Level 3 – Full Mouth Rehabilitation, Treatment Planning & Occlusion

Traditional dentistry relied on preparation techniques requiring the removal of healthy tooth structure to provide mechanical retention. New materials and techniques offer a less invasive and additive approach to restorative dentistry.

This course will teach the general dentist to see the potential complications, find treatment options, and rehabilitate broken-down teeth using adhesive dentistry. We aim to help general dentists broaden their approach to confidently execute single-tooth dentistry and start taking on comprehensive full-mouth diagnoses and treatments.

A thorough grounding in occlusion in setting up a case will be given.

• How to use Lucia jigs and leaf gauges to gain centric record
• How to perform occlusal equilibration
• How to asses the TMJ
• Is splint therapy needed first?
• How to position the occlusal plane and smile design
• How to work out VDO
• Concept of anterior guidance and long centric
• Occlusal concepts of canine versus group function

Treatments covered in depth include how to treat the:

• Worn dentition case
• The Class 2 Div II case
• The Class 2 Div II case
• The Class 3, end to end cross bite patient
• Diagnose if the vertical dimension needs increasing and how to predictably transfer this from design to the mouth
• How to account for compensatory eruption without making the patient appear tooth especially in the gummy smile patient