2024-25 Course Objectives
After completing The 2024-25 Dental Update you should have acquired the knowledge that will better enable you to:
- Discuss the characteristics and proper management of patients with current or past substance use disorder.
- Understand metrics, analyses and strategies to better ensure practice profitability.
- Better understand cases for which non or minimally surgical orthodontic approaches are appropriate.
- Appreciate the impact of dental hygienists on practice success.
- Identify and diagnose oral mucosal disease.
- Understand methods to optimize retirement planning and practice value.
- Understand the elements and implications of standard of care and informed consent.
- Describe approaches for managing odontogenic pain with opioid and non-opioid analgesics.
- Understand the planning, negotiating, and implementing a practice merger or acquisition.
- A better understanding of oral and systemic connections.
- An appreciation of the practices and processes for optimizing revenue cycle management.
- Understand common sleep disorders and their management.
- Understand the connection between uniform diagnostic criteria and patient treatment acceptance.
- Explain the coverage and limitations of a dental malpractice insurance policy.
- Understand how recognition and treatment of pediatric breathing disorders improves adult health trajectories.
- Understand how the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 impacts effective retirement planning.
- Understand the successful use of local anesthetic agents.
2025-26 Course Objectives
After completing The 2025-26 Dental Update you should have acquired the knowledge that will better enable you to:
- Identify, diagnose and treat ulcerative changes to oral mucosal soft tissues.
- Understand and meet today’s practice challenges.
- Better understand how to compare dental laser technologies to determine the most appropriate tool for specific soft- and hard-tissue procedures in clinical practice.
- Identify and manage substance-abusing patients.
- Identify financial controls to prevent fraud and increase revenue.
- Identify and manage substance-abusing patients.
- Understand the terms and implications of alternative associate agreements.
- Enhance early detection of oral cancer through effective screening, risk assessment, and diagnostic examination techniques.
- Identify the characteristics of a great dental practice culture and team.
- Identify insurance gaps and litigation stress management techniques.
- Identify dental considerations relating to cannabis.
- Identify legal and practical issues associated with buying or selling a dental practice.
- Identify and evaluate the clinical signs of ankyloglossia and maxillary labial frenula in infants, understand their impact on breastfeeding, and determine when surgical intervention is appropriate.
- Understand the oral impact of and treatment approaches for acid airway reflux and DM2.
- Understand the legal and ethical pitfalls of salivary diagnostics and genomics.
- Discuss the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of acute pain.
The Update, offered weekly in over 50 enviable destinations, is a unique, 20-hour survey of the intersection of practice management, risk management and selected clinical topics.
The Update is produced in state-of-the-art studios utilizing 4K digital technology and presented via COVID-safe, Destination-based, Remote Classrooms. That means, as in the past, you will participate in the travel destination of your choice during scheduled lecture hours, however, you will view The Update on your laptop, tablet or smart phone from the comfort and safety of your hotel room or condominium. And you will do so in the virtual and interactive company of your colleagues in attendance at the same time.
We think this offers the best of all worlds: Comfort, safety, and the ability to interact in real time with a multi-discipline audience of professional peers. You will have over 1,000 opportunities to attend, at your choice of over 40 premier sun and ski resorts, through the end of September – virtually any week you choose.