What are your quality controls?
We asked three Dawson faculty members, ‘What are your quality controls?’ Here were their answers:
Category: Treatment Planning
Quick Tip: How to Increase Your confidence in Treating Patients
One of the most common things that we hear is when things do not go well, in other words if a restoration fractures, many dentists are not sure why it fractured in the first place. And sometimes, a situation like that can decrease your confidence because you are trying to find an outlet as to why […]
How Our Treatment Planning Protocols Impacts a Practice
Becoming a Dawson-trained dentist will change the way a dentist practices and Dr. Leonard Hess’s case shows you how.
What are common reasons cases fail?
We asked Dawson Faculty members, “What are the common reasons cases fail?” These are their responses:
How to Remove Guesswork From Your Treatment Plans
It’s one of the most common things that we hear is when things don’t go well; in other words, if a restoration fractures. Many dentists aren’t sure why it fractures in the first place. And sometimes a situation like that can decrease your confidence because you’re trying to find an outlet as to why this […]
Solving Treatment Planning Dilemmas
Keys to a predictable path of stability The treatment planning process can be the biggest challenge for any dentist. The goal of all treatment plans is to create long-term stability in the masticatory system regardless of how simple or complex a patientÛªs conditions present. However, the dilemmas that dentists face sometimes lead to restorative failure […]
Sequencing Treatment Without Compromising Stability
What is Conservative Dentistry?
Conservative dentistry, to me, is gathering all the information up that we can in a complete exam. And once we have got a complete exam, doing the least amount of dentistry to solve that patient’s problems. We want to make sure that if it is just a couple of crowns and cleaning, then that is […]
Webinar: How to Successfully Diagnose and Treat TMD
As Dr. Dawson has said, “Successful outcomes for patients with temporomandibular disorders can be some of the most rewarding experiences in a general dental practice.” In a study of over 45,000 households, 1 in 5 have suffered from orofacial pain in the last 6 months, illustrating the large opportunity our profession has to provide successful outcomes that can […]
What is Complete Dentistry?
There’s a way to practice dentistry that’s predictable, profitable, and provides an extremely high level of personal and professional satisfaction. There’s no magic to it. Even in a world that pushes us or tries to push us towards doing usual and customary dentistry, if you take the time to dedicate yourself to learning the aspects […]
The 4 Treatment Options
So let’s talk a little bit about treatment options and ways that you can communicate with your patients, when they show up at your office with signs of instability, tooth wear, mobility, migration, TMJ dysfunction, muscle pain, and soreness. It’s important to organize your thoughts and communications in ways that your patients can very simply […]
The 4 Elements of Predictable Dentistry
The necessary elements for the treatment planning process. Let’s begin from the basics of what this means. Anything that we teach you that’s predictable starts with a four-stage process. That first step is the complete exam, the second step is the treatment planning process, the third step is provisionalizing the restorations, and the final step […]
