Our overall mission is to provide the dental heath care provider with a broad base of diagnostic and treatment skills in the areas of orthodontics and occlusion. We want the practitioner to be able to incorporate the learned skills into his/her practice to provide the public with the finest treatment possible.

	Academy of General Dentistry Approved PACE Program Provider FAGD/MAGD Credit 6/1/06 - 5/31/10

• Examination protocols as they relate to facilities
• Clinical Workshops
• Radiology
• Photography
• Computer Software & Applications  
• Examination & diagnostic reports

 Andrews Straight Wire braces -treatment concepts 

• The Six Keys of Occlusion

• Direct bonding brackets

• Instructional Video available**

• Typodont Project #1 * “Bracket Placement”

• Bands Selection & placement

• HCI – home care instructions for Oral hygiene

Diagnosis Review Session                                                               

 Early Diagnosis & Advanced Mechanics

• Modified Sassouni Plus Cephalometrics

• Skeletal & Dental Diagnosis, NFO Treatment Planning

• Airway and Facial development, Skeletal Malocclusion

• Early Intervention treatment timing, facial growth

• Max. & Md. Arch Development – sagittal & AP

• Schwartz & Symmetroscopic Analysis

• Protecting & enhancing TMJ function

• Appliances for Arch Development

• Rapid Palatal Expansion, Transverse & Sagittal Appliances

• TX. for airway obstruction, tongue thrust & jaw function

• Design, fabrication, insertion, adjustments

•  Radiographic study of Upper Airway Obstruction

• “The Diagnostic Story on Second Molar Extractions”
   

 NFO Gerber SW Arch Wire System

• Sequential Archwire construction & Mechanics

• Initial Nitanium through advanced Stainless combination

• Developing the Functional Arch Form

 Functional Jaw Orthopedics in Modern Orthodontic Practice

• Class II Diagnosis and Treatment Planning

• Fixed & Removable Appliances: Twin Block & Rickinator

• Designs to open, close, or maintain the dental and/or skeletal vertical

• Sagittal, Expansion, Mixed Dentition Blocks

• Fixed/Removable Rickinator for Class II correction

• New Construction Bite Technique – TMJ friendly

 Fixed AP and Vertical Development Appliances

• Bite Planes & Composite Build-ups for AP & Vertical  

• Incisor Block – correct or maintain vertical   

• CII & rapid vertical correction, Enhanced S W Mechanics     

• 3-D DYS Bite Plane – Fixed Bionator (Rickinator) – fixed functional appliance

•  Nitanium RCS Arch wire Construction for enhanced vertical development

• Reduced or no elastics techniques

• Occlusal Stabilization

• Cephalometric “Keys”

• Genetic Growth Tendencies – CCW, arch development, Classification

 Clinical

• Chairside set-ups

• sterilization of instruments

• TX room set-ups (instruments)

Mixed Dentition Orthodontic Mechanics

• Braces, composite build-ups     

• Utility Archwires & modifications

• .016 x .016 -Utility Archwire 

• ** Typodont Project #2A & Video

• .016 x .022 – Gerber Spring Sagittal Archwire

•    ** Typodont Project #2B & Video

•  Instructional Video Project #6*  “.018 Open Coil Spring”                        

Increasing Cooperation with Fixed Arch Development Appliances

• Skeletal Expander, Bonded Sagittal, Sagittals

• CD molar distal driver and Magill Sagittal  

• Nitanium Palatal Expander -NPE instructional video

• Sagittal – upper & lower appliances

• Maxillary Palatal Appliances

• Mandibular Appliances