Practice Administration & Dental Assisting

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Protecting Your Dental Office From Embezzlement & Fraud

Gordon J. Christensen, DDS, MSD, PhD; Lisa Harris; and Toni Wengreen


Your practice may be "ripe" for embezzlement or may currently have an embezzler! Lisa is an expert in detecting dental office embezzlement, and Toni has had years of dental office bookkeeping and accounting experience. Years ago, before computers, many remember the paper "peg board" system with several copies of production. Although not without problems, embezzlement was somewhat difficult. Now, with computer entry of production, patient billing, collection and payment, it has been estimated that a large percentage of dental offices are experiencing employee embezzlement.

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SKU: V4739
$159.00
2 CE Credits

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Advice for the Ideal Practice (What Every New Dentist Should Know)

This presentation was made especially for new practitioners, or those seasoned dentists who would like to benefit from Dr. Christensen's experiences in practice and teaching concerning the characteristics he feels are necessary to develop an ideal dental practice. Included are pragmatic, easily implemented concepts for every clinical area encountered in the modern general practice, along with suggestions to make dentistry faster, easier, and better.

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SKU: V4798
$159.00
2 CE Credits

Basic Materials & Techniques for Dental Assistants and Others

An excellent presentation for new dental assistants, front desk staff, sales personnel, and others!  Gordon shows the most-popular, must-know techniques and concepts in general dentistry.  Subjects are prioritized for optimum learning, while emphasizing the hottest topics!Read More...

SKU: V4787
$159.00
2 CE Credits

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Clinical Tips for Front Desk Staff

New and experienced front desk personnel often do not have adequate clinical knowledge to allow them to make related clinical decisions. For example: How does patient inability to have a vasoconstrictor change treatment? Why do some crown preps require 5 minutes and other 30 minutes? How do you deal with artificial joints or drug allergies? How best to treat an unruly child? Knowledge about the many clinical situations shown by Dr. Christensen will greatly improve the ability of your front desk personnel to interpret clinical conditions and make necessary accommodations.

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SKU: V4795
$159.00
2 CE Credits

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Clinical Tips for Hygienists from Dentists

As with any other profession, dental hygienists become so involved with the specifics of their own area that other important clinical situations related to dental hygiene may go unnoticed. Examples are: Is a fixed bridge loose or not? How should composite resin restorations be polished, and with what? Can gold alloy restorations be injured with scalers? Should ultrasonic scalers be used on teeth containing posts or inlays? How can you avoid damage to a porcelain crown or implant? The information shared by Dr.

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SKU: V4797
$159.00
2 CE Credits

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Dr. Christensen's Most Frequent Failures & How to Avoid Them

Need we say more? You need this video! This best seller shows the common problems most of us have had, or will experience, in our clinical practices. Gordon discusses many failures and demonstrates solutions he uses in his own personal practice based on many years of clinical experience and research. Learn to recognize and avoid or deal with those situations, techniques, and procedures that have high failure probabilities. Get a jump-start and avoid failures as you share valuable years of experience and make decisions on these many difficult clinical situations!

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SKU: V4796
$159.00
2 CE Credits

Essentials of Effective Dental Assisting

This is one of Dr. Christensen's most popular conceptual videos! Very few subjects are as important as having knowledgeable, motivated, efficient, and dedicated dental assistants. Spend one-hour on 30 subjects ranging from thinking ahead, to setting up operatories, to accepting responsibility are included. This video is conceptual.

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SKU: V4761
$159.00
2 CE Credits

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Faster, Easier, Higher Quality Dentistry

These three concepts do go together! Improve the quantity of your practice up to double, while improving quality as well. This presentation includes many concepts, techniques, devices, and materials that make dentistry faster and easier. Dr. Christensen shares fourteen easily implemented steps that will increase your practice effectiveness.

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SKU: V4791
$159.00
2 CE Credits

Scheduling for Optimum Productivity

Scheduling patients is an art and a science, requiring both education and experience. Concepts shared in this video will increase your productivity and income significantly! Topics included are: planning and increasing hourly production, planning for scheduling staff needs, multiple patient scheduling, understanding and implementing the financial aspects of scheduling, methods to develop responsibility in scheduling staff, and enjoying dental practice! Your scheduler is a major factor in developing and maintaining your practice success.

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SKU: V4785
$159.00
2 CE Credits

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Dr. C's Fantastic Practice-Building Techniques

Building a successful practice has been a great learning experience for Gordon. Share his views on what attracts patients and what turns them off. Observe how to successfully bring patients into your practice and retain them for years. What has Gordon done that occasionally upsets patients? Among the topics included are patient educational methods, conversation during treatment, informed consent, a comfortable office environment, staff behavior, fees, re-dos, establishing trust, and much more.

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SKU: V4709
$159.00
2 CE Credits

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Creative Management for Increasing Practice Activity

Many innovative concepts and techniques exist that can benefit your practice, including developing an educated proactive team; educating your patients to the treatments you do well; providing highly desirable procedures; internal marketing; providing patient incentives; and developing excellent public relations. Gordon discusses those concepts he has found to be successful in his private prosthodontic practice as well as those methods reported as successful from many of his dental CE course attendees.

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SKU: V4738
$159.00
2 CE Credits

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Protecting Yourself against Malpractice Suits

David H. Epperson, JD (Malpractice Attorney) & Gordon J. Christensen, DDS, MSD, PhD

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SKU: V4733
$159.00
2 CE Credits

Dental Assisting for Posterior Restorations

To be released September 2010. Pre-order by July 1, 2010 to receive 10% discount. Regular price - $159.

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SKU: V4745
$143.10
2 CE Credits

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Effective Use of Four-Handed & Six-Handed Dentistry

Are you using your dental assisting staff efficiently and effectively? Watch Gordon and two highly skilled, experienced and effective assistants accomplish both four and six-handed dentistry. Subjects included are:

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SKU: V4714
$159.00
2 CE Credits