December is the perfect time to plan for the coming year.
Join our Zoom-only event and gain insights on the management of medical emergencies that may occur in practice, management of dental unit waterlines, infection prevention and control practices, what it truly means to be all that we can be for our patients, and whether we need antibiotics for infection prophylaxis.
Register for Upcoming Sessions
December 4, 2026 8:30 am - December 4, 2026 3:45 pm
All times for all events are in local Central Time.
Zoom Webinar
Course Number: CF5489
Management of Medical Emergencies in the Dental Office
You and your team must be ready to treat a medical emergency effectively. Even though you may seldom encounter these emergencies in your practice, you must ensure you and your team are proficient in handling these situations. To stay prepared, you’ll review the most essential medical emergency drugs that you should have in your medical emergency kit. You’ll look at how to use each of these drugs specifically for the emergency they are intended to be used for.
Learn How To
- Identify how and when to use various emergency drugs
- Organize a medical emergency kit—and what to include
- Identify which drugs are secondary and not necessarily required to stock in your emergency kit
The Safest Dental Visit
Learn about the fundamental practices for providing safe care in your dental office, including standard precautions, transmission-based precautions, and other special considerations. You'll review the importance of and methods for effective dental unit waterline disinfection, maintenance, and testing.
Learn How To
- Describe the fundamental practices essential for providing safe care in your practice
- Use best practices for the management of dental unit waterlines
- Identify resources and tools for dental infection prevention and safety from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Association for Dental Safety (ADS)
- Apply these resources for reference, recording and monitoring infection prevention and control practices and ensuring basic training for your dental team
Being All That We Can Be: Changing Perspectives to Change Reality
Examine what it truly means to be all that we can be for our patients. We use words like excellence, commitment, and service, but do we really give all we can to the people we serve? See how some of the best dental practices are tapping unused resources to deepen their connections with patients, increase their personal passion, optimize their performance, increase their production, and boost their profitability in the current economy. Without the proper focus, it is easy to experience burnout. See the new techniques and business models that complete clinician teams use to truly be all they can be for the people they serve.
Learn How To
- Diagnose the elements that make a successful practice and promote continual growth
- Create more significant and powerful relationships with patients
- Prepare for the "stage" of great performance and how to set your practice up to succeed
- Use a step-by-step diagnostic tool to identify (and correct) specific areas of the practice that suppress production and limit new patient growth
- Authentically inspire your team to stay "fully engaged" with patients.
- Produce more as a team and "let go" to grow
- Manage the emotional undertones and physical systems for optimal performance
- Examine the secrets of coaching your team to an inspired and winning season every year
Do We Really Need Antibiotics for What We Do?
Antibiotics are routinely prescribed for infection prophylaxis, but should they be? There is a genuine concern that you will lose referrals or trust if you don't prescribe an antibiotic and your patient gets an infection. Litigation centered on adverse antibiotic/drug reactions is on the increase, and the world is on the cusp of a "post-antibiotic era." You'll learn about the latest antibiotic literature for dental practice.
Learn How To
- Understand the history of antibiotics, how prescribing has evolved, and what's new in the pipeline
- Review the literature to help you talk to other providers and patients to debunk the myths surrounding antibiotics
- Understand the optimal drug, dose, and duration of antibiotic prescribing for common outpatient surgical procedures pertaining to oral and maxillofacial surgery and dentistry
- Recognize antibiotic prescribing habits have changed for specific diseases – and understand when to prescribe an antibiotic and when not to
Training Methods
Lecture, discussion, case studies