Mastering Treatment Planning, Occlusion and the Art of Restorative Dentistry
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Mastering Treatment Planning, Occlusion, and the Art of Restorative Dentistry
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Date: Tuesday, October 21 - Thursday, October 23, 2025 | Speaker: Dr. Greggory Kinzer
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Champagne, France
Course Description:
Session 1 | Keys to Treatment Planning and Case Presentation
Moving beyond single tooth dentistry requires a change in the way we view and speak with patients. This presentation introduces the proven facially generated treatment planning (FGTP) approach to help you treatment plan any patient in your practice, regardless of the complexity. Gain the confidence to identify issues, visualize outcomes, plan, sequence, and present comprehensive treatment to your patients. Upon completion, you will have the tools to choose from the various treatment options as well as how to present treatment and engage the patient in the process. Unlock a higher level of patient care and more rewarding dentistry than you ever imagined.
Course Objectives:
- To systematically develop treatment plans for cases of any complexity using the Facially Generated Treatment Planning protocol.
- Understand how to ‘filter’ new and existing patients to aid in determining who will benefit from a comprehensive examination.
- How to perform an esthetic and functional exam including what type of data needs to be collected clinically and how it impacts your ability to treatment plan.
- How ‘airway’ fits into the esthetic, function, structure, and biology parts of the treatment planning process.
- To utilize the power of photography to help you plan treatment and help the patient visualize the outcome you see for them.
- To visualize the desired treatment changes digitally using ‘templates’ on an iPad as well as other computer software options.
- The ‘8 treatment options’ to correct any dental problem and how to choose the correct option(s) for your patient.
- To create a case presentation and to discuss treatment by giving the patient a ‘tour of their mouth’ to engage them in the process and improve case acceptance.
- To separate treatment planning from treatment sequencing.
- The implementation processes needed to successfully apply what you learn.
Session 2 | Occlusion in Clinical Practice: Managing Patients With Simple to Complex Needs
No single factor has as much influence on the long-term predictability of restorations as the occlusion. This is especially true with the increased use of all-ceramic restorations and implants or when restoring patients with signs of tooth wear. Unfortunately, the role of occlusion is also one of the areas that is often overlooked or misunderstood by practitioners. This presentation is designed to aid a clinician in understanding occlusion and how to manage occlusal issues in patients across the spectrum of simple to complex problems. These two days will focus on the most common questions dentists have in their everyday clinical practice. Starting with, when is it safe to use the patients existing occlusion for treatment, and when is it not? Followed by answering the logical next question, if you can’t safely use their existing occlusion, what should you do? The challenge then is that if you change their occlusion, how do you know my changes will be successful? Ultimately the answer to these questions depends on the patient’s muscle activity levels, the structural condition of the temporomandibular joints, and any other contributing factors, such as airway. This presentation will address how we perform occlusal therapy, from choosing an appropriate occlusal appliance, to performing an occlusal equilibration. In addition, specific attention will be placed on treatment planning and restoring patients with tooth wear. The seminar also goes in depth on assessing the occlusion from both an analog and digital approach and covers what records are necessary for different levels of complexity in treatment.
This presentation promises to provide practical information that each participant can take back to the office and implement. The information applies to the entire spectrum of restorative dentistry, whether the restoration is a single tooth or an entire arch.
Course Objectives:
- How to simplify occlusal evaluation and design for predictable dentistry in any clinical situation.
- How to identify high-risk occlusal patients in advance and how to manage with treatment.
- Which occlusal scheme to use: canine guidance / group function
- To efficiently evaluate your patients' muscles, and predict whether any therapy is necessary, which treatment may be beneficial, and how to discuss it with your patient.
- To gain confidence in evaluation and management of normal and healthy TMJ’s including possible solutions if they are a problem, and how to have a conversation with your patients about the TMJ.
- How to become confident in choosing among all the different occlusal appliances available, including a specific flow chart of the appliance choices based upon your patients' symptoms and history.
- How and when to utilize mounted casts / printed models in the treatment planning process.
- When and how to take a facebow and what information it provides.
- When to use a seated condylar position (CR) vs. the patient's existing intercuspal position (ICP).
- How to make predictable and reproducible bite records in a seated condylar position (CR) utilizing either bi-manual manipulation, leaf gauge, or Lucia jig with either a digital or analog workflow.
- How to determine when an occlusal equilibration is necessary and how to perform the equilibration predictably and efficiently.
- How to evaluate and determine the correct vertical dimension.
- Learn the importance / relevance of the envelope of function.
- Diagnosis and management of the worn dentition.
- The role of ‘airway’ in occlusal dysfunction.
- How to manage patients with different malocclusions (excess overjet, anterior open bites, deep overbites, and Class III relationships) who won’t do orthodontic treatment.
Session 3 | The Art of Science of Replacing and Restoring Missing Teeth
One of the most challenging situations often encountered by dentists is: Can a tooth be predictably restored or should it be removed? Given the high success rate of dental implants reported in the literature, it is not uncommon for questionable teeth that “could” be restored, to instead be removed in favor of implants. This presentation will discuss the factors that must be evaluated to determine when teeth can predictably be saved, as well as the different treatment modalities that may be utilized. With increasing patient demand for esthetic excellence and predictable long-term results, it is also important to understand how to optimize patient outcomes when teeth do need to be removed. From treatment planning to final restorations, this course will cover the most common implant considerations the restorative dentist and implant surgeon encounter. This course is highly recommended for both the restorative dentist and the implant surgeon who wishes to gain a better understanding of the key aspects around soft-tissue management for implants and pontics. This course creates the opportunity for the team to diagnose, treatment plan and treat their patients with confidence, while executing at the highest level. You will leave with a deeper understanding of how to create superior outcomes for your implant patients as well as how to manage unesthetic implants in the esthetic zone.
- When should a tooth be removed and when can it be saved.
- Discuss the current treatment modalities that can be utilized to aid in saving teeth
- Esthetic implant treatment planning: the relationship between bone and soft- tissue management, and the differences that exist between restoring anterior and posterior implant restorations.
- How to treatment plan and sequence implant restorations, from diagnosis to insertion.
- When to restore with implants vs. pontics.
- To understand the role each discipline plays in delivering superior implant treatment results.
- Determining the ideal implant position and the role of the surgical guide.
- Timing of implant placement taking growth and development into consideration.
- Immediate vs. delayed implant placement consideration
- Immediate implant provisionalization.
- Soft-tissue management with a variety of techniques.
- Prosthesis options for interim tooth replacement.
- Implant impression techniques for single and multiple units.
- Implant abutment selection: type, design, and material.
- Screw-retained vs. cement-retained implant restorations.
- Occlusal design for implant dentistry.
- Laboratory communication and collaboration.
One of the most challenging situations often encountered by dentists is: Can a tooth be predictably restored or should it be removed? Given the high success rate of dental implants reported in the literature, it is not uncommon for questionable teeth that “could” be restored, to instead be removed in favor of implants. It must be remembered though that osseointegration rates are merely one factor that needs to be considered for successful treatment, the esthetic impact of removing teeth must also be considered. This presentation will discuss the factors that must be evaluated to determine when teeth can predictably be saved, as well as the different treatment modalities that may be utilized. To help aid in this treatment planning process, a systematic approach will be followed that comprehensively looks at Esthetic, Functional, Structural, and Biologic issues relevant to the situation.
Course Objectives:
- Identify the key structural areas to evaluate when deciding to save or extract
- The esthetic benefits of maintaining teeth vs. extraction
- Discuss the current treatment modalities that can be utilized to aid in saving teeth