Paradigm Changes in the Profession

Learn to simplify diagnosis and treatment planning, when to refer to other practitioners, about integrating fixed, removable, and implant prosthodontic procedures, optimum use of staff, post-treatment follow-up and repair, and long-term maintenance of rehabilitative dentistry patients.

Understand the relationship of the reciprocal tension membrane to the cranial vault/facial bones, sutures, and the effects of the dental vertical dimension of occlusion.

Review of smile design principles and philosophy, facial aesthetic design principles for advanced cases, live patient prep and insertion, an introduction to implant placement in the aesthetic zone, and an advanced occlusion lecture.

In this first course of a two-part series, the clinician will learn how modern resin composites allow for predictable and esthetic results that rival those of indirect full-coverage restorations.