The Fox Mentorship Program: Learn Advanced Practice Skills From Your Own Office While Working On Your Own Patients.
WHAT IS FOX MENTORSHIP?
Dr. Fox’s Full Comprehensive Mentorship Program is:
- an unique way to learn.
- the first personalized, one-on-one learning program offered in dentistry.
- a learning opportunity right in your own office while working on your patients, to perform procedures that you always wished you could do, like dental implant surgery. LVI and other learning institutes do not give the opportunity to perform less familiar skills hands-on, as is the focus of this program.
- This program is FREE of charge.
- You RECEIVE full Continuing Education Accreditation while you learn at no extra cost.
- You increase you Practice Revenue.
- You enhance the goodwill of your practice and get more referrals.
WHO IS DR ALLAN FOX? next >
Who is Dr. Allan Fox?
Dr. Fox is a general dentist, like most of you. He has been practicing for 34 years and took a keen interest in implant-based procedures, which began for him in 1988.
During the years of developing his skills, there were often times of struggle, so Dr. Fox vowed that should he ever get to a high level of proficiency, he would help others do the same. He has kept his promise. Today, he is the director of Fox Mentorship, an innovative and high-level dental training and consultation service.
Dr. Fox built a very busy practice in Scarborough, Ontario. He has sold this practice and has been a mentor to the purchaser, Dr. Haren Jagan. Dr. Jagan will attest to the confidence he has acquired and the enhanced ability he has assumed in that past 2 years by observing and working with Dr. Fox, which has sped up his learning curve tremendously and his repertoire of disciplines. His other associate dentists in recent years, Dr. Rohini Sharma and Dr. Aaron Fox concur with Dr Jagan’s remarks. (Call Dr. Jagan at 416-438-6699). By selling his practice, he now has the time to go out in the field and provide mentorship to others.
So while you read on, keep in mind Dr. Fox, with his years of experience can assist you by enhancing critical areas of your dental career and your practice. He along with his office manager and treatment coordinator of 25 years, Leigh Gowland, and Dr. Aaron Fox (U of T ’06), will teach and guide you the very special aspects of treatment management and performance that you must know.
Why Choose Us?
The difference is that we can and we will do the work for your patients. We will take over the ‘driving’ for you every step of the way, if you wish, until you learn sufficiently and are ready to proceed on your own.
We are not going to spoon feed you, but we are going to put you and your team to the test, throughout.
Benefit from our years of experiences. We want to share with you the methods we have discovered that will teach you to be your best.
| This means simply that as we treat your patients right in your operatory, you will be learning, observing and assisting me if you so wish, or you can even get right in there and be hands on until you get the gist. |
Whether you choose for Dr. Fox to treat your patients or just choose to be consulted, Leigh and Dr. Fox will take you and your team through the process of accurate treatment assessment, management and delivery for you patients.
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PERSONALIZED MENTORSHIP
Steps of the Process
1. Assist you, the doctor and your staff in exact fact finding; In this section we will help you review the qualities of your patient candidate. The patient has presented to you for a reason. Learn to pay close attention to the patient’s concerns, goals, past experiences, and dental condition or findings. Having a full grasp and understanding of these areas will allow you to visualize the outcome you wish to achieve for the patient early on. The source of the patient is most important. Is the patient an existing patient, referred from another patient, or has the patient found you from your sign or through other media. These factors are all unique and you respond according to the origin of the referred patient. Their dental experiences are important in your analysis. You can verify the will that your patient will require to accept and undergo extensive reconstruction therapy. Learn to decipher the patient’s attitude and personality. Learn the appropriate appearance, wording and contact that you will need, that are best for each patient, through early monitoring.
2. Familiarize our group to patient candidates so that good comfort levels are established; We will meet with your patient. The patient will take comfort when they understand the ‘team’ approach that will be given to graduate them through the treatment process.
3. Create the blueprint of optimal treatment objectives and demonstrate methods of presentation to the patient; Learn to understand better, the way to obtain predictable and durable outcomes by limiting questionable areas in your evaluation that may compromise the best long-term results. Establish the best overall prognosis by creating a strict diagnosis on a collective basis. This will give you the confidence to guarantee your treatment, which you must be able to offer. Learn what items and facts are needed to obtain the highest rate of treatment acceptance. Learn to delegate treatment presentations to your most experienced team member. Learn how to ‘create’ your treatment coordinator.
4. Financial substantiation and arrangements; Methods and techniques in substantiating treatment costs to your patients during consultation rounds will be taught to you and your team. The importance of establishing comparative value that you are providing the patient and what they are receiving will be impressed upon you in order to facilitate treatment acceptance. We will make available the choice of attractive third party sources of financing if you do not already have this.
5. Colorize treatment alternatives with emphasis on the optimal treatment; We will provide for the patient’s viewing, images of cases that are comparable to the patient’s requirements and interpose the patient’s personal information when it is appropriate, tasteful, and useful keeping in mind the patient’s level of interpretation and perception. Treatment choices are presented but limited with the emphasis on the best possible treatment, placing no restrictions on your experience level and the patient’s financial position.
6. Perform implant surgery, post-op care. Pre, interim and final prosthetic design that has been chosen; Surgical tactics will be reviewed. This includes proper flap design, preferred implant locations, alternative strategies when sites are compromised, techniques required in immediate placements, anticipation of bone and soft tissue augmentation, suture placement, size of healing abutments, choices of post surgical (interim) prosthesis criteria.
7. (Optional)Assist you or perform these prosthetics steps, as well as final insertion, occlusal refinements, and continual post treatment follow up. We will show you how to be certain of your prosthetic designs. Base this on the patient’s occlusion, changes to VDO if any, soft tissue (facial, labial, gingival, lingual (speech)) surroundings, length and width of fixtures placed, degree of crestal height post-healing and grafting responses. Anticipate changes to your prosthetic design if these areas have changed or have been compromised. Understand the difficulties associated with tooth preparation for veneers, and the occasional need for orthodontic intervention for uprighting, aligning or space regaining. Know the best approach for the insertion of your cases in order to minimize discomfort levels, maximize prosthetic retention, hygiene and maintenance and reduce the incidence of post insertion fractures with detailed equilibration.
What Do You Require To Improve?
You need to say to yourself that you are ready to expand your ability first, and believe that you can. You need to delegate functions in your office. You need to know the importance of risk: therefore you need to want to improve. You need to understand that your ‘investment’ in me is actually an investment in yourself.
You want your patients to invest the time, money, trust and their will to commit to the recommendations you make. This is their investment in you. You must not compromise this because your abilities are presently limited.
Understand that the responsibility of ‘your’ patients is ‘ours’. But let me add that a notion of liability lies in the mind of the poorly or under-informed, unprepared and unmotivated patient. Quality in determining and building this aspect of the program is paramount. This is where success in the outcome begins. Do not dwell on this fact, but keep in mind that there is always a risk when we prepare a tooth. You have the advantage of already knowing those patients who are candidates for more advanced treatment.
Start your new approach by leaving your negative thoughts behind. Begin to create your new Paradigm right now. You need to get your mindset programmed so that you can understand the will your patients and you require to proceed and to complete cases successfully. You need to be able to visualize the outcome of cases from the get go. You need experience to be able to perform and to improve.
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What Are Our Fees?
There is no extra charge for taking the mentorship program. Since Dr. Fox and his staff help you learn while he is working on your own patients, the normal fee for service that we will charge the patient is the only fee for this program.
In addition, you will be reimbursed 20 per cent of this fee after lab and incidental costs are deducted for some of the costs you incur.
You will be saving on education costs because this program is AGD approved, thus you will obtain credit for all of the time you spend with Dr. Fox during the entire process and you will not initially have to purchase any equipment, instruments or implant sundries.
“Fox Mentorship is designated as an Approved PACE Program Provider by the Academy of General Dentistry. The formal continuing education programs of this program provider are accepted by AGD for Fellowship, Mastership and membership maintenance credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by a state or provincial board of dentistry or AGD endorsement. The current term of approval extends from 9/1/2009 to 8/31/2010."
Curriculum for training, planning and performing.
Read the outline below and begin to conceptualize your newly attain levels of skill.
Here is the process:
Identify the Treatment
1. Background of your relationship with patient prospect
2. Introduction to the patient and goals of initial meeting(s)
3. Method and techniques of communication with patient: getting a feel for the patient- their needs, authenticity, will, perception, understanding
Prepare for the Consultation
4. Fact Finding: visual, photos, x-rays, charting, history, models
5. Filtering findings: calculate risks, susceptibility to achieve best outcome, forecast, durability
6. Treatment Presentation: treatment director; narrow down choices based on best available treatment; prosthetic design
Financing
7. Business dealings: substantiate fees and explanation of arrangement, third party financing
Consultation Day
8. Treatment alternatives and focus on best choice available, all props available
9. Logistics of treatment: surgical, provisional, acquiring final restorative, follow up
10. Firm up financial
Day of Procedure
11. Surgical tactics: patient accompaniment, sedation, flap design, unknown compromises, graft combos, membranes, sutures, freezing, post surgical temps if any, home care, and review of the first few weeks after
Prosthetic Aspects
12. Understand more intricately occlusion in your plan, and the forces on implants and natural teeth on an overall basis including their interconnection and how to anticipate differences.
13. Methods of proper bite registrations and modifying vertical dimension
14. Reliable ways of full arch temporization while case is being fabricated
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PROXY SERVICES
Perhaps you may only wish to have me place your implants surgically. And perhaps you may want me to do the restorative aspects as well but you really do not wish to learn to perform these procedures yourself. Keeping the patient in your office will benefit your practice greatly. To discuss the arrangements for this level of service please call me at 416.480.9669 or email.
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TREATMENT PLANNING
You may choose only the services provided through Talkin’ Teeth, which are given by Leigh Gowland. Arrangements can be made with her directly and she is glad to discuss this with you. She teaches auxiliary staff in your office as well as being on the lecture circuit for assistants and for dentists regarding treatment planning and treatment direction.
Purchase the excellent DVD which is a course on the makings and responsibilities of the treatment coordinator. You can acquire the expertise of Leigh and her trained staff to come into your office and only teach you and your staff how to correctly do treatment planning and presentations.
Call Leigh directly at 1.905.914.8373 or by email and speak to her regarding the treatment coordination program or ask her to come in and help you assess any case that you may want me to do with you in your office.
Contact me, Allan Fox by phone at 416.480.9669 or by email, in order to discuss your cases that require additional guidance.
Patient Financing Options
Create a Level Playing Field for Your Patients to Obtain All Forms of Treatment.
Remove the Past Financial Road Blocks.
Your patients can apply for low interest loans with flexible and open terms at your office during their consultations. Arrangements have been made with the National Bank of Canada and Desjardins financing for the convenience of your patients.
