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ULTIMATE OCCLUSION

DR. RON RITSCO AND DR. MARK MONTGOMERY

 

TWO DAY HANDS ON COURSE:
The Ultimate Occlusion is a 2-day hands-on course designed to be as practical as possible for application into your practice the next day. Ultimate Occlusion is a scientifically based program designed to enable a practitioner to make diagnostic red flag observations, treatment plan the appropriate occlusal changes required, and then communicate these findings and the treatment options to the patient in an understandable way. The program is segmented into specific steps to follow during the process of evaluating the patient, formulating an occlusal treatment plan, and then the specific procedural approach to the restoration ultimately creating the occlusal scheme desired.

THE GOAL:
The goal is to offer the aesthetic dentist and ceramic technician enhanced skills for decision making and treatment execution when confronted with a simple restoration, Smile Design, or a complex rehabilitation. Decision making and then what steps to take in treatment are unfortunately left out of dental school curriculum when it comes to occlusion education. Many practitioners know the general rules of occlusion but in clinical practice often ignored them or still do not understand applications in every day practice. This is unfortunate because no single area of dentistry is more closely related to the long-term success of restorations.

YOU WILL LEARN:

Step1: Diagnostic Appointment:

  • Red Flag evaluation of occlusion and recognition of Occlusal Disease.

  • Advanced deprogramming and condylar stabilization.

  • Understanding and diagnosing TMJ / Occlusal contact effects.

  • The clinical implications of muscle findings.

  • Signs of wear and severe wear – Bruxers or Clenchers and Avoiders or Destroyers?

  • When and where not to make major and minor pre-treatment and treatment occlusal alterations.

  • What will the alteration look like when completed?

Step2: What are the first steps in my treatment?

  • Erasing old memories – and creating harmony in mandibular closure through deprogramming.

  • Methods /Types of deprogrammers discussion and applied.

  • Accurate facebow and mandible transfers.

  • When and why facebow transfers are required.

  • Considering the factors in reestablishing Vertical Dimension of Occlusion (VDO). determining, setting and evaluating a new.

Step3: When and how to make a final bite and what position?

  • Determination and recording of final tooth and jaw positions based on several occlusal guidance philosophies.

  • Evaluation of mountings and confirming final positions for restoration.

  • Performance of accurate mandibular manipulation, understand normal / abnormal movements and muscular / occlusal relationships in healthy and diseased conditions.

  • Verification techniques for mountings and condylar position.

Step4: What is the Chewing Simulator telling me?

  • Electronic and MAP Procedures for occlusal diagnosis and treatment planning.

  • Understanding the science behind tooth contacts and muscle harmony.

  • When is it necessary to alter an occlusion?

  • When and When Not to equilibrate before restoration.

  • Speed Equilibration Procedure and Rules.

Step5: The plan is in place now how do I do it?

  • Treatment Plans Execution.

  • Clinical Steps: Occlusion for Smile Designs and Full Mouth Rehabilitations.


DATES FOR THIS COURSE

June 11-12, 2010 UNLV, Las Vegas Nevada Sold out
June 18-19, 2010 Houston, Texas   Sold out

 

 

 

THE ART OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

With Dr. Chris Hammond of the Aesthetic Masters

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Learn the skills and techniques needed to incorporate photography into your practice. This course will show you how to take and manage high quality digital photographs in promoting, documenting, evaluating, and communicating the key critical elements of aesthetic dentistry. An easy to understand system of how to use photography to get better aesthetic results will be presented that can be immediately implemented into your practice. A MUST course for those seeking AACD Accreditation.

ONE & TWO Day Programs, HANDS-ON COURSE:
This one and two day hands-on courses include workshops to implement clinical intra oral skills as well as developing the fundamentals to include photography as a vital part of your practice promotion. Bring your own camera or learn with state of the art equipment.

YOU WILL LEARN:

  • Photography basics & how to get predictable results every time!
  • How to do portrait photography to enhance your office, show off you work, and capture great images for marketing your practice.
  • Intra-oral tips and strategies for quality images.
  • Hands-on practice with equipment and storage devices.
  • Easy to implement portrait photography
  • See as an artist and make ordinary people look and feel extraordinary. You will explore different poses, lighting and props
  • Storage and data management of your images including the use of PowerPoint for presentation purposes
  • Build templates & develop systems to use in individualized case presentation


Dates for this course.

One Day Course

Jan. 22, 2010:  Dallas, Texas (Sold Out)
March 19. 2010: Provo, Utah / Ski and Learn

Two Day Course

February 5-6, 2010: Salem, Oregon / Wine Country
April 16-17, 2010: Las Vegas, Nevada / City that never sleeps

   

SYNERGY:  A Clinical Course in Smile Design and Reconstructive Care

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THE GOAL:
The goal is to develop mastery of aesthetic and functional dentistry, creating the opportunity to explore vast options of multi-disciplinary care, prosthetic possibilities, and patient management by focusing on oral rehabilitation and long term functional success. Following this course, you’ll be able to aesthetically treat a complex restorative or prosthetic case and you will have developed a working knowledge of resources to use in diagnosis and case planning.

You will learn the latest techniques in bonded ceramics, smile design, and a comfortable, stable occlusion, that results in the ultimate in beauty and function.

3 WEEKEND - 8 DAY LIVE PATIENT COURSE:

In this power packed 3 weekend course, you will treatment plan and treat a full mouth rehabilitation under the guidance of a clinical mentor. We teach an anterior to posterior directed rehabilitation with a full dentition. Each participant will prepare and restore 8-20 units during the course.

Weekend #1: September 24-26, 2010:

Advanced Occlusion, Diagnosis and Treatment Planning

  • Diagnosis of the complete masticatory system, and the complex wear patient
  • Advanced deprogramming and condylar stabilization
  • Case analysis and Case design

Weekend #2: October 15-17, 2010

Advanced Smile Design and Full Mouth Preparation

  • Case Typing & Logistics in Full Mouth Rehabilitation
  • Avoiders and Destroyers
  • The How-to in normalizing VDO
  • How to handle the pre-prep and preparation sequencing
  • Myofacial pain and temporomandibular disorders including

Weekend #3: November 19-20, 2010

Advanced Case Delivery and Finishing

  • Case finishing and post insertion sequencing
  • Alternative therapies for alternative patients (long-term pain management)
  • Laboratory support for complex cases

$9900 per doctor, includes one assistant(required)
$595 each additional team member
(60) CE credits

Suggested Pre-requisite:
Ultimate Occlusion Course (by Aesthetic Masters, Hornbrook Group or PAC~ Live or others to be reviewed by instructors.)  and an Aesthetics Program that has included a live patient hands-on component. (Accepted Pre-requisite course: LVI, Rosenthal Aesthetic Advantage,PAC~live, Hornbrook Group or others to be reviewed by instructors.).

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Mark W. Montgomery, DMD, FACE
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Ron Ritsco, DMD, MS, Cert. Pros, FACE
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The Aesthetic Masters are please to announce the launch of their 2010 Programs.
Live patient education presented by .....UNLV

Synergy....Partial or Full Mouth Reconstruction


The time is right for you to learn how to treat all the patients of your practice!

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COURSE REGISTRATION: Contact any of the Aesthetic Masters laboratories or 702-774-2504 / UNLV Continuing Dental Education http://dentalschool.unlv.edu/continuinged/
Course Hotel Golden Nugget Hotel
129 E. Fremont St.
Las Vegas, NV 89101
gnlvresv@goldennugget.com
School of Dental Medicine
University of Nevada
1001 Shadow Lane Campus
Las Vegas, NV 89106-412

Aesthetic Masters mail Dr. Mark Montgomery
mail Dr. Ron Ritsco
mail Dr. Sheldon Seidman
Email Dr. David Faust
Email Dr. Chris Hammond
mail Dr. Debra Gray King
mail Dr. Marv Staggs
mail Dr. Richard F. Willes
mail Dr. Roy A. Hammond