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2010 Annual Session - Is Your Practice Financially Fit?
Credits: None available.
In this presentation, Jackie Shoemaker will discuss the components necessary to maintain a financially healthy practice. Keeping a pulse on your practice requires going beyond the scope of what your CPA covers to gain a deeper comprehension of orthodontic accounting. The goal is to help you acquire an understanding of how a consultant analyzes a practice for cash flow success so that you can uphold the financial strength of your practice.
Learning Objectives:
- Investigating the nuances of your practice management software that may provide inaccurate accounting figures so that you may correct them.
- Understanding the definitions and ratios for orthodontic accounting and their potential for distortion.
- Monitoring components of the accounting audit trail on a monthly or quarterly basis.
Speaker(s):
- Ms. Jackie M. Shoemaker, BS, JM Shoemaker Consulting, Inc.
2010 Annual Session - Clear and Not-so-clear in the Crystal Ball of Orthodontics (Mershon Lecture)
Credits: None available.
Arguably, the most significant recent advances that affect orthodontics are not the trends in bracket fashion. Instead, the emerging alternate brackets or bracketless systems and their image-guided manufacturing are positioned to affect the specialty the most. Will technology ever replace the technical skills of the clinician? The crystal ball is not so clear with the answer, but more clear with its question: Will planning of treatment become a mere algorithm? How much education is needed to practice orthodontics? History of orthodontics is replete with efforts to reduce treatment to an algorithm. None have succeeded for a very good reason: every human being is a mutant; one size does not fit all. This presentation will discuss the important advances that are likely to affect the practice of orthodontics and how the orthodontist of the future can measure success where variation is the dominant theme.
Learning objectives:
- Learn about effective new developments in appliance systems
- Learn about new concepts of understanding treatment effects on the face
- Learn about research methods fit for clinical orthodontics.
Speaker(s):
- Orhan C. Tuncay, DMD, Cert Orth
2010 Annual Session - Cervical Vertebral Maturation Method: A Crystal Ball for Practicing Orthodontists?
Credits: None available.
Dr. McNamara will describe the CVM method that has been used routinely by our group for the last decade. Developed originally by Lamparski in 1972, this method has been refined and modified for use in contemporary orthodontic practice. The six stages of maturation of the second, third and fourth cervical bodies will be described in detail, with practical suggestion as to how these stages can be identified easily and reproducibly by the practitioner as a supplementary data during diagnosis and treatment planning.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the six stages of cervical vertebral maturation as visualized in the lateral cephalogram
- Use the CVM method in identifying prepubertal, circumpubertal and postpubertal maturational levels
- Apply this technique easily in daily practice
Speaker(s):
- Dr. James A. McNamara, DDS, PhD
2010 Annual Session - Biomechanics for Non-compliant Maxillary Orthopedics Protraction
Credits: None available.
For an extraoral maxillary orthopedic protraction device such as facemask or reverse headgear, the direction of protraction has been proven to be 30-degree downward and forward biomechanically in order for a bodily protraction of the maxilla. However, by utilizing vertical biting force during mouth closiing, it is extremely difficult biomechanically for an intraoral non-compliant device to deliver a 30-degree downward protraction force through the center of resistance of maxilla. The technique of effective maxillary orthopedic protraction is developed for the maxillary protraction in growing Class III patients in the early permanent dentition. This technique includes alternate rapid maxillary expansions and constrictions (Alt-RAMEC) for an effective loosening of the circumaxillary sutures, and a pair of B-TI intraoral protraction springs for the non-compliant maxillary orthopedic protraction. The center of resistance of maxilla varies with the extension of loosening of the circumaxillary sutures by the Alt-RAMEC, and therefore, the protraction result by using the B-Ti intraoral protraction springs varies accordingly. Through 2 and 3 dimensional cephalometric and computer tomographic analyses of the maxillary positional changes before and after portraction, this presentation will present the design and the orthopedic biomechanics of the B-Ti intraoral protraction springs and the clinical tips and results on the application of Alt-RAMEC and B-Ti intraoral protraction springs.
Learning Objectives:
- For the orthopedic biomechanics in maxillary protraction, the center of resistance of maxilla varies with the extension of loosening of the circumaxillary sutures, and therefore, the protraction result by using intraoral non-compliant retraction springs varies accordingly
Speaker(s):
- Dr. Eric J. Liou, DDS, MS
2010 Annual Session - Biomechanics and Esthetic Based Non-Surgical Treatment of Dental and Skeletal Open Bites
Credits: None available.
Successful treatment of dental and open bites is challenging due to its etiology, neuromuscular, and esthetic components. This presentation will describe biomechanics designed appliances which can deliver force system with minimal to no side effects. Mechanics associated with skeletal anchorage devices to correct open bites will also be discussed.
Learning Objectives:
- Force system of biomechanics-based simple archwires and cantilevers to correct dental and skeletal open bites.
- Clinical application of mechanics and how teeth move in patients treated with malocclusion-specific mechanics
Speaker(s):
- Dr. Ravi Nanda, BDS, MDS, PhD
2010 Annual Session - A Few Deadly Sins Doctors Make in Sales
Credits: None available.
Based on his recent book titled Five Deadly Sins CEOs Make in Sales, Dr. Lewis will discuss the most common buyer habits, how buyers make selections, and how practice owners can develop effective and profitable business methods for their practices. Dr. Lewis has exhaustively observed and studied numerous practices and businesses to develop systems that demonstrate how best practice selling techniques can and should be applied in an orthodontic practice to increase the rate of conversion.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize and understand buyer (parent/patient) behavior
- What is the difference between marketing and selling
- Tips and techniques for establishing an effective business practice
Speaker(s):
2010 AAO Webinar - Running A Successful Orthodontic Practice - How to Get Started
Credits: None available.
Orthodontics is what you know. Developing and running a small business is foreign territory. How do you maintain your vision? How to start? Where to start? Can I afford it? This presentation will focus on what it takes to create a successful small business.
Learning Objectives:
- Why do some small businesses succeed where others fail?;
- How to write an effective business plan;
- Organizational structure-its all about systems! Case examples of practice "opportunities" will be analyzed and discussed.
Speaker(s):
- Dr. John Callahan, DDS, MS
2010 AAO Webinar - Non-Implant Replacement of Missing Anterior Teeth
Credits: None available.
One of the most complex problems orthodontists face are patients with missing teeth in the esthetic zone. Implant replacement is often the first option considered by the interdisciplinary team but may not be the best restorative option for the patient due to financial reasons or other constraints.
Learning objectives include:
- To review the challenges in preparing patients for dental implants;
- Discuss indications and contraindications for various restorative options;
- Discuss indications and contraindications for dental substitution;
- Review the esthetic considerations in patients with missing anterior teeth;
- Discuss strategies for improving interdisciplinary communication in these patients.
Speaker(s):
- Mark R. Yanosky, DMD, MS
2010 AAO Webinar - A Step by Step Guide to Developing a Winning Team
Credits: None available.
Creating a winning team takes patience, wisdom, and resilience. It is not like fitting a band. This presentation will explore specific situations that occur daily in practices across the country that can lead to conflict in the office. Participants will receive proactive strategies to preventing the breakdowns. You will learn what it takes to be an effective team leader and the steps required to build an effective team.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn to improve practice efficiency and productivity
- How to create more patient referrals
- How to reduce stress
Speaker(s):
- Charlene White, BS
2009 NESO Annual Meeting - What We Can Learn From Randomized Trials in Class II Treatment?
Credits: None available.
This presentation will outline the advantages and disadvantages of randomized trials methodology in research into the effectiveness of orthodontic treatment for Class II malocclusion. It will also illustrate the high level evidence for various types of treatment with particular emphasis on patient values and early treatment of children with increased overjets.
Learning Objectives:
- The advantages and disadvantages of randomized trial methodology
- Evidence based Class II treatment
- Patient values in orthodontic research
Speaker(s):
- Dr. Kevin O'Brien, BDS, MSc, D.Orth, PhD