Treatment Planning with Confidence (Jan 15 - 17, 2027)

Treatment Planning with Confidence is organized by Spear Education and will be held from Jan 15 - 17, 2027 at Spear Campus, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America.

Description:
Moving beyond single tooth dentistry requires a change in the way we view and speak with patients. This workshop 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 of this workshop, you will have the tools to know which data to collect during the examination and what the data means, how to choose from the various treatment options, and how to present treatment and engage the patient in the process. Recognize that not all patients want or even need comprehensive care and that you can still retain them in your practice while identifying those who do by using filtering processes that are discussed in this workshop. Unlock a higher level of patient care and more rewarding dentistry than you ever imagined.

What you will learn at this workshop:

• To systematically develop treatment plans for cases of any complexity using the Facially Generated Treatment Planning protocol
• To 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
• How take a full photographic series of intra and extraoral photographs on a patient (you will learn not only which photos to take, but also how to use them diagnostically for treatment planning purposes)
• 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
• Esthetic considerations when treatment planning patients who either ‘are’ or ‘will be’ missing teeth
• 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
• Three active treatment planning exercises will be used for participants to ‘apply’ the FGTP process with immediate feedback
• To separate treatment planning from treatment sequencing
• The implementation processes needed to successfully apply what you learn in this workshop

Topics and exercises:

• The Spear Model
• Where is your practice now – and where do you want it to go?
• Who is your patient, and how do you find him/her?
• Photography as a tool for planning and teaching
• Clinical examination of joints, muscles and teeth
• Esthetic considerations when teeth are missing
• Creating patient presentations using photography and templates
• Example cases for individual and group treatment planning practice
• Setting goals for yourself and helping your team “catch your dreams”