Dawson Academy 2 Day Program: Occlusion and Smile Design

Friday, January 31, 2025 – Saturday, February 1, 2025

8:30 am – 12:30 pm; 1:30 – 4:30 pm

Course Code:

615RL

Cost:

$999.00

Credits:

14

CE Hours

Dentist
Lecture
Prosthodontics
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Master Occlusion, Smile Design, and Boost Your Bottom Line!


Core 1: Occlusion and Smile Design

In this course, attendees will delve into the fundamentals of functional occlusion. Designed to elevate your dental practice, this course offers a comprehensive integration of foundational occlusal principles with cutting-edge workflows. Beyond mastering the intricacies of esthetic dentistry, this course provides practical strategies to reduce insurance dependency, ensuring a robust bottom line. Redefine dental excellence and business success, positioning yourself as a leader in your community with Core 1.

Over two days, you’ll learn the requirements for occlusal stability to improve your practice from examination and records to treatment planning to practice management.

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After this course attendees will be able to:

  • Visualize the journey from an insurance-focused level of care to a patient-focused, health-oriented model
  • Discover why the most productive practices only need 10-12 new patients per month
  • Convert the dental practice to fee-for-service with ease and predictability
  • Motivate patients towards a higher level of health to ethically boost productivity per hour
  • Identify the 11 factors critical to a stable occlusion resulting in the long-term success of general and cosmetic cases
  • Gain confidence in diagnosing TMD-related issues and how to provide appropriate, successful orthotic/splint therapy
  • Understand the treatment planning relationship between the face, airway, and bite and how to identify, prior to treatment, which patients pose a risk of future instability
  • Eliminate porcelain chips and breakage, and uncover how these issues can erode profitability more than dentists realize
  • Determine tooth positioning for orthodontics, veneers, crowns, or implant-supported restorations
  • Utilize checklists for functional-esthetic analysis and treatment planning
  • Define a thorough examination process and how to implement in practice by employing diagnostic records for complete diagnosis and treatment planning
  • Recognize how designing a stable, minimal-stress occlusion on teeth or implants saves time, increases profitability, and reduces stress
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