Course Location: Central Point Reading

Occlusion Course

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Occlusion Course

3 Day Course

Course Overview

    • 7-hours of theory videos sent before the course to watch. Delegates are required to watch this before attending the course.
    • Lecture Handouts and Folders
    • 24-hour CPD
    • A simplified approach to understanding Occlusion in your practice
    • Refreshments and Hot Lunch
    • Hands-on Sessions on each day
    • Unlimited advice and support for all our delegates

Day 1

  • A full day purely based on case examples and how to apply fundamentals of occlusion into clinical practice:
    • How to assess Occlusion, to include static and dynamic motions.
    • The role of Tripodism in dentate patients.
    • Function vs. Parafunction
    • The use of articulating papers in restorative dentistry
    • The role of intra oral scanners and how to utilise these in restorative dentistry
    • Assessing and managing non --working side guidances and interferences
    • How to avoid / minimise adjusting restorations: crowns and fillings
    • Sequencing treatments for single unit indirect restorations
    • When to use canine risers
    • When to use bite registration materials
    • Facebow
    • TMJ and Muscles of mastication
    • Prepping the last tooth in the arch
    • Communication with the laboratory
    • Sequencing treatments for multiple units indirect restorations
    • DIGITAL FACEBOW
  • Hands-On:
    • Record occlusion
    • Record CRCP
    • Facebow
    • Palpating Muscles of Mastication
    • Canine risers

Day 2

    • Understanding Centric Relation (CR)
    • Articulators and their clinical applications
    • Digital articulation
    • Understanding Jaw Position and its relevance to dentistry
    • Ways to record CR:
      • ​leaf gauge
      • lucia jig
    • Denar and Kois Facebow
    • Understanding different types of splints, their indications, limitation and uses
  • Hands-On:
    • Assessing occlusion
    • Assessing muscles of mastications
    • Facebow record
    • Using leaf gauge and lucia jigs to record centric relation
    • Communication with the laboratory
    • Understanding the stages to fabricate Michigan splint

Day 3

    • Digital dentistry and occlusion
    • Fabricating Digital Splints​
    • Translating the CR to managing TSL cases
    • Occlusion and Orthodontics/Aligners
    • Occlusion in relation to Periodontics
    • Occlusion in relation to Endodontics
    • Occlusion in relation to dentures
    • Occlusion in relation to Implants (if applicable to delegates)
    • Case discussions: Managing multidisciplinary cases
    • Occlusal adjustment
  • Hands-On:
    • Fitting and adjusting michigan splints on live patients