Lou Graham, DDS
General Dentist
Dr. Graham is an internationally recognized lecturer extensively involved in continuing education for dental professionals. His lectures focus on incorporating current clinical advancements through “conservative dentistry.”
He emphasizes the same concepts he practices: dental health diagnosis, treatment plans for medically compromised patients, conservative treatment, cosmetic dentistry, and customized approaches to periodontal care, implants and laser dentistry.
Dr. Graham is the founder of the Catapult Education, a continuing education company whose philosophy and programs use contemporary, interactive formats to integrate time-proven conservative dentistry with 21st century materials and techniques. Dr. Graham is a published author in many leading national and international dental journals.
Dr. Graham is the founder of the Catapult Education, a continuing education company whose philosophy and programs use contemporary, interactive formats to integrate time-proven conservative dentistry with 21st century materials and techniques. Dr. Graham is a published author in many leading national and international dental journals.
Courses Offered
Diagnostically Driven Dentistry: The Business of Dentistry and How it All Fits Together
In dentistry, superior diagnostics relates to creating more efficient methodologies to result in better decision making and ultimately a higher quality of care and long-term success. Ultimately these diagnostics can actually lower the costs to the patient by creating far more customized approaches to their dental care and equally create the ideal treatment plans for long term success. This course will take the attendee into modern day general dentistry and demonstrate why the GP must be in control in how they integrate treatments with their specialists. Throughout the day, the business of dentistry will be presented, integrating the latest in software technologies and “actionable analytics” to demonstrate clear pathways in creating office/hygiene growth. This is a great team course and is designed with common sense approaches to drive your office forward.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Creating the ideal initial exam, customized per patient and how it intertwines with your in office dental plan
- How transillumination, fluorescence, digital imaging and CBCT technology truly supplement your explorers and 2D x-rays
- Today’s recall exam, why it becomes the health of your practice
- New protocols that truly challenge traditional dentistry
- Today’s initial exam and why CBCT imaging will be replacing the FMX, and it will!
- Truly Personalizing your communications, why it is not an option!
- The latest in clinical treatments that include: treating refractory periodontal disease, selective caries removal, digital scanning, and a novel approach to implant restorative single units
- Why KPI’s are becoming essential to your practice and which analytics are the keys to your office’s growth
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 to our patients.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- 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 and what to utilize
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 much when to pick up the drill and equally, you are so limiting your patients on what truly you could offer them, both in prevention and early minimally invasive treatment. The am program will challenge you with new protocols for care, 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.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Modern Day Diagnostics: Is it time to put down your explorer and truly compliment your digital x-rays with the latest in caries diagnostics and offer new protocols to your patients? Yes, it’s time.
- 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: Oh the joy of impressions and more!
- Cementation: Why Bioactive cements truly offer you excellent options today. How to choose the right cements
A Sound Recession Proof Restorative/Hygiene Practice
The obstacles and challenges we face day after day continue to change so fast in our profession. This course will dive deep into how you can resist signing up for PPO after PPO and how to transition your office for such. We then dive deep into how diagnostics have changed and why you must be open to grasping these changes in order to advance your practice with far greater treatment plan acceptance. From the new patient exam to hygiene re-care exams, come see how to create new protocols and far superior outcomes. This course is recommended for the entire team. Doctors, bring your team or should I say, teams…bring your doctors!
Course Highlights:
Learning Objectives:
Course Highlights:
- Over 2/3rds of dental offices take more than 7 PPO’s, come learn why you must create your own in-office dental plan and it’s just a click away!
- Why FMX’s are a thing of the past, why bite-wings for your younger patients really aren’t necessary and so many more ways to customize your diagnostics for your office.
- The NEW Patient Exam…This is an OMG change that everyone can do, (if you want to!)
- Redesigning the entire hygiene “one hour” to maximize treatment, diagnostics and communication between the doctor, hygienist, and patient.
- Maximizing hygiene outcomes with lasers and oxygenation, this is not about Star Trek! It’s about PERIO!
Learning Objectives:
- To present the latest approaches to running and growing your team and your business.
- To update the team on the latest diagnostic approaches for a general dental practice.
- The latest methodologies to compliment hygiene growth and how adjunctive therapies are bringing us far more success in treatment.
Dentistry 2020: The Business of Dentistry (Concepts they should have taught everyone in dental school and just didn’t!)
Forget the days of past, in fact forget everything pre 2010, survival for a dental office today must involve contemporary business concepts that enable it to run extremely efficient 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 all about understanding the latest economic and demographic changes in dentistry and what you can do to proper, versus join every PPO and hope to pay your monthly lab bill! This course is for the entire team to attend because it takes a team to change.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- “Actionable” analytics, that drive your huddles and monthly meetings
- Understanding how best to utilize today’s technologies that can grow your business and clinical efficiency, the must haves!
- Why Key Performance Indicators drive market 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 an option today
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 too how today’s diagnostic technologies can be integrated into our offices for and how they impact diagnostic protocols today. Truth be told, we have been guessing far too much and the more information we can attain, the far greater the ultimate clinical result. The program throughout the day takes everyday clinicals situations and how to both maximize diagnostics and equally important, long term outcomes.
Course Highlights:
Learning Objectives:
Course Highlights:
- Why traditional diagnostics are so limited and why newer technologies bring so much more to the table
- Incorporating Modern Day Diagnostics into new protocols for patient care
- Customizing what diagnostics are best for your practice and how ultimately 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 supporting diagnostically driven dentistry
Learning Objectives:
- To update the attendee in regards too, “what’s best for the patient”
- How Upping your diagnostics drives greater treatment plan acceptance
- Incorporating many of the latest materials and techniques to result in 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 can be so many such as access via limited vertical opening or limited vertical interocclusal distance or even tissue challenges and proximal issues to name a few. Is this complicated, heck no, but to think, “oh, I just will take an impression and let the lab decide or the surgeon, simply isn’t the reality today!
Whether to utilize the traditional single screw one-piece approach, the cementable crown, or even the combination termed the hybrid approach, are all viable options in implant dentistry. As the restorative dentist, you must understand what your options 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 2019, let’s get up to date with today’s technologies and expectations!
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- CBCT why this is not just for the surgeon but far more for every GP and everyday challenges that 2D imaging can’t see.
- Today’s initial exam: how to increase the patient saying “Yes” to treatment via today’s diagnostics and technologies.
- Case presentations that are step by step to take back to the “chair” Monday.
- Which cement is the only biocompatible cement for implant cemented crown.
- Immediate temporization, the technique and why the “flipper” really belong in the ocean for most cases.
- Stock abutments versus milled, oh be serious…
- ADD general restorative dentistry combination cases.
- Long term issues and maintenance approaches and yes, you need to know what future issues will be!
Enhancing Your Dental Practice Through CBCT Technology
For over 100 years dentistry and has been reliant on 2D imaging. Today’s diagnostics have shifted 2D imaging to far more specific indications versus the one thought of universal imaging diagnostic instrument. Diagnostics today include a vast arsenal of technologies that include; fluorescence, transillumination, and CBCT as examples in our office. These technologies become essential in far superior diagnostically driven decision making along with new protocols in our offices today. This full day course is all about the why and how to incorporate CBCT imaging into your dental practice and all the benefits included, and yes, even the financial ones!
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Today’s Initial Exam and giving patient’s the “wow” and ultimately treatment plan acceptance
- Why the FMX is now extinct in my office and soon to be in thousands of others
- When to refer out your images to be read by maxillofacial radiologists
- The numbers…the ROI…
- How to select what’s best for your office and why you may really be surprised
- The steps to integrating you and your team
- How digital scanning and CBCT imaging work together in so many ways!
- Clinical Casework on what you are missing in 2D and finding in 3D and how this ultimately makes your decision making far superior
- Clinical casework on resorption, implants, and far more
- For smaller programs, a hands-on experience in mapping the mental nerve, implant planning (even if you aren’t placing) and how to navigate the software for everyday use
- Technology driven analytics and how to incorporate into your practice
Geriatric Dentistry: The Fastest Growing Demographic in Dentistry
With patients entering their 8th and 9th decades of life and even more, our role as health care providers continues to face new challenges in treating this population. As these patients walk into our offices, they present challenges that are often unique and require customized approaches to their care.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Prevention is for all ages and doesn’t stop here!
- Why this patient population loves our in-office: PREVENTION PLAN
- Customizing your approaches for plaque, xerostomia and so much more
- Reparative dentistry, when, where and why and what materials are best to utilize
- Customized periodontal protocols that go beyond brushing and flossing
- Advanced restoratives technique for: post and cores, deep class 2’s, “elevating the margin” technique, perio-splinting, choosing the right cement
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