Dr. Greg Bennett’s Continuing Education Courses

These courses are intended to be in-office and hands-on, if applicable. Any and all of the courses can be combined or customized to your specific practice needs.

Incorporating CADCAM Dentistry Into Your Office

 

Are you considering adding CADCAM dentistry to your practice? Are you on the fence? Or have you jumped in and are barely treading water? In this course you will learn how to adopt and implement CADCAM into your daily routine for more predictable and satisfying dentistry with a significantly improved patient experience.

Upon completion of this course, the participant should be able to:

  • Identify the key benefits of incorporating CADCAM into your practice

  • Understand ways that CADCAM dentistry changes your practice workflow

  • Determine the best indications for a complete in office CADCAM workflow versus a digital scan-only workflow

  • Understand the common causes of frustration when adopting a CADCAM workflow and how to overcome them

CADCAM for Dental Assistants

Dental assistants are a key player in the CADCAM office and will need to master several new skills. In this course you will learn all the steps that a dental assistant can and should master for maximum productivity such as scanning, designing, milling, post mill processing and preparation for cementing or bonding.

Upon completion of this course, the participant should be able to:

  • Understand a basic CADCAM workflow

  • Predictably scan dental casts

  • Evaluate digital impressions for quality

  • Understand the indications for different design modes

  • Create restorations using basic CAD design principles

  • Apply principles of infection control to CADCAM equipment.

  • Complete all allowed steps from scanning to final polishing of a restoration

  • Correctly prepare a crown for either cementing or bonding

CADCAM Team Training

Getting the entire team onboard is a common stumbling block on the road to becoming a modern, efficient CADCAM office. In this course you will learn how adopting CADCAM into your practice will affect the entire team and why everyone should be excited about it.

Upon completion of this course, the participant should be able to:

  • Identify and overcome the common sources of team conflict related to CADCAM Dentistry

  • Understand how the front office will be impaction from scheduling patients to billing for same day crowns

  • Explain the benefits of CADCAM technology to your patients

  • Determine the best roles for each team member in the CADCAM workflow

Gaining Confidence in Anterior Restorations With CADCAM

Do you still fear the single anterior crown? Do you want to gain confidence in all of you anterior restorations? In this course you will learn how to use prep design, material choice and esthetic modification to achieve maximal outcomes.

Upon completion of this course, the participant should be able to:

  • Determine the best indications for CADCAM restorations in the anterior dentition

  • Identify the best cases for same day, in office Anterior CADCAM restorations

  • Understand the interplay between ceramic type, thickness, shade and cement choice on final tooth shade

  • Understand the common causes of esthetic failure with anterior CADCAM restorations

  • Explain the different methods of prep design to achieve esthetic results

  • Demonstrate techniques for post mill modifications to achieving highly esthetic results

Maximizing Your Digital Workflow

This course is for the provider that has adopted CADCAM technology into their office and is looking for ways to make it faster, more efficient and fun.

Upon completion of this course, the participant should be able to:

  • Understand scheduling strategies that maximize chair time

  • Understand new ways that procedures can be combined for increased efficiency and fewer overall appointments

  • Identify the emerging digital techniques to supplement your workflow

  • Explain the different methods of fabrication from digital scans

All Digital or Combined Digital-Analog Workflows and How to Decide

There is a broad continuum of CADCAM Dentistry and choosing where your office should be can be consuming. Do you want a complete digital workflow? Do you (and your patients) hate taking impressions and want to get rid of alginate and PVS? Or are you just looking for a simple posterior crown solution. In this course CADCAM dentistry will be further explored to see what level of adoption and implementation is right for your practice.

Upon completion of this course, the participant should be able to:

  • Identify the procedures in your everyday clinical practice that can be replaced or supplemented with Digital technology

  • Understand the interplay between analog and digital laboratory procedures

  • Determine the best indications for digital scanning

  • Understand the benefits and drawbacks of milling and rapid prototyping in dentistry

  • Identify the potential obstacles to incorporating a digital workflow

Replacing Survey Crowns With CADCAM - You No Longer Have to Take Away Their Partial

One of the best ways to utilize this technology is to copy an existing tooth/restoration. Traditionally, replacing a survey crown required a combination of impressions along with sending the patient’s RPD to the lab. In this course you will learn to predictably and easily replace a survey crown in a single low stress appointment.

WEBINAR FOR “Replacing Survey Crowns With CADCAM - You No Longer Have to Take Away Their Partial” COMING SOON!

 

TRAX DENTAL

Trax is a dental software company. Our core strategy is to create software products that allow the practitioner and staff to focus more of their time on one thing... dentistry. We provide software solutions to realize an immediate return on investment through increased production, improved clinical efficiency, and standard of care. Trax allows the dental team to exceed patient expectations in this ever changing dental industry.