Online Courses
LVI Online educational options
This is a great time to take advantage of bringing your office and team up to speed through our LVI online courses. We are now offering a number of our courses as live webinars that you can take from your home or office. For more information or to register email concierge@lviglobal.com or call 888.584.3237.
Laser Treatment in the TMD Practice (Recorded)
April 19, 2024
August 16, 2024
December 13, 2024
Start Time- 7 AM Pacific Time
Featuring: Dr. Heidi Dickerson
CE Credit: 7.5
Doctor: $1250
Team: $595
The MLS Laser…what does it do and how can you integrate it into your practice? Do you have an MLS laser? Are you thinking about getting one? Register for this online course and come and see how LLLT can benefit your patient’s health and how you can use it to its fullest potential.
Dr. Heidi Dickerson will go over:
- Trigger points
- Muscle deprogramming/relaxation
- Orofacial pain treatments
- Orthodontics
- TMD treatment
- Full body health
- Bell’s Palsy treatment
- Proper settings and treatment times
- Scheduling/billing
- Tons of Hands-on
- ….and much, much more!
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The Physiologic Approach to Treating OSA
February 6-8, 2025
Featuring: Dr. John Pawlowicz, Dr. William G. Dickerson & Dr. Heidi Dickerson
CE Credit: 22.5
Doctor: $3,695
Team: $795
Hundreds of millions of people of all ages around the world suffer from snoring and deadly obstructive sleep apnea. Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) has been linked to health issues such as: Cardiovascular Disease, Cerebrovascular Accident, Endocrine Disorders, Hormonal Imbalance and Obesity to name a few. Our medical colleagues are asking for our help in both screening and providing well designed Oral Appliance Therapy. OSA is the most common sleep-related breathing disorders. This type of apnea occurs due to distortions within the oral pharynx primarily when the throat muscles intermittently relax and block the airway during sleep. As dentists, we have the perfect setting to identify, help manage, and potentially protect the lives of OSA sufferers.
Are you prepared to start SAVING LIVES?
This program presents an excellent introduction to evidence-based Dental Sleep Medicine and is designed to prepare dentists and their teams to confidently identify, refer, and help co-manage patients with snoring and the potentially deadly effects of obstructive sleep apnea. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the relationships between sleep breathing disorders, physiologic dentistry and general health. They can discover how to get started, immediately expanding their diagnostic acumen and scope of practice. Presentation and discussion will also pertain to patients that suffer with UARS (Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome).
The goal of this course is for all participating dentists to become the Dental Sleep Physicians that medical sleep specialists want and need to recognize and refer patients. After completing this course, one will have an increased ability of discussing OSA with the patient along with what to do about OSA. Additionally, training will be given on how to read and interpret PSG’s as well as sleep studies. The possibility of knowing what to do about OSA when you return to your office on Monday morning should encourage you to experience this course!
The objectives of this course are for the participant to be able to:
- Take a Physiologic Sleep Bite
- Discuss sleep and breathing physiology; normal and pathologic
- Discuss the anatomy and physiology of airway and its relationship to OSA and TMD
- Discuss CBCT analysis in screening and treating OSA/TMD
- Integrate OSA signs and symptoms into routine dental diagnostics
- Identify and differentiate OSA sufferers versus snorers with extreme accuracy
- Discuss why The Physiologic Approach is important
- Perform OSA Consultation examination/palpation
- Select what is needed in snoring and OSA appliances
- Interpret sleep studies
- Discuss how myofunctional therapy can help the OSA patient
- Utilize Portable Monitors/Home Sleep Equipment
- Utilize Combination Therapy – Jointly treating both TMD and OSA at the same time
- Utilize skills to make OSA more practical, efficient and profitable
- Communicate effectively with sleep professionals
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on Demand Webinars
ANTERIOR TOOTH RECONTOURING TO IMPROVE ESTHETIC OUTCOMES
Lunch & Learn 1 hr Webinar with Dr. Michael Bufo
Date and Time: On Demand
The lecture will review some basic tenets of smile design that can be influenced by recontouring and will review recontouring techniques that can be used to improve esthetic outcomes for both porcelain restorations and for natural teeth.
The objectives of this course are for the participant to be able to:
- Discuss basic tenets of smile design
- Discuss the armamentarium and techniques available for recontouring anterior restorations and natural teeth to improve esthetic outcomes
- Discuss how to use optical illusions that make teeth appear narrower, wider or change their inclinations through recontouring
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Infant Oral Tethers Diagnostic and Treatment Protocols
Lunch & Learn 1 hr Webinar with Dr. Douglas Hanson
Date and Time: On Demand
Pricing: $99
The rationale in a physiologic practice to consider implementing these diagnostic and therapeutic paradigms along with the specific protocols necessary to allow basic implementation. A brief and relevant summary of Lasers and basic physics as it applies to the correction of these oral tethers.
The objectives of this course are for the participant to be able to:
- Recognize the signs and symptoms of infant oral tethers
- Implement diagnostic and treatment protocols relevant to infant oral tethers
- Discuss relevant laser physics and adjust parameters to suit the desired outcome
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GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR INTRAORAL SCANNER: FULL MOUTH LVI PROTOCOLS IN A DIGITAL WORLD
Lunch & Learn 1 hr Webinar with Dr. Ryan Jouett
Prerequisites: This course is best taken by those offices that already have an intraoral scanner and have used it for at least three months
In this course we will cover how to take your intraoral scanning to the next level, past just single unit crowns. We will cover Lab communication in a Digital Environment, Digital Dentures, and Digital Protocols for Tag Bites, Bite Transfers, Full Mouth Bite Management and Implants. We will also address the issues labs constantly see with digitally scanned cases and how to avoid them.
The objectives of this course are for the participant to be able to:
- Discuss how your intraoral scanner works
- Communicate effectively to your Lab in a Digital Environment
- Perform a “Scanned Cocoon” of complete dentures
- Scan Fixed Hybrids and bites
- Scan and Digitally transfer TAG Bites
- Scan and Digitally transfer Orthotic Bites
- Manage Full Mouth Prep cases Digitally
- Discuss scanning of implants with scan analogs
- Prevent the most common issues before they get to the lab
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The Importance of Physiologic Based Dentistry
LVI Global Six Part Webinar Series-$99 for entire series or $49 per episode
Don’t miss this webinar series on the Importance of Physiologic Based Dentistry. Physiologic Based science is a broad and all encompassing approach to finding the stable physiologic neutral zone. Historically occlusal theories focused on the hard tissue structures in the system but lacked comprehensive perspective to be able to create predictable outcomes. With the inclusion of the soft tissue analysis along with the hard tissue science, we can arrive at an objective and complete analysis of the entire system including musculature and bone and teeth to create a stable result from multiple perspectives, including posture of the head, neck, body, and jaws. In addition, the muscular balance will create better occlusal stability and long term restorative or orthodontic/orthopedic stability as well as enhanced esthetics for the patient. The continuing education offered at LVI is designed to improve the lives of patients and enhance professional satisfaction.
Total available AGD/ADA CE Credit = NONE
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The Power of physiologic based dentistry
Featuring Dr. Bill Dickerson, Founder and CEO of LVI Globa
What is Physiologic Based Dentistry and why is it important for your practice and your patients? This lecture is designed to teach attendees the importance of recognizing the compromised patients and what dentistry can do for them.
Orthotic Therapy in Physiologic based dentistry
Featuring Dr. Chong Lee, Faculty of LVI Global
Test driving the physiologic bite with the properly created orthotic and how it can enhance your practice. This lecture is designed to teach attendees the power of a physiologic orthotic and symptoms that can be addressed that most of you are unaware of.
Omd connection to tmd
Featuring Dr. Heidi Dickerson, President of North American/Australian Operations of LVI Global
Understanding of Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders with the physiologic approach can help us as clinicians to redirect the growth and development in a patient. This lecture is designed to teach how from birth to adulthood that we can influence the patient’s pathway to optimum health and how we can reduce the incidence of OSA and TMD.
Physiologic Ortho TX
Featuring Dr. Timothy Gross, Faculty of LVI Global
Open your eyes to the Physiologic principles of development and orthodontics and what it can do for your patients’ health. Experience the amazing impact of development guidance and Physiologic Orthodontics and how easy it is for general practitioners.
The OSA Connection to TMD and why the physiologic approach
Featuring Dr. Anne-Maree Cole, Faculty of LVI Global
If they are not breathing right, they are not growing right and if they are not sleeping right, everything sucks. Discover the link between your TMD patients and sleep and why the Physiologic approach is essential to living a longer and healthier life.
Implants and dentures in Physiologic Based Dentistry
Featuring Dr. Michael Reece, Faculty of LVI Global
The importance of incorporating physiologic principles when doing implants and dentures. Discover the principles behind Physiologic Based Implants and Dentures.
Mastering the BioPAK Training Series
Available anytime — (take Online from your home or practice)
Price: $795
Prerequisites: None but made for BioPAK owners so having access to BIoPAK software to follow along is helpful.
Featuring Dr. Bill Dickerson
This educational series will provide you with all the information you will need to effectively use your BioPak.
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