ClearCorrect Continuing Education

 

ClearCorrect workshops:

• Workshops Information and Details
• Speakers

ClearCorrect e-courses:

• Getting started: Clear Aligner Basics
• Practice Building with Clear Aligners 
• Beyond Aligner Basics: For the Experienced Provider

Workshops

Check out the information below for our live training workshops currently available. If you're interested in attending any of these courses you can click on the provided link or contact a Sales Representative at (888) 331-3323 and ask to speak to someone about registering.

Workshop schedule, information and details

We've put together a variety of new AGD PACE live training workshops around the US for you and your staff to attend. Each one-day workshop offers 8 hours of CE credit upon completion, while our special two-day combination workshops offer 16 hours of CE credit. Food & drinks are included with each course. 

Get your whole office ready to promote clear aligners—bring your staff for a small admission fee. 

To register or learn more information, click the links in the schedule below.

Reserve your spot now and enter the promo code EARLYBIRD at checkout to save 20% off list prices.*

June 2	Boston, MA	Clear Aligner Basics
June 8	San Diego, CA	Building Your Team, Practice and Profitability
July 14	Philadelphia, PA	Unlocking the secrets of clear aligners and digital dentistry
August 10-11	Seattle, WA	Clear Aligner Basics + Building Your Team, Practice and Profitability
September 15	Denver, CO	Clear Aligner Basics + Restorative Treatment
October 27	Nashville, TN	Clear Aligner Basics + Team Communication for Case Acceptance
Nov. 30-Dec. 1	Orlando, FL	Clear Aligner Basics + Building Your Team, Practice and Profitability

Clear Aligner Basics

Dr. Ken Fischer and/or Dr. Jeff Briney presents this comprehensive 8-hour workshop on the basics of clear aligners. Featuring demonstrations and helpful advice on a broad range of topics, this workshop is ideal for doctors who have no previous experience with clear aligner treatment or for doctors looking to refresh their knowledge on the subject.

Half-day 4 hour course:

Outline/Syllabus:

• Introduction to the concept of clear aligners in orthodontic treatment
• How to select and submit cases for treatment with clear aligners
• Case examples – simple to moderate cases
• Approving and disapproving Treatment setups: technician talk
• How to manage clear aligner treatment
  • IPR – what you need to know
  • Engagers – what you need to know
  • Progress appointments & revisions
  • Troubleshooting techniques for clear aligners
  • Retention – protocols and types of retainers

Full-day 8 hour course:

Outline/Syllabus:

• Introduction to the concept of clear aligners in orthodontic treatment
• How to select and submit cases for treatment with clear aligners, including
  • Is your patient a good candidate?
  • Case complexity index
  • Online case submission process
• Case examples – simple to moderate cases
• Hands on exercises
• Approving and disapproving Treatment setups: technician talk
• How to manage clear aligner treatment
  • IPR – what you need to know
  • Engagers – what you need to know
  • Progress appointments & revisions
  • Troubleshooting techniques for clear aligners
• Retention – protocols and types of retainers
• Setting up your practice for success with clear aligners, including:
  • Preparing your practice
  • Treating your first patient
  • Prioritizing aligners in your practice
  • Team responsibilities
  • Marketing your services

Restorative Treatment

Dr. Jeff Briney discusses how to differentiate between a restorative and an orthodontic patient, how to use clear aligners to position the teeth before restorative treatment, case examples with implants, training office staff in treatment planning, and more.

Outline/Syllabus:

• How to differentiate between a restorative and an orthodontic patient
  • Cases & discussion of different approaches
• How to redirect the thought process to using clear aligners to position the teeth into ideal arch form before restorative treatment
  • Facial and aesthetic cases in adults that previously would have been solely restorative cases (veneers/crowns)
• Case examples involving congenitally missing teeth with implants being part of the final treatment plan
• When to bite the income bullet and treat the patient vs. jumping into the restorative smile makeover
• Comparing clear aligner technology vs. conventional “hardware” ortho with restorative in mind

Training the office staff to a new morphing mind in treatment planning: time/priority/costs/etc.

Team Communication for Case Acceptance

Cyndee Johnson, RDH, a global expert in practice profitability shares her 30 years of dental experience with you and your team to guide your patients to YES when it comes to case acceptance. She'll teach the multitude of patient benefits when correcting malocclusion and leave you with effective communication skills to build rapport and help remove barriers to treatment and move aligner cases onto your schedule. Her interactive course provides take-away's for immediate implementation. 

Outline/Syllabus:

• The benefits of correcting malocclusion
• Identifying clear aligner patients
• Successful communication with patients
• Professional rapport vs. personal rapport for case acceptance
• Cross training of staff clear aligner roles
• Breaking down financial barriers
• 1-hour goal setting, including
  • Q&A
  • Individual office break-outs to set goals
  • Ten take home’s for immediate implementation
  • Interactive exercises for case goals & team coordination

Building Your Team, Practice and Profitability

Rosemary Bray shares her extensive knowledge in the field of orthodontics and dentistry. Her full-day course offers tools for enhancing verbal skills to increase conversion rates and referrals, techniques and scripting for the new patient phone call & exam, and intensive training for doctor, staff, and treatment coordinators to effectively help build profitability with clear aligners in your practice.

Outline/Syllabus:

• Enhance your verbal skills to provide a more powerful and confident presentation
• Review and understand the changing of needs of Today’s Orthodontic New Patient
• Gain proactive verbal skills along with key phrases to increase conversion rates and referrals
• Review advanced techniques/scripting to enhance your New Patient Phone Call and Exam
• Intensive training for staff and Treatment Coordinators:
  • Traits of an effective Treatment Coordinator
  • The role of the doctor in the exam
  • 5 things that the doctor alone must accomplish
  • 20 things the Treatment Coordinator must do
  • Fee presentation
  • Addressing stumbling blocks
  • Improving verbal skills to present a more polished/professional patient experience

Unlocking the secrets of clear aligners and digital dentistry: Hands-on workshop

Dr. Melissa D. Shotell, DMD, MS presents a full-day hands-on workshop which encompasses intraoral optical scanning combined with exposure to digital work flow for clear aligner treatment. Clinical photography will be incorporated to allow participants to return to their home office and begin utilizing the digital work flow within their practice. This course aims to describe the procedures related to intraoral optical image production. Participants will have hands-on experience of bonding engagers to feel comfortable to return to their practice and being treatment. Participants will also have the opportunity to explore the business skills necessary to incorporate clear aligners into their practice. The workshop is a PACE approved program offering 7 hours of CE credit upon completion. Continental breakfast and buffet lunch provided.

Course objectives:

• Understand principles, theory, and procedures of intraoral optical scanning technology
• Exposure to information on the incorporation of the digital flow into daily practice
• Acquire knowledge and confidence in photography necessary to begin clear aligner treatment
• Exposure to utilizing digital software to treatment plan for clear aligner therapy and the digital work flow
• Become experienced with techniques of intraoral scanning

 *Promotional pricing available for a limited time only, subject to discontinuation without notice.

E-courses

For providers that have purchased an e-course, your staff may do the course free of charge. Please contact your sales rep for details on getting them enrolled. 

Upon purchasing the course, a registration link will be emailed to you with instructions on how to get started. Once you have completed the course and filled out the evaluation, your CE cert will be available for immediate download. Staff may also receive CE for each course completed. 

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Speakers

Dr. Ken Fischer, Orthodontic Specialist

Dr. Ken Fischer has been practicing as an orthodontic specialist in Southern California since 1975. He is a Past-president of the California Association of Orthodontists and currently serves as a council chair for the AAO.

Dr. Fischer embraced clear aligner treatment in 2000 and has treated a broad spectrum of malocclusions in over 1200 patients. He served on the Invisalign Clinical Advisory Board for 13 years, but now serves ClearCorrect as its Clinical Advisor.

He is the author of a number of published articles, a mentor, domestic and international lecturer, and consultant for clear aligner orthodontic corrections.

Dr. Jeffrey R. Briney, D.D.S

Dr. Briney is an award winning graduate of Indiana University and 20 year history of his private practices in Dana Point & Laguna Beach which have been featured in many dental publications. He is currently establishing a collection of practices in Dubai which will be debuting in late 2018. He speaks regularly around the world with regard to his personal approach to Surgical, Laser & Restorative Dentistry complimented with Facial Esthetics & Orthodontics for companies such as Biolase, Straumann, Coltene, Dentsply and Clear Correct.

Dr. Briney has provided hundreds of patients with the clear aligner technology via several different companies over the last 10 years and has chosen Clear Correct as his only provider over the last 4 years prior to him speaking on behalf of Clear Correct. He has developed the "Blending the Restorative & Orthodontic Treatment Plans" course for doctors who want to broaden their approach and thought process when it comes to seeing clear aligners as an adjunct to most treatment plans.   Dr. Briney also writes for several publications ranging from techniques utilized in his personal cases to evaluating many dental products that are new to our dental field.

Cyndee Johnson, RDH

Cyndee Johnson, RDH, a global expert in practice profitability, shares her 30 years of dental experience with you and your team to guide your patients to YES when it comes to case acceptance. She'll teach the multitude of patient benefits when correcting malocclusion and leave you with effective communication skills to build rapport and help remove barriers to treatment and move aligner cases onto your schedule. Her interactive course provides take aways for immediate implementation.

 

Rosemary Bray

Rosemary Bray has more than 30 years employed in the dental profession, with experience in general dentistry, periodontics and orthodontics. Her last 16 years were as OM and Treatment Coordinator for a quality San Diego orthodontic practice. In 1998, she began her self-employment as a speaker and consultant in Orthodontics and Dentistry. She taught oral hygiene and dental care to 400 children from 37 countries at the International Community School of Zurich.  She has lectured nationally and internationally on behalf of the AAO, numerous orthodontic companies, various dental societies, ortho and dental study groups. She is also a visiting Clinical Instructor in the orthodontic department of the University of the Pacific, School of Dentistry in San Francisco where she donates her knowledge and experience to future orthodontists.

Melissa D. Shotell, DMD, MS

Dr. Shotell has always believed that education is her true passion, so much in fact she has lived throughout the country to study at multiple universities to bring a broad set of experiences to clinical practice. Dr. Shotell studied dentistry at Nova Southeastern University in Florida where she met her husband, a fellow dentist. After completing her dental degree she studied hospital based dentistry at The Ohio State University and earned a General Practice Residency Certificate. Following her training at Ohio State, she worked as a private practiced dentist providing comprehensive dental treatment in Columbus, Ohio. After years in clinical practice Dr. Shotell realized that Orthodontics was her professional calling and returned to school at Loma Linda University to receive a Master’s Degree in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics.

Dr. Shotell enjoys teaching continuing educations courses on orthodontics and ergonomics. Dr. Shotell has traveled as far away as India to teach and enjoys having the opportunity to share ideas and collaborate with other doctors throughout the world. Dr. Shotell also writes articles on orthodontic techniques for publication.

In her free time Dr. Shotell and her husband enjoy spending time with our friends and family, traveling, and exploring the local area. They enjoy cooking and consider themselves true ‘foodies’ always looking for new recipes and great local food. Their two dogs Pumpkin and Flower are always looking for mischief, and manage to keep them very busy. 

ClearCorrect is designated as an Approved PACE Program Provider by the Academy of General Dentistry. The formal continuing dental education programs of this program provider are accepted by AGD for Fellowship, Mastership and membership maintenance credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by a state or provincial board of dentistry or AGD endorsement. The current term of approval extends from 4/1/2015 to 3/31/2019. Provider ID 304173.