Occlusion can be a perplexing topic in dentistry.
This seminar helps clinicians understand and manage occlusion in patients with various complexities. It covers when to use existing occlusion, ensuring occlusal changes’ success, and appropriate occlusal therapy. The seminar also discusses assessing occlusion with analog and digital methods, necessary records for treatment complexity, and techniques like facebows and bite records. The focus is on practical guidelines to enhance interdisciplinary communication among dentists, surgeons, and labs.
Additionally, it covers occlusal therapy, including selecting appropriate appliances and performing equilibration. The seminar discusses assessing occlusion through analog and digital methods and outlines necessary records for treatment complexity levels. This includes using facebows and bite records, as well as creating mounted models, using both analog and digital techniques.
What you will learn at this seminar:
- Why occlusion can seem so complicated, but how predictable it is in most patients, and how to recognize the high-risk patient in advance.
- To gain confidence in understanding the TMJ, and how easy it is to evaluate them as a potential problem for your patients, including possible solutions if they are a problem, and how to have a conversation with your patients about the TMJ.
- To efficiently evaluate your patients’ muscles, and predict whether any therapy is necessary, which treatment, and how to discuss it with your patient.
- What a complete joint and muscle exam looks like, and how efficiently it can be done in any practice (with multiple examples shown on video).
- How to become confident in choosing among all the different occlusal appliances available, including a specific flow chart of the appliance choices based upon your patients’ symptoms and history, with an emphasis on how to discuss appliance therapy and fees with your patients.
- How and when to utilize mounted models in your occlusal treatment-planning process, including what facebows do, how to use them, why you would use one, and three different methods of predictably making the bite records used to mount the models.
- To determine if occlusal equilibration is necessary, and how to perform one predictably and efficiently, including how to discuss it with your patients.
- What to do with the occlusion of patients with excess overjet, anterior open bites, deep overbites, or Class III relationships who won’t do orthodontics.
- How to perform bite records in restorative patients for simple posterior restorations to full arches, to full mouths, simply and predictably.
