Customer Relations Skills” that will attract high-quality patients to your practice.
Learn techniques to:
- Write & Record a Unique and Memorable Business Phone Message
- Connect with New Patients Using a Customized Phone Interview Intake Form
- Pre-Discover your Patients’ Needs--- then Exceed their Expectations
- Apply Patient Welcoming Skills and Offer Special Amenities Unique to Your Office
- Create and Continue to WOW and Nurture your Patients
A “Field Study” option can be added to this workshop in some areas / Tour of 5-Star Business.
Have them at “hello”…
Email or call us at (941) 587-2864 to learn more about this workshop.
 Today’s Life Saver
The Head and Neck Reality Check
This course provides a contemporary look at oral cancer and important components to include in your Oral Cancer Screenings and Patient Education. Learn new statistical information on oral cancer prevalence, the efficacy of present-day head and neck exams, how to change patients’ perception for the value of “screening, not just cleaning” and how early detection can save lives!
Discussion will also help you encourage your tobacco user patients with: promoting tobacco cessation; the prevention of oral cancer, the poor prognosis of periodontal treatment, the decreased longevity of dentition and restorative dentistry and quality of life.
Upon completion of this course, the participants will:
- Know the steps to follow for oral cancer screening
- Steps for office implementation of Oral Cancer Awareness
- Coach and educate patients in options for smoking cessation
- Give information on self-exam
- Be aware of options for early detection of oral cancer
- Know some products available from the oral cancer foundations and other useful websites
- Document information given to patients
Email or call us at (941) 587-2864 to learn more about this workshop.
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