Dental Education Partners

10/15/2026

🦷 BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! 🎉

After an incredible in-person event with the Maui County Dental Society, we’re bringing The Perfect Handoff: SEE IT. SAY IT. SOLVE IT. to dental professionals everywhere VIRTUALLY! 💻

Dentists, is your entire team telling the same story?

Your hygienist identifies the need. Your doctor confirms the diagnosis. Your front desk helps the patient take the next step.

But what happens when those conversations don’t align?

Patients leave confused. Treatment gets delayed. And opportunities to provide the care patients need can be missed.

✨ Join us as we break down practical strategies to:

🦷 Strengthen communication between hygiene, doctors, assistants, and the front desk

🦷 Create more consistent, confident treatment conversations

🦷 Improve patient understanding and treatment acceptance

🦷 Build a more aligned, efficient, and successful dental team

Because great patient care doesn’t stop at the diagnosis. It’s how your entire team carries the message forward.

📅 October 21st 7pm EST | LIVE Webinar

🔗 Register today at the link in the caption below!

SEE IT. SAY IT. SOLVE IT. Let’s perfect the handoff! 🙌

10/07/2026

If you own a dental practice, here’s why you should care whether EVERY hygienist on your team is using AAP Stage & Grade. 👇🏼

Your patients shouldn’t have a different periodontal diagnosis, treatment recommendation, or conversation depending on which hygienist they see that day.

APP Stage & Grade gives your hygiene department a shared clinical framework and that impacts a lot more than the perio chart.

When your team is properly calibrated, you can create:

🦷 More consistent periodontal diagnosis
📝 Stronger, more defensible documentation
🗣️ Clearer communication between hygiene + doctor
🤝 More consistent patient education and treatment recommendations
📈 Better case acceptance and appropriate perio treatment
🔄 More continuity when patients move between providers
💰 A healthier, more productive hygiene department

The question for practice owners isn’t just, “Do my hygienists know what Stage & Grade is?”

It’s: “If I gave every hygienist in my practice the exact same patient, would they Stage & Grade them the same way?”

If the answer is “I’m not sure”… that’s a calibration opportunity.

And if you want to make Stage & Grade easier for your team to implement consistently, check out Synchygiene at synchygiene.us 🦷

🔗 in comments & in BIO!

09/30/2026

A busy hygiene department is not necessarily a productive...or healthy...one. The money isn’t the mission; it’s the signal. When hygiene performance falls short of its potential, the numbers may reveal something more important underneath: missed disease, inconsistent diagnosis, communication gaps, or patients who don’t fully understand the care they need.

Join us in less than 5 hours! 9/30/2026 @7:30pm EST <-- link is in the comments.

This one-hour live webinar examines three common Hygiene Profit Leaks—what the team diagnoses, what patients understand, and what the practice measures—and shows participants how to use clinical and performance data to identify opportunities to improve patient care, treatment acceptance, and practice performance.

09/30/2026

Is your full schedule hiding revenue? Join Mary K. Hughes, RDH, and Steven Wingfield, DMD, FAGD, for this complimentary 1-hour CE webinar exploring The Three Hygiene Profit Leaks that can quietly impact patient care and practice performance:

LEAK #1 — What you're diagnosing
LEAK #2 — What patients understand
LEAK #3 — What the practice measures

You'll also learn how to estimate your own Hygiene Gap and identify opportunities to improve patient care, case acceptance, and practice performance.

CE Credit: To receive 1 CE hour, participants must attend the live webinar, meet attendance verification requirements, and complete the post-course evaluation.

https://link.dentaleducationpartners.com/sp/24d311aecb6

09/28/2026

‼️ Get excited folks, our very own CEO Mary Hughes, BS, RDH & Dr. Steven Wingfield Steven Wingfield are teaming up for an event you won’t want to miss!

Your hygiene schedule is full.
Your team is busy.

But is your hygiene department producing what it should be?

There may be more opportunity hiding in your schedule than you think. 👀

Join us for The $100K Hygiene Gap, a FREE live CE webinar where we’ll break down the 3 most common hygiene profit leaks:

🦷 What you’re diagnosing
💬 What your patients actually understand
📈 What your practice is measuring

We’ll show you where production can quietly slip through the cracks AND how to identify the gaps in your own hygiene department.

📅 September 30
⏰ 7:30 PM EST
🎓 1 FREE CE Credit
💻 Live Webinar

Your hygiene department doesn’t need to work harder. It may just need to know where to look.

Save your seat

https://dentaleducationpartners.com/100k/

➡️🔗 in our bio!

Dental Education Partners (DEP) provides customized training and educational solutions to dental support organizations and private dental practices.

09/28/2026

📣 CALLING ALL DENTISTS + DENTAL PROFESSIONALS! 🦷

If you’re seeing this before September 30th, consider this your sign to stop scrolling. 👀

Our Dental Education Partners | Dental Business Coaching CEO, Mary Hughes, BS, RDH and Dr. Stephen Wingfield Steven Wingfield are teaming up for a LIVE CE webinar you’re not going to want to miss:

💰 THE $100K HYGIENE GAP
Why Busy Hygiene Departments Underproduce and Where the Money Actually Goes!

📅 September 30
⏰ 7:30 PM EST
🎓 1 FREE CE Credit
🚨 Limited seats available

If your hygiene department is busy but you’re wondering whether there’s untapped opportunity hiding in your schedule, this conversation is for you.

‼️ Save your seat now at the 🔗 in our bio.

Tag a dentist, hygienist, office manager, or dental professional who needs to be there 👇

09/25/2026

“Booked for six months” sounds successful. But booked does not automatically mean productive. It could also mean:

✔️Your appointment times don’t match patient needs.
✔️Low-value procedures are consuming high-value clinical time.
✔️Patients are overdue for diagnosed treatment.
✔️Periodontal disease is being watched instead of treated.
✔️Broken appointments can’t be filled because there is no flexibility in the schedule.

Everyone is running, but the numbers aren’t moving. Before celebrating how far out hygiene is booked, ask a better question:

What is each hour of hygiene capacity actually producing for the patient and the practice?

That answer will tell you far more than the next available appointment.

Where is your hygiene department right now: genuinely productive, or just incredibly busy? The $100K Hygiene Gap is a live, 1 CE credit webinar for practice owners and dental teams who are done confusing “busy” with “productive.”

09/23/2026

I’m going to say something that may make you feel uncomfortable:

𝗜𝗳 𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺.

You are normalizing it. We would never repeatedly identify disease anywhere else in the body, clean around it twice a year, and call that prevention.

The patient thinks, “My gums always bleed.”

The clinician thinks, “This is normal for them.”

The practice thinks, “They’re scheduled for their next cleaning.”

It isn’t simply “how their gums are.”. It is clinical information, and it deserves an appropriate response.

There, I said it.

09/21/2026

One of the most expensive sentences in dentistry is never spoken out loud:

“They’re probably going to say no.”

The clinician sees the inflammation, notices the bleeding, and additional treatment may be appropriate.

But before the patient has heard the findings, understood the risk, or been given a choice, someone decides the patient...

A. can’t afford it.
B. won’t accept it.
C. not interested.
D. think we’re selling.

So the conversation gets softened, shortened, or skipped.

Then leadership reviews the numbers and concludes that the team needs a better case-acceptance script. But you cannot fix case acceptance with another script if the clinician has already decided what the patient is going to say.

How often do you think treatment is rejected inside the provider’s head before it is ever presented to the patient?