ANNUAL VENDOR AND BRANDING AT LIVE CE WEBINAR PROGRAM SERIES

On average 40-75 members and auxiliary staff are welcome to attend Harbor’s CE Programs
ANNUAL VENDOR: $1,800 for the rest of 2023 CE Webinar Series and In-Person Oct. 28 CE and      Dec 14 CE and 2024 CE Webinar Series and In-Person CE

• Now is the time to build optimal visibility and your brand in the core dental community.
• Expand your prospect base and strengthen existing customer relationships with members.
• Introduce new products and services and generate sales leads by participating as an annual vendor or CE sponsor.

Annual Vendor Benefits:
• Vendor listing on Harbor home page and online Provider’s Directory ($1200 value)
• Vendor will be acknowledged at every Live CE PROGRAM throughout the year ($1,200 value)
• Logo and representative name/email listing on the CE slide presentation ($1200 value)
• Vendor spotlight in E-news with circulation to all members at least 2x per month ($2,400 value)
• Plus, the unique opportunity to provide e-resources, tips, product/service promotion related to dentistry
(PDF format 3 pages max) to be distributed to attendees ($500 value)
• Feature a Company Video 30 sec (mp4 or YouTube link) in one email blast along with logo/name in THE JOURNAL,
a quarterly digital publication ($250 value)

BONUS: Access to Harbor's In-Person CE and CE Webinars for maximum engagement with Members throughout the year. ($1500 value)

TOTAL VALUE OF $8250 WITH SAVINGS OF $6450
BY SIGNING UP AS AN ANNUAL VENDOR FOR DISCOUNT PRICING: $1,800

Benefits for Live CE WEBINARS

As our valued CE Sponsors and Annual Vendors, you will have branding visibility before, during and after Harbor events (whether virtual or in-person) to ensure optimal exposure and acknowledgement.

Sponsors and Annual Exhibitors will receive the following benefits:

•    Grab the attention of attendees by circulating your vendor promotions of products, services, e-resources
•    Participate in the vendor drawing (optional) by offering a gift card or another giveaway for attendees –this drawing will take place at the end of the 2-hour CE.
•    Leverage your Branding power with your Logo and Link on Harbor’s website.
•    Your logo and name will be included in event email promotions leading up to the CE programs (weekly email promos)
•    Be acknowledged during the CE event with your Logo, representative name, email - QR codes are encouraged too!

Vendor/CE Sponsor Marketing Guidelines: The vendor shall submit the promotional material to the dental society and/or dental societies, if a joint event, in advance of the event the vendor is sponsoring/exhibiting, or one week following the event to seek approval. Once the criteria for approval is met, the dental society, as the main event coordinator, will circulate to the attendees the promotional material on behalf of the vendor.

Vendor/CE Sponsor Criteria for approval: The sole purpose of the one-time promotion must be 100 percent dental related to the vendor’s products and/or services or a dentist resource/checklist. It is not allowed to promote subsidiaries or other third-parties who have not signed up as sponsors/exhibitors. The accepted format: PDF only. Maximum length including graphics: 3 pages. Please send the PDF to Kristin Avina at Kristin@HarborDentalSociety.org. If you have any questions, please contact Harbor's office at 562-595-6303.

LIVE CE Webinar: Annual OSHA, Infection Control 

Date: Thursday, November 9, 2023 Time: 6pm-9:15 PST

CE Speaker: Nancy Dewhirst, RDH, BS

CEU: 3 Core

Program description: This course makes sense of the many safety recommendations for dentistry considering the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Standard Precautions and Transmission-based Precautions will be explained in the context of CDC & ADA Guidelines and OSHA & Dental Board regulations. Options and strategies are presented with extensive question & answer time to address your concerns.

Outcomes: Upon completion, the participant shall be able to: - Recognize and manage bloodborne, contact, droplet, and airborne diseases - Identify best practices for providing dental care while considering COVID-19 - Make sense of evolving recommendations as applied to changing infection risk

Program contents: Science of SARS-CoV-2: risks, symptoms, pathogenesis, transmission Safety strategies -Standard vs. Transmission-based precautions Hierarchy of safety efforts: most to least effective practices Quarantine, isolation, separation Screening patients Building & clinic aerosol control -Hand hygiene -Environmental asepsis -Respiratory hygiene & cough etiquette -PPE criteria, use, and limitations -Reflection on improving dental safety preparedness - Resources: CDC, WHO, CDA, ADA, OSAP, AGD, FDA, OSHA

• IMPORTANT: Please do not share your GoToWebinar Join Link to this webinar with anyone. Each Join Link is unique to the registered attendee's email and is required for attendance tracking. You must view the webinar on separate computers, do not share links or computers. Otherwise, your attendance will not be recorded and a CE certificate cannot be given.

• Refund Policy: No refunds for no shows. Written cancellation must be received 2 days prior to the webinar date for a refund.

Live CE Webinar: Smile Design Simplified

Speaker: Priya Tirumalasetty, DDS, FAGD, AAACD

Date: Thursday, June 22, 2023 Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm PST CEU: 2 Core

CE Sponsors: SHOFU and TOKUYAMA
Knowing where to begin restoring a smile can be overwhelming. A simple checklist can offer a systematic way to effectively design a smile to suit patients’ esthetic desires. Basic smile design principles are reviewed to present either a digital or analog wax-up to the patient. Several different platforms that aid in developing a digital wax-up are reviewed.

Learning Objectives with Key Takeaways:

• Understand basic smile design principles
• Use photos and digital scans to examine the patient’s face and existing dimensions to effectively plan an esthetic outcome
• Present a mockup to the patient to help envision the final result

More about our CE Speaker: Priya Tirumalasetty, DDS, FAGD, AAACD
     Dr. Priya Tirumalasetty (or Dr. Setty) is a 1997 graduate of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. Dr. Setty completed a General Practice Residency after graduating from dental school at the Lehigh Valley Hospital, which included hospital rotations and experience in patient clinics supervised by dental specialists.
     Following residency in 1998, Dr. Setty moved to Chicago to begin private practice. In 2000, she established her own dental practice in the Chicago loop. In 2005, Dr. Setty became a Fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry. This required 500 hours of continuing dental education, after which a written exam is administered to test knowledge in all aspects of dentistry.

     In 2014, Dr. Setty published an article about composite bonding in the Journal of Cosmetic Dentistry, the scientific journal published by the AACD. In 2018, Dr. Setty became an Accredited Member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry (AACD). The AACD has established a rigorous accreditation protocol to recognize dentists who strive to achieve excellence and practice ‘responsible esthetics’ in cosmetic dentistry procedures. She also served on the Board of Directors of the AACD for 2 years from 2020-2022, and recently became a graduate of the prestigious Kois Center.

• IMPORTANT: Please do not share your GoToWebinar Join Link to this webinar with anyone. Each Join Link is unique to the registered attendee's email and is required for attendance tracking. You must view the webinar on separate computers, do not share links or computers. Otherwise, your attendance will not be recorded and a CE certificate cannot be given.
• Refund Policy: No refunds for no shows. Written cancellation must be received 2 days prior to the webinar date for a refund.

Live CE Webinar: Game Changers: Transformative Innovations in Dentistry

Speaker: Sam Shamardi, DMD

Date: Thursday, September 21, 2023 Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm PST

CEU: 2  core Geared for Dentists and Hygienists

This 'live' CE Webinar is one not to miss as Dr. Shamardi explores novel and groundbreaking innovations in diagnostic, clinical, surgical, and maintenance therapy that fundamentally change the way dentistry is performed. There will be time to get your burning questions answered during the Q & A session.  

Learning Objectives:

• Highlight the newest and most influential products and technologies in the dental industry and how they can transform your patient care and productivity
• Review the evolution in technologies for diagnosis, treatment, and long term maintenance care and how they can be applied for your team
• Understand how to incorporate new innovations immediately to differentiate your practice from the rest

Dr. Sam Shamardi is an established leader, educator, clinician, author, and dental entrepreneur. He has a passion for providing solutions to significant unaddressed problems for dental professionals via educational programs and his faculty position at Harvard while providing transformative changes for the periodontal health of his patients.

Dr. Shamardi earned his DMD at Tufts University, where he served as Class President for 4 years, and his Periodontal certificate at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and Implant Surgery and practices full-time in Boston while teaching part-time at the Harvard Division of Periodontics for the last decade. Dr. Shamardi lectures nationally and internationally on a wide array of topics including but not limited to periodontics/hygiene, hearing loss in dentistry, financial and practice management, and innovations in dentistry.

He has been recognized as a dental entrepreneur for his revolutionary EarAid product, has published numerous articles, and is the author of The Financial Survival Guide for Dentists. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling and spending time with his dog Luna, and is an avid supporter of his favorite team Real Madrid.

• IMPORTANT: Please do not share your GoToWebinar Join Link to this webinar with anyone. Each Join Link is unique to the registered attendee's email and is required for attendance tracking. You must view the webinar on separate computers, do not share links or computers. Otherwise, your attendance will not be recorded and a CE certificate cannot be given.

• Refund Policy: No refunds for no shows. Written cancellation must be received 2 days prior to the webinar date for a refund.

Live CE Webinar: Increasing Profits through The Circle of Focus

Speaker: Anissa Holmes, DMD

Date: Thursday, October 19, 2023 Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm PST

CEU: 2  (20%)

Dentists are under increasingly higher stress today. It can take the joy out of practicing. Crushing schedules, shrinking profit margins, and constant work are running some out of our professional together. As dentists, we can build more profitable and even thriving practices if we take the focus away from doing business as we have always done. This means admitting to ourselves (as well as to our teams) that we do not have all of the answers. This means shifting our mindset and looking carefully at our leadership. This also includes looking at how we build relationships and serve our patients. Many in our profession, as well as in other small businesses, believe we must work hard for 20 years before we can have the success and freedom we dream of having. But that simply does not have to be the case. 

In this high-energy, inspiring presentation, you will learn the simple process for creating a thriving practice. You will also learn to get your team aligned, how to create processes for accountability, and how to predict practice profitability. You will discover how to use whiteboards effectively to reverse engineer growth as well as understand the power of utilizing weekly scorecards and know exactly what to focus on. After attending this course, you will have a road map to know what to focus on first. 

Objectives:

• Learn ways to enroll and engage your team so everyone will work together to achieve the practice vision 
• Understand how by creating a unique practice culture, you can attract more raving fan patients and create a healthy work environment
• Discover innovative approaches and strategies for providing the WOW customer experience
• Learn the importance of Vision and how to develop an amazing team to help Deliver WOW!
• Learn how to empower each person on the team to become leaders to prevent overwhelm and to get more done
• Explore systems: the key to maximum productivity and a more efficient, profitable practice
• Learn how effective communication allows for improved results
• Learn how to empower each person on the team to become leaders to prevent overwhelm and to get more done

Dr. Anissa Holmes, is a dentist, business acceleration coach, practice growth specialist, and best selling author is dentistry’s top leader in virtual and online business training and coaching. She has advised coaches, multi-million dollar practice owners, and startup practices.

Through her speaking presentations, podcast, and blog, she shares tips for designing a unique business culture to deliver a "wow" experience every time. Her tested strategies increase case acceptance, reverse engineer profitability, and empower and build an amazing dental team. 

Dr. Holmes is the founder of Dental Boss Academy & Platinum Coaching, dentistry's #1 online doctor and team training programs that empowers professionals to master the business side of dentistry.  

After coaching thousands of dentists and as a practice owner whose practice had doubled profits the last 3 consecutive years, Dr. Holmes shows dentists exactly how to create a profitable, thriving dental practice with enthusiastic, inspired team members and patients who are raving fans. Her courses offer actionable steps to help dentists exponentially increase their profits and case acceptance rate rapidly as well develop their business culture, systems, and brand. 

Learn exactly how she is empowering doctors to delegate and elevate their teams, how to know exactly what to focus on to grow and scale your practice, and how to translate the latest marketing strategies so you too can implement them in your business.

• IMPORTANT: Please do not share your GoToWebinar Join Link to this webinar with anyone. Each Join Link is unique to the registered attendee's email and is required for attendance tracking. You must view the webinar on separate computers, do not share links or computers. Otherwise, your attendance will not be recorded and a CE certificate cannot be given.

• Refund Policy: No refunds for no shows. Written cancellation must be received 2 days prior to the webinar date for a refund.

Live CE Webinar: Posterior Composites: From the Pulp to the Occlusal Surface

Speaker: Richard Stevenson, III, DDS, FAGD, FACD, ABOD

CEU: 3 Core

Date: Thursday, August 31, 2023 Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm PST

This presentation will provide the entire dental team with a condensed, comprehensive, and up-to-date review of Posterior Composites. Dr. Stevenson will stress the adherence of proven well-documented techniques and provide the dentist and auxiliary with a deep understanding of the entire restorative process. He will focus on the best practices for caries removal, adhesion, pulp capping, placement, adjustment and polishing of the finest composite restorations possible. 

Topics

• Isolation techniques
• Adhesive options – what generation is best?
• Liners and bases and Pulp Capping Materials – how to use them for predictable results
• Matrix systems – are they all the same?
• Preparation designs
• Composite materials
• Bulk fill vs incremental layering
• The “snow-plow” and "centripetal wall and lobe” techniques
• Margin elevation
• Polishing systems
• Occlusal adjustment
• Reducing post-operative sensitivity

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the indications for placing liners to enhance composite longevity
2. Be able to place pulp capping material (MTA) in a manner which improves outcomes
3. Learn how to build composites with the "Wall and Lobe" method
4. Learn how to perform ideal occlusal adjustments and polishing
5. How to minimize post-operative sensitivity

6. Doctor Richard Stevenson received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from UCLA in 1982 and his Doctor of Dental Surgery from the UCLA School of Dentistry in 1986.  After practicing general dentistry for 7 years in Laguna Niguel, California, he accepted a full-time teaching position at the UCLA School of Dentistry, as an Assistant Professor in the Section of Operative Dentistry.  For four years he served as the Chair of the Pre-Clinical Operative Dentistry Course where he authored several comprehensive illustrated syllabi in Operative Dentistry. In 2009, he received the American Dental Association’s Distinguished “Golden Apple” Teaching Award – in both the pre-doctoral and post-doctoral categories.  In 2005, Dr. Stevenson received a Fellowship in Medical Education from the UCLA School of Medicine. 

    

   He has over published over 30 articles on dental materials, the principles of evidence-based dentistry, and restorative techniques in peer reviewed Journals, including Operative Dentistry, Evidenced-based Dentistry and The Journal of Esthetics and Restorative Dentistry.  He is the co-author of a book chapter on Cast Gold Restorations in Summitt’s Fourth Edition of “Fundamentals of Operative Dentistry”. The chapter on Implant Occlusion in the book “Implants in the Esthetic Zone”, and the chapter on “Complications in Restorative Dentistry: Best Practices”. He has authored numerous instructional guides in all aspects of restorative dentistry for UCLA and other schools. 

    

   He is the inventor of 11 unique dental instruments which are used in dental education and clinical practice internationally. He has been a reviewer for the ADA Professional Product Review and is currently a reviewer for the Journal of Operative Dentistry.  Since 2008, he has been the Secretary of the Academy of Operative Dentistry where he previously served as President.  He is a Fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry and the American College of Dentists.  

    

   Additionally, Dr. Stevenson has given over 500 continuing education presentations and table clinics in restorative dentistry internationally including the Philippines, Peru, Japan, China, Korea and Canada.  In 2007, Dr. Stevenson became the 58^th Board Certified Operative Dentist of the American Board of Operative Dentistry.  In 2006, he was inducted as a member in the American Academy of Restorative Dentistry.

    

   In 2011, he was named the UCLA School of Dentistry Alumnus of the Year in recognition of his outstanding contributions to organized dentistry, the school, the community and the UCLA Dental Alumni Association.  Dr. Stevenson served as Chair of the Section of Restorative Dentistry, with over 100 faculty members for 17 years and is currently Professor Emeritus of Clinical Dentistry. 

    

   He practices dentistry in San Dimas, CA with a focus on Microscope, Implant Restoration and Esthetic Dentistry.  In 2015, he started Stevenson Dental Solutions, a teaching institute dedicated to hands-on training where he serves as the Director of Education.  Recently he established a non-profit corporation called Stevenson Dental Research Institute which employees 5 research associates investigating best practices in dentistry and innovative methods of delivering quality care to communities with the most need.  He lives in La Verne, CA with his wife Savi.

• IMPORTANT: Please do not share your GoToWebinar Join Link to this webinar with anyone. Each Join Link is unique to the registered attendee's email and is required for attendance tracking. You must view the webinar on separate computers, do not share links or computers. Otherwise, your attendance will not be recorded and a CE certificate cannot be given.
• Refund Policy: No refunds for no shows. Written cancellation must be received 2 days prior to the webinar date for a refund.

In-Person CE: Bonded Anterior Ceramic Restorations: From Design to Delivery w/ Holiday Installation

Speaker: Mehrdad Razaghy, DDS

CEU: 2 Core

Date: Thursday, December 14, 2023 Time: 4:30pm - 9:30pm PST

Venue: The Centre at Sycamore Plaza, 5000 Clark, Lakewood, CA 90712

During this lecture, we will cover a full workflow in anterior porcelain reconstructions under the umbrella of biomimetic dentistry. We will review every single step of the process, starting with Digital Smile Design and patient communication through multiple clinical cases. We will understand the importance of dental photography and the proper way to communicate the design of such cases with specialists when esthetic crown lengthening is indicated. The will go over preparation criteria and the value of correct Temporizaiton. This lecture will cover the delivery checklist of ceramic restorations, following the most updated biomimetic protocol. We will understand the importance of proper isolation, conditioning of teeth and restorations, choice of luting agents, and maintenance of large anterior reconstructions.

Learning Objectives: 

•            DSD & Case Design

•            Importance of Soft Tissue Design in Anterior Reconstruction cases

•            Esthetic Crown Lengthening in anterior reconstructions

•            Preparation Criteria and workflow

•            Dental Photography

•            Isolation & Bonding protocol: The Biomimetic Approach

•            Using Pre-heated Composite as your Luting Agent

After CE program will be the Holiday Party and Installation of Officers. 

Thank you to GC America for Sponoring Dr. Razaghy! 

• IMPORTANT: Please do not share your GoToWebinar Join Link to this webinar with anyone. Each Join Link is unique to the registered attendee's email and is required for attendance tracking. You must view the webinar on separate computers, do not share links or computers. Otherwise, your attendance will not be recorded and a CE certificate cannot be given.

• Refund Policy: No refunds for no shows. Written cancellation must be received 2 days prior to the webinar date for a refund.