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NEXT-GEN COMPREHENSIVE ORTHO

Our flagship all-inclusive learning experience now features brackets & aligners throughout, plus our new ortho simulation app, and DentalMonitoring. We invite you to come back and take any of our new seminars tuition-free thanks to our Lifetime Free Retake benefit.

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CURRICULUM 

Seminar #1: Implementing Digital Orthodontics, Case Selection, Basics of Diagnosis, Treating with Aligners vs Brackets

  • Benefits of ortho to patients and practice

  • Implementing ortho in your practice: what is needed to start a case, the role of team members, 1st & 2nd consult

  • Basics of creating, diagnosis, and analyzing ortho simulations in the Medit Progressive App

  • Basics of skeletal and dental relationships (AP and vertical)

  • Understand profile and face types and how they affect treatment decisions

  • Intro to ortho mechanics and molar movements - molar-based simulations

  • Aligners vs. brackets: different tools in your toolbox

  • Case Selection - Identifying uncomplicated cases

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Seminar #2: Understanding the Fixed IP Appliance System and Aligner Features (Hands-On)

  • Understanding the Progressive system for brackets & aligners, including the strengths and weaknesses of each appliance

  • Learn how to properly bond brackets, size and cement bands, tie-in an archwire and

  • How to complete the initial alignment phase with brackets, what to do at each visit

  • Understand alignment aids to make treatment more efficient (coils and chain, etc.)

  • Understand purpose of aligner attachments and aligner features

  • Basics of aligner workflow and what to do at each visit

  • Hands-on: bonding brackets and aligner attachments, bands, tie in techniques, chain and coils

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SEMINAR 3: Diagnosing and Treating Non-Extraction Cases – Sagittal Plane (AP)

  • Doing a complete workup in SmileStream, including ceph tracing, model measuring, VTO and RBT

  • Analyzing AP in class II cases: aligners and bracket mechanics

  • Sequential distalization with aligners vs. brackets

  • Skeletal considerations and dental compensation in Class II cases

  • Analyzing AP in class III cases - aligner and bracket mechanics

  • Skeletal considerations, dental compensation and masking in class III

  • Growing vs. non-growing diagnosis and treatment class II and class III cases (DHG)

  • Phase 1, mixed dentition planning for class II and class III cases

  • Evaluating Progressive Aligner 3D setups, communicating with aligner designer

  • Revision and refinements in aligners - best practices

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SEMINAR 4: Diagnosing & Treating Non-Extraction Cases – Vertical & Transverse Plane

  • Managing the vertical in open and deep bite cases - brackets vs. aligners

  • Incisor display, “gummy smile”, & skeletal considerations

  • Treatment protocols for dealing with the bite in brackets & aligners

  • Managing the bite in mixed dentition cases

  • Dealing with the transverse plane - crossbite - brackets vs. aligners

  • Skeletal vs. dental crossbites, telescopic crossbites,

  • Expansion limits and when NOT to expand (maintain archform)

  • Anterior vs. posterior crossbites

  • Growing vs. non-growing options in the transverse

  • Bonded RPE vs. other appliances for expansion

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SEMINAR 5: Diagnosing and Treating Bicuspid Extraction Cases, Anchorage Planning, Spacing Cases

  • Diagnosing bicuspid extraction cases, when to extract, including airway considerations

  • Class I, class II and class III extraction plans

  • Anchorage planning – maximum, moderate, minimum

  • Skeletal considerations in extraction planning, including vertical, sagittal, transverse, maxillary sinus, skeletal resistance

  • Mixed dentition, phase 1, phase 2 extraction vs. non-extraction planning

  • Brackets vs. aligner and extractions – strengths and weaknesses

  • Spacing cases – aligners and brackets

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SEMINAR 6: Mixed Dentition

  • Interceptive Ortho/ Dentofacial orthopedics - When, why, how?

  • Phase 1 goals and objectives – dental vs. skeletal corrections

  • Mixed dentition diagnosis and treatment planning, including appliance options, dealing with crowding & spacing

  • Congenitally missing teeth, impactions, extractions

  • Aligners vs. brackets in phase 1 treatment, myofunctional & functional appliances

  • Managing habits – thumb, lip, tongue – when and how to treat

  • Growth - CVG Stage and DHG considerations (SmileStream and Medit App)

  • Hands-On: TPA, headgear, utility arch, Z-bend

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SEMINAR 7: Pre-restorative Ortho, Mult-disciplinary Dentistry (Endo, Perio, Restorative)

  • Using the Medit Progressive App for pre-restorative ortho planning

  • Closing spaces vs. creating and managing space for restorations

  • Planning around existing implants and bridges

  • Molar up righting, temporary restorations during ortho, implant site development, vertical considerations

  • Periodontics protocols in orthodontics: when and who to treat

  • Endodontics and ortho, dealing with endodontically treated teeth, occlusal adjustment for functional harmony, root resorption

  • Diagnose and manage TMD patients during ortho treatment – aligners vs. brackets

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SEMINAR 8: Managing Complicated and Unusual Conditions: Unconventional Extractions,
Asymmetry and Functional Shift, Gummy Smile, Skeletal Anchorage

  • Skeletal vs. dental asymmetry vs. functional shift: how to diagnose and treat

  • Asymmetrical extractions vs. asymmetrical IPR, asymmetrical mechanics

  • Intro to skeletal anchorage : TADs vs bone plate, reasons for use

  • Unconventional extractions: indications and treatment planning

  • Impacted tooth retrievals, up-righting tipped molars

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SEMINAR 9: Putting It All Together: Patient Management, Efficiency and Productivity

  • How to create the complete orthodontic diagnosis and treatment plan

  • Make ortho a profitable business - Managing the practice and patients for efficiency and profitability

  • Dental Monitoring – How and when it fits in the GP practice for profitability and patient management

  • Training the staff to limit doctor time, Managing emergencies and unscheduled appliance repairs

  • Hybrid cases – the key to efficient ortho, when to use, how to manage

  • How to finish cases effectively on non-compliant patients, transfer cases

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SEMINAR 10: Finishing and Retention

  • Managing common problems in brackets and aligners, tips and best practices

  • Finishing a bracket case - including finishing bends, repositioning brackets, aligning 7s, arch coordination, and progressive deband

  • Finishing an aligner case - including refinement setups, residual space closure, black triangles, and posterior open bite

  • Retention: indications for different appliances, protocols, occlusal adjustments, & relapse

ADVANCED SEMINAR

This is for doctors who continue their orthodontic education after completing the Comprehensive Program. Dentofacial Orthodontic Series helps you better understand how to transform patients’ dentofacial harmonies without invasive surgery. This series consists of 4 seminars, 4-days each.

 

UPDATE SEMINARS

Keep your orthodontic education updated with new updates and discoveries with a tenured instructor each year.

FREE INTRODUCTION to ORTHODONTICS

This fun class is a great way for doctors to learn more about the basics of this specialty and why so many dentists like Progressive’s unique philosophy. This educational class gives you orthodontic education from the world leader in orthodontic continuing education. Learn new orthodontic principles, see interesting cases, and meet other education enthusiasts, on us!

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Who should attend?

  • General Dentists

  • Pedodontists

  • Orthodontists

  • Other Specialists

  • Dental Students

  • Dental Assistants & Office Managers

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DENTAL ASSISTANT ORTHODONTIC TRAINING

Create a skilled team to optimize your orthodontic practice. Integrate orthodontics effortlessly into your practice with fully trained and efficient clinical staff. After attending this class, your assistants will feel skilled and competent in helping you provide quality orthodontic care to your patients. This practical 2-day program will help your staff get up to speed, and enable you to make orthodontics profitable and efficient for your practice. Come prepared to have fun and learn a lot!

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​ORTHODONTICS FOR CHILDREN

This course is designed for dentists to be able to provide a complete diagnosis for the children in their practices. There is a total of 6 days covering how to evaluate, diagnose and treatment plan the most common dental and skeletal malocclusion problems found in mixed dentition (e.g. antero-posterior, vertical, transverse, and habit problems) and what appliances to use. Anticipation of potential complications and recognition of problems early will help you achieve excellent results. There are hands-on exercises in the 1st seminar using typodonts, utility arches, advancing arches and quad helixes and in the 2nd seminar with airway tracing analysis.

 

ORTHODONTIC CASE FINISHING & DETAILING

Finishing orthodontic cases can be a very technical endeavour, with the most talented orthodontists perfecting their skills over thousands of cases. You can take a 2-day course to build your skills and more efficiently hone these techniques. Refine your wire bending and case finishing capabilities. Improve the results, efficiency and profitability of your orthodontic cases with optimized finishing skills. You will develop both your diagnostic and mechanics abilities with this very practical course

 

TMD, PAIN MANAGEMENT in DENTISTRY

Mystery of Referred Pain - Management of Bruxism – Protect your Patient’s dentition and expensive restorative - Unable to Anesthetize a Tooth? - Know plans B-Z, Topical Anesthetics – Diagnostic value and explanation of uses - Migraine Headaches – Identification, treatment of chronic tension type - Headache Diagnosis and Treatment YOU Can Provide, Sources of Pain that Appear to be from the Teeth - Establishing your Overall Pain Management Protocol - Botox® – Another Treatment Tool for Pain. You Need This and Not for Wrinkles! - Preparation, Doses and Injection Techniques, TM Joint Imaging with 3D Conebeam - Simple Splints and What They Do and Don’t Do…

Live Patient Workshop - students will practice injection exercises on patients and classmates under the guidance of instructors. Students can bring a patient and choose which areas they practice injecting (including glabella, forehead, masseter, temporalis, and crow’s feet). Contact us to learn more about the workshop or what the patient requirements are.

 

ORTHODONTIC MECHANICS

Develop your confidence in orthodontic mechanics through a focused, 3-day course. Learn the concepts and protocols and have constant reinforcement through numerous case examples. Practice diagnosing and planning which techniques will provide the most efficient, high-level of results. Understanding and diagnosing mechanics to a highly efficient level can take years of practice and experience. Instead, you can take an intensive 3-day course to refine your mechanics capabilities.

Phone Contacts

POS OFFICE: +61 2 9899 9191 TOLL FREE: 1800 333 266 Zita Mobile: +61 402 314 528 Karen Mobile: +61 451 099 077

Contact

POSTAL ADDRESS: Progressive Orthodontic Seminars 18 Friendship Avenue Kellyville 2155 NSW Australia

Emails

Zita (Seminar Coordinator): zita@posortho.net Karen (Seminar Coordinator & Technical Support): karen@posortho.net Maria (Account Receivable): maria@posortho.net Debbie (Seminar Admin): debbie@posortho.net

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