Join us at the JW Marriott Indianapolis October 17-19 for Solea Summit 2024

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Basic Training with Solea: Associates
The fundamentals are the building blocks of fun! Learn and practice techniques so you can use Solea with confidence. Gain the knowledge needed behind the 9.3μm wavelength to integrate it seamlessly into your everyday practice. This certification class will start from turning the laser on to basic laser safety. You’ll get ample hands-on opportunities to practice hard and soft tissue procedures on extracted molars and pig jaws.

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Beyond the Basics: The Next Steps in Treating Sleep Apnea in Your General Practice
This lecture is focused on the next step in your sleep apnea therapy journey. Many clinicians understand the basics of sleep apnea, the need for screening, and the functionality of oral appliances but few are fluent in the financials and the appointment-by-appointment protocols. Take a deep dive into crucial subjects such as bite-taking techniques and a medical insurance overview.

Toothaches, Implants, and Sleep, Oh My! A Tale of a Cone Beam Driven General Dental Office
Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) has ushered in a new era of 3-D imaging for clinicians. It enables dentists to SEE more, but how does it empower them to DO more? And what does this actually look like in a dynamic dental practice like yours? In this lecture, Dr. Erin Elliott will share best practices about how to optimize CBCT for diagnostic and treatment planning of patients. From implant planning and placement to common incidental findings and sleep apnea, general dentists will leave this program with actionable takeaways.

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Complex and Aesthetically Challenging Crown Lengthening: An Advanced Course
This course will provide participants with a better understanding of the rationale behind crown lengthening, the knowledge to correctly diagnose and treatment plan, as well as hands-on experience in performing the crown lengthening procedure. Who wants to wait 3-6 months post-crown lengthening for prosthetic restoration? A majority of this course will focus on the abilities of the Solea laser to achieve predictable outcomes for both functional and esthetic crown lengthening. Participants will learn how to combine laser and biological technologies to achieve a superior result in an expedited manner.

Implant Complication Protocols: An Advanced Course
This course will include a review of the etiology and diagnosis of tooth and implant complications, as well present current and new biotechnology that can enhance regeneration around both teeth and implants.  This course will feature hands-on anatomical models where attendees will practice laser treatment and use grafting materials around teeth and implants. Participants will learn when an implant and tooth can be saved and when it should be removed. You will also practice debriding implants, removing implants, and grafting implants and teeth defects. 

Treating Pain, Necrosis, Inflammation and the Microbiome: An Advanced Course
Dr. Froum will discuss and present a myriad of advanced ways Solea can be utilized to deliver superior clinical outcomes for your patients, including using it to treat idiopathic pain, trigeminal neuralgia, osteonecrosis, aphthous ulcers, desquamative gingivitis, and herpes lesions. This laser can increase your scope of practice abilities exponentially.

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How to Create and Grow a Multi-Site Dental Business
Running multiple dental locations takes a different mindset and skillset compared to running one practice. During this lecture and open forum course, Dr. Kim will describe how she built out her multi-site dental business and facilitate conversation around how other practices have done the same. She will guide discussions around how owners can leverage technology, systems, and protocols to take their business to the next level. Asking questions and sharing ideas is encouraged, whether you are thinking of expanding or already own multiple locations.

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Case Closed: 90 days to 90% Case Acceptance
Improving your patients oral health only happens when they say YES to complete care. Improving your bottom line happens with the same. Unfortunately most practices that track case acceptance close around 34% of the time. With 29 years of closing complete care at 90%+ in his own practice and 15 years of helping practices all over the US do the same, Dr. David R. Rice has an effective and repeatable system for you to do the same.

Smile Design: The 7 Deadly Sins
From direct to indirect restorative to clear aligners to interdisciplinary care… Designing smiles is what we do. Those who understand and implement seven core principles don’t just design smiles…they design their practice success and financial futures. Join us as we discuss these seven principles and see how Solea transforms it all. Take home the smile design playbook that will transform how you assess, treat and triumph.

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Mastering Soft Tissue Surgery in the General Practice
Learn advanced techniques related to soft tissue ablation, incision/excision and de-epithelialization that will help you expand the number and quality of surgical procedures performed in your office. Dr. Kelly will also discuss relevant practice management concepts including scheduling and insurance best practices. This course will discuss and provide hands-on experience with a wide range of soft tissue surgical procedures, including gingivectomies, biopsies, uncoveries, depigmentation and more.

Solea and Indirect Restorations
Solea should sit at the center of your digital practice, complementing surrounding technologies, enabling you to streamline procedures and improve clinical effectiveness. During this lecture, Dr. Kelly will review how Solea elevates many indirect restoration procedures, including cometic gingival recontouring, designing emergence profiles, crown lengthening, and removing ceramic crowns.

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Advanced Operative in the Pediatric Practice: Mastering More than Just Cavities
Traditionally invasive procedures like pulpotomies and stainless steel crowns now can be performed anesthesia-free thanks to the 9.3 µm CO2 laser – simplifying the experience for your team and elevating the experience for your patient. The laser also simplifies other advanced pediatric procedures including extractions, exposures, operculectomies & more! This course focuses on pediatric treatments beyond cavities that you can use Solea to deliver amazing clinical and practice outcomes.

How to Make Your Pediatric Practice Grow!
Laser dentistry can be an absolute game changer for your pediatric patients and practice, especially when the full team is onboard! Dr. Lasanta will discuss how she has leveraged Solea to drive production and growth and the best practices they've learned along the way. This comprehensive course will review marketing (selling the Wow!), team coordination and scheduling, and communication.

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The Compound Effect: Digital Dentistry and Dental Lasers
As the dental industry rapidly evolves, understanding and effectively implementing technology is paramount for enhancing patient care, streamlining workflows, and achieving superior clinical outcomes. During this course, Dr. Rihal will discuss how to leverage your dental laser in conjunction with other technologies, including digital scanners and 3D printing, throughout various stages of the treatment process. Case studies illustrating the seamless integration of these technologies in various dental procedures will be reviewed.

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Restrictive Tethered Oral Tissues and the Airway
Tongue position impacts breathing, and a tongue-tie can impact tongue position. During the day, a tongue-tie may restrict the passage of air through your throat, leading to mouth breathing. At night, it may contribute to your tongue falling back and closing off airflow, leading to snoring or sleep apnea. This course will focus on the diagnosis and treatment of tongue ties as it relates to overall treatment planning for airway health.

Solea Sleep: Basic Training
Learn how to educate, communicate with, and treat patients with Solea Sleep! Gain the knowledge needed to integrate it seamlessly into your everyday practice. This certification class will start with a clinical overview of sleep related breathing disorders, then cover the science behind Solea Sleep, and how to integrate the treatment into your practice. You’ll get hands-on opportunities to practice Solea Sleep procedures.

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Optimizing Practice Integration: It Takes a Team!
Driving and optimizing practice impact with Solea takes the full team! In this course, Jennifer Bolamperti will share best practices and incorporate learnings from her team's Solea Journey, including workflow, scheduling, team education and patient communication.

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Mastering the Class II
Everyone loves predictable, efficient, and positive patient experiences. This class will teach you how to reach for perfection when practicing “bread and butter dentistry” with Solea. You will learn what works and what doesn’t for Class II cavity preps and how to make this procedure easier for you, your team, and your patients.

Women in Dentistry Lunch: As Strong as the Women Around Me
The number of women dentists is rising quickly. Currently 32% of practicing US dentists are women, and the increasing number of female dental students in the educational pipeline will make a large impact within the next several years. What effect will this have on our future? This luncheon lecture will discuss the paradigm shift in dentistry, where women will play a significant role and influence in this field.

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Crown Lengthening: Leveraging Technology to Create Optimal Results
This class will provide participants with a comprehensive 'how to' for both functional and aesthetic crown lengthening, including case selection, coding, diagnosis, treatment planning (incorporating radiographs & CBCT, biologic width, aesthetic evaluation), and technique (anterior vs. posterior crown lengthening). Participants will also gain hands-on experience utilizing Solea to sculpt soft and osseous tissue.

Periodontal Surgery for the General Practitioner
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that more than half of the U.S. population over the age of 30 has an advanced form of periodontal disease. This course will provide participants with an introduction to evaluating and performing periodontal surgery with Solea. Dr. Rohde will discuss a range of topics including clinical evaluation, case selection, coding, as well as treatment planning, steps and techniques. The course will also review a typical clinical case from start to finish so you can grow confident in your ability to start utilizing Solea for this treatment in your practice!

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Dental Sleep Medicine: An Introduction
Sleep-related breathing disorders are highly prevalent, significantly under-recognized, and can result in serious health issues. In this course, Dr. Pagano and Dr. Vaughan will provide an introduction to dental sleep medicine, including sleep disorder classification, anatomy, and screening and diagnostic protocols. They will also discuss and discuss various treatment options for your patient base.

Integrating Laser Treatment into Your Airway Protocol
Integrating laser treatment into your airway protocol offers a new therapy for patients and new production for your practice, whether you are treating simple snoring, OSA or other sleep-related breathing disorders. In this course, Dr. Pagano & Dr. Vaughn will identify and discuss Solea Sleep opportunities and best practices, including treatment planning, workflow, team education, patient communication and clinical pearls.

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Dental Sleep Medicine: An Introduction
Sleep-related breathing disorders are highly prevalent, significantly under-recognized, and can result in serious health issues. In this course, Dr. Pagano and Dr. Vaughan will provide an introduction to dental sleep medicine, including sleep disorder classification, anatomy, and screening and diagnostic protocols. They will also discuss and discuss various treatment options for your patient base.

Integrating Laser Treatment into Your Airway Protocol
Integrating laser treatment into your airway protocol offers a new therapy for patients and new production for your practice, whether you are treating simple snoring, OSA or other sleep-related breathing disorders. In this course, Dr. Pagano & Dr. Vaughn will identify and discuss Solea Sleep opportunities and best practices, including treatment planning, workflow, team education, patient communication and clinical pearls.

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Tips & Tricks for Hard Tissue: Deeper Restorations & Faster Prep Times
This course will introduce and review key concepts and techniques to ensure that your practice is comfortable and confident in fully utilizing Solea for its hard tissue capabilities. Dr. Wimmer will introduce best practices, as well as identify common challenges and pitfalls, related to scheduling, patient communication, Solea settings and clinical techniques. Learn how to make all cavity preparations easier and more efficient for you, your patients and your team.

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Introduction to Soft Tissue Surgery in the General Practice
Why refer patients out when you can keep them at your practice and deliver amazing clinical outcomes? This class will review basic soft tissue techniques (incision/excision, ablation, and de-epithelialization) and the treatments they enable, including gingivectomies, fibroma removals, aphthous ulcers and more! It will also cover treatment planning, billing & coding and post-op care to ensure you are fully ready to start integrating soft tissue treatments into your practice.

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How To Make Insurance Less Painful
This interactive course is designed to help dental teams take control of their insurance management and streamline the process to make dental insurance less painful. Through this course, you will learn the three major steps to estimate accurate copays, foresee and avoid unexpected claim denials, and get paid on the first submission. The course includes real-life examples and practical exercises to reinforce your learning. Join us on this journey to optimize your insurance management and make insurance less painful for you and your patients!

Dental Insurance SOS 
If you've found yourself overwhelmed by an insurance aging report with too many commas, out-of-control A/R, and mixed-up groups in your practice management software, this course is for you. By the end of this course, you'll be able to efficiently tackle your insurance aging report, untangle the groups in your practice management software, and sort out your collections policy. Join us in this journey to optimize your insurance management and get the money you deserve flowing into your practice!

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Myofunctional Therapy: Pre- & Post-Frenum Release
The importance of myofunctional therapy in the preparation & rehabilitation of a tongue-tie release cannot be overstated. Pre-release, myofunctional therapy is critical to preparing muscles for surgery. Post release, myofunctional therapy improves recovery and helps to minimize frenum reattachment. This course will outline key therapies for the tongue, head, neck and jaw muscles to ensure you are delivering the best possible care and outcomes to your frenectomy patients.

Lactation Consultant + Speech Therapy Course

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Functional Frenuloplasty: An Advanced Approach
Ankyloglossia (or tongue tie) is an orofacial disorder that can significantly affect a patient's health and quality of life, from difficulty breastfeeding to disrupted sleep to altered craniofacial development. This intensive course will provide doctors with a foundation for the correction/release of angkylogossia including diagnosis, patient communication, step-by-step surgical techniques using Solea and post-treatment care.

A to Z on Infant Frenectomies: From Partnerships to Treatment Planning to Post-Surgical Care
Tongue ties (ankyloglossia) affect more than 5% of all babies born in the United States. Restrictive oral tissues that prohibit the baby from latching and breastfeeding can have significant negative consequences for both the baby and the mother. In this course Dr. Poplin and Naiomi Catron, RN IBCLC will cover anatomy, diagnosis, treatment planning, patient communication, referral building as well as post-treatment care.

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Hard Tissue Reboot
Are you under-utilizing Solea for cavity preps or having trouble achieving consistent analgesia? This is the class for you. Dr. Raucci will provide a comprehensive overview of hard tissue best practices, including clinical techniques, laser settings, ergonomics and patient communication. Participants will have an opportunity to apply learnings during the hands-on portion of the course. Increase your confidence in delivering reliably anesthesia-free cavity preps for your patients and your practice.

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Predictable Laser-Assisted Extractions & Implant Dentistry for the General Practitioner
Solea is an amazing tool in your extraction and implant armamentarium. This course will identify and discuss opportunities to integrate Solea into your workflows to deliver better and more predictable outcomes for you and your patients. Dr. Marcano will discuss techniques for the restoration of common implant systems including how to achieve an optimal emergence profile for function and esthetics and how to identify same-day dentistry opportunities as well as techniques for tooth extractions including retained root tips.

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Maximizing Revenue with Same-Day Laser Dentistry: A Practical Implementation Workshop
Now that you are clinically confident doing many Solea procedures, let’s do more of them! Enhance your practice's revenue potential by embracing Same-Day Laser Dentistry cases. This workshop focuses on leveraging your clinical expertise to perform procedures efficiently on the same day they're discovered, particularly in hygiene. Think about the value. Patients do not want to take more time off work. And as a practice, we do not have to schedule a block in the future and worry about them cancelling. A true Win-Win. By streamlining processes and communication within your team, you can seamlessly integrate Same-Day Laser Dentistry into your practice, providing added convenience for patients and minimizing scheduling concerns. Join us for a comprehensive discussion on procedures, communication strategies, and essential protocols to successfully implement Same-Day Laser Dentistry and elevate your practice.

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Raving Patients: Get Visible, Get Credible: Get More New Patients
Word of mouth has always been the foundation for the acquisition of new patients by a dental practice but in our internet age, word of mouth is transformed because of reviews sites like Google, Yelp, and Facebook. Online reviews are now one of the biggest ranking factors in a local search. Being credible is only one piece of the puzzle though. Your practice also needs to be found online when people are searching for a dentist near them. Are you at the top of the Google Map Pack? If not you are invisible and all of those great reviews are not doing you much good. In this seminar, Dr. Tau shares numerous tips and best practices to not only become credible but visible online. He will also discuss the system that has been tried and tested in his own office enabling him to take his practice to the next level simply by marketing his reputation.

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How Robotic Technology is Transforming the Patient Experience & Practice Growth vis Implant Dentistry

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Laser-Focused Wealth: Eric J Morin’s Strategy for Significantly Reducing The Time To Pay Off Your Investment and Unlocking Endless Profit and Cash Flow
In "Laser-Focused Wealth: Eric J Morin’s Strategy for Significantly Reducing The Time To Pay Off Your Investment and Unlocking Endless Profit and Cash Flow," participants will embark on a comprehensive journey designed to transform financial liabilities into powerful assets. Presented by Eric J. Morin, Tower Leadership's Founder—an acclaimed MBA, Author, and National Speaker— this course is tailored for Doctors and business owners who have ventured into investments, such as advanced technology purchases, and seek a robust methodology to not only recover their initial outlay swiftly but also to leverage these investments for sustained growth and profitability.

Throughout this immersive session, Eric will share his proven framework, combining cutting-edge financial tactics with practical steps to ensure participants can replicate his success. The course is built on the premise that with the right approach, investments can be paid off within a year, setting the stage for a future of abundant cash flow and profit generation.  This course is designed to empower participants with the knowledge and tools needed to turn their investments into catalysts for financial success. Through Eric's guidance, participants will learn to navigate the complexities of investment payoff and unlock the potential for endless profit and cash flow.