Dental CE Course: Comprehensive Examination & Records

This Dawson Academy hands-on program will provide the participant the technical and managerial skills to institute a comprehensive examination process into his/her practice. The complete examination, and the accompanying records, are the absolute cornerstone of the Dawson philosophy and a necessity in the continuing education for dental professionals. During this hands-on section of our functional occlusion continuing education curriculum you will discover procedural skills for records and examinations, as well as provide tips for training your staff on the parts of the evaluation process that can be delegated. Special emphasis will be placed on scheduling and implementing The Complete Examination/Records appointment into a busy general practice. Focusing on the esthetic, functional, biological and structural issues makes this course a must have component in the continuing education for dental professionals.

Course Size: 20

Learning Objectives

-Acquire efficient records gathering process that can be implemented immediately.

-Acquire skills to educate each patient during an examination.

-Establish fees for examination/consultation process.

-Integrate the ability to ask future focused questions.

-Locate, verify, and precisely record centric relation and mount casts onto an appropriate semi-adjustable articulator.

-Acquire the skills to use a macro digital camera to shoot a full series of diagnostic digital photographs.

-Verify how to do a correct facebow transfer – and why this is critical to both the diagnostic and restorative phase of treatment.

-Judge how to do a comprehensive smile analysis – how to recognize the flaw in any smile.

-Evaluate the system for signs of instability (wear, mobility, migration, muscle issues, or TMJ dysfunction) – the key to clinical examination, and insure the patient understands the problem.

-Select a protocol for when to get CT, MRI, etc. based on ROM, history and load test.

Class Hours:

Day 1 and 2 – 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Day 3 – 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Tuition: $3,800

CE Credits: 20

Recommended Prerequisite: Functional Occlusion – From TMJ to Smile Design

Target Audience: General Dentists, Specialists