The Dawson Academy Blog

Watch It Webinar - Successfully Managing Airway Issues in Your Practice- The Evaluation of Sleep Disorders

Identifying, Diagnosing & Treating Airway Disorders - Dr. Wilkerson

Webinar: What is Centric Relation? And Why Should I Care?

Association Webinar: Making a Treatment Plan for Your Practice in 2022

Webinar: The TMJ Foundation and Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders

Dental Webinar | Single Tooth to Complete Care

How to Understand Airway in the Dawson Philosophy | Dental Webinar

The Importance of a Positive Online Reputation for a Dental Business

Obtaining an Ideal Work-Life Balance as a Dentist

Why it’s Crucial for Dentists to Know About Airway & Breathing Disorders

Dental Webinar | The Importance of CBCT for the Complete Dentist

Dental Webinar | How-to Overcome the Struggle with TMJ Patients

Webinar | Connecting Function and Esthetics for Complete Care

Equilibration: Determining the Need & Communicating with Patients

Webinar | Unraveling the Mystery of TMD

Webinar | Complete Dentures: Pearls for Predictability with Q&A

Webinar | What Does a Complete Exam and Records Really Mean?

11 Things We Learned from Virtual Dental CE in 2020

Webinar | Periodontal Surgery Essentials for the General Practice

Dental Webinar | Posterior Direct Resins

Webinar | Treatment Planning: The All on 4/5/6 The Dawson Way

Dental Webinar | Airway & TMD - What's the Connection?

Webinar | Adhesive Procedures in the General Practice

Webinar | Creative and Critical Thinking Inside a Digital Revolution

Webinar | Complete Care Dentistry – Understanding the 'WHY'

Course Preview: The Critical Connection: Airway, Inflammation and TMD

Webinar | Simplifying Removable Partial Denture Design (RPD)

Webinar | The Socket: Inside and Out

Webinar | The Perfect Pair: Maxillary Denture & the Mandibular Hybrid

Webinar: Patient Communication that Connects in a Touchless World

Webinar: Introducing Smile Wizard Treatment Planning Software

Digital Workflows in Treatment & Diagnosis, The Transition to Digital

TMD for the Restorative Dentist: An Intro to a Systematic Process

Webinar: Communicating with Complete Care Patients

Dental Webinar: The Role of Repositioning in Complete Dentistry

Webinar | Orthodontic Pearls in Restorative Cases

Salivary Testing: Dramatically Impact Your Patient & Practice Health

The Management of Worn Anterior Teeth

Webinar: Joints or Muscles - What is your Complete Exam telling you?

Webinar: Re-opening Roundtable - Report from the Front Lines

Webinar: Smile Design- Treatment Planning 'Ideal' But Treating 'Reality'

Webinar: Why Dentistry Fails

Orthodontics in Complete Dentistry: When Invisalign is the Best Option

Webinar: Splint Tsunami

Dawson Association Webinar: COVID-19: Un-Pausing Your Practice

Webinar: Quarterbacking Full Mouth Implant Solutions

Webinar: When Things Don't Go As Planned

Webinar: Immediate Provisionalization for Long Term Success

Webinar: To Graft or Not To Graft?

Webinar: Case Closed

Webinar: 3D Printing for Complete Dentistry

Webinar: Management of the Emergency Patient Post COVID and Beyond

Webinar: Staying Healthy in a Viral World - Dentistry's Critical Role In Future Healthcare

Sleep Disordered Breathing and the Effects on Children

Webinar: Bio-Emulation to Deliver Minimally Invasive Results

Webinar: The Transition to Digital - Part II

Dental Webinar: Digital Shade Calibration & The Virtual Try-In

Webinar: Hydrocast Functional Soft Liner: The What, The When & The How

Dental Webinar: Creating a Brand Through Photographic Excellence

Webinar: Single Tooth Implant Success

Dental Webinar: The Transition to Digital I

Webinar: Effectively sequencing treatment on your next restorative case

Webinar: Don’t Create Your Own Recession - Begin with the End in Mind

InteracTip: What splint should I prescribe my patient?

Infographic: Tips for Perfecting Clear Aligners with ClinCheck Pro©

Fabricating Dentures Quiz

Dawson InteracTip: How to verify Centric Relation

Webinar - Functional Occlusion: What You Didn't Learn in Dental School

Dealing With Occlusal Wear (Interactive Video)

Implant vs. Natural Teeth

How to make a differential diagnosis using a Lucia Jig

How to Differentiate Your Practice (Interactive Video)

2 Considerations of Treatment Planning a Maxillary Implant Prosthesis

Sleep fragmentation: a leading factor of anxiety, depression, TMD?

How can I be sure I am in Centric Relation?

Webinar: Moving Beyond Single Tooth Dentistry

What Your Orthodontist Needs to Know About Centric Relation

2 Errors to Avoid for High Quality Digital Photography

Why Anterior Deprogrammers Should Be Used In Every Practice

Sequencing a Full-Mouth Rehab: Anterior or Posteriors First?

How is Centric Relation a Repeatable Position?

3 Signs of a Bruxer

Protocols for Construction of Perfect Temporaries

Valuable Tools for Treatment Planning

Requirements for Tissue Health of Implants & Prosthetics

How Splints Fit Into a Treatment Plan

Blessings of a Dawson Trained Team

Lucia Jig or Leaf Gauge?

New Patient Consult Tips for Associates

Tongue Ties, Restricted Fascia and Mouth Breathing

Dentists: Turn hygiene into you 'bird dog'

Why should dentistry focus on airway disorders?

Criteria for successful dental treatment

10 things that can go wrong when you don't take accurate records

Why we ask & what it means, Do you clench or grind your teeth?

Why use Centric Relation?

3 Components of Gingival Contours

Educating Patients: The TMJ joint (4 different phases of the joint)

Webinar - Altering the Vertical Dimension

How the digital lab is changing dentistry

3 Fatal Flaws of Denture Design

Why are there deep grooves in an occlusal splint?

Airway + Dawson Dentistry through the eyes of an Orthodontist (Part 2)

What can it mean when posterior wear is greater than anterior wear?

Developing Your Implant Team

Esthetic Risks and Identifying Complex Cases

Papillary Contours

Dentistry pioneer, Dr. Peter Dawson passes away at age 89

Truth About Digitally Fabricated Splints

Treatment Options for Adult Patients with Airway Problems

Where Do I Start? Full Wear Case and What's Causing it

Photography: Different Flash Options

Why is my lab not giving me what I am asking for?

Why dentists misunderstand centric relation

Hygiene: A Day in the Life of Dr. Dawson's Hygienist

Classifying Dental Occlusion: Dawson's Classifications of Occlusion

Airway and Dawson Dentistry through the eyes of an Orthodontist

Webinar: Total Health Series - Busting Myths About Cardiovascular Disease

Why you should use a CBCT

Determining TMJ Health: what to look at during the initial exam

The Importance of Surgical Guides in Implant Dentistry

Evaluating the "F" and "V" position

What is the Golden Proportion of Dentistry?

Centric Relation - Fact vs. Fiction

How and why we evaluate the “E Position”

Optimal Airway Allows Us to Thrive

Top books for The Complete Dentist

TDA and Sculpture Studios expand access to digital dentistry

What can it mean when anterior wear is greater than posterior?

Diabetes: Chronic preventable disease but still 1 of the top 5 killers

The variety of issues you can uncover from a Complete Exam

Timing of Centric Stops for Implants

Why you should get a CBCT for evaluating airway problems

Dental Education: Gingival architecture & symmetry

That headache might be telling you something

Three new courses on airway and integrative dental medicine

When to use an NTI appliance and when not to

Single tooth dentistry vs. full mouth considerations

Dental Photography: Cross Polarization and Custom Dyes

Dentists: Why do we ask “Has your jaw ever locked open or closed?”

The Dawson Academy names four resident experts

Modern Day Material Selection

Why you never need to guess about position or contour of front teeth

Improving case acceptance with general vs. specialty patients

What script do I need to order an MRI for a patient?

What can TMD have to do with airway?

The Implication Mindset of Patient Communication

Why a Unified Practice Vision is Essential to Complete Dentistry

Why is a facebow transfer is essential to treatment?

Standard of Care vs. Standard of Caring

The 3 approaches to sequencing a treatment plan

New online course on case acceptance

Are my patients understanding what I am saying?

Dental Webinar: Is Splint Therapy Always a Safe Treatment Option?

Learn digital protocols for dentistry that increase predictability

Sales vs leadership approach to case acceptance

My patient has an airway disorder: where do I start?

Why you must do a trial equilibration

Webinar: A Better Way - The surprising path to a Complete Life

New Dawson mini-residencies around the U.S.

Using the 'Easy-Extender'

How to simplify dental treatment planning

What do I do with patients that have TMJ pain?

How to increase case acceptance using digital photography

Where does my staff fit into Complete Dentistry?

Why do I have to adjust my crowns so much?

Why do I keep having to adjust the anterior teeth when restoring?

The State of Dentistry in 2019

How do I build confidence to be able to tackle more difficult cases?

One-day splint therapy course in New York in March 2019

How to stabilize the joints

Case acceptance: How do I move beyond what insurance pays for?

Creating Exceptional Trust with Patients

Increase time outside the dental office without decreasing revenue

The Dawson Difference: How it changed my practice and life

3 Basic Requirements for Occlusal Therapy

Breathing, Airway and Dental Occlusion Quiz

The Dawson Academy’s Airway Symposium returns January 2019

Important considerations for successful adhesive results

How to build confidence using checklists

Introduction from intra-oral to digital photography

Treating the patient for what they need, not what their insurance pays for

Why do articulators make dentistry predictable?

Dangers in diagnosing the pocketbook

Webinar: Airway Orthodontics-An Introduction to the New Paradigm

How proper diagnostic testing can save time and frustration

The correlation between bruxism and airway disorders

The Dawson Academy adds five practicing dentists to faculty

How to cement a bridge in 30 minutes or less

How photography can benefit your dental practice

Do we need to treat non-symptomatic joint clicking?

Why am I experiencing clinical failure?

Equilibration: Increasing Patient Satisfaction

Dealing with employee pushback

Quiz: How predictable is your dentistry?

How to increase speed, but maintain predictability

How to perfect dentistry by adjusting temporaries

How do I present my treatment plan to patients?

What is fremitus and why should you check for it?

Integrating Airway Disorders into Treatment