Session 1: 2 days
Diagnostics and Treatment Planning
- Initiating the Ideal Learning Experience
- Introduction to Craniofacial Growth and Development (Enlowian principles)
- The Biologic Basis of Orthodontics
- What is normal: Applying the principles of facial growth modern orthodontics
- What is excellence: Achieving Balanced Faces, Lasting Smiles, Facial Beauty, Orthodontic Excellence, and Long-Term Stability
- The Long-Term Benefits of Balanced Function, Guided Growth, the Absence of a Malocclusion
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Malocclusoins: What are the causative factors and how they are permanently corrected?
- Classifying Malocclusions
- Understanding the meaning of each malocclusion
- Using the GOR Interactive Program to assess each malocclusion
- Easily identifying each malocclusion
- The Big 3: Airway, Tongue Function and Lip Posture
- Connecting the dots: orthodontics/airway/TMD
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Orthodontic Records
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The Zero Base Clinical Orthodontic Evaluation
- What to look for
- The 10 usually missed signs of a complex case
- Finding these signs early will shorten your treatment time significantly
- The significance of the "Big 3"
- Markers of facial disharmony
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Study Models: How to take excellent models and proper interpretation of them
- Plaster models vs. 3D Digital Models
- How to determine the ideal arch development using models
- Facial Beauty Institute's accurate determination of molar and cuspid placement
- Why Schwarz-Korkhaus Analysis is obsolete
- The Golden Proportion rule in ideal arch development
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Initial Photographic Records and Subsequent Photographic Records
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Diagnostic photographic records
- Frontal of face and shoulders in repose (hair behind the ear and no glasses)
- Frontal of face and shoulders in repose during swallow (hair behind the ear and no glasses)
- Frontal of face and shoulders smiling (hair behind the ear and no glasses)
- Profile facing left of head and should in repose (hair behind ear and no glasses)
- Frontal of full body in repose (hair behind the ear and no glasses)
- Profile facing left of full body in repose (hair behind the ear and no glasses)
- MX arch (direct or in mirror)
- MN arch (direct or in mirror)
- Right teeth in full intercuspation (direct or in mirror)
- Left teeth in full intercuspation (direct or in mirror)
- Frontal of teeth in full intercuspation
- Frontal of teeth slightly open
- Frontal of teeth during swallow
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Case progression photographs
- Same as initial photographs
- Reading the progression of treatment photographs
- Benefits of in-treatment photographs
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Radiography
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3D CBCT
- Orthopantomograph representation
- Cephalometrics representation
- TMJ representation
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Nasal Pharyngeal representation
- Analysis
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Oral Pharyngeal representation
- Analysis
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Cervical Vertebral representation
- Lateral Analysis
- Frontal Analysis
- Posterior Analysis
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3-D Facial Cephalometric, CBCT, Soft Tissue, TMJ, Craniomandibular Functional Analysis
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3-D CBCT
- Critical Factors
- Confirmation Factors
- Relevant Factors
- Secondary Clues
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Soft Tissue Analysis
- Muscle tissue and air spaces
- Predicting change
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TMJ Analysis
- Condylar morphology
- Position of the meniscus
- Predicting the amount of change
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Cranio-mandibular Functional Analysis
- Norms vs. Ideal
- Determining necessary changes
- Predicting the amount of change
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Reading and interpreting the diagnostic results: Hands ON
- The "Big" Picture
- Prioritizing the diagnostic information
- Interpreting the diagnostic information
- Using the OrthoLogic Diagnostic System
- Transition to "Treatment Planning Mode"
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Basic Treatment Planning: Hands On
- How much growth potential is available during treatment?
- What goals need to be accomplished
- What sequence should be followed
- Using the OrthoLogic Diagnostic System
- Using the GOR Interactive Treatment Planning Module
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Advanced Treatment Planning: Hands On
- What is the compliance factor of the patient?
- What is achievable in the time fram available
- Determining the serious underlying problems
- What other additional healthcare professionals will be required to assist with treatment
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Consultation information and techniques which will inspire the patient to say "Yes" Hands On
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Types of consultation
- Detailed
- Moderate
- Simple
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Examples of effective consultations
- A well calibrated staff
- Effective use of a "closer"
- Individualized fees for your family of patients
- Determining the best "fit" for your practice
- What information should you have available for the consultation
- Informed consent
- GOR informed consent authorization
- Other examples