Practice Administration & Dental Assisting

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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