FEATURED FOR 2026
Seven Courses Conferences Are Booking Now
These seven courses represent the topics generating the most demand for 2026 — from emerging clinical issues to signature keynotes and workshops. They’re a starting point, not the full list. Browse all 15 in the speaker packet.
Precision & Innovation in Periodontal Care
GLP-1s in Your Chair: What Ozempic, Wegovy & Mounjaro Mean for Your Hygiene Appointments
GLP-1 receptor agonists are now among the most prescribed medications in the country — and that patient is already in your chair. Emerging 2025 research reveals a bidirectional relationship between periodontal disease and GLP-1 activity, plus distinct oral findings including xerostomia, elevated caries risk, and enamel erosion. This course equips clinicians to recognize what to look for, build individualized preventive protocols, and lead the oral-systemic conversation with confidence.
Format: 2–3 hour presentation
Audience: Dental hygienists, dentists, clinical teams
Precision & Innovation in Periodontal Care
Right Instrument, Right Place, Right Patient: A Modern Approach to Periodontal Instrumentation
Modern periodontal care demands more than skill — it demands precision in choosing what you use, how you use it, and when. This course returns to the foundation: how instrument design influences function, how technique shapes outcomes, and how to pick the right instrument for every clinical scenario — including hand, power, and adjunctive instrumentation around dental implants. The result is a clear clinical framework that separates competent debridement from exceptional outcomes.
Format: 2–3 hour presentation or half-day workshop
Audience: Dental hygienists at every experience level
Clinical Care: Evidence & Innovation
Sensitive Teeth, Sensible Solutions: Managing Dentinal Hypersensitivity
Dentinal hypersensitivity affects an estimated one in three adults — yet most clinicians treat the symptom before identifying the cause, managing it with the same handful of products and no diagnostic protocol. The result: short-term relief and inconsistent outcomes. This course flips that approach. Participants will learn to systematically assess, diagnose, and document each case, identify the underlying cause before recommending treatment, and build a clinical protocol that delivers consistent, evidence-based results.
Format: 2–3 hour presentation
Audience: Dentists and dental hygienists
Practice Management & the Business of Hygiene
The Business of Hygiene: Turning Prevention Into Production, Profit, and Practice Value
A well-run hygiene department contributes 25–35% of total practice production, drives EBITDA, and is one of the strongest predictors of practice value at sale. This course reframes hygiene as a strategic growth asset, introduces the three-pillar framework that builds sustainable hygiene growth, and gives owners and team members the metrics buyers and DSO partners actually look for.
Format: 2–3 hour presentation
Audience: Practice owners, hygienists, clinical teams, DSO leaders
Cultivating Inclusivity, Empowerment & Well-Being
Unmasking Bias: See Differently, Act Differently, and Change Your Impact
Unconscious bias doesn’t announce itself. It hides in the tone we use, the questions we ask, and the silent assumptions we make about which patients will “be compliant.” In dental and healthcare settings, those small patterns shape clinical decisions and outcomes. This course brings unconscious bias out of the shadows and turns self-awareness into action — and action into measurable impact.
Format: 2–3 hour presentation
Audience: Full dental teams
Cultivating Inclusivity, Empowerment & Well-Being
Boundaries, Burnout, and Breakthrough: Becoming the Chief Boundary Officer of Your Life
Burnout doesn’t begin with overwork. It begins where boundaries fail — the limits we don’t enforce, the conversations we avoid, the patterns we repeat without realizing we’re trapped in them. This keynote guides participants through a transformative process of self-reflection, accountability, and renewal so they leave not just inspired, but equipped.
Format: 1–2 hour keynote
Audience: Full dental teams, conference general sessions
Hands-On Workshop
P3: Precision, Power, Prevention — The Hands-On Workshop for the Modern Hygienist
Most CE teaches you what to do. P3 teaches you how to do it. Built on the P3 Clinical Methodology, this interactive workshop covers what matters chairside — hand and ultrasonic instrumentation, air polishing, biofilm management, laser-assisted therapy, radiographic technique, local anesthesia, and pain management — alongside the prevention coding and profitability strategies that connect clinical excellence to practice growth.
Format: 3–4 hour interactive workshop, adaptable to half-day or full-day
Audience: Dental hygienists
8 MORE COURSES — IN THE PACKET
The Other Eight Might Be Exactly What Your Audience Needs
The seven courses above are starting points. The 2026 Speaker Packet includes eight additional presentations on the oral microbiome, AI in the dental chair, AAP staging and grading, biofilm science, infection control in 2026, evidence-based care, the business literacy every hygienist needs, and reimagining the hygiene appointment.
THE FULL 2026 CATALOG
Four Categories, One Voice
Every course in the catalog is built on the same foundation — evidence-based, clinically grounded, and built to be implemented the next day at the chair. Browse the categories below and download the full speaker packet for complete course descriptions, learning objectives, audience recommendations, and format options.
Precision & Innovation in Periodontal Care
6 COURSES
GLP-1s, the oral microbiome, modern instrumentation, AAP staging and grading, biofilm science, and reimagining the hygiene appointment.
Clinical Care: Evidence & Innovation
4 COURSES
AI in the hygiene chair, infection control in 2026, evidence-based dentistry, and dentinal hypersensitivity management.
Practice Management & the Business of Hygiene
2 COURSES
Building hygiene as a growth and valuation driver, plus business literacy for the modern hygienist.
Cultivating Inclusivity, Empowerment & Well-Being
2 COURSES
Unmasking bias and the Chief Boundary Officer keynote.
Plus the P3 Hands-On Workshop
Clinical skill-building that adapts to every venue.
WHERE I’VE PRESENTED
Trusted on Stages Across the Country and Internationally
Dr. Joy has delivered continuing education and keynote presentations at some of the profession’s most respected events. Below is a partial listing.
American Dental Hygienists’ Association • Chicago MidWinter • Greater New York Dental Meeting • Dentsply Sirona World • RDH Under One Roof · California Dental Association • Canadian Dental Hygienists’ Association • National Dental Hygienists’ Association • Pacific Dental Conference • Star of the North • Association for Dental Safety • Henry Schein Thrive Live • Colgate Oral Health Network • Western Society of Periodontology • American Association of Dental Consultants • and more.
Ready to Bring Dr. Joy to Your Stage?
Whether you’re planning a keynote, a hands-on workshop, a multi-day conference, or a private team training, the 2026 catalog has a course built to land. Download the full packet for course descriptions, learning objectives, and format options — or submit your speaking inquiry and we’ll respond within 48 hours.
