Leonard H. Smith, DDS - Dental Resource, Education and Management Leonard H. Smith, DDS - Dental Resource, Education and Management
10 Convenient Evening Sessions
  • Bridging the gap from restorative dentistry to a profitable and manageable advanced cosmetic and implant dental practice.

  • The future is HERE and the patients know it. Be able to deliver cases that patients will pay for.

  • Valuable information without the time, money and travel. A compilation of 20 years of advanced dental training.

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Module Topics

Module 1 Diagnosis and Treatment Planning for Dummies
  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
 
Module 2 Occlusion: The KEY to ALL CASE SUCCESS
  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
Module 3 Prep Design for Single Tooth to Full Mouth Cases
  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
Module 4 Deliver the Case - Ceramic Bonding
  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
Bonus Night Case Presentation
  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
Module 5 Lasers in Dentistry
  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
Module 6 Dental Implant Prosthetics
  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
Module 7 Dental Implant Surgery Basics
  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?
Bonus Night Discuss Your Case Issues: Restorative or Surgical
  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
Module 8 Extractions and Ridge Preservation
  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
Module 9 Advanced Bone Grafting
  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
Module 10 Implant Restorations in the Esthetic Zone

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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