Achieving 2-Visit Dentures with Better Digital Workflow
2 CE Credits
12pm PST – November 15, 2024
Digital denture workflows enable efficient treatment which can be an important consideration for patients. Digital Dentures enable clinicians more time to see and treat patients, and with diligence and best practices, provide consistent and predictable results efficiently. The course will detail processes and techniques for that aim. The efficiency of the 2-to-3 visit digital denture can benefit patients strained to make 4-to-6 traditional appointments over a multi-week period.
Learning Objectives:
• Digital workflow for immediate, reference, and already fully edentulous patients
• Record Best Practices & Establishing Vertical Dimension
• Impression Mastery & Try-In Dynamics
• Interviewing and Assessing Denture Patients
• Scanning Processes
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Instructors
Dr. Kumar C. Shah
Dr. Kumar C. Shah is a Professor of Clinical Dentistry and a Board-Certified Prosthodontist & Maxillofacial Prosthodontist in the Division of Advanced Prosthodontics at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He received his dental degree from the National University of Singapore and earned his Master of Science degree and a certificate in Prosthodontics at The Ohio State University. He completed Maxillofacial Prosthetics fellowship training at UCLA thereafter. Dr. Shah is the Director of the Graduate Prosthodontics residency program at UCLA, Advanced Prosthodontics and Implantology Preceptorship Programs as well as the past Director of the Faculty Group Dental practice at UCLA. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics, a Fellow of the Academy of Prosthodontics, a Fellow of the American College of Prosthodontists and Fellow of the International Team for Implantology (ITI). He has been on the Board of Directors for several non-profit organizations within Dentistry. Additionally, he is a co-editor of a textbook in Dental Implant therapy released in 2015 and is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry.
Dr. Darin Dichter
Dr. Dichter brings nearly 20 years of clinical, research and teaching experience — as a general practitioner and prosthodontist — to his position with Spear. He serves as an instructor in the Treating the Terminal Dentition and Fully Edentulous Patient seminar, in addition to multiple Spear Workshops. Dr. Dichter has served as a guest lecturer and clinical instructor at Oregon Health and Science University School of Dentistry, teaching occlusion and esthetics. He has been a Spear faculty member since the company’s inception, as well as a contributing author for Spear Digest. He is passionate about education and is involved with multiple study groups in the U.S. and Canada. After earning his D.M.D. from OHSU in 1995, Dr. Dichter practiced general dentistry and eventually joined a startup practice in his hometown in coastal Oregon before moving to a practice in Portland. He brought 16 years of restorative dental experience into UCLA's world-renowned, full-time advanced prosthodontics residency, which he completed in 2014.
John Madden
Madden is one of only 47 Master CDTs in the United States. He is well known in the realm of digital dentistry, in removable prosthetics, and has a commitment to advancing dental education. When not managing the University of Minnesota prosthetics lab and helping students learn digital dentistry (the school has over 400 active chairs), John is engaged in his own digital prosthetics lab and with the Voyager program. For the past 16+ years, John has dedicated his time to teaching, lecturing, patent development, consulting, and developing removable techniques relevant for the next generation of dentistry. His innovation and patent work led to technology advanced by the University of Minnesota pursuing NIH grants. John combines his passion for technology with his expertise in prosthetic dentistry to deliver practical solutions to benefit patients and practitioners alike.
