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The Dawson Academy Blog
Dental Articles on Occlusion, Centric Relation, Restorative Dentistry & More
Webinar | Equilibration: Determining the Need and 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
Webinar | Posterior Direct Resins
Webinar | Treatment Planning: The All on 4/5/6 The Dawson Way
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
Webinar | The Socket: Inside and Out
Webinar | The Perfect Pair: Maxillary Denture and the Mandibular Hybrid
Webinar: Patient Communication that Connects in a Touchless World
Webinar: Introducing Smile Wizard Treatment Planning Software
Webinar | Digital Workflows in Treatment & Diagnosis The Transition to Digital
Webinar | TMD for the Restorative Dentist: An Introduction to a Systematic Process
Webinar: Communicating with Complete Care Patients
Webinar: The Role of Repositioning in Complete Dentistry
Webinar | Orthodontic Pearls in Restorative Cases
Webinar | 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
Webinar: 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
Webinar: Sleep Disordered Breathing and the Effects on Children's Growth and Development
Webinar: Bio-Emulation to Deliver Minimally Invasive Results
Webinar: The Transition to Digital - Part II
Webinar: Digital Shade Calibration & The Virtual Try-In
Webinar: Hydrocast Functional Soft Liner: The What, The When and The How
Webinar: Creating a Brand Through Photographic Excellence
Webinar: Single Tooth Implant Success
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
Could sleep fragmentation be a leading factor of anxiety, depression, TMD, headaches and IBS?
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
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 about 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 and 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
Things to Look for in Hygiene: A Day in the Life of Dr. Dawson's Hygienist
How to Classify 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
The Dawson Academy and Sculpture Studios expand access to digital dentistry
What can it mean when anterior wear is greater than posterior?
Diabetes: A chronic preventable disease, but still one of the top five killers in America today.
The variety of issues you can uncover from a Complete Exam
Timing of centric stops for implants (single implant vs. full arch prosthetic)
Why you should get a CBCT for evaluating airway problems
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
Cross Polarization and Custom Dyes
Webinar: Solving Treatment Planning Dilemmas: The keys to a predictable path of stability
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?
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
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
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 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?
Learn to practice minimally invasive dentistry
How to differentiate between a joint derangement and muscle problem
What is Functional Occlusion?
What You Need To Present a Treatment Plan
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