Dental photography - in office team training - 6 CE credits

Sarah Prkusic

High-end photography in aesthetic dentistry is a paramount to clinical record taking, lab communication and practice marketing. For those offices that may struggle to capture the highest quality images, this program is designed for you. This course will cover the basics of camera equipment and their use, the foundations of clinical and portrait photography, and help your team develop an eye for aesthetics. We will help you set up a photo studio and provide you with the expertise to fully utilize it.

Course Objectives:

• Interactive Learning: Each team member will have the opportunity for hands-on experience with the camera, ensuring full comprehension of techniques.

• Equipment Essentials: Discover the necessary tools and accessories for achieving professional-grade dental photography.

• Studio Setup: Learn how to use your space for a functional studio.

• Personalized Guidance: Our instructor will provide tailored recommendations for photography supplies and assist with setup.

• Full Day Course: We dedicate ample time to ensure every participant leaves feeling confident in their photography skills.

To Register: Contact Sarah at 330-808-1068 or sarah@dentalceramicsusa.com to reserve a date.

The Ultimate Hands-On Perio-Prostho Course: From Single Implant to FP-1 Rehabilitation

with Ramon Gomez-Meda

Dates: Monday, February 24, 2025 - Friday, February 28, 2025

Location: The Center at Dental Ceramics

Immediate Implants & Immediate Loading Simultaneous to Soft Tissue Grafting:

• Esthetic and prosthetic considerations

• Analog and digital workflows

• Socket preservation and reconstruction

• Immediate implant and loading

• Provisional timing, emergence profile and pontic site development

• The failing dentition from FP1 to the hybrid denture

• Abutment and material selection

• Maintenance and complications management

The objective of this five day, hands-on course is to explain the protocol for digital diagnosis, prosthodontic and periodontal planning in different scenarios of patients which will require full-arch implant supported therapy, achieving ideal emergence profiles and a highly esthetic prosthesis, meeting the needs of the most demanding patients. Each doctor participant will bring their own patient from their practice as well as an assistant to assist them.

Detailed Objectives:

• Understand a step by step process for proper diagnosis and prosthetic selection.

• Determine the key steps in reverse engineering full-arch implant therapy.

• Learn important considerations for selecting patients in which additional osseous and mucogingival approaches can be made to enhance the prosthetic environment.

• Learn to digitally plan a guided surgery for immediate implant placement and loading with a highly aesthetic milled PMMA temporary restoration.

• Compare guided surgery with traditional surgery and understand its indications.

• Understand the advantages of the digital vs analog protocol when making the interim restoration and the final prosthesis.

• Understand the limitations and complications of this technique.

• Understand how to apply mucogingival procedures simultaneously with guided surgery and immediate loading.

• Learn the proper management of the emergence profiles, and their transfer to the definitive prosthesis.

• Understand the importance of periodontal and prosthodontic maintenance for the long-term success of the rehabilitation.

Seats are very limited. cLICK “REGISTER HERE” TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT.

Aesthetic Excellence Spring 2025 - 40 CE Credits - Spots are limited!

Course Director: Dr. Rhys Spoor

Pre-Course Virtual Session: February 7, 2025 from 12:00pm-3:00pm ET

Prep Session: March 13-15, 2025

Seat Session: April 11-12, 2025

Location: The Center at Dental Ceramics

Tuition: $13,500 per attendee and one assistant including lab fees up to 14 units.

Hands-on, live patient treatment - Advance your clinical skills and knowledge with predictable systems and results in aesthetic treatment planning. Take your practice to the next level with excellent aesthetic restorations and professional photography, demonstrated by respected dentist, Dr. Rhys Spoor, FAGD, DDS.

Participants of this Hands-On Aesthetic & Dental Photography Course Will Understand:

• Critical factors of smile design & efficient smile design concepts.

• Using photography for the best lab communication and clarifying patient expectations.

• How to make exquisite provisionals and why they’re so important to esthetic success.

• Protocol for predictable anterior/posterior restorations, cementations, and for preparing and seating indirect restorations.

• Reasons for sensitivity and how to avoid them.

• Learn to effectively use your camera and the best settings.

• Customize a photography checklist that will be specific to your own unique needs.

• Gain the skills for your own portrait and intra-oral photography.

• Set up studio lighting that you can duplicate in your office space.

• See how to troubleshoot when things don’t go right.

Click “Register Here” to fill out the form to register for the course.

Aesthetic Excellence 2.0 Spring 2025- 59 CE Credits - Spots are limited!

Course Directors: Dr. Kurt Doolin & Dr. James Harding

Session I - Remote session via Zoom - December 20, 2024 from 12:00pm - 3:00pm EST

Session II - In Person - February 21-22, 2025

Session III - In Person - March 13-15, 2025

Session IV - In Person - April 11-12, 2025

Session V - Remote session via Zoom - June 6, 2025 from 12:00pm - 3:00pm EST

Location: The Center at Dental Ceramics

Tuition: $22,500 per attendee and one assistant with lab fees included. Course fees are due upon registration and cover one team member.

This course was designed for doctors who have attended our first Aesthetic Excellence course. Participants will learn how to treat full-arch and dual-arch cases and learn to understand predictable protocols and logistics necessary to successfully stage more complex aesthetic cases.

Course Objectives:

• Treating full-arch and dual-arch cases

• Identifying and correcting occlusal plane discrepancies

• Identifying occlusal wear and bite collapse

• Utilizing bite deprogrammers and bonded orthotics

• Recreating a comfortable, functional maxillomandibular posture

• Understanding predictable protocols and logistics necessary to successfully stage more complex cases

• Management of occlusion during all phases of treatment and beyond

Click “Register Here” to fill out the form to register for the course.

Aesthetic Excellence Fall 2025 - 40 CE Credits

Course Director: Dr. Rhys Spoor

Pre-Course Virtual Session: September 12, 2025 12:00pm-3:00pm ET

Prep Session: October 9-11, 2025

Seat Session: November 7-8, 2025

Location: The Center at Dental Ceramics

Tuition: $13,500 per attendee and one assistant including lab fees up to 14 units.

Hands-on, live patient treatment - Advance your clinical skills and knowledge with predictable systems and results in aesthetic treatment planning. Take your practice to the next level with excellent aesthetic restorations and professional photography, demonstrated by respected dentist, Dr. Rhys Spoor, FAGD, DDS.

Participants of this Hands-On Aesthetic & Dental Photography Course Will Understand:

• Critical factors of smile design & efficient smile design concepts.

• Using photography for the best lab communication and clarifying patient expectations.

• How to make exquisite provisionals and why they’re so important to esthetic success.

• Protocol for predictable anterior/posterior restorations, cementations, and for preparing and seating indirect restorations.

• Reasons for sensitivity and how to avoid them.

• Learn to effectively use your camera and the best settings.

• Customize a photography checklist that will be specific to your own unique needs.

• Gain the skills for your own portrait and intra-oral photography.

• Set up studio lighting that you can duplicate in your office space.

• See how to troubleshoot when things don’t go right.

Click “Register Here” to fill out the form to register for the course.

Aesthetic Excellence 2.0 Fall 2025- 59 CE Credits

Course Directors: Dr. Kurt Doolin & Dr. James Harding

Session I - Remote session via Zoom - August 1, 2025 from 12:00pm - 3:00pm EST

Session II - In Person - September 12-13, 2025

Session III - In Person - October 9-11, 2025

Session IV - In Person - November 7-8, 2025

Session V - Remote session via Zoom - TBD

Location: The Center at Dental Ceramics

Tuition: $22,500 per attendee and one assistant with lab fees included. Course fees are due upon registration and cover one team member.

This course was designed for doctors who have attended our first Aesthetic Excellence course. Participants will learn how to treat full-arch and dual-arch cases and learn to understand predictable protocols and logistics necessary to successfully stage more complex aesthetic cases.

Course Objectives:

• Treating full-arch and dual-arch cases

• Identifying and correcting occlusal plane discrepancies

• Identifying occlusal wear and bite collapse

• Utilizing bite deprogrammers and bonded orthotics

• Recreating a comfortable, functional maxillomandibular posture

• Understanding predictable protocols and logistics necessary to successfully stage more complex cases

• Management of occlusion during all phases of treatment and beyond

Click “Register Here” to fill out the form to register for the course.