Getting Treatment Acceptance Through Patient Education and Comprehensive Treatment Planning This case was a semi-finalist in the 2017 Dawson Study Club Case Challenge during the Annual Study Club Day. In this case study Dr. Stacey Hall, a Dawson Academy Ambassador, shares how using the Dawson principles and protocols led to: Treatment acceptance Better esthetics Long-term […]
After you have gone through and taken accurate records during the complete examination it is time to present the treatment plan. When it comes to presenting the treatment plan to a patient, there are two things you need to have with you.
Do you have a good system in place to present your treatment plan to your patient? After you have done your part to put together the plan, it’s time to lay it out to the patient to ensure they understand what needs to happen now and what can wait. Here are three tips for you […]
So a quick tip when working on provisionals is probably nothing new to you, it’s something you’ve heard. It’s to follow The Dawson Academy checklists and to follow the order and to never go out of order. If you follow the order of checking your provisionals, it’s the same order of checking your occlusion on […]
At The Dawson Academy, we teach you all a system of how to practice, starting from a new patient exam and all the way through prep and delivery. So, for example, the new patient exam.
One of the best ways to build confidence is through the use of checklists. Too often, we have limited time to accomplish all that we need to for our patients. Throw in the distractions that can pop up when you least expect, and it’s all too easy for essential items to slip through the cracks.
How do you build confidence in treating more difficult cases? This question comes up many times during our curriculum, and in many occasions during our teachings, we talk about the process of going from consciously competent to the process of becoming unconsciously competent.
Treatment planning is absolutely key to what we do. We take care of our patients with treatment planning, and the better that we can treatment plan for that patient, the better the outcome, the happier the patient, the happier we are.
There’s many benefits to sequencing treatment plans that we come up with. Sequencing allows us to consider the logical sequence, predictable sequence AND economical sequence for the patient.
When we’re discussing single tooth dentistry versus comprehensive or full mouth dentistry, the first thing I think that needs to be determined is, can we treat this person with single tooth dentistry? If not, are they a specialty patient where we have to take more into consideration?
To ensure that we are providing optimal care, we must perform 3 critical steps to every case: the complete exam, well organized diagnostic records, and a comprehensive treatment plan.
Hi, everybody. My name’s Dr. Leonard Hess. I’m one of the senior faculty members here at the Dawson Academy, and I’d like to spend a few minutes talking with you about where occlusal splints work into a treatment plan when we’re talking about doing larger or more complicated treatment plans. Let’s really take a moment […]
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