Endo Ce

[mg777]

Anyone familiar with this guy's endo ce courses? http://www.endobuchanan.com/
The site has a sweet intro, other than that I dont know too much about it yet.
Some folks at dental town suggested it to as good courses to look into after d-schoolr. You have any thoughts on the cost-benefit of these types of courses in terms of increasing practice revenue vs. time lost seeing patients?

btw sorry about crossposting in NBDE forum, i meant to post here and cant delete new threads.

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[DrJeff]

Anyone familiar with this guy's endo ce courses? http://www.endobuchanan.com/
The site has a sweet intro, other than that I dont know too much about it yet.
Some folks at dental town suggested it to as good courses to look into after d-schoolr. You have any thoughts on the cost-benefit of these types of courses in terms of increasing practice revenue vs. time lost seeing patients?

btw sorry about crossposting in NBDE forum, i meant to post here and cant delete new threads.

Steve Buchanan is a very good CE speaker who has what is becoming rare these days, the ability to actually deliver a good deal of relevant CE info without being too slef promoting. He really explains crown down rotary endo in a very simple, effective way with some great visuals of the 3-d anatomy of the entire root/canal structure. Sure, he puts the sales pitch in a bit for the Pro File sytem from Tulsa Dental that he's the designer of, and yes, he will mention his hands on multi-day courses, but in a day lecture, he delivers the goods.

Is it worth the time away from the office and registration fees to see him, I definately felt I got my money's worth when I saw him, and while I was quite comfortable with rotary endo before seeing him, some of the little tidbits I picked up from access prep design to more time efficient use of irrigants and files are things that I use each and every time I'm doing an endo now. And I can honestly say that I don't get such good tidbits at each and evry CE course I take.

From my personal learning post graduation, the best CE speakers I've seen to date in terms of really good info and not aot of glorified self promotion are:

Peter Dawson - occlusion
Steve Buchanan - endo
Joe Massad - removeable prosth
Ross Nash - esthetics
Frank Spear - occlusion/esthetics
Dennis Tarnow - implants/perio
Carl Misch - implants
Bill Strupp - occlussion/prosth
Gordon Christensen - a bit of everything
John Svirsky - oral path
Paul Belvedere - anything related to composite
Dan Fisher - a bit of everything

Unfortunately the other list (not alot of info and a good amount of self promotion) is much longer😡

 

[mg777]

Dr. jeff thanks for the extensive reply! Since you have an exhaustive knowledge I figured Ill pick your brain for a little more info if you dont mind. For a GP coming fresh out of school, are there any CE courses you would recommend taking fresh out the gate?

 

[DrJeff]

Dr. jeff thanks for the extensive reply! Since you have an exhaustive knowledge I figured Ill pick your brain for a little more info if you dont mind. For a GP coming fresh out of school, are there any CE courses you would recommend taking fresh out the gate?

Occlussion and practice management, no doubt about it. So much of what you'll do as a GP ties in with occlussion and most schools while giving a good core education in it, don't elaborate enough. CE wise, this is a bit of a controversial area in dentistry with 2 main groups existing. Group #1 is the "old school" group of the Pankey Institute/Peter Dawson theory of occlusion being realted to a fixed anatomical relationship of Centric Relation. Group #2 is the Bill Dickerson/Las Vegas Institute "new school" theory, where occlussional is roughly based on a neuro-muscular equilbrium point. Both of them essentially will say that when you restore a mouth, for ideal purposes it needs to be restored to a certain position, its where exactly this position is that differs between the 2 groups. Everyone should atleast get some exposure to both schools of thought and then determine which groups makes the most sense to you and then expand on your occlussion CE from there.

Practice management. Hands down, one of the most important things you'll need if you want to run your own practice/be a partner some day, and in just about all d-schools out there one of the least covered topics just simply becuase of time limitations in many cases. Take a bunch of CE from many speakers on this topic, since so much of how you'll run an office will not just be based on some business model, but you're own personal views/ideas/goals for your practice. This is where one speaker's ideas/concepts may work great for your views but awful for someone elses.

 

[TimR]

Dr. Jeff,
any thoughts on who you like for practice management? I know there are tons of these "guru's" out there.

The only stuff I have really gotten into is the Comfort dental model (rick kushner). But I know there is a lot of controversy surrounding him. Who do you like?

 

[DrJeff]

Dr. Jeff,
any thoughts on who you like for practice management? I know there are tons of these "guru's" out there.

The only stuff I have really gotten into is the Comfort dental model (rick kushner). But I know there is a lot of controversy surrounding him. Who do you like?

I can honestly say that how I run my practice isn't in the exact model of any one "guru" out there, but rather a compilation of multiple ideas that i thought sounded good when I heard them over the years, and then thought about them with respect to the office staff I have, the demographics of where I practice, and the combined view that my partner and I share for how we want our practice run. I know it sounds like a BS answer, but in reality, my partner and I in all likelyhood do more things opposite of what some of the gurus preach than follow them to their word. Over the years, I've actually learned that when it comes to the financial side of my practice nowadays that I listen more to new ideas that come from my accountant than I hear in a lecture hall at a CE course.

See a bunch of different practice mnagement CE speakers, and most importantly, KEPP AN OPEN MIND whne listening to them. Your style will evolve over the years as you find out what works for you and more importantly what YOU'RE COMFORTABLE with whether its Kushner, Farran, De St. Georges, Englehart-Nash, Levine, etc