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Upcoming Events:
April
16 - 17
CenterPoint Dallas
Dallas, TX
earn up to 8.5 CE credits

Building, expanding, or renovating your practice? Learn from friendly dental design experts who will challenge you to think bigger, think differently, and utilize design to create your success.

Dental office design is not just about choosing the perfect color scheme and deciding what material should be used on the accent walls. With its highly specialized use of space, dentistry calls for many considerations ahead of selecting interior finishes. Build Your Future® addresses the fundamentals specific to dental office design and defines the design process, while also inspiring you to identify the values and goals that will drive your future practice.

Immerse yourself in Build Your Future, online via Benco’s learning platform, or at one of Benco’s two-day workshop events hosted at our outstanding CenterPoint locations. Available within a robust online learning platform, virtual Build Your Future features over a dozen design-centric content modules. Viewers can expect on demand, self-paced access to practical and applicable information. Build Your Future at CenterPoint in-person events offer an expanded curriculum that infuses dental business coaching, financial goal setting, and a large showcase of equipment into the agenda. With this, you are offered remarkable one-on-one access to a range of experts who can answer your questions and offer valuable advice across applicable specialties.

MEET OUR FEATURED SPEAKERS

  • Tristan Hamilton DDS, MArch

    Benco got to know Dr. Tristan Hamilton in 2012 when his Wilmington, NC office was awarded Best Dental Office Design by Incisal Edge magazine. His unique background, with degrees in architecture (Andrews University) and dentistry (Loma Linda University School of Dentistry), along with his charismatic style, make Dr. Hamilton an ideal fit as keynote speaker at Build Your Future. Learn more about Dr. Hamiliton by visiting his website.

    He has built a few of his own practices and consulted on hundreds of others. In addition to teaching the concepts of dental office design, Dr. Hamilton can review your current floor plan, offer suggestions for innovative design, deliver solutions to roadblocks, and help prepare you for your project.

  • Melissa Sprau, NCIDQ

    With over a decade of commercial and healthcare design experience, Melissa leads Benco’s award-winning dental design team, with the goal to create unique and highly personalized solutions for our customers. She has a passion for helping dentists define their style and communicate their brand through the built environment and can help guide you through this discovery process.

    “Interior design is about creating experiences. The best designs connect people to place, engaging all of their senses in a way that is memorable, not just decorative.”

  • Sean McNamara, RA

    Registered Architect, Sean McNamara, is a Design Manager at Benco with nearly 20 years of commercial and healthcare design experience. Sean thrives on creative problem-solving while staying keen on building codes and the unique needs of dental offices. At Build Your Future, he outlines typical construction timelines and empowers doctors to remain in control of their projects.

    Sean will help you navigate the process of getting your project started, provide insight on the different design delivery methods, and offer guidance on how to engage a professional designer.

WORKSHOP

What can you expect to learn from this experience?

The concepts of dental design we teach revolve around architectural fundamentals that support you as a human being and as a dentist to be less stressed, more efficient, and to lead a happier, healthier life. We outline what comprises an efficient and productive layout, specific to the needs of dentistry, as well as design concepts to avoid, so that practicing is more rewarding for you and your entire team. Further still, we’ll explain how to curate an authentic environment that helps communicate the level of care you provide.

Our experts define ways to compete in today’s market, strategies for increasing business, dental space programming, brand development, ergonomics for dentistry, building the right team around your vision, and so much more. We wish to guide you to create a workspace that is effective, beautiful and most importantly, a reflection of yourself and your vision.

COURSE CURRICULUM

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Experts present on these topics and more!

  • Dental Design Fundamentals
  • Construction from Bidding to Building
  • Your Project Team & Timeline
  • Designing an Experience
  • Branding the Built Environment

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

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By completing the course, you will learn:

  • What constitutes an effective floor plan
  • How design drives patient experience and practice efficiency for increased production
  • Prompts for considering your mission, vision, values
  • The fundamentals of a strong brand and how to incorporate it into your practice
  • How to identify appropriate materials for a commercial healthcare environment
  • And much more!
GET IN TOUCH

Is it time to build your future?

This workshop aims to stir ideas and incite action with a broad approach to the dental office project. Take part in Build Your Future and gain the knowledge and tools to move toward greater success!

This course is complimentary for dental providers. Live event attendees will enjoy complimentary accommodations plus travel to Benco’s CenterPoint, showcasing an impressive selection of dental operatories, OneVisit live scanning and milling, radiography, Herman Miller best-in-class office furniture, and a vendor fair of the industry’s gold-standards.