Course Highlights
This course by a GP for GP’s will give all who attend an incredible insight to treatment outcomes using the most up to date technologies available today. The benefits of advanced treatment planning to include comprehensive diagnostic records and case presentation will be explored. Dr. Smith will give an honest and practical presentation of how Dental Implants, Cosmetic Dentistry, Laser Dentistry and Occlusal Principles integrate into a general practice.
Emphasis on treatment planning and occlusal restorative principles along with case presentations using all of the “hot topics” in Dentistry today! Before you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on these technologies, find out what they will really bring to your practice in terms of patient benefits and benefits to you. Do you want to bring Lasers to your practice? Do you want to bring Sedation Dentistry to your patients? Are you using Digital Radiography to its fullest benefits? Are you already using these protocols: find out how to use them BETTER. Are you having treatment failures and not sure why? Are you hesitant to move to a more advanced level of practice? Are Dental Implants a benefit to your patients? Simple protocols of Occlusion will be discussed. Simple protocols of bone grafting, ridge preservation, membranes and how to get GOOD primary closure will be shown. Dr. Smith will show step by step of case progress from diagnosis to completion of simple and complex cases. Successes and failures will be shown and discussed. We get satisfaction from our successes but we LEARN from our failures. You will see videos of surgeries so you can Really Visualize the process as if you were doing the case!
If you work with Dental Implants then Day Two is a MUST for You!
Whether you surgically place implants or think you want to; whether you restore implants now or plan to in the future, You need to know protocols of surgery and restorative treatment. If the Surgeon knows more about the surgery and restorative treatment than you do, then YOU are not in Charge of the Case! The day will move fast and there will be a basic implantology review followed by case work up, treatment planning, consents, predictable success and predictable failures will be shown. Are you sure when to immediately load? When to delay load. How to know WHEN an implant is ready to restore: simple principles you need to know to communicate to the surgeon or to know for yourself. Soft Tissue Management: The KEY to SUCCESS: Flap Design Primary Closure, PRP and Suturing will be shown in DETAIL. Simple grafting protocols shown: find out which graft, which membrane, how, when and why! Complications: Real or Perceived Will Happen: KNOW how to deal with them: Have the Answers for Tough Questions Patients WILL ASK! SEE a GP do Full Arch Computer Guided Surgery, teeth in an hour™; see the REALITY of The Most Advanced Implant Technology Available Today!
Course Objective
At the conclusion of this course each doctor will have a firm idea of Practice Goals for Today and the Future. If they are using these technologies then they will use them better; if they want to integrate these technologies to their practice they will have a firm vision of the benefits and rewards for the doctor and their patients. Basic and Advanced Dental protocols will be well understood and the doctor will be able to integrate these protocols Immediately in their practice.
About Dr. Smith
Dr. Smith has a busy general practice in San Jose, California and limits his practice to Implant and Advanced Restorative Treatment for Adults.
Dr. Smith is a member of the American Dental Association, California Dental Association, Fellow of the Academy of Implant Dentistry, Academy
of Cosmetic Dentistry, and Academy of Laser Dentistry and the Dental Organization for Conscious Sedation. He lectures to dental groups on implant, cosmetic and laser dental techniques. Dr. Smith is past Chair, Appeals, CDA Council on Peer Review.