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Practice Dynamics Part I: Starting and Managing your Dental Practice

Saturday, October 24, 2009

What You Will Learn

Samuel T. Huang, DDS and Daniel B. Mendoza, DDS will share their successes in choosing locations for dental practice, office planning, and strategies for marketing and growing your practice. The presentation will include goal setting and using your goals in to guide practice decisions during each stage of your career. Pearls of wisdom will be shared concerning leadership style, office efficiency, internal and external marketing, and terminology used in the office.

The presentation will include discussion of criteria for selecting a community to locate your practice, and the logistics of putting your practice together. There will also be suggestions on how to take advantage of California’s ethnic diversity, and provide a clear understanding of the relationship between marketing and practice growth.

Learning Objectives

  • Discuss the strategies and process for selecting an area to establish a practice

  • Learn the relationship between marketing and practice growth

  • Develop a marketing plan to help your practice grow

  • Describe the relationship between the dental needs of the population of the state of California and its ethnic diversity

Samuel T. Huang, DDS, is Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor and Chief of Dental Simulation, Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences, UCSF School of Dentistry.  He also works for the Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health as the Director of Operative Dentistry. Dr. Huang has been in private practice in Novato, California for over 20 years. He started his practice from scratch and was involved in a successful dental partnership.

Daniel B. Mendoza, DDS, is Health Sciences Clinical Professor, Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences, UCSF School of Dentistry. He earned his dental degree from UCSF in 1984 and has taught dental simulation at UCSF for over 25 years. Dr. Mendoza maintains a successful private general dentistry practice in Redwood City, CA.

Intended Audience:

This course is intended for new graduate dentists and is an opportunity for UCSF graduates to understand the success of faculty mentors. It is useful for all general dentists, specialists and key decision makers within your practice.

Cost:

$230/Dentist
$164/Auxiliary

*Continental breakfast and lunch provided

Location:

UCSF Clinical Sciences Building
521 Parnassus Ave., C-701
San Francisco, CA

Registration:

Course begins at 8:30 a.m.
Course concludes at 4:30 p.m.

Credit:

The provider is authorized to confer 7 units of Category II California Continuing Dental Education credit.

Can't register online?

Registration Information
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Please contact the Continuing Dental Education office at:

Phone: (415) 476-1101

E-mail: pierottic@dentistry.ucsf.edu

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