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The program is filled for 2009. Here are next year's dates.
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DATES:
SPRING
- Feb. 25-27, 2010
- March 25-27, 2010
FALL
- Oct. 21-23, 2010
- Nov. 18-20, 2010
All courses are Thursday evening 5-10 and Friday and Saturday from 9AM until 5PM at our facility. One of your assistants is invited to attend one day or the entire 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 Saturday mornings of the course.
This 40 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.
Weekend One - Preparation
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Temporization.
- Occlusion.
- Esthetic approval.
- Post op hygiene instructions and the scheduling of follow up visits.
- Snacks, drinks, departure .
Weekend Two
- 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.
- All uncovered items from the first weekend.
- 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.
- Try-in and releases signed.
- Bonding.
- Clean-up.
- Portraits.
- Celebratory cocktail party.
Items needed:
- Digital camera with retractors
and mirrors.
- Facebow and articulator. ( included in the cost of tuition )
- 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 seldom 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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