A Complete Curriculum:
The Dawson Academy
The Dawson Academy is a postgraduate educational and clinical research facility, dedicated to the advancement of dentistry. All of our instructors are practicing dental professionals who have implemented the Dawson teachings into their own practices and bring that real-world experience back to the classroom. The Dawson Academy’s Core Curriculum teaches the fundamental principles and clinical skills that make dentistry completely predictable.
Hands-On Courses
Our Hands-On classes at The Dawson Academy are limited in enrollment to afford participants the maximum opportunity to practice the skills in a hands-on format.
We utilise state of the art learning techniques to ensure that students go beyond just understanding principles to actually being able to implement the concepts and skills in their practices.
Lectures
The curriculum at The Dawson Academy has been developed as a complete plan for general dentists, specialists and dental practice team members striving to develop a highly effective practice. The courses have been designed to clarify the concepts and provide hands-on-training in the skills that are needed to practice master quality, complete dentistry.
Success in today’s fee-for-service environment requires competencies in a triad of skills: diagnostic, clinical and organisational. The classes at The Dawson Academy have been built around the need to develop these competencies and are structured to meet needs in all three areas.
Core Curriculum: Lecture and Hands-On Series
Comprehensive Examination & Records
This course is your gateway to a proven path of clinical and professional excellence. As the foundational course in the “Concept of Complete DentistryTM Series”, you will learn the timeless message that good dentistry, aesthetic dentistry, complete dentistry must begin with a thorough understanding of occlusion and the functions of the masticatory system. A complete treatment plan is devised after making a thorough diagnosis which is based upon comprehensive records. You will learn how to take excellent clinical photographs, facebow record, the easiest, simplest and most predictable way to take a Centric Relation bite record and a comprehensive examination process including muscle examination and TMJ analysis. We will discuss which patients are straightforward to treat and which require occlusal therapy before definitive treatment is performed.
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Treatment Planning Functional Esthetic Excellence
This course provides the participant with a programmed approach to diagnosis and treatment planning. Utilising the standardised records taught in Comprehensive Records and Examination, each dentist will learn how to visualise optimum dentistry from an aesthetic, functional, biological and structural perspective. Special emphasis will be placed on the four options of treatment (reshaping, repositioning, restoring and surgical correction), so that the correct option(s) are chosen for each patient. Additionally, each student will learn how to segment large treatment plans, so that patients with financial issues can receive optimum care over time. The focus of the programme is to integrate a comprehensive treatment planning process into their practice. Suggestions will also be made on creating time and a place for optimum treatment planning. Finally, a consultation process will be discussed in detail, ensuring each participant will enjoy a healthy case acceptance rate.
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The Art & Science of Equilibration
Equilibration is a simple but much misunderstood concept that is the cornerstone to truly minimally invasive dentistry. You will learn by lecture and hands on:
> The principles of equilibration
> How to perform a trial equilibration and why it is so important
> How to equilibrate a full coverage splint
> How to equilibrate provisional restorations to fulfil our occlusal goals
> How to equilibrate the natural dentition
> When equilibration is the best option and when it should not be used
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Restoring Anterior Teeth
This hands on programme will teach each participant to perform anterior restorative procedures at the highest level. All direct and indirect options for the restoration of anterior teeth will be discussed in this programme. Through PowerPoint, pre-recorded patient video, and hands on exercises, each participant will gain mastery with anterior direct resin veneers, stacked and pressed ceramic veneers, pressed ceramic crowns, anterior zirconia crowns and bridges, and porcelain fused to metal. Additionally, the attending dentists will learn which material should be considered for each individual patient circumstance. Each participant will learn to utilise digital photographs in conjunction with the mounted diagnostic models to visualise the necessary functional and aesthetic changes, and create a diagnostic wax-up. They will learn how to create preparation reduction guides, and provisional matrixes to guide them through the preparation appointment. Special emphasis will be placed on contouring the provisional restoration, and why this is key to long-term functional and aesthetic success. Finally, cementation and adhesive options will be understood and discussed in detail so that the proper delivery option is matched with each material.
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Other Courses
Occlusal Splint Therapy Hands-On Course
Occlusal splint therapy is one of the most commonly utilised treatment modalities for temporomandibular disorders, yet is often given only minimal consideration in continuing education. Properly designed and carried out, an occlusal orthosis is one of the most important and predictably effective tools available for the management of masticatory muscle and temporomandibular joint pathologic conditions, as well as in cases of nocturnal bruxism, and before, during and following treatment in association with certain restorative cases today. Because a number of philosophies regarding goals, indications and design exist, occlusal splint therapy is often misunderstood and therefore inadequately used. (Limited to 20 dentists) more information
The Complete Care Dental Assistant
This seminar is a must for Dental Team members who want to have the tools necessary to help assist their doctors to reach the highest level. While doctors learn the essentials of Functional Aesthetic Excellence, the team can experience equal growth during this special program allowing the whole team to return to their Practice ready to face the challenges ahead with enthusiasm.
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Study Clubs
Treatment Planning is the most commonly suggested topic for study club. Everybody has cases that either demonstrate the benefits of careful treatment planning or have been sat on the shelf for too long waiting for inspiration.
In this limited attendance hands-on workshop you will:
• Review the step-by-step treatment planning process
• Treatment plan TWO cases from start to finish utilising the records provided
• Discuss scheduling and cost setting for each case
• Present your own case(s) – either completed or for suggestions for treatment
• Discuss how the treatment planning process fits within your daily schedule
• Breakdown your schedule to create a consultation process within your practice; one that will connect with your patients wants and needs, as well as boost case acceptance.
