Subject:  Human Relations/New Dentist |  Audience: Dentists, New Dentists   |  CE Credits: 3 hours Lecture

Course Description:

Being a dentist comes with challenges both good and bad. How can you be prepared to be an effective leader, savvy business owner and thriving dentist? Come learn and listen to different pathways that can support your success as a dentist that is changing by the minute. Audience participation is highly recommended.

Learning Objectives:

• Develop a strategy that can help you grow as a business owner, lead dentist, and associate
• Understand the business principles that are part of every dental practice
• Learn how to manage conversations with dental team members to help you become an effective leader
• Develop a strategy on identifying the personalities of patients and how to manage conversations to convert treatment plans

About the Speaker:

Dr. Diana Batoon is an industry leader and champion for airway in dentistry. She received her doctorate from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in 1996 and completed a General Practice Residency at the VA Hospital in Loma Linda, CA. Her expertise and passion for education has helped build her private practice in Scottsdale, AZ not only centering around restorative dentistry but also sleep apnea, TMD and airway-focused dentistry. She is a Diplomate for American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine and a fellow for American Academy of Craniofacial Pain. She actively participates in research for sleep apnea for both adults and children. She has contributed to dental journals, podcasts, blogs and is an international speaker on oral health and airway. Her hope is that parents and health care professionals will continue to collaborate with each other and seek ways to treat our patients and their families more effectively.

Because of her own experiences with her three boys, she is passionate about helping babies, children, and adults to promote a healthy airway through sleep, myofunctional therapy, laser dentistry and interceptive orthodontics. She is also an adjunct professor at Midwestern Dental Institute and Key Opinion Leader for several companies in dentistry.

Financial Relationship – Honorarium: Glidewell Dental Lab, AADSM