In his book, The Personal MBA, Josh Kaufman talks about five components that make up every business. And one of those components is sales. I think as professionals, dentists are sometimes uncomfortable with the idea of selling treatment. But what we have to understand is that it is our responsibility to get our patients to […]
WIDIOM is the Dawson Academy acronym for Would I Do It On Me. I think of it kind of like the modern-day golden rule. It’s how I live my life. It’s how I treat my patients. It’s how I treat my family. I think about every single thing that I do with the idea of, […]
I’d like to spend a few minutes discussing some of the ways that we can do what’s called waxing smarter instead of harder when we’re doing our three dimensional workups on the articulator. Waxing can be a very frustrating skill to learn as we start to become a better Dawson Dentist and a better clinician, […]
When I first started waxing up my cases in the Dawson Philosophy, I learned later that I had encountered a mistake where I had really steepened anterior guidances on the wax-ups and didn’t really quite understand why I continued to do it. When I slowed down and I took a look, I realized that I […]
When we’re treatment planning, we like to utilize what we call the WIDIOM rule. Would I Do It On Me? This process of complete dentistry isn’t about doing the most restorations on a patient. It’s doing the least amount of dentistry to solve all of the patient’s functional and aesthetic issues.
One of the obstacles that inhibits the success is not planning or organizing the steps needed for predictability. Dr. Khanna discusses this process in detail and makes suggestions on how to become more successful in executing your treatment plan and discuss it with your patients.
Dentists seem to commonly make the same treatment planning mistakes. Some are functional, and some are esthetic………and sometimes they’re both! This leads to frustration for the patient AND the dental team. When cases lose their predictability they also lose their profitability and their fun.
Dr. Cobb will show you how to solve simple to complex cases using a guided approach that will ensure your next treatment plan will cover all the bases and deliver a profitable, non-stressful outcome for both you and your patient.
When phasing treatment we’ve got our three phases. First of all, we want to get everything biologically stable. Also then, we want to stabilize the occlusion. And then we move forward to our final restorations. Transcript continued below…
We asked three faculty members, “when do you fit in your treatment planning time into your schedule?” Here were their answers…
When dealing with a symptomatic or a suspected TMD patient, we want to follow a series of protocols, no different, really, than we deal with most of our patients.
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