Seamlessly integrate occlusal principles with digital workflows, all while reducing your insurance dependency. Each topic at Core 1 is powerful on its own, but the real magic happens when you learn to blend these methods into predictable dentistry that boosts your practice’s profit.
Core 1 in Scottsdale, Arizona
Say goodbye to breaks, failures, and costly mistakes by learning the art of treating the total masticatory system.
Here it directly from your instructor, Dr. Leonard Hess
Your answers to Core 1: Occlusion & Smile Design
Nope! You can just take Core 1. If you’re ready to take the rest of the Core Curriculum, we’d suggest bundling all of those courses with our Mini-Residency Program.
While we do not have a dedicated special available for new grads, we’re happy to see what options are available to you to get started with Dawson. Book a call to connect with a Course Advisor.
Core 1 is a two-day lecture course and is the first course of our Core Curriculum. As you progress through the Core Curriculum, hands-on training will begin at Core 2: Examination & Records
Absolutely! We offer interest-free payment plans. Learn more here.
Students are responsible for securing their hotel accommodations, we always suggest booking your stay near the venue. Contact us if you need any suggestions on where to stay.
Core 1 at The Dawson Academy covers the requirements for occlusal stability over two days, focusing on examination, records, treatment planning, and practice management. It includes patient communication, case acceptance, and transitioning to a fee-for-service model. The course emphasizes the principles of esthetic, functional, and phonetic harmony in restorative care, with a comprehensive understanding of TM joints, muscles, teeth, and their interactions. Both analog and digital workflows are discussed, with added content on implementation and business management. The course aims to enhance practice efficiency, predictability, and overall enjoyment in the field of dentistry.
Connect with a Dawson Course Advisor and find the answers to your questions. From travel accommodations, to course objectives – give us a shout.
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This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
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These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
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Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to
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