New Courses for 2010

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Part of Dawson Academy’s Advanced Restorative Electives Track

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Partial Denture Design

The combination of fixed prosthetics and removable partials is one of the most challenging aspects of comprehensive dentistry. During our 2 1/2 day course we will discuss how this prosthetic success can become very predictable for you and your patients. Using selected case studies you will learn a programmed approach to treatment planning, but more importantly a programmed approach to treatment sequencing that will ensure success with these cases. See course description.

Complete Dentures

This complete denture course will concentrate on the process of complete denture construction and provide the participants with an esthetic and functional checklist to be used to gain predictable results. See course description.

Dental Implants: Advanced Comprehensive Treatment Planning

This course is designed to allow the practitioner to investigate all potential treatment options prior to initiating a treatment plan and to achieve an exceptional clinical outcome while meeting or exceeding the patient’s expectations.  All aspects of establishing a diagnosis and proper treatment plan, as well as, sequencing the treatment will be presented in order to provide successful implant dentistry for our patients. See course description.

Restoring Posterior Teeth

This course will help eliminate frustrations and costly remakes by focusing on the key determinants of occlusal stability as well as how to handle occlusal plane problems, prep design, lab communication, and material selection for indirect restorations. Practice placement of a class II composite on a model using a sectional matrix to develop excellent interproximal form and contacts. In addition, a hands-on CAD/CAM design and milling exercises will demonstrate how the latest technology integrates with time tested occlusal principles. See course description.

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New course in the Dental Medicine Track

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Everyday Patient Sleep Disorders: Evaluating and Treating Within the Dawson Philosophy

This course is a timely review of relevant clinical topics and offers a comprehensive background in sleep medicine, oral appliance therapy and practice management and will allow attendees to begin to implement a dental sleep medicine component into daily practice. See course description.

16 Steps to Functional Esthetics Form

 
The 16 Steps to Functional Esthetics form is a guide and communication tool.  The 16 steps are the requirements for a functionally correct esthetic result.  Use this form to insure you have covered all the steps and as a communication to your technician. This should tell the technician everything he/she needs to know to complete your diagnostic wax-up. (File format is Adobe Acrobat PDF).

Pete Dawson’s New Book

Functional Occlusion From TMJ to Smile Design.

This book uses an interdisciplinary approach to explain the origin of and possible solutions to many different occlusal problems. Dr. Peter E. Dawson guides the reader along the way providing balanced explanations of theory and technique. He also debunks many popular misconceptions through practical discussion of their origins and the deficiencies of the arguments behind them.

Different sides of many philosophies are presented while guiding the reader to the most functional and esthetic solution to various occlusal situations. Hundreds of full-color photographs, illustrations, and diagrams show aspects of the masticatory system, the epidemiology of occlusal problems, and procedures for finding the ideal occlusion. Whether the reader is a general dentist or a specialist, they will find this book applicable to their treatment methods and philosophies.

$173.00

Text & Video Reference

The Function of Teeth (Book & DVD)

This book and DVD companion describe and explain major findings of a 22-year active research era. For the first time, a clear understanding of how people use their teeth during chewing is related to the graphic jaw movement recordings used for designing and adjusting the condylar controls of articulators. It welcomes the renewed interest in natural tooth form of the posterior teeth pertinent to the location of the forces generated within the chewing cycle and the stability of the joints. It supports the proprioceptive and esthetic role of the anterior teeth. Over 200 illustrations including patient treatment examples.

The 2-hour DVD, which supplements material in the text, relates total jaw movement to both anterior and posterior teeth building a foundation for understanding the principles of occlusion and reasons for restoring the teeth to natural, esthetic form.

$179.00