COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
14 ADA CERP CreditsCOURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
“Tips & Tricks in Fixed Prosthetics: Mastering principles for success in ever-changing times – Pearls to use on Monday”
Course Overview:Learn how to get the patient to say “Yes” to treatment! Leave with an appreciation of all the little things that make big differences, affecting productivity, profitability and better, more consistant outcomes, leaving you passionate about getting there.
This will include how to resolve several fixed prosthetic challenges through improved treatment planning, communication with patient and lab, and multiple techniques leading to predictable and time-saving results. Get excited about the latest technologies, from lasers to temporization and impression techniques (including digital) along with a better understanding of the rationale in choosing the latest in ceramic options.
Learn how material choice, tooth preparation and cementation material come together to impact long term success
Topics:
1. Demystifying Occlusion – Understand the importance of the occlusal exam and its impact on treatment planning and how function and esthetics come together. Learn how the diagnostic ‘wax-up’ and ‘mock will become the dentist- technician - patient blueprint.
2. Material Options - Learn guidelines in decision making for material choices from Composite Uveneers to PFM’s or Lithium Disilicate (e-Max) along with different Zirconia choices and how this impacts preparation design which plays an essential role in esthetics and longevity.
3. Impressioning - Always the #1 complaint from the lab, whether conventional or digital. Learn ‘multiple pearls’ that will provide greater accuracy and save time at delivery through a step-by-step protocol.
4. Occlusal Bite Records – Learn techniques from single crown to full arch and how these time-saving methods will minimize adjustments and remakes.
5. Shade selection- Learn how to communicate with your lab to decrease compromised shade accuracy. This will minimize returns, resulting in satisfied patients and more referrals. Proper photographic techniques, shade guide armamentarium, shade mapping and digital options will be reviewed.
6. Cement Choices - A simplified explanation for selecting the appropriate cement option (the what, where, when and why) will not only aid in longer term outcomes and less breakage, but also aid in final color matching.
“Nuts & Bolts of Implant Treatment from Planning to Completion, from Single Tooth to the Complex Case: Reviewing Techniques and New Technologies to Achieve Predictable Success”
Course Overview:Utilizing the principles and technologies that contribute greatly to long-term success in implant treatment, you can alleviate a great deal of stress while contributing to significantly increased practice profitability. In this course, Dr. Fagin will ensure that you learn new insights on a range of topics and gain confidence in overcoming challenges and creating long term implant success with a TEAM approach.
OBJECTIVES:
- Understand patient’s wants and needs and transform them into case acceptance
- Treatment Plan from diagnostic wax-up to radiographic guides & surgical template design, while weighing the multiple risk factors and their impact on success
- Understand the variables in implant selection and positioning
- Identify potential esthetic challenges, including bone grafting and ridge preservation requirements
- Distinguish factors affecting immediate load vs. progressive loading and other critical concepts of implant occlusion for long term success
- Address the challenges and solutions to anterior implant esthetics
- Learn temporization techniques in fixed cases and test esthetics while creating and transferring custom emergence profile, predictably managing goals with patient and lab
- Learn treatment techniques that will decrease chair time and enhance outcomes, including use of Straumann’s Variobase abutment
- Learn how Cone Beam and CAD-CAM technology can design and mill your case, including osteoplasty and implant positioning and placement guides for both fixed & removable cases.
- Know whether to splint or not to splint…that is the question!
- Learn rationale for ‘screw-in’ vs. ‘cement-on’ restorations?
- Learn rationale for cement choices – It makes a difference.