A Whole Team Approach for Patient and Practice Success
Many hygiene programs barely scratch the surface on what can be done to treat and prevent periodontal disease. Science and medicine are evolving practices. Studies esitmate that the total amount of scientific information produced doubles every 2-5 years. How can you successfully care for patients if your treatment model is stagnant? Proactive Perio, a three-day course, is the evolution of periodontal care at the forefront of modern medicine - involving the entire dental team, not just the hygienist, in treating and managing periodontal disease. Furthermore - it bridges the gap between the medical and dental worlds. The connections between periodontal disease and other conditions like heart disease and diabetes are no longer just a theory - they are fact. The relationship between dentist and physician has never been more important.
Traditional periodontal courses generally focus on teaching the basic practices and treatment plans that work within the framework of dental insurance. Now that the gaps between periodontal disease and overall healthe have been bridged, gum disease is no longer limited to the constraits of dental coverage. Dentists and their teams who attend Proactive Perio learn how medical insurance can now be billed for comprehensive periodontal treatment. Attendees learn how to use newly developed billing software to effectively communicate with physicians and successfully submit medical insurance claims.
The objectives of this course are for the participant to be able to:
- Identify the critical role each dental team member plays in the successful implementation of periodontal care, including diseas diagnosis, treatment, case acceptance, insurance billing, and practice profitability.
- Recognize the critical connections between periodontal health and other systemic diseases, including heart disease and diabetes.
- Use modern scientific, medical, and biomarker blood tests to look for key indicators of periodontal disease and overall health, including BOP, A1-C, CRP, and GCF.
- Understand the power of early intervention for periodontal care - and the serious consequences if periodontal treatment is overlooked.
- Discover how to use customized dental writer software to bill medical insurance for periodontal treatment using medical treatment and diagnostic codes.
- Bridge the gaps between the dental and medical professions through enhanced software and communication techniques.
- Understand cutting edge hygiene techniques and treatments including lasers, local antimicrobials, and systemic antimicrobials.
- Enter patients into systems of care and re-care - beneficial for new and current patients.
- Increase patient care and practice profitability simultaneously.
- Gain essential communication skills for speaking to and with patients.
- $2,495 doctor
- $2,195 hygienist
- $795 team
- Dr. Mark Duncan, DDS, FAGD, DICOI, LVIF
- Dr. Norman Thomas
- Dr. Dee Nishimine
- Gwen Smukowski
LVI Global is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. LVI Global designates this activity for 24 continuing education credits.
