You didn’t go into business to manage artwork and design or write advertising copy. You didn’t go into business to manage printing, source mailing lists or deal with complicated postal rules and deadlines.

That’s where Smartprint comes in – we do all that for you.

Over the last twenty years we’ve developed the best processes, invested in technology, studied and identified the finest equipment available, and engaged the best people. We deliver excellence in marketing care so you can deliver excellence in clinical care.

During August and September we are offering free artwork and design when you send our standard postcard mailers. We can also provide free mailing lists.

Call us on 1800 118 991 or click here to get started on the road to finding and keeping more patients.

Yours Sincerely
Smartprint

Recipes for success in Endodontics … including the use and abuse of Ledermix and other materials and techniques that produce better clinical results

Your Webinar Invitation: Tuesday 12th May 2020, 8pm

This short webinar is designed to re-acquaint practitioners, both new and old, with some basic tenets of endodontics. Presented will be some principles of practice that have been gained after providing 35 years of endodontic treatment.

Hosted by Adjunct Associate Professor Peter Duckmanton, the Senior Clinical Specialist in Endodontics at Sydney Dental Hospital and an Adjunctive Associate Professor with the Sydney Dental School of the Faculty of Medicine and Health of the University of Sydney, where he has taught endodontics for over 25 years.

Benefits of attending:

• Learn recipes for a successful endodontic practice
• Get your questions answered
• Obtain a Statement of Attendance so that you can claim CPD points
• The first 200 registrants who provide their prescriber number and attend and will be sent a complementary Ledermix cement and hardener (valued at $130).

So much has changed in the world—especially in healthcare—during the past several weeks.

The urgency felt throughout the country right now is to take every opportunity to interact with patients digitally in an effort to reduce time spent on phones, and keep waiting rooms empty. This is requiring an unprecedented strategy and creativity

In Addition to all of this, the ADA recently announcing the Level 3 restrictions means dentists will have to go even longer without seeing patients for routine appointments. So how can dental practices ensure they can keep communicating with patients so that when restrictions get lifted they don’t lose out on gaining new patients?

Join us for a 15-minute webinar to learn four easy ways dental practices can use text messaging to transition more patient interactions to digital channels. Including:

• Directing increased phone traffic to your website
• Communicating with patience in their preferred channels
• Nurturing patients through messaging

                                  
PODIUM
Level 22
120 Spencer Street
Melbourne, VIC 3000
+1(833) 276-3486

Generate more income and stand out from your competition. Let QST teach you short term orthodontics!

If you are unfamiliar with the concept of short terms orthodontics, our one day accreditation course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to plan and treat mild to moderate cases in your own clinic.

You will receive training in our fixed and removable appliances to give you the confidence to complete simple cases appropriate for general dentists and highlight which cases require referral to specialists.

Best support

Designed and supported by specialists to give you the confidence to practice orthodontics safely.

Best value

The course is 80% hands-on and costs only $395 +GST — the best quality and value in Australia.

Best products

We only use 3M brackets, bonding and products — widely considered the global standard.

Best price

Despite our product quality and unrivalled support, we are around $200 cheaper than our competitors.

Let QST teach you short term orthodontics in 2017 — only $395 + 9 CPD

If you are unfamiliar with the concept of short term orthodontics, our one day accreditation course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to plan and treat mild to moderate cases in your own clinic. You will receive training in our fixed and removable appliances to give you the confidence to complete simple cases appropriate for general dentists and highlight which cases require referral to specialists.

Best support

Designed and supported by specialists to give you the confidence to practice orthodontics safely.

Best products

We only use 3M brackets, bonding and products — widely considered the global gold standard.

Best value

The course is 80% hands-on and costs only $395 +GST — the best quality and value in Australia.

Best price

Despite our products quality and unrivalled support, we are around $200 cheaper the  our competitors.

Book a course today and receive our FREE ebook that explains how short term orthodontics will benefit your clinic.

Increasing hygiene profitability is achieved through increasing the average daily production, and this simply won’t happen with recalls alone.

The notion that all that hygienists do is ‘take cleans off dentists’ couldn’t be further from the truth. In today’s era, practices that have the right systems in place within their hygiene departments are not only highly profitable, but also find there is a higher uptake of major restorative and aesthetic cases flowing into the books of the dentist — and all with the added benefit of creating the optimal patient experience and care.

So how do you get your hygiene department to be even more profitable, expanding its scope, increasing patient retention and also the uptake of optimal care? (And, we are not just talking about including therapy and whitening as the only way to make your hygiene department even more profitable.)

Exclusive live training event

The Hygiene Productivity Intensive — 24–25 February 2017, Melbourne

At this one-of-a-kind Hygiene Seminar, Peak Hygiene Performance will be sharing advanced hygiene success strategies and systems to show dentists exactly how to increase hygiene profits and improve service delivery. Peak Hygiene Performance will walk you through the complete systems and communications.

Learn how to:

• Reduce your downtime, cancellations and FTA’s
• Realise the true potential and scope
• Increase the production of hygiene
• Implement an active periodontal program
• Know exactly what to track
• Determine the role of the hygiene department in today’s era of dentistry
• Avoid the “recall trap”
• Keep your patients retained within your practice
• Know when to add an assistant dentist, more hygienists or both?
• Have patients be better educated, seek out optimal care without you or your hygienist having to push, sell, plead or convince.

Further resources you can download now:

Learn how to calculate downtime cost. Determine the potential and production within a periodontal program and so much more. Download the 5 steps to productivity success.

Hitting a wall with your hygiene department? Check out this video…

Peak Hygiene Performance is one of Australia’s only dedicated consultancies, helping dentists to launch, build and advance their hygiene departments. For more information go to www.peakhygieneperformance.com.au or email info@peakhygieneperformance.com.au.

Dr Csillag will conduct a two day Smylist Academy in Melbourne for Australia practitioners that want to learn this unique smile design system. The course and Smylist® software will assist you in selling your case to the patient and helping them to understand the outcome.

Her last academy in Dubai with 30 students was a great success. Don’t miss this unique opportunity!

The Perfect Smile Design course is run by Intelligent Dental Solutions in collaboration with Smylist. To learn more about Smile Design, visit www.smylistdentist.com.

Three endodontists combine to present EU2017 and cover a diverse range of topics including root canal preparation, diagnostic tests and procedures as well as restorative aspects for root filled teeth. Operating microscope video footage will be presented to further visualise concepts and approaches to root canal preparation. Professor Paul Abbott AO, Dr Glen Weston and Dr Patrick Caldwell combine to present the Endodontics Update 2017 at the five star Brisbane Marriott Hotel, 24 March 2017.

Patients are presenting with tooth wear and erosion more frequently and much progress has been made within the area in the past decade with approaches to assessment, management, restoration and rehabilitation having changed substantially.

The assessment of toothwear relies on clinical knowledge and is the key to implementing effective preventive and management strategies. Patients presenting with moderate and advanced toothwear often require complex restorative intervention. Restorative interventions can achieve good longevity provided the underlying erosion and toothwear processes as well as any deficiencies in saliva protection have been addressed.

The Worn Dentition Symposium

Professor Ian Meyers, Prosthodontist Dr Robert Junner and Dr Farid Khan combine to present the upcoming two day symposium, The Worn Dentition, on the Gold Coast 23-24 September 2016 at Mantra Legends in Surfers Paradise. The symposium carries 15 Hours CPD and considers the latest views on prevention, management, concepts of occlusion, restoration and rehabilitation for patients presenting with erosion, attrition and abrasion.

Cases of moderate and severe toothwear that are increasingly encountered in day-to-day clinical practice and cases with varying levels of loss of vertical dimension will be considered along with appropriate diagnostic, preventive, management and direct and indirect conservative restorative approaches.

Further details are available in the event information and registration brochure or alternatively by contacting the Queensland Dental Group on +61 7 3839 8000.

Alternatively, if you are a general dentist already offering simple orthodontics to your patients but are experiencing brackets de-bonding, long lead times for laboratory work, plastic or composite brackets and lack of local support, then why not make the switch to QST?

QST is a specialist designed, taught and supported orthodontic system design specifically for use by the general dentist. We offer gold standard products, training, mentoring, local support, marketing and clinical integration into your practice.

The good news is that the demand for adult orthodontics has never been higher, there will be many cases you can treat from the patients you see day to day. We have trained over 500 dentists in Australia over the past 8 months — don’t miss out on the chance to offer this fantastic service in your practice and help your patients to smile with confidence.

Book your course today and remember to quote promo code TDROFFER (limited to the first 25 course registrations due to high demand).

For more information download our Quick Straight Teeth information pack.

Even after fluoridation, tooth decay is still Australia’s most prevalent health problem and the second most costly nutrition-related disease, with an economic impact comparable with that of heart disease and diabetes. Estimates suggest that 11 million Australians surfer new decay each year (Brennan & Spencer 2004).

Approximately $8.3 billion was spent on dental services in 2011-12, representing 6% of total health expenditure in Australia. (.Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2012. Health expenditure Australia 2010-11. Health and welfare expenditure series no. 47. Cat no. HWE 56. Canberra: AIHW).

Worldwide, 60–90% of school children and nearly 100% of adults have dental cavities (WHO Oral health Fact sheet N°318).

All cavities develop after many episodes where acid demineralisation of teeth exceeds saliva and fluoride remineralisation, mostly where food is trapped and resident plaque bacteria change any carbohydrates like sugar to acid that demineralises tooth which brushing, saliva and fluoride can’t reach to clean, neutralise acid and remineralise tooth like on surfaces that are easy to brush and that develop few cavities.

Over 80% of cavities occur deep inside pits and fissures of back teeth, (photos 1, 2 and 3) which Dentists prevent by placing costly sealants over chewing surfaces to block food getting inside these developmental faults (Photos 4, 5) seen in the Supertooth project with X-ray tomography at Latrobe University.

Supertooth also forced sealants inside these faults in extracted teeth under chewing pressure, then dissolved the teeth in acid (Photo 6) giving models where food is trapped similar to the 3D models from X-ray tomography (Photo 5). This led to development of glass models of a fissure that replicate how chewing forces the first bite of a meal or snack inside pits and fissures and a sealant toothpaste project with Monash to block food and displace trapped food.

RMIT has developed an opt in data base for the regular gathering of population-level oral health data as recommended by the National Oral Health Plan 2015-2024 so families and individuals can better monitor their oral health and surface caries susceptibility compared with any fluoride or non-fluoride postcode, state or national averages www.supertoothndk.org.au.

Parents can also register to send baby molar teeth that fall out from children to the Tooth Fairy to examine at the Australian Synchrotron to compare developmental faults between fluoride and non-fluoride areas and why some teeth don’t have these faults or cavities that will greatly help end decay.

We are currently asking the ADA and other interested parties with Council help to motivate residents to register on www.supertoothndk.org.au Also to look at how best to involve schools and dentists particularly in Ballarat, Bendigo, Lakes Entrance and Geelong where fluoridation has not had full effect to compare with Knox and Sunshine where fluoridation has been well established.

Of course, the project is Australia wide but we need a good response in those areas and for Aboriginal and rural communities that don’t have ready availability of dental treatment for this most preventable disease which needs more commitment from all participants, particularly government.

Regards,
Maurice White BDSc. Melb.

Please visit www.supertoothndk.org.au for more information on the Tooth Fairy Project. Contact Maurice on 0403 040 611 or supertooth@yndk.info.

Volunteer with Filling the Gap in an Aboriginal Community

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples experience significantly higher levels of disease than other Australians. Twice the rate of untreated decay and nearly 50% more gum disease. Poor oral health can affect language development; self-esteem and employment and is linked to diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and stroke.

Filling The Gap provides oral health care to regional indigenous communities by working closely with the community to provide interim Dentists until a permanent placement can be found. We have successfully provided over 11,500 dental consultations covering both emergency and comprehensive treatment across indigenous communities in the Northern Territory, Queensland and NSW.

Filling the Gap is a not for profit organisation that relies on oral professional volunteers, sponsors, fundraising and donations. As we continue our efforts in supporting and promoting good oral health care in disadvantaged communities across Australia we rely on your generosity of giving:

• In person: Volunteer your skills and Expertise with us for 1-2 weeks within an indigenous community. We fly you and supply a place to live for you (and your family are welcome to join you) to provide valuable dental relief to the communities we partner with. We know from feedback that this can be one of the most rewarding experiences for both the dentist and their families.
• If you cannot go, help to send someone else: All donations can be claimed in tax returns. It costs approximately $1000 to send a Dentist to a community clinic for 2 weeks.
• Fundraise for us: We have many projects on the cusp of establishment and would welcome your assistance whether it’s a school raffle or a marathon.

For more information or to register your interest

Visit www.fillingthegap.com.au, email us on  info@fillingthegap.com.au or contact Michele sharp on 0408 408 334.