OBJECTIVES 1. Understand the greatest impressions are the ones we make, not the ones we take. 2. Explore how ‘Christ in You’ is attainable for everyone. 3. Share through testimony the outcomes of ‘Christ in You’ impressions. 4. Demonstrate how practicing ‘Christ in You’ will improve relationships with patients and subsequently inspire lasting change.

AMEN 2019: Christ in You

<p>OBJECTIVES 1. Understand the greatest impressions are the ones we make, not the ones we take. 2. Explore how ‘Christ in You’ is attainable for everyone. 3. Share through testimony the outcomes of ‘Christ in You’ impressions. 4. Demonstrate how practicing ‘Christ in You’ will improve relationships with patients and subsequently inspire lasting change.</p>

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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network (AMEN)

Plenary

Brian Schwartz

Us in Christ and Christ in Us

Amarachi Nwankpah

Six Words Every Physician Should Know

Kianna Simmons

Evaluating the Final Impressions

John Shin

A Case Study in Faith

Adrien Charles-Marcel

Reflecting Christ in the Match

Sebastien Braxton

I Believe in Miracles

Mark Finley

God’s Glory Revealed

Schwartz said last night, we truly are blessed.

No matter what our situation, the fact that we're here today, We know that there's no coincidence in the life of a Christian.

And so we thank you for the privilege and the opportunity that you have afforded us to be here.

And I pray, Lord, for myself at this moment that you remove me and that you would fill me with the words that you would have my colleagues, my family, my friends to hear from you.

I pray that you will open their hearts, their minds, not to hear my voice, but to hear you speaking to them.

Alright, so evaluating the final impression.

You know, in dentistry, 1 of the, I would say it's gotten easier, or getting easier.

1 of the challenges we face is that most patients come to us, but I'm gonna say 99% of them hate coming to see us.

I think that if I got just a penny for every patient who has said, doc, I hate being here, I would be a billionaire a thousand times over because it's not their favorite place to be.

But with that, it presents an awesome opportunity not to take advantage of their vulnerabilities or anything, but to be able to present Christ in a unique way.

And so today we're gonna look at evaluating the final impression.

When we're dealing with patients in, well before I get to that, these are our objectives here.

We want to understand as dentists that the greatest impressions are not the ones that we take, okay?

They're actually the impressions that we make.

We want to explore how Christ in us is attainable for each and every 1 of us.

Not just ministers, not just leaders, but each of us as children of God.

I'm gonna share with you through some of my testimonies, some of my stories, how Christ has worked in me and through me to have these wonderful impressions on patients.

And I wanna help demonstrate how practicing Christ in you daily will improve your relationship with your patients, your staff, and people around you.

That marketing bill that you hate to see, but you do because you need patients to come in for some of you, you would find that uplifting Christ actually is the greatest marketing plan that you could ever have.

When I went to the dictionary and looked up impression, there was about 1, 001 definitions of an impression.

And when you get into this digital age of technology, That even gets bigger, because they use impressions on the internet now for all sorts of things, and it gets complicated.

But these are the 3 types of impressions that I'm going to really emphasize today, and I want you to keep them in your mind.

The first 1 is the most common 1, for us as dentists particularly.

It's an imprint of the teeth and the adjacent portions of the jaw for our usage in healing or treating patients.

The second 1 is that an impression is an idea or an opinion of what something or someone is like.

And For many of us as healthcare professionals, this is big for us, our image.

And the last 1 I think is an impression that we don't tend to think of enough, but it's actually 1 of the most powerful ones, if not the most effective 1.

And that's the effect or influence on the way someone feels or thinks.

And so we're gonna talk a little bit about that this morning.

You know, when I come at my patients with a tray in my hand or material, they're like, wait a minute, wait a minute.

This is a little bit unsettling, I've got a gag reflex, I don't like this, I can't breathe, all those types of things and then I feel like I'm in the Moz class and saying breathe, breathe, 123.

I think probably in most fields, but specifically in dentistry, it could leave your head spinning.

Steve, because he always gives me little tips every time I come to A-Man that makes my life so much easier.

But I'm grateful for A-Man for that fact because of the networking, because we can help each other.

But I'm gonna take us back to our dental materials class for a quick second.

When it comes to dental impressions, there's so many different techniques.

There's elastic materials, there's inelastic materials, and then even now, we've got technology so we can use all sorts of different digital scanners and devices so I don't have to put that gooey stuff and use something else.

Which 1 costs the least amount of money and works the best?

But ideally, we choose not because of those things or what's available, but because we want this.

We want the best final result for our patient.

We want them to be happy, we want them to be smiling, we want to have peace of mind, we want to ensure that when we go to seat that crown or that bridge or that implant or whatever it is, that it's going to fit, it's going to stay, and that our patient's not going to call us at 1 o'clock in the morning or come in the office when they're not scheduled and say, here's my crown, and they're holding it in their hand instead of it being in their mouth, because that's not what we want.

So we spend a lot of time evaluating our impressions to make sure the margins are perfect.

We get loops, because as we age, and I'm finding this process more real, just this week I had to send my loops out.

And I used to be excited that I could prep a tooth without using loops, because I was young and I could see and It was great.

And then I started using my loops and I still thought I was young and I could see and it was great until they broke and I had to send them to get fixed.

And I did a lot of praying because I needed God to see because I couldn't see.

And it was something that just hit me like a ton of bricks.

But the point is is that we want the best outcome with what we do with our impressions.

And so we look at them, we retake them, not that we like to because that's more material, more time, but ultimately, we want a great result.

So that's the first impression that we talked about.

These are some pictures of some of the things affiliated with my office, my waiting room, the external building, my team, an advert in 1 of the health magazines that we have there.

And this is the second impression that we talked about in our definition.

What do we want others to think about us?

Now, many of you, I'm actually not doing it today, which my husband thought was interesting, but if you were to look at these pictures or even the slide presentation, what would you think about me?

What impression do you get from what you see?

That's wonderful, I didn't know that was in there, but that's a good 1.

Gibbons, the dentist who I was able to take the practice over from, I even got him wearing purple and he comes in and he's just like, I can't believe you have me in purple.

But I love purple, and the things that I have in the operatory are pretty much purple because I like it, but it's funny because my patients come in and say, Doc, do you like purple?

I'm like, yeah, right down to the impression material.

I said, I did not plan that, to be honest.

I didn't buy it because it was purple, but it just happened to be purple.

And then when I graduated from dental school, the color for dentistry is purple, and I didn't go into dentistry because the color was purple, but it just so happened that it was purple.

And again, there's no coincidence in the life of a Christian, so I don't know, maybe Goyle will tell me a little bit about that, his sense of humor when I get to heaven.

What are the impressions that your practice, that your behavior, that your mannerisms, that your care has on them?

When you looked at this picture at first, how many saw a butterfly first?

I know my mom did because she loves butterflies.

Really important point here, everybody doesn't see the same thing, the same way, in the same order, every time.

But what are you impressing them by what you do, what you have, what you say?

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Plenary

Evaluating the Final Impressions

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