Program

BREAKFAST

Demystifying DACnet: It's Simple and It's Time

 Mallory Potter - The Denturist Association of Canada

Dean Fenwick - Specialized Office Systems

The Denturist Association of Canada with the support of Provincial Associations (PA), insurance carriers, network suppliers and software vendors (DOMx will be on hand to assist in the presentation), have established a network that allows you to submit claims and pre-treatment plans electronically (EDI). This network provides you with an efficient method of sending information to insurance carriers and reduces the turnaround time for claim payment. Lost or delayed claim forms will become a thing of the past, and patient queries regarding procedures and coverage may be answered within minutes! IT'S TIME ... to embrace the cost effective and practice changing movement ... Electronic Billing to Insurance Companies using DACnet, It's as easy as 1 2 3.

Intro to Digital Dentures - How to make the switch to digital workflows, increase productivity and grow your business

 Pam Rehm - Argen Canada

Want to make the switch to digital dentures? Not sure if it's "there yet"?  Or not sure how to integrate it into your current workflow?

In this lecture, we will cover all of these questions and more! Pam will provide a practical look at how 3Shape's CAD CAM technologies and the Trios 5 Scanner can be used to drastically improve efficiency in your clinic or lab without losing the high quality achieved by analog workflows. Traditional denture fabrication consists of 5-7 patient appointments; with the use of digital workflows, we can reduce that to 3-5 patient appointments. Implementing digital workflows can reduce patient chair time and improve lab productivity while still producing a high quality denture! We will look at digital workflows step by step for removable prosthetics for denture clinics and some real life metrics for increasing profitability in your clinic!  

Annual General Meeting

Includes lunch

LUNCH

Implant Treatment Options for Edentulous Patients

  Dr. Justin Kierce - Straumann Canada

This lecture is aimed at educating denturists on various dental implant treatment options available to improve the oral rehabilitation of their patients. The lecture will provide an overview of relevant anatomy and other treatment planning considerations. There will be a discussion of simple to complete removable treatment options.

Immediate Dentures: From the bane of your existence to the highlight of your practice

Stephanie Yeats

Immediate dentures made before extractions are one of the hardest and most frustrating parts of a Denturists job. This course will cover immediate dentures from start to finish including consultations, photos, consent forms, patient information, laboratory and clinical techniques, model analysis and after care. 

Denturists Finally Get All The Digital Tools That They Need

Devaughn Fraser - Dentsply Sirona

You have been promised, for years, that the Digital World can do everything a Denturist needs. There was always a, “but it can’t scan this…”, or a, “but you can’t print this…”.  Devaughn will help you navigate through the latest technologies. Want to start slow? Excellent. Your feet are digitally wet, but you want to go digitally deeper? Excellent. You’re almost fully digital now, but want the very latest.  Excellent.

Fostering Indigenous Cultural Safety and Relationships in Oral Health

Connie Chong and Darrell Thorne, First Nations Health Authority

Eliminating anti-Indigenous racism in health care and achieving health equity are goals of the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA). These goals are critical in attaining FNHA’s vision of healthy, self-determining and vibrant BC First Nations children, families and communities.

Join this engaging session to have a dialogue on the shared responsibilities of Indigenous cultural safety and humility and anti-racism. The session will begin with a brief reflection on the continued impacts of colonialism. Then lived experiences of First Nations people accessing oral health services will be shared to build awareness and understand of Indigenous-specific trauma and how to foster safe spaces and relationships. Traditional teachings will be weaved throughout the session. New cultural safety resources will be shared. Participants will discuss strategies for self-reflection, on-going learning and commitment to change.

DABC Hospitality Night

Let's kick off the convention!  Join us on the outdoor patio for complimentary drinks and appetizers.

BREAKFAST

The Road to the Perfect Implant Bar Solution for Your Patients

Andreas Klie - Panthera Dental

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the demanding challenges of optimal implant retained dental solutions and look at solutions available for some of those challenging cases.
• Discuss how the introduction of CAD/CAM has impacted restorative options
• Review implant bar solutions; including function, aesthetics, and hygiene

Bringing dentures to life, featuring SR Nexco®

Jenelle Tabaković - Ivoclar

This Hands-On Workshop is offered twice on Thursday.  Please only select one workshop. 

Join Jenelle Tabaković for an exciting hands-on course where she will teach you how to take your dentures to the next level using SR Nexco Gingival Composite.  Suitable for both analog and digital dentures,  Jenelle will lead you through a deep dive into the proper Cutback, Prep and Glaze Protocols. Continue the journey with hands-on placement as Jenelle reveals her signature techniques of layering for natural gum tinting. These Techniques will give you the confidence to provide not only an attractive appearance but also a long-lasting prosthesis that will not succumb to delamination.

Test out the Newest Digital Equipment

Breakout Session

Pam Rehm - Argen Canada

After attending the Intro Lecture, it’s time to dive all in!

In this breakout session, you will have an opportunity to test a new TRIOS 5 Scanner and 2022 3Shape software. We will take you step by step through a digital denture workflow, starting with scanning and then designing a denture with a live 3shape design demo. We will discuss all of the equipment and tools you will need to start your digital journey. Experience a live printing demonstration with an Asiga Max Printer plus go through the cleaning and curing steps with a wash and Otoflash demonstration!

Holitistic Infection Control - Challenging perspective, changing practice

Ryan Swift - Micrylium Laboratories Inc. 

Holistic infection control refers to a comprehensive and integrated approach to preventing and controlling infections. It encompasses not just the use of personal protective equipement and disinfectants, but also the evaluation and management of the entire healthcare environment, including the design and layout of facilities, the handling and disposal of hazardous waste and the training and personal wellbeing of healthcare workers. 

Our program endeavours to share new perspectives on the complex relationships between people, microbes and our environment. 

LUNCH n' LEARN:  Canada Digital Adoption Program | How $15,000 in federal funding can help modernize your business
Soumya Ghosh - MNP

Outline:

As technology advances, it can be challenging — and expensive — for small-to-medium businesses to keep up. That’s why the federal government is investing $4 billion to create the Canada Digital Adoption Program (CDAP). You can leverage the CDAP program to digitize and improve the following:

1. Bookkeeping and payroll: Automate routine tasks such as billing and account reconciliations, enabling your staff to focus on more specialized tasks.
2. EMR Conversion: Conversion of paper patient records
3. Equipment Upgrades: Digital imagining, Invisalign & digital impression implementation, staff computers, servers, etc.
4. Scheduling: Reduce the time required to resource your practice and improve visibility for your patients and team members to know when necessary team members are available.
5. Patient intake, reminders, and check-in: Automate much of the patient experience and reduce the need for staff to input information or make reminder phone calls manually.
6. Billing management: Invoice more efficiently and make it easier to follow up on outstanding submissions that have not yet been paid.
7. Human resource management: Enhance people processes and make human resource management and the practice more efficient.
8. Data analytics: Your practice collects a myriad of data that can improve the decision-making process. The right software can help you focus these insights to market more effectively, make informed financial decisions, create added value for clients, and much more.

Note, to be eligible for the grant, you must:

• Be an incorporated business (either at the national or provincial level) OR a Canadian resident sole proprietor
• Be a privately-owned, for-profit entity
• Have a maximum of 499 full-time equivalent employees
• Have earned at least $500,000 and not more than $100 million in revenue in one of the past three years

Bringing dentures to life, featuring SR Nexco®

Jenelle Tabaković - Ivoclar

This Hands-On Workshop is offered twice on Thursday.  Please only select one workshop. 

Join Jenelle Tabaković for an exciting hands-on course where she will teach you how to take your dentures to the next level using SR Nexco Gingival Composite.  Suitable for both analog and digital dentures,  Jenelle will lead you through a deep dive into the proper Cutback, Prep and Glaze Protocols. Continue the journey with hands-on placement as Jenelle reveals her signature techniques of layering for natural gum tinting. These Techniques will give you the confidence to provide not only an attractive appearance but also a long-lasting prosthesis that will not succumb to delamination.

Analog loves Digital: Capturing the Best of Both Worlds

Esther Schwenning - Ivoclar

Esther Schwenning covers the latest in denture technology, using tried-and-true BPS methods and techniques to guarantee predictable analog or digital outcomes, how to transition to digital and how to merge analog and digital workflows. She also covers esthetics, strengths and weaknesses of printing and milling, how to get the best return on your investment, intraoral vs. desktop scanners, and digital denture clinic offerings.

Q&A with DAC Executive Director, Denturist Support Staff and DomX

Mallory Potter, The Denturist Association of Canada

Rana Schwenning, Northern Lights Denture Clinic

Dean Fenwick, Specialized Office Systems

General Q&A Chat, where you and your staff can ask questions that cause you daily frustrations, which we may have the answers for!

Questions include DACnet, DomX, Fee Guide Questions, General Insurance Questions and front-end questions. We urge you to bring specific examples so that we can walk through them together.  Alternatively, please submit any questions prior to the convention to Mallory Potter at  dacdenturist@bellnet.ca.

Maximizing Laboratory Efficiency with a Digital Denture Solution

Paul Richardson - Vita North America

Reducing labor costs and increasing production a goal of every lab. No matter how analog or digital your lab there is a Digital Denture workflow option that will benefit you. Using 3D software as the digital tool; model analysis, adaptable occlusal set-up options (600+ possibilities), denture contouring, and fabrication will offer you a seamless transition to digital denture fabrication. Printed or milled, denture bases can be produced to precisely match unique denture tooth designs within a 20µm adhesive gap. A one-of-a-kind bonder and adhesive process provides you a streamlined workflow without the need for complicated and labor intensive processing methods. Options of customizing premium denture teeth or use pre-fabricated, pre-machined digitally adapted denture teeth to reduce workflow time and save labor costs will be your road to success.

Program Objectives

• Digital denture transformation into a laboratory environment
• Understanding that digital technology offers independence and not dependence
• Incorporating removables experience and knowledge into a digital based workflow
• Positioning denture teeth into a natural state of anatomical space
• Enjoy a hands-on learning experience within your own business environment

Wine Tasting

Zahn Canada, a Division of Henry Shein invites all exhibitors and attendees to sample wines of the Okanagan. 

BREAKFAST

Immediately Loaded Overdentures: a Paradigm Shift - Part 1

Dr. Ho-Young Chung

Part 2 is a hands-on session in the afternoon.  Please select the Part 1 Seminar if you wish to participate in the Part 2 hands-on session.

Can overdentures be loaded immediately?  What if patients could avoid second-stage surgery and minimize healing time?  Let’s have a real-world discussion on immediately placed and immediately loaded overdentures.

This concept has been clinically supported with 500+ arches and is also supported by literature. 

Lecture Objectives:

• Understand the benefits vs risk for immediately loading a removable prosthesis
• Understand the surgical and prosthetic principles of removable therapy
• Compare delayed vs immediate loading
• Learn treatment planning and workflow
• Prevent and manage surgical and restorative complications

Finding Your Workflow: Digital Fixed and Digital Removables

Michelle Glover - Dentsply Sirona

Digital technology has made a huge impact on the denturism business in recent years. It has the potential to improve the clinical experience for both the clinician and patient, as well creating more efficient workflows for production in the lab. Digital denture workflows are versatile, with the ability to digitize any step (or maintain any conventional steps). Understanding how and when to incorporate digital steps allows the clinician to customize workflows that work for them. In this presentation we will break down the steps of the digital denture workflow - from start to finish. Fundamentals of concepts, materials, and procedures will be outlined as it pertains to the Dentsply Sirona solutions.

Learning Objectives:

• How to combine digital and conventional steps to customize denture workflows.
• Understanding when to use 3D printing vs milling manufacturing methods.
• Learn the easiest and most innovative way to restore implants via a CAD/CAM custom abutment system from Atlantis.

Understanding current options for denture materials for both additive and subtractive technologies.

LUNCH

Advanced Tips to Increase Productivity in your Digital Workflows

Breakout Session

Pam Rehm - Argen Canada

Already digital? Looking to increase your efficiency and organization? In this private breakout session we will cover all the tips and tricks to improve your clinic's digital workflows. We will dive into some advanced settings with a live 3shape demo and go over optimizing your dental desktop. We will cover some design tips in the 2022 denture and removable software. You will also have an opportunity to test a TRIOS 5 as we discuss ways to speed up patient visits. Come prepared to share your favourite tip or product as the session will end with a collaborative time for sharing!

Oral Cancer Screening the Need for Change

Wayne Reese - VELscope®

Bringing awareness to the escalating profile of oral and oropharyngeal cancers related to a common virus? According to the CDC, nearly all sexually active adults will have a HPV (Human papillomavirus) infection in their lifetime. This is fueling an escalating rise in the incidence of HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer. By the year 2022, HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer is expected to be the leading HPV-related cancer surpassing cervical cancer. The historic etiologic patterns related to exposure to alcohol and tobacco are declining, while HPV is becoming increasingly more common.

What are the implications to dental profession and how should our oral cancer screening be adjusted to compensate for this new profile? How do we communicate this to today’s dental patient? High risk extraoral and intraoral anatomical areas will be reviewed as well as identifying the subtle life-saving signs that accompany oral and oropharyngeal cancer that are so often overlooked.

Learning Objectives

• To further explore the current statistics related to the sexually transmitted Human papillomavirus and its connection with oral and oropharyngeal cancer.
• To review clinic studies including new research to better understand the efficacy of the VELscope®.
• To work with the VELscope® and learn hands-on techniques to visualize oral mucosal abnormalities such as oral cancer or pre-malignant dysplasia. 
• To better understand how VELscope® can assist a clinician in differentiating traumatic lesions from lesions of a more serious nature. 
• To review how to capture white light and VELscope® Images for communication and documentation purposes. 
• To review and understand the considerations of using the VELscope® in clinical practice.

How to Load an Implant-Retained Overdenture (Hands-On Session) Part 2

Dr. Ho-Young Chung

This Hands-On Session is a continuation from Dr. Chung's Part 1 Seminar. Please ensure you attend Part 1 if you wish to attend Part 2. 

An Implant-Retained Overdenture is NOT really a Denture. Have you had issues with them snapping in? What about losing retention only after a short period of time? Have you ever locked one in the mouth? Come learn what LOCATOR Overdentures are all about and how easy it is to to restore them.

The hands-on session will include 2 unique procedures:

1) Restorative attachment PICK-UP exercise
2) How to remove a LOCKED-IN OVERDENTURE

TRADE SHOW

Dentsply Sirona, our Platinum Sponsor, is providing complimentary drinks and appetizers starting at 4:00 pm.

Prize Draw

Prizes will be available to all paid registrants apart from DACNet prize which is only available to a BC registered denturist.  You must be in attendance at the Trade Show to claim your prize. 

BREAKFAST

Hands-On Workshop:  Introduction of new VITA VMLC Akzent Stains for the Modern-Day Denturist

Mark Chan - Swiss NF Metals Inc.

This hands-on session will focus on a practical approach to using the Vita Akzent LC Stain and Glaze system with applications for implant dentures, partials dentures and digital dentures.  Participants will leave with a sample model to take home.

Dental Photography in a Denture Clinic

Markus Fischer

Dental photography can be complex and intimidating. Over the past three years, Markus Fischer has taken over 100,000 patient and technical photos and videos in his denture clinic. This presentation will cover photography fundamentals, camera settings, and equipment recommendations. Markus will share his simplified approach to creating professional images with minimal effort, including portrait, intra-oral, technical photos, and videos.

Implant Overdenture Hands-On Training Workshop

Dr. Faraj Edher, DDS, MSc, Dip. Pros, FRCD(C) - Nobel Biocare

Please note: This is the same workshop that was offered at our convention in Victoria in 2022. If you took the workshop last year, please do not take it again.  It is being offered again to those who were not able to attend last year or those who are new registrants.  This workshop is a prerequisite for Dr. Edher's advanced seminar offered Saturday afternoon.

Implants provide a stable foundation for retaining complete dentures.  The hands-on workshop aims to provide participants with practical experience in componentry and tooling.

Program Highlights:

Participants will complete hands-on exercises in the following:

• Prosthetic kit and drivers
• Handling of healing abutments
• Handling of Locator® abutments
• Locator® abutment impressions
• Locator® attachment pick-up process

Speak with your local Nobel Biocare representative, or the DABC, for opportunities to train with Dr. Edher in a one-on-one setting.

Dental Marketing Best Practices and Strategic Marketing

Brandon Bosch

Dr. Marketing is here is make sense of the complex world of dental marketing. Most offices we meet are unaware of all the interesting ways to generate patient leads, how a lead can be tracked through a Google or Facebook campaign, or how much a marketing budget should be and what it should be spent on. Our presentation will cover common marketing mistakes, rules and regulations set out by the association, setting a proper marketing budget, and more. We are also going to share strategies of what some of our top dental offices are doing across the country. Our goal is to ensure our clients offices are effectively marketed based on their growth goals and budget and that they meet the ethical standards of marketing a medical office.

LUNCH

Full Arch Implant-Retained and Implant-Supported Restorations: A Comprehensive Overview for Denturists

Dr. Faraj Edher, DDS, MSc, Dip. Pros, FRCD(C) - Nobel Biocare

Please Note:  To take this seminar you must have completed Dr. Edher's Hands-On Workshop, either last year or at this convention on Saturday morning

1. Introduction
   • Definition and importance of full arch implant-retained and implant-supported restorations
   • Brief history of dental implant technology

2. Types of Full Arch Implant-Retained and Implant-Supported Restorations
   • Fixed implant-supported restorations
   • Removable implant-supported restorations
   • Comparison of the two types of restorations  

3. The Treatment Process for Full Arch Implant-Retained and Implant-Supported Restorations
   • Treatment planning and patient assessment
   • Surgical procedures and communication for implant placement
   • Provisional restorations and healing period
   • Final restoration fabrication and delivery  

4. Advantages and Disadvantages of Full Arch Implant-Retained and Implant-Supported Restorations

• • Advantages for patients
  • Advantages for clinicians
  • Potential disadvantages and complications

5. Maintenance of Full Arch Implant-Retained and Implant-Supported Restorations
   • Home care for parents
   • Regular maintenance by clinicians
   • Possible complications and how to address them  

6. Case Presentations and Clinical Examples
   • Case studies of successful full arch implant-retained and implant-supported restorations
   • Clinical examples of challenging cases and their outcomes  

7. Conclusion and Future Directions
   • Summary of key points
   • Future directions and potential advancements in full arch implant-retained and implant supported restorations
   • Q&A session