The 10% Early Bird discount period has been extended by two weeks to February 14th.

Book now ! Call Sal on 0151 342 0410 to get the Early Bird 10% discount on sign up for the 1st Module of The Dawson Academy Core Curriculum: Examination and Records, starting May 24 – 26th 2012 .

We are offering a potential ‘Early Bird’ 10% discount on sign up for the 1st Module of The Dawson Academy Core Curriculum: Examination and Records, starting May 24 – 26th 2012 .

Registration must be made before 31 January 14 February 2012 to qualify for the ‘Early Bird’ discount.

Please contact Sal on 0151 342 0410.

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Ian Buckle recently spent 2 exciting days with Domingo Martin, Director of the Roth Williams International Centre for Functional Occlusion, at his office and teaching centre in San Sebastian, Spain. Domingo has taught many orthodontists all over the world about orthodontics in centric relation as well developing fabulous interdisciplinary teams.

Domingo will be lecturing in the UK early in 2012. We will be posting more details soon, so please watch this space – and then bring all your team along!

By Drew Cobb, DDS – Senior Faculty, The Dawson Academy

My Dad always used to say, “If you are going to do something, do it right”.

I think many of us came to The Dawson Academy like I did to “do it right”. We started by taking the core curriculum lecture and hands-on courses and followed those with more topic specific courses.

We proceeded along our journey to provide our patients with the best possible long lasting dental care, but getting to that point is not always as easy as we’d like.

Unfortunately, it is easy to get sidetracked along the way and loose sight of the end result. It is not that we don’t want to do things the right way, it can just become difficult and confusing. It is not enough to just take courses, the key to success is putting into practice what we have learned. If not, nothing will change

Four basic core principles to “doing it right”

If we follow these core principles, I know we will achieve the results we envision and become successful. These principles are nothing new and are the foundation of the core curriculum. The important part is that we actually have to put them into practice. I know from my own experience that success came when I started implementing what I learned. Change can be hard, but if you truly want to get to the next level it won’t happen by itself.

Here are what I believe to be the four key core principles we have to be committed to in order to reach that next level:

1.        All patients get a thorough comprehensive examination with all necessary records.

2.        We follow the 16-step functional/esthetic checklist when working through our treatment planning options.

3.        We visualize the treatment plan and plan for success through the 10 step wax-up process.

4.        We then provide the proper treatment to our patients to ensure functional and esthetic success.

If any of these concepts are not perfectly clear, maybe it is time to take a refresher course for clarification. In the near future we will have online presentations on these topics to make review easier. Try it on your next new patient and put into practice what you have learned. The reward will be in the end result for our patients.

I truly believe that if we are committed to the above principles, we will, as my Dad said, “Do it right”. Good luck!

The popular Complete Care Dental Assistant will be run at The Dawson Centre UK on October 21 & 22 2010.

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There is also a course scheduled in Helsinki on Oct 7 & 8.

The venues for all UK study clubs have now been finalised and details will be found on the updated Study Club page.

Making the Goal – A programmed approach for success from records to the diagnostic wax-up

Andrew Cobb, DDS and Walt Richardson, CDT

Date: October 15-16 2010   1 ½ days

Cost: £795 + Vat

Course description

Successful treatment planning and restorative dentistry requires the gathering of information in order to visualise the final result.

Integrating aesthetic and functional problems, identifying proper solutions, and visualising the outcome through the diagnostic wax-up are the key steps to predictable restorative dentistry.

A comprehensive examination and impeccable records are keys to this process. This course will review the records gathering process as well as a stepwise process of treatment planning and completing a functional diagnostic wax-up.

Whether the doctor, lab assistant, or laboratory technician creates the wax-up, the steps are the same and crucial to success.