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**Now you can sign up for an individual session of your choice below.** |
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| Module 1 |
Diagnosis and Treatment Planning for Dummies
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August 17, 2010, Tuesday, 6pm-9pm
Sherry Precision Dental, 10601 S. De Anza Blvd. Ste 215 Cupertino, CA 95014 Tel: (408) 865-0251
Your practice success starts at the first patient visit
- Simple rules and protocols to present a case patients will accept
- Articulators, face bows and bites: It can be simple
- How to really evaluate a patient’s needs
- Present treatment the patients desires
- Digital photos
- Digital esthetic imaging
- Digital Radiography
- Financial arrangements
- Have a Plan B that is a win:win for you and the patient
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| Module 2 |
Occlusion: The KEY to ALL CASE SUCCESS |
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August 26, 2010, Thursday, 6pm-9pm
Henry Schein Learning Center, San Jose, CA
The 80% rule and how to avoid it
- Occlusal disease is 80% more prevalent than bacterial periodontal disease
- 80% of all treatment needs is from poor patient occlusion
- 80% of all treatment failure is from poor restorative occlusion
- Occlusion Principles Simplified
- Occlusal Equilibration Simplified
- Be able to direct the laboratory to the occlusion the patient needs
- If the laboratory knows more about occlusion than you do, you are not in charge of the case
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| Module 3 |
Prep Design for Single Tooth to Full Mouth Cases
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September 21, 2010, Tuesday, 6pm-9pm
Sherry Precision Dental, 10601 S. De Anza Blvd. Ste 215 Cupertino, CA 95014 Tel: (408) 865-0251
Esthetic Dentistry is All Dentistry
- Ceramic Choices :What, where and when
- Prep burs
- Impressions for success
- Temps to stun the patient
- Manage the soft tissue healing
- Avoid
- Black triangle
- Bulky appearance
- Underprep
- Overprep
- Communicate to lab so you are in charge of the case
- Common objections and complaints
- Failures: who pays? How to recover
- Video of full mouth prep case
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| Module 4 |
Deliver the Case - Ceramic Bonding
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October 5, 2010, Tuesday, 6pm-9pm
Sherry Precision Dental, 10601 S. De Anza Blvd. Ste 215 Cupertino, CA 95014 Tel: (408) 865-0251
How to deliver single crown to full mouth reconstruction
- How to manage the case for Soft Tissue Healing: review
- How the soft tissue should look after 3 weeks of temps
- How to remove multiple temps
- How to cement one to 24 ceramic crowns and veneers in 30 minutes
- Bleeding issues take the joy out of delivery: how do you prevent this?
- Which cements: bond or no bond
- Curing lights
- Know your ceramics
- Video of full mouth cementation case
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| Bonus Night |
Case Presentation |
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October 12, 2010, Tuesday, 6pm-9pm
Sherry Precision Dental, 10601 S. De Anza Blvd. Ste 215 Cupertino, CA 95014 Tel: (408) 865-0251
Your case presentation to discuss with the group.
- This night limited to those who sign up for all sessions
- Limited amount of presentations
- Valuable discussion on treatment options, costs, finances
- Dr. Smith will guide you through your most difficult case
- Study club format
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| Module 5 |
Lasers in Dentistry
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October 21, 2010, Thursday, 6pm-9pm
Henry Schein Learning Center, San Jose, CA
Lasers: what to buy and how to use: Know the benefits and limitations
- What is a dental laser?
- Gain a working knowledge of what a laser can deliver
- Diode, Erbium, NdYAG; what fits YOUR Practice needs
- Marketability: patients like that you have technology
- Closed sulcus crown lengthening
- Periodontal osseous surgery
- Third molar surgical extraction
- Frena , fibroma surgical removal
- Videos of basic to advanced laser treatment
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| Module 6 |
Dental Implant Prosthetics
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November 4, 2010, Thursday, 6pm-9pm
Henry Schein Learning Center, San Jose, CA
Patient returns from the surgeon with a Dental Implant: WHAT’S NEXT
- If the surgeon knows more about prosthetics than you do, you are not in charge of the case.
- Implant Prosthetics: this seminar generic for all implant systems
- Abutment Choices: Simple rules to choose the right one
- Choose the wrong one: Patient and Lab Issues that cost you money
- Is Simple always Best? Problems with one step abutment/impressions
- Temps : fixed or removable: why need a back-up?
- Ceramics for esthetics vs ceramics for strength: pick the right one first and you won’t have to pay for the redo
- Cement vs screw retained crowns: historical data
- Impression taking
- Prosthetic issues and how to recover
- Restore the edentulous arch: fixed or removable prosthetics: win: win
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| Module 7 |
Dental Implant Surgery Basics
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Novermber 16, 2010, Tuesday, 6pm-9pm
Sherry Precision Dental, 10601 S. De Anza Blvd. Ste 215 Cupertino, CA 95014 Tel: (408) 865-0251
- Generic for all implant systems
- Check list of what you need to know from the surgeon
- Prosthetics drives the case: you need to know surgery basics
- What is a good vs poor surgical site
- Principles of clinical and bone volume for success
- CT scans in diagnosis and treatment planning: the NEW STANDARD
- Immediate load vs delayed load: where and when
- Flapless surgery
- Ones stage vs two stage
- Is there one implant that is the best?
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| Bonus Night |
Discuss Your Case Issues: Restorative or Surgical
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December 7, 2010, Tuesday, 6pm-9pm
Sherry Precision Dental, 10601 S. De Anza Blvd. Ste 215 Cupertino, CA 95014 Tel: (408) 865-0251
- Limited attendance
- Safely discuss issues with treatment
- Study club format
- Dr. Smith will guide you to resolution
- Presentations limited
- These sessions are most valuable
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| Module 8 |
Extractions and Ridge Preservation
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December 16, 2010, Thursday, 6pm-9pm
Henry Schein Learning Center, San Jose, CA
- Profit center for surgeons
- How to elevate a tooth, section a tooth, use a periotome
- Which graft type
- Particulate vs block graft
- Autogenous vs allograft vs Xenograph vs Alloplast
- Membranes: the hype and reality: is there a place for non-resorbable PTFE
- Suturing for success: types and techniques for predictable healing
- Primary closure: what does it mean, how is it done
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| Module 9 |
Advanced Bone Grafting
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January 11, 2011, Tuesday, 6pm-9pm
Sherry Precision Dental, 10601 S. De Anza Blvd. Ste 215 Cupertino, CA 95014 Tel: (408) 865-0251
- Lateral wall sinus grafts (sinus lift)
- Summers graft (sinus bump)
- Block bone grafting
- Large particulate grafts
- Membranes : PTFE, Collogen, Alloderm, Titanium reinforced
- Flap design
- Suturing techniques
- A must if you are advancing in surgical techniques
- Videos of surgeries performed by Dr. Smith
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| Module 10 |
Implant Restorations in the Esthetic Zone |
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January 20, 2011, Thursday, 6pm-9pm
Henry Schein Learning Center, San Jose, CA
- Implant restorations in the esthetic zone: A different animal
- Any implant treatment takes twice as long
- Any esthetic zone treatment takes three times as long
- Preparing the patient for the good and possibly bad
- Failure adds one year to the treatment: find out why
- Basic Surgical Principles
- Forming a gingival cuff
- Abutment and crown selection
- Zeniths, lip lines, arch form, occlusion, ceramics all considered
- There are no shortcuts to success in the esthetic zone: find out why
- Blending veneers with bridges
- Turning the corner to posterior esthetics
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