Course outline

The art and science of Treatment Planning is a critical part of our patients' treatment. It starts with determining the proper diagnosis then rendering the most appropriate treatment for the problem.

• Digital Planning for ideal esthetics and proportion management
• How to perform a clinical and digital esthetic mockup
• Managing multiple missing teeth in the esthetic zone
• When to save or extract a tooth and replace it with an implant
• The proper sequence of therapy for the ideal outcome
• How to provisionalize for the patients' comfort from start to end of treatment
• What are the best procedures to rebuild and or maintain the bone and soft tissue architecture
• Knowing when and if an implant should be placed immediately into fresh extraction sockets
• How to use biometrics to establish the ideal tooth size relationships for esthetics and occlusion
• Demonstration of how to use esthetic gauges
• Should grafts be placed into gaps
• Should ridge reduction be performed to do "all on 4" or "all on X" etc.
• Central Lateral dilemma: 2 implant or 1 implant and a pontic

• Hands-on demonstration and use of esthetic gauges
• How to use digital dentistry to expedite treatment plans
• How to use pink ceramic properly versus rebuilding the patient’s own tissues to avoid using prosthetic pink in the final restoration
• How does the medical status of the patient modify the treatment plan
• When should an overdenture be used instead of a fixed solution
• What styles of occlusion should be used for implant supported cases
• When and how to splint teeth to implants
• How and when to treat peri-implantitis
• How to repair existing esthetic problem areas
• How to use digital dentistry to expedite treatment plans
• How to do serial extraction treatment instead of ridge reduction for full arch treatment