Teach Your Patients Well: The Patient and Oral Health Professional Partnership

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If you’re looking for invaluable dental industry insider perspectives on how to elevate your level of patient care and how to build a profitable, oral medicine-focused practice, look no further than these key opinion leaders.

“Teach Your Patients Well: The Patient and Oral Health Professional Partnership”

John C. Comisi, DDS, MAGD & Karen L. Comisi, CDA, RDA, FADAA

Presented by one of dentistry’s leading power couples who work side by side in their aptly named practice, “Dental Care With a Difference.”

Are your patients frustrated because they are told they are not “brushing and flossing” well enough? Is that perhaps because they are being “told” to do it rather than shown how to do it?

The concept of oral management varies from individual to individual and is dependent upon what we are taught or perceive during our lifetime. For some the process is very easy and comes naturally, while for others it is a constant struggle because picturing the end result may not be so clear.

Our job as dental professionals is to provide the needed tools and directions to our patients so that they can succeed in the removal of the biofilm that creates oral disease. Without knowledge, there will not be healing.

This webinar will discuss the various discoveries in helping patients manage their oral health, and include the “trials and tribulations” experienced over the years of care for numerous patients.

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Karen L. Comisi, CDA, RDA, FADAA

Over the past 30 years, Karen has held almost every staff position in the dental office, with the exception of dentist and dental hygienist. She has been an orthodontic dental assistant, oral surgeon dental assistant, general dentist assistant, front desk and insurance coordinator and is currently the Practice Administrator and CFO for “Dental Care with a Difference®”, PC.

She is one of the first licensed, registered restorative function dental assistants in New York State and is a founding member of the Southern Tier Dental Assistants Society. Karen has been appointed to and serves on the NY State Board for Dentistry and also serves as a board member on the Dental Assistants National Board (DANB).

Karen is also a member of the American Dental Assistants Association, the American Association of Dental Office Managers, the Organization for Safety & Asepsis Procedure (OSAP), the American Association of Dental Boards (AADB) and is an affiliate member of the Academy of General Dentistry.

John C. Comisi, DDS, MAGD

Dr. Comisi has been in private practice in Ithaca, NY since 1983, and is President and CEO of Dental Care with a Difference®, PC, where “Knowledge Brings Health®”. He is also a Clinical Instructor in Dentistry at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. A graduate of Northwestern University Dental School, Dr. Comisi received his Bachelor of Science in Biology at Fordham University.

He is a respected key opinion leader, author, speaker and consultant who contributes regularly to such journals as General Dentistry, Compendium of Continuing Dental Education, Dental Product Shopper, Mentor Magazine, Dental Products Report, Dental Economics, Dentistry Today, CE Cosmetic Dentistry, Oral Health Journal and Inside Dentistry. He is an editorial advisory board member for Dental Product Shopper and Dental Products Report and is on continuing education advisory board of Dental Learning.

Dr. Comisi is also a member of the Academy of General Dentistry, and is a Master of the Academy of General Dentistry. He is also a member of American Dental Association, the American Society for Dental Aesthetics, the National Dental Practice Based Research Network (NDPBRN) and the American and International Associations for Dental Research. He also holds fellowships in the Academy of Dentistry International, the American College of Dentists, the Pierre Fauchard Academy and the International College of Dentists.