The 12-Hour Occlusion Course
Q: What’s occlusion got to do with it?
A: Everything!
Transform Your Life and Grow Your Practice with Improved Diagnostics
(that are easy to master and to delegate)
-a two or three day course which provides 12 hours of CE credit, 50% lecture/concepts/didactic and 50% laboratory participation.
Instructors:
Dr. Chris Baker
Dr. Gil Carney
Course description This course allows the doctor to gain extremely useful knowledge in occlusion. Because it is a far-reaching aspect of dental science, the importance of occlusion needs no emphasis. This knowledge will provide the clinician with greater success of clinical results in all disciplines of dentistry which are all totally dependent on the patient’s occlusion. As well, the course will help the clinician know how to diagnose and how to treat the at-risk patient before other dental therapies are instituted.
The general dentist is presented with an amazing variety of treatment needs that are displayed by a wide variety of patients. However, accompanying every patient need there is an equally wide variety of risk factors that will impact the treatment protocols and results, success and failure of the doctor’s treatments, be they restorative dentistry, occlusion improvement, or orthodontic treatment. A new understanding of occlusion and how it relates to this variety of parameters, signs, symptoms and risk factors will give the GP the ability to provide a superior patient experience and make the doctor’s practice stand out.
This two- or three-day course offers the dentist opportunity to learn how diagnostic protocols can transform the dentist’s practice life as he/she learns:
§ why patients are fracturing cusps, complaining of sensitive teeth, and returning foradjustments following placement of new restorative work. (Hint: it’s occlusion.)
§ how to lessen giving away your time and stop losing money!
§ how to treat these problems and get paid for it.
§ how to deal with severe bruxism.
§ how to lessen sensitivity after your treatments
§ how to reduce the patient’s risk of problems following restorative or ortho treatment.
§ how to communicate these diagnostic findings to the patient, making them an ally not an adversary in their treatment by helping change the patient’s perceived need for treatment to optimum dental care.
§ a new sequencing for orthodontics and restorative work based on the patient’s diagnostics that is the most efficient for the patient and the dentist.
§ which orthodontic mechanics contribute the most to these problems, and how to avoid them.
§ how to make adult orthodontics much more efficient and successful.
§ areas and techniques of diagnosis that improve the predictability of successful restorative treatment, orthodontic treatment, and Invisalign® treatment, including determination of face type. and muscular pattern, occlusal evaluations, determination of Maxillary and Mandibular tooth sizes and interrelationships, arch form and width, WALA ridge evaluation, facebow/mounted models to reduce the need for mid-treatment corrections and adjustments, and finally, predicting the likelihood of success with restorative, Invisalign® and/or orthodontic treatments.
§ parameters of case selection that allow the doctor to determine the wisdom of treating an individual case in a certain manner, restorative, orthodontics, Invisalign®, etc.
§ case preparation including laboratory tooth positioning wax-up and how to provide the laboratory the appropriate instructions in creating the setup for Invisalign treatment, increasing the doctor’s rate of success.
§ the determination, planning and techniques/use of Interproximal Reduction.
§ a sense of mastery of occlusion
And, the dentist will be taught the easy to master diagnostic protocols that make it all possible. Further, delegation of these diagnostics will be discussed, which can save the dentist time and money, thus increasing productivity and profitability.
Can you imagine finally knowing what to do about occlusion and occlusal disharmony? And, you may find that your patients have a lot more occlusal disharmony that you would have thought!
Dr. Ruel Bench, internationally known professor of orthodontics, states that in band and bracket orthodontic treatment, proper diagnosis is 75% responsible for success, while the treatment/mechanics is 25% responsible. We purport that in aligner treatment systems, excellent diagnosis is about 95% responsible for success while treatment itself is 5% responsible. Diagnosis and set-up are necessary, to overcome the limited customization available from and provided by the companies/laboratories.
Doctors find that their invisaligner treatment cases frequently do not finish as the doctor expects, disappointing both patient and doctors. A recent study showed successful results of treatment with Invisaligners® to be around or less than 50% [Kravitz et al, AJO Jan09], In this course, doctors will gain new diagnostic concepts and techniques as well as invisaligner treatment preparation. Whether a doctor offers invisaligner treatment in preparation for restorative treatment, or purely as orthodontic treatment, it can be much more predictable and much more successful with the knowledge and skills that this course teaches.
This course will demonstrate the importance and methods of diagnostics that are under-utilized in improving occlusion and in making the dental care more successful. And, the diagnostic approach will yield untold benefits.
All of the diagnostic and case preparation clinical techniques will be relatively familiar to most dentists. However the utilization and information gathered relative to dental treatments, including orthodontics and Invisalign® treatment, will be an excellent and possibly surprising body of knowledge which will improve the doctors’ and their patients’ enjoyment of and success in dental care.
After this course, you, the Dentist:
A: Everything!
Transform Your Life and Grow Your Practice with Improved Diagnostics
(that are easy to master and to delegate)
-a two or three day course which provides 12 hours of CE credit, 50% lecture/concepts/didactic and 50% laboratory participation.
Instructors:
Dr. Chris Baker
Dr. Gil Carney
Course description This course allows the doctor to gain extremely useful knowledge in occlusion. Because it is a far-reaching aspect of dental science, the importance of occlusion needs no emphasis. This knowledge will provide the clinician with greater success of clinical results in all disciplines of dentistry which are all totally dependent on the patient’s occlusion. As well, the course will help the clinician know how to diagnose and how to treat the at-risk patient before other dental therapies are instituted.
The general dentist is presented with an amazing variety of treatment needs that are displayed by a wide variety of patients. However, accompanying every patient need there is an equally wide variety of risk factors that will impact the treatment protocols and results, success and failure of the doctor’s treatments, be they restorative dentistry, occlusion improvement, or orthodontic treatment. A new understanding of occlusion and how it relates to this variety of parameters, signs, symptoms and risk factors will give the GP the ability to provide a superior patient experience and make the doctor’s practice stand out.
This two- or three-day course offers the dentist opportunity to learn how diagnostic protocols can transform the dentist’s practice life as he/she learns:
§ why patients are fracturing cusps, complaining of sensitive teeth, and returning foradjustments following placement of new restorative work. (Hint: it’s occlusion.)
§ how to lessen giving away your time and stop losing money!
§ how to treat these problems and get paid for it.
§ how to deal with severe bruxism.
§ how to lessen sensitivity after your treatments
§ how to reduce the patient’s risk of problems following restorative or ortho treatment.
§ how to communicate these diagnostic findings to the patient, making them an ally not an adversary in their treatment by helping change the patient’s perceived need for treatment to optimum dental care.
§ a new sequencing for orthodontics and restorative work based on the patient’s diagnostics that is the most efficient for the patient and the dentist.
§ which orthodontic mechanics contribute the most to these problems, and how to avoid them.
§ how to make adult orthodontics much more efficient and successful.
§ areas and techniques of diagnosis that improve the predictability of successful restorative treatment, orthodontic treatment, and Invisalign® treatment, including determination of face type. and muscular pattern, occlusal evaluations, determination of Maxillary and Mandibular tooth sizes and interrelationships, arch form and width, WALA ridge evaluation, facebow/mounted models to reduce the need for mid-treatment corrections and adjustments, and finally, predicting the likelihood of success with restorative, Invisalign® and/or orthodontic treatments.
§ parameters of case selection that allow the doctor to determine the wisdom of treating an individual case in a certain manner, restorative, orthodontics, Invisalign®, etc.
§ case preparation including laboratory tooth positioning wax-up and how to provide the laboratory the appropriate instructions in creating the setup for Invisalign treatment, increasing the doctor’s rate of success.
§ the determination, planning and techniques/use of Interproximal Reduction.
§ a sense of mastery of occlusion
And, the dentist will be taught the easy to master diagnostic protocols that make it all possible. Further, delegation of these diagnostics will be discussed, which can save the dentist time and money, thus increasing productivity and profitability.
Can you imagine finally knowing what to do about occlusion and occlusal disharmony? And, you may find that your patients have a lot more occlusal disharmony that you would have thought!
Dr. Ruel Bench, internationally known professor of orthodontics, states that in band and bracket orthodontic treatment, proper diagnosis is 75% responsible for success, while the treatment/mechanics is 25% responsible. We purport that in aligner treatment systems, excellent diagnosis is about 95% responsible for success while treatment itself is 5% responsible. Diagnosis and set-up are necessary, to overcome the limited customization available from and provided by the companies/laboratories.
Doctors find that their invisaligner treatment cases frequently do not finish as the doctor expects, disappointing both patient and doctors. A recent study showed successful results of treatment with Invisaligners® to be around or less than 50% [Kravitz et al, AJO Jan09], In this course, doctors will gain new diagnostic concepts and techniques as well as invisaligner treatment preparation. Whether a doctor offers invisaligner treatment in preparation for restorative treatment, or purely as orthodontic treatment, it can be much more predictable and much more successful with the knowledge and skills that this course teaches.
This course will demonstrate the importance and methods of diagnostics that are under-utilized in improving occlusion and in making the dental care more successful. And, the diagnostic approach will yield untold benefits.
All of the diagnostic and case preparation clinical techniques will be relatively familiar to most dentists. However the utilization and information gathered relative to dental treatments, including orthodontics and Invisalign® treatment, will be an excellent and possibly surprising body of knowledge which will improve the doctors’ and their patients’ enjoyment of and success in dental care.
After this course, you, the Dentist:
- will leave the course with the tools to grow productivity and reduce frustrations
- will learn the easy identification of patients’ risk factors that cost you money and drive both the patients and you crazy.
- will learn how to evaluate and then treat these problems AND get paid for it -- and the patient will appreciate you for it.
- will learn how to determine/diagnose where your patient is TODAY.
- will learn what the financial impact is in treating without these protocols, AND what the financial impact is treating with this specific knowledge.
- will have tools to make your dental practice exceptional.
- will have tools to go from great to outstanding.
- will finally know how to deal with and improve occlusion – and it’s easy!
Also: Dr. Chris Baker Seminars courses provide AGD-PACE certification and are used in AGD MasterTrack hours.