Techno-Clinical Tips and Teamwork:
Maximize Your Clinical Success!
Dr. Damon C. Adams
6 MAGD/FAGD Lecture Hours
Have you ever had the “perfect” case go to your dental laboratory only to come back as anything but? Do not waste any more time and money with less-than-expected results! Dr. Adams reviews specific things you need to know to improve aesthetics and functional results for even your smallest cases. He will share practical, techno-clinical information that you can put into immediate use regarding total-team philosophy, the latest indirect restorative dental materials, study models, diagnostic preps and wax-ups, articulators, essential photos, shade taking, and other relevant information that you can put to immediate use in your practice and when working with your dental laboratory team.
Dr. Adams passionately shares his unique doctor-technician liaison experiences to help build the ultimate team to solve the aesthetic, functional, and dental material challenges faced everyday in your practice.
Topics covered in this dynamic all-day seminar:
- A new concept of aesthetics as it applies to the everyday practice of dentistry
- The importance of doctor-laboratory (techno-clinical) relationships and communication in treatment planning, restorative selection and prep design
- The most common cause of re-makes with technical and business solutions
- How a minor re-make rate (.8 units per month) can devastate your bottom line
- How to use a simple system to track re-makes to virtually eliminate them
- How to take an accurate CO and CR bite registration
- Why facebow dentistry should be for less than 3 units too!
- Why lingual aesthetics is important for maxillary anteriors
- The 3 barriers to using more accurate articulation systems and how to overcome them
- Ways to make your diagnostic wax-ups more meaningful for your lab
- What info you need to give your technician so they send back a great diagnostic wax-up
- Photo and shade photo tips from a techno-clinical perspective
- What are the most common impression challenges and how to prevent them?
- What are the most common preparation challenges and how to overcome them?
- What role your dental technician can play in preparation and impression feedback
- How to quickly and easily understand the new (and old) all-ceramic materials
- The importance of occlusion v. longevity for all-ceramic systems
- Marketing simplified: The 3 E's
This dynamic seminar is recommended for doctors, assistants, and dental laboratory technicians |
