A Simplified Methodology for Full Mouth Reconstruction

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

If you were building a house, would you build it one wall a year? Why do we restore our patients' one quadrant at a time? Or worse, one tooth at a time? If you did build a house one wall at a time, what kind of a result could you expect? Would the colors of the walls perfectly match? Would the walls all be perfectly plumb? Or would you reasonably expect a compromise in the result? What expectations do your patients have when less than comprehensive treatment is done? What expectations do we have? Is it any surprise that after years of one tooth at a time dentistry, the result is less than ideal?

There is no greater need to deliver comprehensive care than right now. Yet, the complexity can be sometimes overwhelming: What treatment position is best? Should vertical be increased? What occlusal scheme is best? What materials should be used to provide the best prognosis? How should treatment be sequenced? And don't forget the most important question, how do I get my patient to understand and buy into comprehensive treatment? Get answers to these questions and more, following cases from diagnosis to completion.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

• Be able to manage a 28 unit full mouth reconstruction, correctly treatment planning, sequencing, and executing the patient.
• Be able to present a complex treatment plan to the patient, establishing why comprehensive care can not be executed over a long period of time.
• Be able to better understand treatment positions, occlusal schemes, and increasing vertical dimension.
• Understand why some materials work better for crowns and bridges than others.

FACULTY: Dr. Cowie is a 1976 graduate of Northwestern University Dental School and practices in Jacksonville, Florida. He holds membership throughout the tri-partite system in the ADA, as well as in numerous professional organizations including the AGD, the American Equilibration Society, the American and Florida Academies of Dental Practice Administration, the Pierre Fauchard Academy, the American College of Dentists and Toastmaster's International. He has served organized dentistry at the state and local levels, as well as having been a past president of the Jacksonville Dental Society. He has completed close to 2000 hours of continuing education, including the continuums at the Dawson Center for Advanced Dental Studies, the Society of Occlusal Studies, and the L. D. Pankey Institute. For the past two years the December issue of "Dentistry Today" has featured him as one of the leading educators in dentistry. Dr. Cowie has presented over 100 programs in twenty-seven states while continuing a full-time practice. He can be reached by visiting his website at www.drcowie.com, by phone at 904.771.0568, or by e-mail at robertrcowie@netscape.net.

REGISTRATION FEE: (Breakfast Included)

	Regular Fee	Early Bird Discount Fee (Before Aug. 22, 2006)
Dentists	$325	$295
Lab Techs	$275	$245
Auxiliaries	$225	$195

DATES: Sept. 22, 2006 (Friday)

LOCATION: St. Pete Dental Clinic

CEUs: 7 Contact Hours. Lecture/Participation.

COURSE #: 060537

Continuing Education at UFCD wishes to express its appreciation to Captek and Fox Dental Labs for an unrestricted educational grant, which helped, in part, to make this course possible.