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Solea User Group Meeting 2023

SUGM 2023 Courses

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!

SUGM 2023 Courses

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.

SUGM 2023 Courses

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 and 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 and her office manager, Sasha Martinez, will discuss how they've 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.

SUGM 2023 Courses

Implant Dentistry: Raising the Bar with Your Laser
This course will identify opportunities to integrate Solea into your digital implant workflow to deliver predictable outcomes, and better outcomes, for your patients and practice. Dr. Stinchfield 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.

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.

SUGM 2023 Courses

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.

SUGM 2023 Courses

Soft Tissue Sculpting for the Restorative 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 and coding and post-op care to ensure you are fully ready to start integrating soft tissue treatments into your practice.

Everyday Crown Lengthening - from Fractured Cusps to Uneven Smiles and More!
Learn how to handle everyday problems such as a cusp fractured to the level of the bone, recurrent decay under crowns leaving inadequate tooth structure, uneven gingival margins impacting smiles and cosmetic prothetic results and more. The ability to accurately and precisely ablate both soft and osseous tissue make Solea the perfect tool for crown lengthening. This course will provide participants with an introduction to closed and flapped crown lengthening, including rationale, indications, treatment planning and other key clinical considerations. It will also highlight and explain the same-day production opportunity enabled by crown lengthening.

SUGM 2023 Courses

Exploring Implants and Implant Osteotomies
This course will review and discuss opportunities to integrate Solea into your implant placement and restoration workflow. Participants will also explore the possibility of performing implant osteotomies with Solea, including a specific case study where Dr. Brantley cut a 10mm deep osteotomy with subsequent implant placement.

Advanced Surgery: Tori Removal, Extractions & More
From tooth sectioning to tori removal to implant osteotomies, the number of procedures in which Solea effectively can be utilized continues to expand. In this course, Dr. Brantley will present and discuss a series of advanced hard tissue surgical cases with Solea. Participants will also gain hands-on practice utilizing Solea.

Falling in Love with Solea All Over Again
After years of using Solea, Dr. Brantley reflects on his 6 year journey and how he continues to fall in love over and over again with the technology. During this course, he’ll discuss everything he has done to make sure his practice is fully utilizing and benefiting from this technology. Topics will include unique clinical cases, patient stories, marketing strategies, and team best practices. He’ll discuss tips and techniques for using the laser, how to communicate with patients, and how to objectively review your business to truly understand the impact Solea has had on it. Learn how Solea can continue to contribute to the success of every part of your practice and renew your passion for dentistry.

SUGM 2023 Courses

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:  The Future is Unwritten
As the dental field moves closer to gender parity, female dentists are working harder than ever. Women are finding the means to impact our profession in numerous roles and earning respect at the same time.  These new roles have led to more opportunities and advancements for women. The future of dentistry depends on how women face professional challenges,  master work/life balance, and perform in leadership roles.  This luncheon will review the challenges women continue to face in the field of dentistry, provide guidance on the work/life balance, and strategies to support one another as we move forward.  The future of dentistry is unwritten, let’s write the future together.

SUGM 2023 Courses

Protecting Teeth with Lasers: An Introduction to Demineralization Reduction
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to Solea Protect, Solea's newest application that helps to inhibit caries development! Solea is used to gently heat the surface of the tooth, resulting in the removal of carbonate impurities within hydroxyapatite. Solea Protect is even more effective when used in combination fluoride. This course will include an introduction to CAMBRA, a review of relevant research, an overview of Solea Protect protocol, techique and workflow, as well as patient communication and marketing strategis.

SUGM 2023 Courses

Optimizing Clinical Outcomes using Modern Technology
The rapid evolution of modern dental technology has enabled clinicians to deliver both amazing clinical outcomes for their patients and business outcomes for their practice. During this hands-on course, Dr. Kelly will discuss and demonstrate how he leverages Solea in conjunction with others technologies, including digital scanners and 3D printing, to drive optimal outcomes.

Mastering Soft Tissue Interaction and Outcomes
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.

SUGM 2023 Courses

Tips and Tricks for Hard Tissue: Deeper Restorations and 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.

Direct and Indirect Restoration Removal
Solea vaporizes composites like butter, making removal fast and easy, and can be used to remove amalgam, zirconia, e.max and other indirect restorations in a matter of minutes. This class will explore the science behind restoration removal with Solea and provide key tips on how to remove restorations safely and efficiently, saving you time and materials. Participants will also get hands-on experience sectioning and removing crowns with Solea.

SUGM 2023 Courses

Functional Frenuplasty: An Advanced Approach
Ankyloglossia (or tongue tie) is a 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.

SUGM 2023 Course

Myofunctional Therapy: Pre- & Post-Frenum Release
The importance of myofunctional therapy in the preparation and 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.

SUGM 2023 Courses

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 and Dr. Vaughn will identify and discuss Solea Sleep opportunities and best practices, including treatment planning, workflow, team education, patient communication and clinical pearls.

SUGM 2023 Courses

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 and Dr. Vaughn will identify and discuss Solea Sleep opportunities and best practices, including treatment planning, workflow, team education, patient communication and clinical pearls.

SUGM 2023 Courses

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.

SUGM 2023 Courses

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.

SUGM 2023 Courses

Functional & Aesthetic Crown Lengthening
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.

Saving Teeth & Implants with Regeneration
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.

SUGM 2023 Courses

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! Denisse Lasanta, DMD, and her Office Manager, Sasha Martinez, will discuss how they've 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.

Sponsored SUGM 2023 Course

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.

SUGM 2023 Courses

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.

SUGM 2023 Courses

Protecting Teeth with Lasers: An Introduction to Demineralization Reduction
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to Solea Protect, Solea's newest application that helps to inhibit caries development! Solea is used to gently heat the surface of the tooth, resulting in the removal of carbonate impurities within hydroxyapatite. Solea Protect is even more effective when used in combination fluoride. This course will include an introduction to CAMBRA, a review of relevant research, an overview of Solea Protect protocol, techique and workflow, as well as patient communication and marketing strategies.

SUGM 2023 Course

Marketing You, Your Practice & Your Technology
Discover marketing practices and strategies that will get your practice noticed and drive new patients! During this course, you'll learn the basics of planning and branding, how to leverage word-of-mouth and build an online presence leveraging your website and social media, and how to build a referral network with other specialists in your market.