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

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Immerse yourself in Build Your Future®, Benco’s two-day dental design workshop hosted at our outstanding CenterPoint locations. We will guide you to create a workspace that is efficient, beautiful and most importantly, a reflection of yourself and your vision.

Dental office design is not just about choosing the perfect color schemes, light fixtures, or which wallpaper goes where. While we touch on interior design finishes at this workshop, those topics just skim the surface. The concepts of dental design we teach revolve around the architectural design fundamentals that drive us as human beings and as dentists to be less stressed, more efficient and lead happier and healthier lives.

Beyond design, Build Your Future infuses dental business coaching, lessons in branding, 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 a range of applicable specialties. This workshop aims to stir ideas and incite action with a wide-ranging approach to the dental office project.

MEET OUR 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.

  • Charles Loretto

    Having joined Cain Watters & Associates, the trusted CPA firm of the dental industry, in 2001, Charles knows the business side of dentistry. As Partner and New Client Advisor, he provides dental professionals with financial education to help them reap the financial rewards of their work. He regularly speaks to dental schools, study clubs, dental symposiums, and state and national dental meetings. He is a published author and host of the top-ranking dental podcast, Transition Talk.

    Charles’ forte is diagnosing the specific financial support dentists need. In meeting one on one with Charles, he can analyze the full spectrum of your financial situation, help identify financial challenges and opportunities, and give you advice on how to achieve your professional, personal and financial goals.

  • Kay Huff

    As Director of Coaching, Kay Huff leads Benco’s team of practice coaches, while also consulting with dental practices and leading educational events across the United States. Always on the move, she has 30 years of experience building strong dental teams and business systems that bolster profitability. Kay is genuinely interested in your practice achieving its full potential. In fact, she spends much of her time in practice assessment listening, to every member of your team.

    At Build Your Future, Kay gives advice on topics such as insurance, collections, business efficiencies, reports, staffing, leadership – and more. She is a true wealth of dental practice knowledge!

  • Melissa Sprau, LEED AP, 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 Supervisor 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?

You’ll take away the fundamentals of creating an authentic environment that helps communicate the level of care you provide. Paired with that, 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.

Our experts clearly define ways to compete in today’s market, strategies for increasing business, dental space programming, financial and tax planning, developing a brand, the ins and outs of dental insurance, ergonomics for dentistry, building the right team around your vision, and so much more.

By offering this industry-leading workshop at Benco’s world-class showrooms, where choice rules, dentists can begin to identify their preferences in equipment and technology as well as color schemes and materials. Build Your Future will make a meaningful difference in how you plan your practice… and in doing so, it will build your future.

UNDERSTANDING THE PRINCIPLES OF DENTAL OFFICE DESIGN

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Participants will:

  • Walk away with a foundation of how a properly designed office can increase production and efficiency.
  • Learn what constitutes an effective floor plan.
  • Know how to get the right people on their team to help them achieve the low stress office design they need to succeed.
  • Discover what makes a patient more anxious in their office and how they can alleviate it.

FINANCIAL DECISIONS THE DENTIST MUST GET RIGHT

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Participants of Cain Watters’ program will learn:

  • When to depreciate the equipment and building of the new office.
  • When to pay down debt and when to prepare for retirement.
  • How to set goals – personal, business, and financial.

THE INSURANCE PUZZLE

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Participants at Kay Huff’s program will:

  • Determine which insurance plans are best for their practice.
  • Gain insight on how to achieve top-dollar reimbursements through “allowable” negotiation.
  • Learn how to receive prompt payment.
  • Master techniques to keep money in the bank.

THE POWER OF
INTERIOR DESIGN

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Participants of Melissa Sprau’s program will learn:

  • How to improve patient and provider experience through the interior design of your practice.
  • The fundamentals of a strong brand and how to incorporate it into the built environment.
  • How to identify appropriate materials for a commercial healthcare environment.
GET IN TOUCH

Is it time to build your future?

Attend Build Your Future, and after just two days, you’ll have the knowledge and tools to take the next step toward greater success in every way.

Doctors will experience complimentary travel and accommodations, Benco’s CenterPoint, featuring an impressive showcase of dental operatories, OneVisit live scanning and milling, dental radiography, Herman Miller best-in-class office furniture and a vendor fair with the industry’s gold-standards!