Every Case is a Big Case
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Dentists & Dental Team
January 26, 2026
January 26, 2029
1 CE Credit
Free
Self-Instructional
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About the Course
Course Contents
Course Description
This course invites participants to reconsider traditional concepts of “optimal” dentistry and explore how the dental team can use its full range of skills and tools to guide patients toward appropriate and optimal health, one step at a time. Through intentional systems, shared discovery, and transparent communication, participants will learn how to support consistent treatment planning, predictable clinical flow, and a congruent patient experience—reinforcing the idea that every case is a big case.
Learning Objectives
- Describe how to intentionally create a co-discovery dental team that supports a congruent patient experience
- Identify transparent, individualized systems that promote predictable clinical and operational flow
- Explain strategies for intentionally building or reinforcing practice systems over time
- Define leadership roles within the dental practice related to operations, communication, and team management
- Review key clinical data that can be understood by the entire dental team to support consistent treatment planning
- Develop patient-centered messaging that helps patients feel safe moving toward appropriate oral health
Course Details
- Course Fee: Free
- Credits: Catapult Education designates this activity for 1 credit continuing education credit.
- Method: Self-Instructional
- Audience: Dentists & Entire Dental Team
- AGD Subject Code: 250
Meet the Instructor
Kevin Kwiecien, DMD, MS
overlapping in academia.
Before joining Spear Education as a full-time faculty member from 2013 - 2018, Dr. Kwiecien served as assistant professor of restorative dentistry at Oregon Health and Sciences University School of Dentistry where his roles included director of the university’s faculty dental practice, director of patient admissions, and director of the urgent care clinic, as well as course director of pre-clinical fixed prosthodontics and co-course director of advanced restorative concepts for
third- and fourth-year students.
As a member of the Spear resident faculty, Dr. Kwiecien served as director of Spear Online, responsible for creating and overseeing digital clinical content. He taught several of the hands-on workshops and practiced as a member of the Spear faculty practice.
He has over a decade of national and international lecturing and workshops, with topics ranging from dental team building to dental practice systems, leadership, comprehensive digital dentistry, dental sleep medicine, appliance therapy, systematic treatment planning, occlusion in the restorative practice, and many more.
Dr. Kwiecien’s appreciation for and dedication to high-level continuing education began with Dr. Frank Spear in 2001. Shortly thereafter, he completed the curriculum at the L.D. Pankey Institute. He belonged for several years to a Tucker Gold Study Club and has many additional accomplishments,
including a fellowship in the Academy of General Dentistry, where he also served as President of the Oregon Academy of General Dentistry.
He also maintains memberships in several organizations, including the Academy of General Dentistry and American Equilibration Society. Dr. Kwiecien is serves as faculty member at the L.D. Pankey Institute and dedicates the majority of his time as the owner of K Squared Facilitation and Dental Education, facilitating long-term health for the practice, team, and patient.
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Disclosure
Catapult Education received financial support from Pearl for this presentation. Dr. Kevin Kwiecien received compensation from Pearl for the time involved in preparing and delivering this presentation. Catapult Education delivers clinically relevant continuing dental education programs which address the needs and preferences of our audience and provides them with the knowledge and confidence to integrate new techniques, practice management and treatment options into their respective practices. Catapult Education is committed to ensuring the content quality, objectivity and scientific integrity of all continuing education courses. Instructors are advised to support clinical recommendations with scientific research-supported data whenever possible and to disclose any conflict of interest between them and any corporate organization offering financial support or grant monies for this CE activity. Instructors are advised, where appropriate and if relevant to the subject matter of the presentation, to mention a variety of different product choices so as to present a balanced view of all therapeutic options available and promote improvements in oral healthcare free from commercial bias.
