Course Description
The focus of this continuing dental education program is to integrate a comprehensive dental treatment planning process into your practice. Recommendations based on best practices are discussed to help assist you with organizing your busy schedule and a creating a space for optimum treatment planning. How to present your treatment plan will also be discussed as well as many other aspects of procedures and materials.

Learning Objectives

• Establish a step-by-step process for treatment planning any restorative case, from the simplest to the most complex.
• Explore why 90% of mistakes occur not during the restorative phase, but rather during the treatment planning process.
• Plan and visualize ideal esthetics and ideal function.
• Discover the need for/value of quality records.
• Master all of the critical checklists used to treatment plan every case.
• Investigate how the teeth should be positioned in space for optimum esthetics, phonetics and function.
• Identify specifically how to utilize the diagnostic photographs in conjunction with mounted diagnostic models to visualize an optimum course of treatment.
• Work on actual study casts to apply these concepts.
• Develop an ideal, efficient and profitable treatment sequence for each case.
• Create a segmented treatment plan so that optimum care can be delivered over a longer period of time.
• Organize your schedule and create a treatment planning process within your practice.