Smiles at Sea Pre-Cruise Checklist

A Smiles at Sea dental cruise is a fabulous continuing education vacation you’re sure to remember forever and want to repeat year after year. We want to ensure you have nothing but smooth sailing, so we’ve put together this pre-cruise checklist to help you prepare for the dental event of your life!

What to Do When Getting Your Dental CE in Labadee

One day, Smiles at Sea will (hopefully) have an entire cruise ship all to ourselves for our dental CE cruises. Until then, though, we have to compromise by renting out space on cruise lines. For our upcoming 5-night cruise from Miami, Florida to Labadee, Haiti, we’re choosing Royal Caribbean yet again...

The Unconventional Dental Convention

You can’t keep your license as a dental professional without doing some continuing education courses. Every state requires different amounts of credits, but the fact remains. That’s just the way it is; we need to stay sharp to provide the life-changing treatment our patients both need and deserve...

How to Navigate Your Dental Practice to Success

Running a dental practice isn’t easy, even if you have a great business mind. Most practice owners are dentists, however, who were never taught the tricks of the trade in dental school. They learned how to do a crown, an implant, or a filling, but they never learned how to run a business...

3 Reasons for Orthodontic Teams to Take a Dental Cruise

It’s a common practice for members of orthodontic teams to attend dental conferences. Attending dental conferences help them take much-needed CE while paying enormous dividends for the productivity of your whole practice. From finding new productivity tools to building new and deeper relationships, attending the best dental conferences in 2020 and beyond is an investment that can pay dividends for years to come.

How Many CE Credits Do Dentists Really Need?

You can find the required CE credits for licensure, state by state, here. But for this week’s blog post, we’d like to tell you about the two types of CE credits that can make your dental practice go from “good” to great. You shouldn’t stop your CE after getting the minimum amount of CE credits needed in order to keep your licensure to practice as a dentist.

How a DSO Can Reward and Educate Dental Practices at the Same Time

As a DSO, things might seem a bit hectic right now with all of your dental practices not operating at full capacity thanks to quarantining and social distancing. But the pandemic actually presents quite a few opportunities for you to focus on behind the scenes to better your practices and plan for things that can happen after things go back to normal.

Perio Tray Therapy From a Dental Hygienist Perspective

Many years ago as I was graduating from Dental Hygiene school, I kept hearing the words “burn out”. It was concerning to me because I wanted my chosen career to last a long time, and I didn’t want to feel “stuck” in a job because I “needed the money”. At the time, I was excited to start working with patients and couldn’t fathom the idea of ever hating it.

Dentist CE Requirements by State

With 50 different state dental boards and 50 different sets of requirements for dentist continuing education, it's hard to keep track of what is required and where. The following list sourced from the American Dental Association provides a simple, easy-to-navigate snapshot of dentist CE requirements by state, in alphabetical order.

Here's Why You Should Travel For Your Dental Continuing Education

Do you love to travel? Do you love to keep your professional license up to date? How about both together? Conveniently, there are dozens of top dental continuing education conferences that allow you to do just that! In case it's not already a no-brainer for you, here are 4 reasons why that’s an amazing idea!

Care For Your Practice The Same Way You Care For Your Patients

Do you have a pulse on the health of your practice? How about days that are more popular for hygiene appointments, or holidays that may still warrant a half-day of being open? The best way to know how your practice is doing is simple. As the saying goes, the proof is in the pudding--and when it comes to your practice, the performance is measured in numbers, aka, analytics.

Best Dental Hygiene Continuing Education Seminars 2019-2020

If you’re a dental hygienist trying to decide which dental conferences would benefit you most, look no further than this list. We’ve compiled all the dental-hygiene specific live seminars as well as top dental conferences that have a lot to offer the RDH. We’ve also included resources for finding great local live dental hygiene CE.

Ship Tips - Get the Most Out of Your Dental CE Vacation

Check out our ever-growing list of Ship Tips - cruising tips for getting the most out of your dental continuing education vacation!

Dental Team Building - The ROI of Attending CE Together

Trying to decide whether or not to bring your whole team to a dental conference can be tough. There are the upfront expenses to consider -- travel, registration, and time out of the office. It’s easy to get caught up in calculating the cost of the investment. Before you get carried away, consider the following 5 ways in which you’ll see a huge return -- and at the end of the post, we'll suggest a creative way to pay for it.

5 Things Dentists Should Know About Sleep Apnea

Obstructive Sleep Apnea is a dangerous disease that takes a serious toll the body over a long period of time with a variety of health complications that include but are not limited to hypertension, stroke, heart disease, and diabetes. The disease is particularly destructive because sleep is an essential part of anyone’s health, influencing hormone levels, metabolism, and cognitive functioning...

Why Live Dental CE Courses Are Better

It seems that now more than ever we’re trying to do as much as possible as quickly as possible. We’ve got too much to do and too little time to do it. Especially in dentistry -- with jampacked schedules filled 6 months or more in advance...

Dental Implant CE at Sea

Rock the Boat: How To Be Happier, Healthier And More Profitable

Do you feel like you’re forcing your team to walk the plank when it comes to providing patient education and complete health care? As the leader of your dental practice, it is crucial that you become the captain of your own ship and know how to navigate your practice’s future through choppy waters, go full steam ahead on patient education, and eliminate the anchor of practice management.

It’s More Than a Dental CE Conference -- It’s a Dental VACATION

A Smiles at Sea dental CE cruise is so much more than a great dental seminar, it’s a dental FESTIVAL! You’ll find high-quality continuing education courses and networking opportunities at all top dental conferences. What sets Smiles at Sea apart is, in scientific terms, the “fun factor,” which acts as a catalyst to exponentially enhance your experience and transform it into lifelong memories…

Your Online Scheduling Doesn’t Work

Lots of dentists think they offer online scheduling to their patients, but unfortunately, most of those dentists are wrong. They might offer online appointment requests, but not online scheduling. Not really...

Top Dental Conferences 2020 - 2021

With so many amazing dental conferences happening all the time (and some of them at the same time -- no fair!) it’s impossible to avoid at least one annual case of FOMO. You’ve got enough on your plate already, so we compiled this list of top dental conferences coming up in 2020-2021 (in date order)...

Why Choose a Dental CE Cruise?

These days we’re so lucky to have ready access to so many different CE options. With a whisk of our fingertips at the keyboard, we can quickly conjure up webinars on any topic that strikes our fancy. We can easily locate a variety of professional organizations conferencing near our hometowns...