Dr. Lou Graham
Lecture Topics
- Diagnostically Driven Dentistry
- New and Emerging Technology
- CBCT Imaging
- Restorative Dentistry
- Geriatric Dentistry
- Dental Materials
- Implants
- Case Acceptance
- Profitability
About Dr. Graham
For the past 35+ years, Dr. Graham has practiced dentistry in Chicago, Illinois. As dentistry evolved throughout his career, he remained at the cutting edge and incorporated many of these changes into both his multi-group specialty practice and his clinical courses. Dr. Graham’s course offerings incorporate the latest diagnostic technologies into everyday treatment planning and clinical care to ensure the best options and treatments are presented to each and every patient.
Throughout his career, his goal has always been to get teeth to their 75th birthday. With such, Dr. Graham’s emphasis has always been based on trust with the patient and conservative dentistry. His courses highlight many of the restorative options in dentistry today along with an emphasis on customized approaches to periodontal care, implants, laser dentistry and treatment for the ever-expanding geriatric population.
Dr. Graham is the founder of Catapult Education, now composed of 30+ speakers including clinical evaluators of the latest dental products and technologies with over 38,000 education subscribers.
Dr. Graham is a published author and is the former Dental Director of the University of Chicago’s Department of Dentistry.
Throughout his career, his goal has always been to get teeth to their 75th birthday. With such, Dr. Graham’s emphasis has always been based on trust with the patient and conservative dentistry. His courses highlight many of the restorative options in dentistry today along with an emphasis on customized approaches to periodontal care, implants, laser dentistry and treatment for the ever-expanding geriatric population.
Dr. Graham is the founder of Catapult Education, now composed of 30+ speakers including clinical evaluators of the latest dental products and technologies with over 38,000 education subscribers.
Dr. Graham is a published author and is the former Dental Director of the University of Chicago’s Department of Dentistry.
Honors and Achievements
Discover Dr. Graham's Latest Courses
Redefining Diagnostics and Long-Term Maintenance for Optimal Health and Optimal Restorative Results NEW!
2D X-rays and periodontal probing have been the mainstream of diagnosing disease for the last 75 years. Long-term maintenance has routinely only included power brushing and begging your patients to floss. Yet, all too often the disease returns and nothing changes! This course is meant for doctors and their teams to understand, “we can do far better” from diagnostics to long-term maintenance. This makes your cosmetic and restorative work better too.
This course gives you actual tools to create easier workflow, better results, and higher patient satisfaction.
This course gives you actual tools to create easier workflow, better results, and higher patient satisfaction.
You will learn
- Why you will be able to throw away your probes, a new era is coming to evaluating pocket depths
- The benefits of genetic profiling with a one-time test evaluating biomarkers to determine genetic risk factors for caries and periodontal disease. Yes, it’s here!
- When, where, and why to order saliva testing and bacterial testing
- Why 2D AI imaging is the biggest no brainer to add to your practice
- The why behind the shift in focus to long term maintenance: Yes, we can offer more and FYI…we have to
Diagnostically Driven Dentistry NEW!
Why, as a profession, are the majority of dentists continuing to diagnose as if it’s 1956? Decades of studies have clearly shown that traditional diagnostics are like flipping a coin. Why does a profession use the phrase every day, “let’s watch this,” when truth be told, we have not diagnosed the patient, nor have we truly determined their risk factors for caries and periodontal disease? It’s time to change, so are you practicing in the 50’s?
Highlights:
Highlights:
- Why 2D AI is superior to your naked eye and how it creates growth for every practice
- Understand why transillumination and fluorescence should be a part of your exams
- Why exams will be incorporating salivary and genetic diagnostics to understand their patients’ risk factors for caries and periodontal disease
- Stopping the cycle of watching, drilling, and waiting for failure
- Today’s initial and recall exams: Getting patients to say yes
- “Upping” your game in long-term maintenance of your periodontal patients via integrating lasers, oxygenation, and more
- Financial strategies for your patients
Geriatric Dentistry: The Fastest Growing Demographic in Dentistry
Who knew that the fastest growing segment of our population is 65+! Another fact, more patients than ever before above the age of 70, have their teeth and with that comes far more challenges in their dental options and treatments. Add medical issues and you have a whole new subset within our profession, and it’s called geriatric dentistry. Let’s not forget most of these patients don’t have dental insurance and this course will also present some commonsense business approaches because when a 75-year-old comes to your office, they may be a patient truly for life! Lastly, this is not a course on nursing home dentistry but far more about customizing your practice around the needs of these patients.
Highlights:
- Why AI (artificial intelligence) is becoming an essential part of our diagnostics and even more!
- How initial exams and recall exams incorporate the latest technologies (digital scanning) and 3D diagnostics (CBCT) into treatment planning and case acceptance
- Modern day restorative approaches that allow us to prolong our patient’s dentitions
- The vast majority of these patients present with periodontal issues, understand the best approaches to “upping” your oral hygiene game and the latest on treating refractory periodontal patients and their periodontal challenges
- Customizing your own in office dental plan, these patients love them!
Course Format: Full Day Lecture
Advanced Concepts in Restorative Direct and Indirect Dentistry
For over 100 years, the standard of care for caries diagnostics has been the explorer and x-rays. Let’s all agree that if you are utilizing these as your solo tools for caries diagnostics, you are simply guessing way too often. You are also limiting your treatment offerings to patients, both in prevention and early minimally invasive treatment. This program will challenge you with new protocols for care, and problem-solve many of the issues today in direct restorative dentistry. The program then transitions into far more challenging casework that will include both direct and indirect restorative clinical care. This full day program will update the attendee with the latest in adhesion dentistry, along with many of the latest techniques and materials available today.
Highlights:
- Modern Day Diagnostics: It’s time to put down your explorer and truly compliment your digital x-rays with the latest in caries diagnostics
- The key pitfalls in direct adhesion and how to avoid them (you will be surprised!)
- Advanced approaches to direct restorative: How to really up your game
- “Elevated margins” and the reason they are important
- Posts and Cores: Unique approaches to add long term success
- Digital Crown and Bridge: The joy of impressions… and more!
- Cementation: How to choose the right cements and why bioactive cements offer excellent options today
Dentistry 2025: The Business of Dentistry (Concepts they should have taught everyone in dental school and just didn’t!)
Forget the days of the past… In fact, forget everything pre 2010. Survival for a dental office today must involve contemporary business concepts that enable it to run efficiently and yet be incredibly personal. Forget just watching how much a bib costs or how much cash you have in your office checking account; this course is about understanding the latest economic and demographic changes in dentistry and what you can do to prepare, rather than joining every PPO in the hopes of paying your monthly lab bill! This course is for the entire team to attend. After all… it takes a team to change.
Highlights:
- “Actionable” analytics that drive your huddles and monthly meetings
- Understanding how best to utilize today’s technologies to grow your business and clinical efficiency
- Why Key Performance Indicators drive market success and ROI in the office
- Hygiene growth equates to practice growth: seeing is believing
- The in-office dental plan, steps A to Z (and why these are NOT optional today)
Integrating a Commonsense Approach to Diagnostically Driven Dentistry
Since the era of GV Black, dentistry has been using an explorer as its chief diagnostic tool for fissure and smooth surface caries. In the post-World War 2 era, x-rays became another diagnostic mainstay in dental practices. Flash forward to 2025 and what are you using in your office? How sensitive and specific are these diagnostics for our patients? The answer, not very! This course takes you in a deep dive into how and why you should be updating your diagnostic skills, and how both your patients and practice benefit. Unless you like premature failures and dental surprises, this course will disappoint you. Our journey during this course is all about optimizing success and YES, there are so many options available today. It’s truly not if you will make these changes, but when. Come enjoy our day together and understand not just the diagnostics, but the everyday clinical solutions with each case.
Highlights:
Highlights:
- Optimizing 2D imaging with artificial intelligence. We all know we miss stuff, come see your second set of eyes and why patients often believe a computer more than you
- Why all too often explorers and 2D imaging are not the best diagnostics, and yet for other patient groups they are. Do you know which group best benefits?
- How today’s transillumination can change your bitewing protocols and why fluorescence does add more to the story
- Why CBCT imaging is NOT just about implants and why it should be in most practices
- Step by step new patient protocols to patients saying, YES
- Step by step recall patients understanding that things change and getting them to say, YES
- Clinical casework that is everyday dentistry but without the surprises
The Challenges in Restorative Dentistry
“Success” is a very interesting word as it relates to a dental procedure. What is a successful restoration? Is it one that lasts 5 years, or 10 or 15 or 20 plus? Or, did it prolong the life of the tooth until another replacement restoration was required? What is success? This course is all about expanding your game as a general dentist, and covers topics that are essential to understand and equally, deliver success to our patients.
Highlights:
- Direct Pulp Capping: The steps to success with the right materials
- Treating Resorptive Lesions: The challenges and successes
- Treating Cracked Teeth: Trying to make sense of it! What does the literature really say?
- The Single Implant Crown: 3 options (and yes, they are all different)
- Socket Grafting and Temporization: It’s all about the planning
Diagnostically Driven Technologies and Their Essential Role in Advanced Concepts in Restorative Direct and Indirect Dentistry
For over 100 years, the standard of care in dentistry has been an explorer, an x-ray, and a periodontal probe. This program will challenge the audience as to how today’s diagnostic technologies can be integrated into our offices, and how they impact diagnostic protocols today. Truth be told, we have been guessing far too much. The more information we can attain, the far greater the ultimate clinical result. The program takes everyday clinicals situations and identifies how to maximize diagnostics and thereby maximize long term outcomes for your patients and practice.
Highlights:
- The limitations of traditional diagnostics, contrasted with new technologies on the market today
- Incorporating modern day diagnostics into new protocols for patient care
- Customizing what diagnostics are best for your practice and how this raises long term outcomes and decision making
- Communication and treatment plan acceptance: implementing new approaches to growth
- How your own in-office dental plan ties in our day
- Clinical casework and outcomes that support diagnostically driven dentistry
Objectives:
- To update the attendee in regards to “what’s best for the patient”
- How upping your diagnostics drives greater treatment plan acceptance
- Incorporating many of the latest materials and techniques to achieve superior long term outcomes
Implants: The Restorative Solutions and Challenges Long Term
Face the truth: not every implant is placed in the ideal position and not every patient has the ideal setting for the final restoration. The challenges are numerous: access via limited vertical opening, limited vertical interocclusal distance, tissue challenges, and proximal issues, just to name a few. Leaving treatment decisions to the lab or lead surgeon is simply not an option anymore.Whether you are utilizing the traditional single screw one-piece approach, the cementable crown, or even the combination termed the hybrid approach, you must understand what your options are for long term success. Treatment coordination and planning for optimum results often involves superior diagnostics utilizing CBCT imaging, and the latest options in digital scanning for communication with both the patient and lab. It’s 2025; Let’s get up to date with today’s technologies and expectations!
Highlights:
- CBCT: Why this is not just for the surgeon but for every GP and everyday challenges that 2D imaging can’t see
- Today’s initial exam: How to increase case acceptance via today’s diagnostics and technologies
- Step by step case presentations you can take back to the “chair” Monday
- Which cement is the only biocompatible cement for implant cemented crowns
- Immediate temporization: The technique and why the “flipper” usually belongs in the ocean
- Stock abutments versus milled
- ADD general restorative dentistry combination cases
- Long term issues and maintenance approaches (and yes, you need to know what future issues will be!)
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