The Dawson Academy Blog

Why is a facebow transfer is essential to treatment?

Standard of Care vs. Standard of Caring

The 3 approaches to sequencing a treatment plan

Are my patients understanding what I am saying?

Sales vs leadership approach to case acceptance

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

Why you must do a trial equilibration

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?

How to stabilize the joints

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

Creating Exceptional Trust with Patients

How to increase free time outside the 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

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

How proper diagnostic testing can save time and frustration

The correlation between bruxism and airway disorders

How to cement a bridge in 30 minutes or less

How photography can benefit your 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

How to introduce photography into your practice (and why)

Why should you load test the TMJ's?

Why the uppermost position is physiologically correct

Material selection challenges for a new dentist

Quiz: Are you practicing the way you always envisioned?

How can the position of teeth affect function?

How can I implement Complete Care Dentistry in my practice?

How Do I Predictably Prep Second Molars?

How to differentiate between a joint derangement and muscle problem

What is Functional Occlusion?

What You Need To Present a Treatment Plan

How to Get Restorative Cases From Specialists

Implementing a Complete Exam Out of a Hygiene Visit

How to Cement a Crown in Under 20 Minutes

The Dawson Classification of Dental Occlusion

Screening for Airway Issues

Why Is My Dentistry Breaking?

Dawson Student Case Study: Dr. Stacey Hall

Tips for Choosing CE Courses as an Associate

How Do Diagnostic Wax-Ups Make Dentistry Predictable?

The 4 Elements of Predictable Dentistry

Is Centric Relation Really Repeatable?

How to Train Your Team to Talk to About Money and Treatment

Why is Dental Occlusion Important?

Why do I need a Complete Exam?

Using Composite to Create a Stable Occlusion

The 4 Treatment Options

What is Complete Dentistry?

How do I do Multiple Crowns at Once?

Why Use an Articulator?

Are You and Your Lab Technician Speaking the Same Language?

Why is My Lab Sending Me these Bulky Crowns?

Test Your TMD Knowledge

What Item in Your Office Could You Not Live Without?

Webinar: How to Successfully Diagnose and Treat TMD

Communicating with the lab

The Truth Behind Implant Failure

Networking with Specialists

Proper Techniques When Load Testing

The Benefits of Using Doppler Auscultation

What is Occlusal Equilibration?

How to Get Patient Buy-In

Transitioning to a Fixed Implant Supported Prosthesis

How are Real Teeth and Implants Different?

Dr. Peter Dawson becomes Founder Emeritus

How to Finalize an Occlusal Equilibration

What is Conservative Dentistry?

Taking Dental Insurance Out of the Decision Making Equation

Sequencing Treatment Without Compromising Stability

Is Wear on Patients' Teeth Normal?

Tips for Training Your Front Desk on Complete Dentistry

Utilizing Composite Resin for Stabilizing Occlusions

How to Know If Your Models are Mounted Correctly in Centric Relation

3 Tips for Training Your Team on the Complete Dental Exam

How Much Do You Charge For That Dental Procedure?

How General Dentists Can Find a Great Orthodontist

The Two Rules for New Patient Phone Calls

How to Achieve Good Lingual Extension with Hydrocast

Implementing the Complete Exam in your practice

How to Remove Guesswork From Your Treatment Plans

Quick Tip: Implementing an Office Tour

What is Centric Relation?

What are common reasons cases fail?

How to Find a Great Dental Lab

Associates: Implement Complete Care in a Non-Dawson Practice

How Our Treatment Planning Protocols Impacts a Practice

Quick Tip: How to Increase Your confidence in Treating Patients

How to Treat Unstable or Uncomfortable TMJs

What is Fremetis and why is it important?

What are your quality controls?

What is Adapted Centric Posture?

A Simplified Understanding of Anterior Guidance

How to Market to Specialists

When do you fit in your treatment planning time?

The Golden Rule of Proportion

Tips for Treating Airway Disorders

Quick Tip: Using the T-Scan for Equilibrations

The Hottest Nightclubs of Dentistry

Tips for using the Leaf Gauge

How to Phase Treatment for Success

Tips for Communicating With Your Orthodontist

Dawson Student Case Study: Interdisciplinary and Phased Treatment

Tips for Accurate Centric Relation Wax Bite Records

Why You Should Implement a New Patient Gift

What are the signs of Occlusal Disease?

What is Occlusal Harmony? 

The Benefits of Using a Range of Motion Ruler

Quick Tip- Tips for Communicating With Your Periodontist

Quick Tip - Creating Beautiful Esthetics

What Are The Hot Dental Materials Going to Be In 2017?

How to Choose the Right Occlusal Splint for Your Patient

Quick Tip: What Muscle Exams Are Telling You

How to Explain the Aspects of the Complete Exam to Patients

Quick Tip: Words to Use with Patients (and Avoid)

Webinar: Avoiding Common Treatment Planning Mistakes

Quick Tip: Occluso Muscle Disorder vs. Interior Displaced Disk

How I Increased My Dental Treatment Acceptance Rate

Quick Tip: Incisal Embrasures & Contact Zones

How to 'Prime' your Patient Communication for Better Results

Quick Tip: The Most Important Tool in Your Office

How to Eliminate Patient Excuses from your Practice

Dawson Quick Tip: Most Powerful Word in Pre-Clinical Exam

How to Stop Negative Patients Reactions (with Primespeak)

Quick Tip: Screw Retained or Cement Retained Implants

The Real Reasons Patients Say I’ll Think About It

Dawson Quick Tip: The Go-To Rule in Dentistry

The Best Way to ‘Handle’ Patient Objections

Dawson Quick Tip: Creating Anterior Guidance on Wax-Ups

Why a New Dental Communication Approach is Needed Today

Dawson Quick Tip: Avoiding Sloppy Dentistry

The New Barriers to Patients Accepting Dental Treatment

Dawson Quick Tip: Preventing Black Triangles

Dawson Quick Tip: Vinyl Impressions of Wax-Ups

Dawson Quick Tip: Classification of TMJ Disorders

Dawson Quick Tip: Creating Great Bite Records in Centric Relation

Dawson Quick Tip: Waxing Smarter Instead of Harder

Dawson Quick Tip: 3 Keys to Case Acceptance

Dawson Quick Tip: Making a Temporary Custom Fit Nightguard

Dawson Quick Tip: How to Find Centric Relation

Answers on Anterior Guidance

Dawson Quick Tip: Evaluating Patients for Sleep Disorders

Is Anterior Guidance a Myth?

Dawson Quick Tip: Would I Do It On Me?

8 Reasons We're Thankful To Be Dentists

Dawson Quick Tip: Identifying Specialty Patients

Dawson Quick Tip: Getting Patients to Ask for Solutions

Dawson Quick Tip: Why Your Lab Must Have Complete Records

Dawson Quick Tip: Making the Lucia Jig More Predictable

Dawson Quick Tip: Scheduling Emergency Patients Successfully

Dawson Quick Tip: 3 Ethical Questions For Every Dentist

How to Schedule Basic Restorative Patients Successfully

Dawson Quick Tip: Using Teflon Tape Instead of Cotton Pellet

Dawson Quick Tip: 3 Criteria for Selecting Shade for Restorations

How to Schedule More Profitable Procedures (Green Time)

Quick Tip: Converting Emergency Patients into Complete Care Patients

Dawson Quick Tip: Send New Patient Thank You Notes

Dawson Quick Tip: How to Increase Case Acceptance with Photography

Dawson Quick Tips: How to Improve & Grow Your Dental Practice

A Brief Review of a Healthy Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ)

The Most Important 3-Minutes You Have at Every Patient Visit

Dawson Quick Tips: Immediate Non-Occlusal Load Temporaries

How to Increase Case Acceptance for Cases of Missing Teeth

Dawson Quick Tip: One Easy Way to Be a Better Leader

Quick Tip: How to Increase Acceptance for Elective Esthetic Dentistry

Dawson Quick Tip: Phasing Dental Treatment

How to Get Case Acceptance for Treating Periodontal Disease

Dawson Quick Tip: The Best Topical Ever

Importance of Strong & Cleanable Teeth to Case Acceptance

Webinar: How to Create a Patient-Centered Treatment Plan

Dawson Quick Tip: The Importance of Load Testing

Dawson Quick Tip: Increasing Case Acceptance with Mindset Shift

Dawson Quick Tip: Removing Cement-Retained Implant Crowns

Dawson Quick Tips: Creating Stable, Equal-Intensity Centric Stops

Dawson Quick Tip: Elements of a Great Case Presentation

Dawson Quick Tip: Sign of Success for Denture Patients

Dawson Quick Tips: Esthetic Restorations with Dental Implants

Dawson Quick Tip: Improving Local Search Results for Dental Practices

Dawson Quick Tips: Choosing Restorative Materials

Dawson Quick Tip: How to Handle Poor Performing Employees

Dawson Quick Tip: Dental Implants & Occlusion

Dawson Quick Tip: Has That Started Hurting YET?

Dawson Quick Tips: Customizing The Envelope of Function

Digital Dentistry: Endless Possibilities

Range of Motion Scale: What Is It and Why Do You Need It?

5 Secrets to Treating Any Case Predictably and Confidently.

The Do's and Dont's of Great Dentists

The Significance of Anterior Guidance in Obtaining a Stable Result

How Digital Dental Ecosystems Will Change Our World

7 Deadly Sins of Dental Implants

The Diagnostic Criteria for The Doppler

How to Make Veneers for a Cross Bite Case

Career, Family & Fun: Can Female Dentists Have It All?

How to Fix Your Burn-Out in Dentistry

If a patient is in pain before loading, is the patient in CR?

You Can't Be a Good Dentist If...

When a patient has more pain after wearing a B-Splint

How to Break Out of Your Dental Insurance Mindset

Vertical Dimension & Severely Worn Teeth: Where Do You Start?

How to Communicate the Need for a Complete Exam to Patients

How to Educate Patients: A Dentist's Role in Treating Sleep Apnea

Infographic: Is There a Demand for Implant Dentistry?

Why Do Patients Think Their Upper Anterior Teeth are Too Long?

How frequently and when do you use your Doppler?

Changing Vertical Dimension: When is it safe?

How to Get a Patient to Accept Dental Treatment

One of the Greatest Mistakes a Dentist Can Make

How do you bring up occlusal issues during recall visits?

The Process for Occlusal Splint Therapy

The Dawson Classification of Occlusion: Class 2 and Class 2A

Confessions of a Lab Technician: Dental Lab Communication Mistakes

Question and Answer Webinar: TMJ to Smile Design

Dental Implants By The Numbers

Why Your 15 Minute New Patient Exam is Not Enough

18 Common Errors During the Dental Records Process

How to Deal with Another Dentist's Mistake

How to Find the Right Dental Consultant

Our Top 10 Dental Articles of 2014

A Politically Incorrect View of "Successful" Dental Practices

The Secret to How Dentists Can Lead a Happy Life!

The Leading Edge: the Lower Incisal Edge Position

Topics, titles & tricks for effective holiday newsletters for dentists

10 Reasons to Attend the 2015 Dawson Alumni Retreat

When NOT to Use an Anterior Deprogramming Device

Books Every Dentist Should Read

6 Rules Every Dentist Should Live By

Webinar: Dental Insurance Roundtable

Your Ultimate Guide to Dental Patient Communication

Webinar: How to Effectively Equilibrate the Natural Dentition

Finding time to train employees (and answers to other FAQs)

How do you know when a patient needs a long centric?

14 Tools & Materials for Accurate Exams & Records

What The Dawson Academy Asian Lecture Tour Taught Me

Your Checklist for Selecting Dental CE Courses

[Webinar] The More Complete 'Complete Dentist'

The Importance of the “Periodontal-Systemic Connection”

Course Correction: Is Your Dental Practice On Track?

Understanding the Language of Smile Design

2 Common Mistakes When Load Testing

3 Ways Technology Helps Dentists With Patient Communication

5 Mistakes to Avoid When Taking Digital Photos in Your Dental Practice

How to Market Your Complete Care Dental Practice

The Dawson Academy's T-Scan® Protocol

When You Don’t Yet Know How to Comprehensively Treatment Plan

[Infographic] New Patient Complete Exam

Time-Tested Process for Diagnosing Occluso Muscle Disorder

The Connection Between Oral Bacteria & Overall Health

How Do You Know If You Achieved Centric Relation?

Webinar: Why Porcelain Chips and Breaks

How to Discover Occlusal Muscle Disorders

Be a Frog Kisser

The Stuff That Really Matters

2014 Alumni Retreat

Study Clubs Engage Dawson Dentists

Questions you should be asking your specialists and lab technicians.

Rehabilitating the Completely Edentulous Patient

The Most Important Question to Ask Yourself in 2013.

The Either/Or Rule

How Does the Occlusal Plane Relate to the Anterior Teeth?

From the Inbox of Dr. Peter Dawson

How to Utilize a Dental Assistant to Equilibrate the Dentition

Tips for Perfect Wax Bite Records

Effects of Disharmony Between the TMJs and Occlusion

What can you learn from the screening history?

Common Bimanual Manipulation Mistakes

When You Should Use an Anterior Deprogramming Appliance and Why

Signs of Occlusal Instability Continued

Signs of Occlusal Instability

How to Market a Dental Practice

Assessing Provisionals

The Secret to Avoiding Mistakes During Treatment Planning

Protocol of the Functional-Esthetic Matrix

Oral Cancer Cause Aims to Improve Quality of Life

Positioning of Teeth Can Affect Phonetics

How a Missed Centric Causes Problems

Why Understanding Occlusion is Essential to Quality Dental Care

Quiz: Occlusion, TMD and Smile Design

Why Dental Photography is Important to an Accurate Diagnosis

Preparation Design: Beginning with the End in Mind

How to Sequence your Treatment Plan

5 Requirements for Occlusal Stability

How to recognize if your patient should be equilibrated

What Complete Dentistry means to you, your staff and your patients

How to Provide Easy and Accurate Provisional Restorations

Why dental esthetics aren’t ideal without proper function

Why Co-Diagnosis is Essential to Treatment Acceptance

No Fail Dental Treatment Planning

New Dental CE Curriculum for Emerging Health Services

The Dental Implant - Occlusal Connection

Dentistry Challenges Around the Globe

3 Steps to Transition into Using Dental Photography

Questions & Answers on Dental Occlusion

Tools for Evaluating Dental Occlusion

Dental Treatment Planning for Better or Worse

How to Decrease Broken Appointments through Dental Hygiene CE

Perfecting Dental Occlusion Using Computerized Analysis

How to Master a Complete Dental Examination

How to Improve the Quality of Dental Lab Work

Why Dental Wear is Commonly Ignored

7 Key Elements in Dental Practice Advertising

How to Explain Bruxism to Patients

Facts & Benefits of Salivary Diagnostics

Introducing Patients to Dental Occlusion

Dental Education: Responses from Dr. Peter Dawson

Online Dental Education: Nutrition Advocacy

Dental Education: 6 Tips to Creating Social Media Content

Dental Education: Why Front Teeth Don't Hit 1st in CR

Comprehensive Metal-Free System That's Scientifically Proven

A New Smile Takes Flight

5 Tips for Finding a Great Associate

Dental CE: Children's Science Hands-On Learning Lab

Private Care Creed for Complete Care Dentistry

Doppler Auscultation in Dental Treatment Planning

The Key to Dental Practice Productivity

10 Prosthodontic Residents Awarded Dental Course Scholarship

5 Essential Skills for Interdisciplinary Treatment

Maintaining Optimum Dentistry in the Current Economy

The Journey to Complete Dentistry - Part 2

The Journey to Complete Dentistry - Part 1

Clearing up confusion about HPV

No More Bullying - Tomorrow's Smiles

Creative Dental Treatment Planning

The Keys to Daily Patient Prep for Complete Dentistry

The Big Win: Interdisciplinary Teams Using Complete Dentistry

The Reasons Why Dentistry Fails

10 Mistakes on Practice Websites for Complete Dentistry

Dentist Education: Do you see CR=CO in nature?

Dentist Education: 3 Questions to Ask a Website Developer

Next Step in Complete Dentistry: Reflecting & Goal Setting

4 Tips to Providing Complete Dentistry in a Down Economy

Pete Dawson: A Dentist's Thanksgiving

Complete Dentistry: Marketing your services to the community - part 2

Dentist Education: Marketing your services to the community - Part 1

Dentist Education: 5 Steps for Managing Your Social Media Accounts

Dental Materials: How to Clean and Maintain Your Articulator

Limitations and Expectations of Clear Aligner Systems

The Value of Education to Patients in Dentistry

The Secret to Being a Happy Dentist

5 Steps to Creating an Effective Dental Team

How to Eliminate Unnecessary Occlusal Splint Adjustments

The Essential Dental Tool: CT Scan

6 Tips for Minimizing Broken Appointments- Part 2

The #1 Step to Improving Your Dental Practice

6 Tips for Minimizing Broken Appointments- Part 1

How to Take a Face-Bow Registration

How to Set-Up a Facebook Account in 15 Minutes

How to Decrease Dental Restorative Remakes

Part 2- Why did I say that? It's not what I meant

Question and Answer with Dr. Pete Dawson

Lithium Disilicate: A Viable Replacement for Traditional PFM's

'Education + Execution= Success' by Dr. Jeffrey Friend

The Dawson Difference

Why did I say that? It's not what I meant!

How to Get More Patients to your Website

January Dental CE Award Recipients

Occlusal Equilibration- Does it work?

Dental CE: Mastering Principles vs. Procedures

Prosthodontic Resident Scholarships to Dental Course

December Award Recipients for Dentistry Courses

Why Peter Dawson is so Thankful to be a Dentist

Continuing Dental Education in Esthetic Restorative Dentistry

A second life through Complete Dentistry

Continuing Education and Occlusion at The Dawson Academy

Continuing Dental Education: A Thorough Dental Training Institute

Anyone interested in going to India?

A Creative Way to Market Your Practice

Surefire Marketing Tips to Grow Your Business

Creating a Vision for Your Dental Practice

Measuring Success. Life of Personal and Professional Balance

Four basic core principles to doing it right

Splint Therapy DVD for Everyday Dentistry