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Our programs for the coming year will be offered in the Fall. Enroll Now.
DATES:
SPRING
- Sept. 19, 20 2008
- Oct. 10, 11 2008
- Oct. 31, Nov 1 2008
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FALL
- Sept. 14, 15 2007
- Oct. 5, 6 2007
- Oct. 26, 27 2007
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All courses are 9AM - 5PM
at our facility. Assistants are
invited to attend the entire 6
day program. You will be
treating your own patient for
6-10 units of veneers or all
porcelain crowns. The
patient will only be expected
on the second and third
Saturdays of the course.
This 48 hour course will be broken down into many of the various components that comprise Smile
Design. Major emphasis is placed on appropriate treatment planning, including record taking and
analysis, occlusion, communication of expectations with the patient and the lab. To build a cosmetic
based practice, your entire team must be committed to the change. You will be the leader, and light the
way. Leadership skills will be emphasized. More cosmetic cases means increased income. We will
teach you the tools your front desk will need to have to eliminate the insurance driven mentality, and
learn how to collect payment in full, before the appointment is even scheduled. Your office must look
like a cosmetic office. The digital photographic skills you learn will enable you to deck your walls
with dental office art, create albums for your waiting room that is all your own work, create websites
that will draw patients to your office. For a complete rundown of all topics to be covered see the
bottom of this page.
The most important tool you will garner from
this course is learning the simplicity and
predictability of blueprinting every case you
treat with a cosmetic sculpture mounted on an
articulator. The completion of every step
insures the success of the step which follows.
Day One
- Review of cases: Each dentist
should bring two potential
cases for treatment. There
will be 4-6 dentists in the
group, and each will have a
chance to present the
treatment intended, and talk
about the drawbacks they see.
Each case should be fully
documented with mounted
models, radiographs, and
digital photographs (where
possible, otherwise print).
Periodontal charting and TMJ/
headache evaluations should
also be included. Forms can
be provided.
- In the afternoon session we
will discuss the cosmetic
sculpture and functional wax-up.
We will determine
whether the patients you have
chosen are good candidates.
- We will discuss the
importance of the face-bow
transfer and the use of a semiadjustable
articulator.
- We will discuss many of the
aspects of occlusion, based on
Peter Dawson’s theory. We
will discuss envelope of
function and the neutral zone There will be practical
applications for the learning
of proper intra and extra-oral
digital photography.
- Sharing problem cases.
- Discussion of failures.
- Discussion of the myriad
dental materials available for
any given case.
Day Two
- Creating a cosmetic-centered
practice - Fact or Fantasy?
- Patient communication tools.
- Marketing yourself as a
cosmetic dentist.
- Shade selection, shade
mapping.
- Laboratory instructions for
the cosmetic sculpture.
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- Informed consent forms —
CYA.
- Patient comfort.
- Closing gaps, spaces, and the
dreaded Black Hole.
- Hygiene while in Temps.
- Get paid before you schedule the appointment. Learn how to eliminate A/R
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Day Three
- Review of incoming cases.
- The construction and use of
Syltek indices—the paradigm
shift that will make this all so
simple for you.
- Step by step preparation for the
prep visit tomorrow.
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- Laboratory practice for
preparations and temporization.
- The use of reduction guides.
- Tweaking the appearance of
temporaries so that one could
go to their own wedding in
them.
- Portrait Photography Intro.
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Day Four
- Set up operatories and review protocol. Prepare for the 10 AM arrival of
your patient.
- Preparations of patients.
- The use of reduction guides.
- Impressions, facebow, and bite.
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- Temporization.
- Occlusion.
- Esthetic approval.
- Post op hygiene instructions and the scheduling of follow up visits.
- Snacks, drinks, departure .
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Day Five
- Review incoming cases and troubleshoot so that if changes are needed,
there will be sufficient time for the laboratory to make changes.
- Discussion of challenges that have occurred since the last visit e.g.
debonding, disappointment, delight.
- The Esthetic Consultation and how to move patients to yes.
- Discussion of any items that more information is desired about.
- A full discussion of the seat visit, “The Big Reveal” for the patient.
Day Six
- Preparation for the seat visit.
- Step by step removal of the temporaries.
- Preparation of the veneers and prepared teeth and how to avoid issues of
extreme sensitivity.
- Isolation.
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- Try-in and releases signed.
- Bonding.
- Clean-up.
- Portraits.
- Celebratory cocktail party.
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Items needed:
- Digital camera with retractors
and mirrors.
- Facebow and articulator.
- Laptop computer with card
reader and dental imaging software.
I promise you that along the way you will learn many tricks that will make this
process much easier for you. I will teach you how the preparations I make never
require any retraction cord. I have not used retraction cord in 6 years. You will
learn how to bond multiple veneers in place, without the concern that you're going to
need a reciprocal saw to eliminate the bonding locking teeth together.
Enroll Now.
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