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Dentist Brain Candy

The podcast is designed for the dentist who likes to learn and improve their practice. The information and content delivered is designed to help the restorative dentist move their practice forward. Each week we start off with an quote that gets the metal gears turning, a book review which will be digested for the listener over a series of episodes pulling out relevant material and applying it to the dental practice. Next an article will be reviewed from the literature and available for download. The show will close with an interesting case that I have come across. Pictures and radiographs, when appropriate will be on the website to review as well. The benefits include having a virtual dental buddy that you can listen to and “hang out with” and talk shop and grow your experience, knowledge and enthusiasm for our profession.
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Now displaying: November, 2015
Nov 30, 2015
Most days in the dental office are pretty routine with drill and fill but every now and then the emergency demons come out to play.  This is episode one of this five part series on emergencies that can and will happen in your office and how to plan ahead so that you can effectively deal with these situations as a team.  I recommend that you have all of your team members watch and listen to these five episodes and when on boarding ANY new team member have them watch the series at www.dentistbraincandy.com

 

Nov 23, 2015
Most days in the dental office are pretty routine with drill and fill but every now and then the emergency demons come out to play.  This is episode one of this five part series on emergencies that can and will happen in your office and how to plan ahead so that you can effectively deal with these situations as a team.  I recommend that you have all of your team members watch and listen to these five episodes and when on boarding ANY new team member have them watch the series at www.dentistbraincandy.com

 

Nov 16, 2015

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Nov 9, 2015

Quote of the Day

Maya Angelou born in 1928

My mission in life is not only to survive but to thrive and do so with some passion, compassion, some

humor and some style.

More than 50 honorary degrees

80/20 Sales and Marketing by Perry Marshall

Chapter 20

Getting famous by polarizing your market

1. Not interested

2. Mildly interested

3. Interest

4. Interested Now

5. Extremely interested

6. Fascinated and Transfixed

7. Insanely Obsessed and Addicted

Chapter 21

8020 Market research in an afternoon

Glenn Livingston

PhD in Advertising

1. Decide what one key work you want to advertise and use on Google Adwords

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Look on You Tube and search the word, Blog search on www.technortai.com for the

keyword/phrase and search the comments and then google alerts and find the most emotional

and engaged comments and the language they use.

Send out survey’s with 3 questions:

1. What is your single most important question about ______ (insert keyword here)

2. Why would it make a difference in your life to solve this problem

3. How difficult has it been to find answers to the above question?

Analyze the longest and most emotional results and analyze to discover the problem and language to

use in marketing.

ITI Consensus Statement

Group #3

Optimizing Esthetic Outcomes in Implant Dentistry

Restorative Procedures affect esthetic outcomes

Limited RCT and data accuracy about this topic

Simple, Advanced, Complex ranking system allows you to rank the complexity and difficulty of implant

cases.

Prevention is key because sometime it is impossible to improve the esthetics after the implant is in

place.

1mm or greater of midfacial recession 25% over time with implant placement 9-41% range

Thin facial bone or a lack there of, facial placement of the implant and thin biotype all lead to recession.

A small number of studies suggest that there may be no recession with immediate placement.

Esthetic results can occur with immediate, early or late implant placement but each has it’s own

challenges

Immediate implants require a clinician with a high degree of skill.

Correct implant placement with 2mm of bone between the facial surface of the implant and the facial

soft tissue. If this cannot be met then early placement is preferred.

Use ridge preservation and soft tissue grafting may be required. There are no consensus on what

procedures are best or preferred.

A team approach is recommended, diagnose the problem, set appropriate patient expectations and

smile line. Look at the restoration contour and implant position.

Grafting and salvage of unaesthetic implants is unpredictable.

Platform switching can be helpful to improve esthetics.

Immediate loading is only recommended in the esthetic zone and limited.

Avoid over contoured restorative materials and abutments. Use esthetic abutments in the esthetic

zone!

Case Presentation

Screw retained temporary restorations are used during uncovering to hold the palatal roll forward for

10-12 weeks to maximize facial soft tissue esthetics and volume.

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Nov 2, 2015

Quote of the Day

Genghis Khan : Not even a mighty warrior can break a frail arrow when it is multiplied and supported by its fellows.  As long as, you brothers, support one another and render assistance to one another your enemies can never gain the victory over you but if you fall away from each other your enemy can break you like frail arrows one at a time.

 

8% of people living in the world today are related

Book Review

80/20 Sales and Marketing by Perry Marshall

Chapter 14

Harnessing natural forces to find leverage points : Reward people over time.

Chapter 15

Outsource the easy stuff first.  Make a list of the things you hate or don’t like or want to do and hire someone to do it.  The dentist should do only what they can do and the rest should be done by someone else to maximize efficiency

Chapter 16

Market

www.perrymarshall.com/8020supplement

Invest in you strengths and ignore your weaknesses

Strength Finders 2.0

https://www.gallupstrengthscenter.com/?utm_source=googadwords&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=newhomepage&gclid=CjwKEAjw8NaxBRDhiafR-uvkpywSJAAxcl6frn7Wg0W_M0bl7HKFatU_aEhLf1iJx9_rMSyCS0XVcRoCnPPw_wcB

 

Invest in your strengths and hire out your weaknesses

Ask five friends to email you about what your strengths are to start building an objective list

Chapter 17

Take salespeople on a test drive and see who can sell and who can’t sell.  Give ten people the task of selling over a week or two and then hire the top one or two.  Greatly accelerates your success.

https://www.upwork.com/

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When you post a job, post it and hire two people for the same job.

 

Post a job with a 35 dollar application fee to week out only those that are serious




Chapter 18

Everyone making over 30 dollars per hour should have a personal assistant (PA).  They can save you up to 10 hours a week.  They need to respect confidentiality

Chapter 19

Fire your bottom 10 per cent of your customers and employees.  Pay them a big severance pay if you must, to feel better.

 

Article Review

ITI Consensus Statements Group 1

Surgical and radiographic techniques in implant dentistry

Cone beam is the test of choice.

Discussed items are consensus based and not research based

CBCT add information, radiographic template is recommended

Use DICOM files/format

CT guided surgery  : average is .9mm error in entry point and up to 1.3 mm at apex and 3.5 degrees in angulation.  Wide range in these numbers.

Tissue supported guides are more accurate than bone supported guides

2mm should be considered and added as a buffer with guided surgery

Use guided surgery to increase accuracy of placement

Narrow Diameter Implants

Defined as being less than 3.5 mm

One or two pieces

One piece implant is less than 3 mm

91% success rates in less than 3 mm over 3.9 years with four lower mandibular implants/edentulous arch

96 % survival with two piece implants over about 4 years

Must be 10mm in length

My Opinion :

Started off strong but need to plan for failure if one piece narrow diameter implants are used and over engineer the case

Horizontal width augmentation

Ideally 2 mm of bone on the facial aspect to maintain soft tissue support long term

My Opinion

Ridge split technique is a clever and predictable way to increase width in the maxilla.

 

Interesting Case

Trauma Case

Nasal Bone, Nasal Septum fracture and the strange CT of the left TMJ which was read as a dislocation by radiology.  Turns out he posture his jaw habitually and the joint was not dislocated.

www.dentistbraincandy.com shows the CT scan and cross section of the joint (saggital).  Heme arthrosis was on the differential.

 

Resources

Feb 2016 CE Event in Spokane WA, Restoring Hybrids Predictably by Bryan McLelland and  Nick Grishin

See the links above

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