Today’s orthodontic teams are challenged to manage high patient volumes, inflation, and staffing shortages while maintaining best practices for compliance with CDC infection control and patient safety guidelines. This webinar will walk you through how to implement systems within the instrument reprocessing area to help your practice run more efficiently while making your practice's daily infection control tasks more manageable. We will review reprocessing and storing instruments, organization within the sterilization and clinical areas, and of course – staying compliant with the current CDC guidelines. We will discuss tips and tricks to help make instrument reprocessing safe, fun, and effective for the orthodontic team.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Establish systems in your practice to ensure you are following current CDC guidelines
2. Integrate care and maintenance protocols for protecting your instruments through the rigors of reprocessing
3. Evaluate your current organization and storage for increased clinical efficiency
4. Limit reprocessing challenges frequently seen in an Orthodontic practice

SPEAKER:

Andrea Cook’s in-office, hands-on training motivates and energizes orthodontic clinical teams. Her “clinical pearls” are polished from 20 years of experience as a chairside assistant with outstanding orthodontic practices. She works as a clinical consultant and trainer for premier orthodontic offices across the country.

Since effectively training clinical team members is a critical portion to the advancement of clinical productivity and profitability, Andrea works with teams to increase efficiency, improve communication, and guide the office to a new level of excellence.

Her years of experience include working in single, double, and multi-doctor practices. She has extensive experience as a clinical coordinator for a multi-doctor practice, seeing over 120 patients per day. Andrea’s expertise provides her with unique insight into solutions for the multitude of challenges faced every day by orthodontic clinical teams.

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