A Life-Changing Live Patient Treatment Program
There is a power and a spirit within you that once unleashed, can never be stopped. The core of the LVI philosophy of dentistry, this life-changing experience will ignite your spirit, increase your clinical confidence and fulfill your boldest imaginations. As the clinician completely responsible for the artistic result, you will gain the knowledge of comprehensive aesthetic, occlusion, case presentation and marketing skills during this program. These skills will give you an increased feeling of confidence and pride.
This intense, hands-on, live-patient treatment program concentrates on developing a critical eye for aesthetic excellence. This course includes comprehensive clinical training, practical occlusion concepts, creating a positive philosophical attitude and effective case acceptance principles. You will not only benefit from personal instruction on your own case, but you will view and help diagnose over 300 restorative units from the other attendees.
This six-day course features live-patient treatment. You are required to bring a patient of record from your practice. Recommended cases include 8-10 units of porcelain veneers/crowns or a combination of both. Your proposed case must be reviewed by the Clinical Director before acceptance. Your case will be completed under the guidance of a clinical instructor.
The objectives of this course are for the participant to:
- Discuss case treatment plans and options with their patient
- Determine appropriate occlusal care for the patient
- Develop a critical eye for aesthetic restorations
- Understand the need for a patient-centered practice
- Perform soft tissue recontouring
- Create maximum quality aesthetic restorations in porcelain
- understand instant orthodontics
- Develop a good plan for the aesthetic based practice
Additional topics to be addressed:
Clinical
- Scientific principles of smile design
- Integrate functional occlusion in aesthetic dentistry
- Identify advantages of all-porcelain restorations to create maximum aesthetics
- Eliminate sensitivity
- Learn the rapid cementation technique
- Understand adhesive dentistry to achieve predictable results
- Diagnose and treatment plan
- Master necessary and optimal laboratory communication
- Learn the amazing 10-minute temporization technique
- Predictably restore the dark tooth
- Instant orthodontics
- Recontour soft tissue
- Learn advanced aesthetic soft tissue procedures
- Use supragingival margins even with dark roots
- Resin-bonded bridges
- Endo aesthetics
- Understand dental materials
Management
- Determining fees
- Insurance management
- Marketing the aesthetic practice
- Generating the aesthetic demand in your practice
- Effective case presentations
- Eight steps to getting the patient to say "yes"
- Getting paid prior to treatment
- Team management
- Understanding your team and your patients
- Achieving financial freedom
- Your team's role in practice development
- High-tech dentistry
- Hygiene's role in the aesthetic practice
- William G. Dickerson, DDS, FAACD, LVIM
- Michael Miyasaki, DDS, LVIM
- Heidi Dickerson, DDS, LVIM
- Norm Thomas, DDS, PhD, BSc, OMD, Cert.O.Path, FRCD, FADI, MICCMO
- Tony Tomaro, DDS
- Bill Wade
- Sherry Blair, CDA
- Matt Bynum, DDS
Check out our incredible Dynamic Team Concepts training program. This team program runs concurrently with the Advanced Functional Aesthetics and Comprehensive Aesthetic Reconstruction Programs.
