An exciting three-day, hands-on program that shows you how to evaluate which cases to treat and how to gain treatment acceptance from your patients using advanced restorative dentistry. You have patients in your practice right now that can benefit from these concepts; you have the opportunity to change their lives starting the day you return to your office! This program will increase the level of comprehensive care and enhance the lives of your patients, excite your team and increase the fun and passion you have at work.
The objectives of this course are for the participant to:
- Recognize what cases are dangerous to restore cosmetically.
- Discover the underlying cause of an ugly smile.
- Eliminate the influence of insurance.
- Discuss which cases may require additional multidisciplinary treatment to ensure success.
- Understand comprehensive case diagnosis and treatment planning.
- Identify dental related musculoskeletal signs and symptoms.
- Understand physiology of the bite and its relationship to the rest of the body.
- Discover the importance of airway obstruction its affects on dental development and treatment.
- Incorporate technologies and philosophies necessary for the successful restorative practice.
- Experience the power of healing problems that are thought to be ‘incurable’.
- Learn how to accurately transfer the bite to the laboratory.
- Understand how to develop the ideal restorative practice.
"It was wonderful to finally see and be able to follow the science behind the NM movement; to be shown how fundamentally sound and verifiable that the process is." — Dr. Mark Provencher, Calgary, AB
"LVI has given me a new driving force in my career. It has recharged my enthusiasm for dentistry and made me realize that my career choice was not a mistake." — Dr. Charles Shin, Stouffville, ON
"This course is an outstanding, life-changing course that should be a prerequisite for every prosthetic/restorative instructor in every dental school." — Dr. David Tambor, Warren, NJ
"LVI has happily married restorative dentistry with TMD/Neuromuscular treatments. They belong together!" — Dr. Grant Burdick, La Habra, CA
"I had high expectations coming into this course, and it exceeded them all! I feel comfortable to begin using the skills I learned on Monday morning." — Dr. Heather Pranzarone, Sterling Heights, MI
"Core I is a must course for any dentist wanting to offer the best patient care." — Dr. Josh Conley, Albertville, AL
"Not only did I learn what I didn’t know about dentistry, I learned how to help my own long history of pain in the head and neck. Thanks for the missing link." — Dr. Paul Bell, Denver, CO
- Dr. William G. Dickerson, DDS, LVIM
- Dr. Heidi Dickerson, DDS, LVIM
- Dr. Norman Thomas, DDS, PhD, BSc, OMD, Cert.O.Path, FRCD, FADI, MICCMO
- Dr. Shamshudin Kherani, DDS
- Dr. Mark Duncan, DDS, FAGD, DICOI, LVIF
- Sherry Blair
- $795 - Additional Team members
For Australia: Please contact the local campus for registration and additional course information.

LVI Global is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. LVI Global designates this activity for 22 continuing education credits.
