Health-centered Dentistry and Team-centered Systems with Dr. Kevin Kwiecien
As dentistry continues to evolve, the role of the dentist and dental team can seem more ambiguous, creating more questions than answers. Airway or occlusion? Stress-management or an occlusal guard? Fluoride and tooth repair or nutritional counseling? Can we do it all? Should we do it all? If so, how? And is understanding optimal occlusal concepts and restoring a patient to a traditionally optimal result still appropriate? Would you be open to the possibility that the dentist and dental team can use all of its gifts and tools to move a patient towards appropriate and optimal health, one step at a time?
This presentation will address the following:
- How to intentionally create a co-discovery dental team for a congruent patient experience
- Develop individualized transparent systems to support predictable clinical office flow
- Set a path to intentionally build or reinforce each system with intention
- Feel more confident as a CEO, CFO, CMO and Head of HR
- Review key clinical data that the entire team can understand to support consistent treatment planning
- Understand how to create a message to help every patient feel safe to move towards appropriate health
About Dr. Kevin Kwiecien
Dr. Kwiecien graduated from Oregon Health and Science University School of Dentistry in 1995 and holds a master’s degree in healthcare administration. He
has more than 25 years of private practice experience with most of those years overlapping in academia.
Before joining Spear Education as a full-time faculty member from 2013 – 2018, Dr. Kwiecien served as assistant professor of restorative dentistry at Oregon
Health and Sciences University School of Dentistry where his roles included director of the university’s faculty dental practice, director of patient admissions,
and director of the urgent care clinic, as well as course director of pre-clinical fixed prosthodontics and co-course director of advanced restorative concepts for
third- and fourth-year students.
As a member of the Spear resident faculty, Dr. Kwiecien served as director of Spear Online, responsible for creating and overseeing digital clinical content. He taught several of the hands-on workshops and practiced as a member of the Spear faculty practice. He has over a decade of national and international lecturing and workshops, with topics ranging from dental team building to dental practice systems, leadership, comprehensive digital dentistry, dental sleep medicine, appliance therapy, systematic treatment planning, occlusion in the restorative practice, and many more.
Dr. Kwiecien’s appreciation for and dedication to high-level continuing education began with Dr. Frank Spear in 2001. Shortly thereafter, he completed the curriculum at the L.D. Pankey Institute. He belonged for several years to a Tucker Gold Study Club and has many additional accomplishments, including a fellowship in the Academy of General Dentistry, where he also served as President of the Oregon Academy of General Dentistry.
He also maintains memberships in several organizations, including the Academy of General Dentistry and American Equilibration Society.
Dr. Kwiecien is serves as faculty member at the L.D. Pankey Institute and dedicates the majority of his time as the owner of K Squared Facilitation and Dental Education, facilitating long-term health for the practice, team, and patient.