Virtual Archives - Southwestern Society of Pediatric Dentistry

Navigating Seasonal Stress in Dentistry and Life

September 24, 2024
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Join Dr. Tarryn MacCarthy for an insightful presentation designed specifically for busy dentists who want to enjoy the holidays without exhaustion and overwhelm. Explore practices to help you manage seasonal stress both in your professional and personal life. Discover essential strategies to handle outside expectations, including demands from your team, your patients, and your family. We'll discuss how to establish and maintain healthy boundaries to protect your energy and time around year-end business responsibilities and deadlines. Learn how to maintain motivation and calm during this busy season, allowing you to enjoy and be present for special moments with loved ones. Embrace Happier Holidays without overshadowing stress.

Sedation Emergencies in the Dental Office: What Can Go Wrong

August 23, 2024
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Join us for a dynamic webinar on the integration of artificial intelligence in dental practice management and clinical care. Discover how AI transforms patient management, treatment planning, billing, and predictive analytics. Learn about the practical applications of AI that can enhance diagnostics, streamline operations, and elevate patient care in pediatric dentistry. This session will show you how AI can optimize your practice operations and improve patient outcomes.

“Unleashing the Power of AI in Dentistry: Enhancing Clinical Outcomes and Streamlining Practice Management” by Alexandra Otto, DDS

March 14, 2024
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Join us for a dynamic webinar on the integration of artificial intelligence in dental practice management and clinical care. Discover how AI transforms patient management, treatment planning, billing, and predictive analytics. Learn about the practical applications of AI that can enhance diagnostics, streamline operations, and elevate patient care in pediatric dentistry. This session will show you how AI can optimize your practice operations and improve patient outcomes.

Dentistry and the Use of Controlled Substances

March 11, 2024
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The abuse of prescription narcotics has reached epidemic proportions across the nation. Both national and statewide efforts to combat the problem affect the practice of dentistry across the nation. This course will review safe and ethical ways to prescribe and monitor the use of controlled substances as they relate to dental care and how to manage dental pain consistent with standards of care.

Sedating the Pediatric Dental Patient

September 20, 2023
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This course will review the current practice and recommendations for pediatric minimal and moderate sedation. Understanding your patient and their family is key as is utilizing both pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies for successful sedations. Despite best practices, sedation and medical emergencies can and will happen. A review of identification and immediate intervention will round out the course.

The Tipping Point: When Hard Work Negatively Impacts Success

April 3, 2023
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As high-achieving, success-driven orthodontists we are no strangers to hard work. It is, in fact, what got us to where we are and to the excellence we promise to our patients. Hard work and perseverance do have a deleterious impact, however, when chronic sympathetic nervous system stimulation erodes our ability to access our prefrontal cortex. We lose our ability to make educated, ingenuitive, and compassionate decisions from an empowered perspective. Your overwhelm and stress are sirens from your nervous system that you are living in a sympathetic nervous system storm. You have stepped over the Tipping Point. At this point simply “pushing through” is the worst thing you can do.

What’s Your Default?

March 21, 2023
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The attitude you have the moment you leave home to head to work can have such a profound effect on your day and those around you. Is it something you pay attention to? Do you have a reset button? Is there a way to make sure your attitude does not affect your team? As a leader, your attitude can make or break your team. Let’s make sure it doesn’t.

Dentistry and the Use of Controlled Substances

March 21, 2023
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The abuse of prescription narcotics has reached epidemic proportions across the nation. Both national and statewide efforts to combat the problem affect the practice of dentistry across the nation. This course will review safe and ethical ways to prescribe and monitor the use of controlled substances as they relate to dental care and how to manage dental pain consistent with standards of care.

Dentistry and the Use of Controlled Substances

September 1, 2021
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Presented by Jacqueline M. Plemons, DDS, MS< Date: November 4, 2021 Time:6:30 PM - 8:30 PM, CENTRAL Location: Live Webinar via Zoom CE Credit: 2 hours Registration Deadline: Thursday, November 4, 2021 @ 6:30PM Registration Price: $25 for Members / $75 for Non Members

2021 Virtual Business Meeting

August 9, 2021
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Join your SWSPD colleagues for a Society update and election of new officers.