Events and Programmes

The DR Institute offers ‘hands on’ and ‘over the shoulder’ training programs to dentists, their associates and their staff. The courses are designed to advance dentists’ skills, practice and profitability. Courses can be undertaken individually or incorporated into a full mentoring program.

The DR Institute is currently offering the following Courses:

Anterior/Posterior Restorations (P1/P2)

Who for? Dentist Clinical Training Program
Duration: 4 Days (2 x 2 days, three weeks apart)
Course Description: This course uses a ‘real patient’ to demonstrate the importance of preparation, treatment planning, case discussion and photography for optimal case acceptance The students are also given the opportunity to present their own cases for group discussion and diagnosis. Systems and templates for effective time management, and staff management are reviewed are provided.

At the conclusion of this course students will:

Understand occlusion principals for long term success
Have learnt productive scheduling systems
Understand protocols for ideal photography
Have effective diagnosis and case write up systems for new patients

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Advanced Anterior/Posterior (P3)

Who for? Advanced Clinical Procedures for dentists who have completed P1/P2
Duration: 2 Days (is run concurrently with PM & PS)
Course Description: Now that you have completed the P1 and P2 programs and have been performing anterior and posterior porcelain work for a few months; you may be encountering cases you feel which truly extend your current level of ability. Course content includes advanced treatments including veneers, crowns, bridges and implants.

At the conclusion of the course students will:

Understanding of techniques for advanced procedures
The ability to sequence treatment over extended periods
Advanced practice marketing and practice management

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Practice Marketing (PM)

Who for Dentists, associates and staff
Duration: 1 Day (run as a single day, or with P3)
Course Description: Extend your skills beyond just clinical training. Learn to promote yourself and your practice to prospective patients. Learn to get more bang for your buck. Marketing is about more than just selling. You should be trying to deliver a level of service in your practice that sells itself to patients. If you don’t think you are, this course will show you how you can achieve any service standard you want to set for yourself. At the conclusion of this program, you will walk away with a complete marketing program customized to your practice.

In addition you will learn:

The people you hire, how to hire and how to get the best from your staff
How to manage and improve your patient interaction
Fee setting
How to promote your practice
How to monitor and measure the effectiveness of your marketing

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Treatment Sequencing (PS)

Who for? Dentists, associates and staff
Duration: 1 Day (run as a single day, or with P3)
Course Description: This course is ‘hands on’ using typodonts to develop the art of provisionalising anterior and posterior teeth in combination with material overviews for cores, provisional crowns and cements. No more temporaries, provisional are the basis for treatment planning for the future The ability to construct aesthetic and functional provisionals long term is mandatory to provide patients with ideal treatment for financial reasons and as part of multidisciplinary therapy. You will be taught a tried and proven step by step process of treatment diagnosis and sequencing.
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Failures and Functional Occlusion (PFO)

Who for? Dentists
Duration: 1 Day
Course Description: Now that you have completed the P1, P2, P3, PM, PS programs and have been performing anterior and posterior porcelain work for a few months, you may be encountering issues with porcelain failure that have challenged your diagnostic skills and how to ensure the issue does not recur. IF SO, IT IS TIME YOU BOOKED INTO THE PFO PROGRAM. The course is structured in a similar manner to the PS & PM courses. Course content includes: Diagnosis of high-risk cases, Understanding CO/CR relationships and when to equilibrate pre treatment, How and when to set up Anterior Guidance, Management of crowded lower anteriors opposite upper porcelain, Laboratory issues that contribute to porcelain failures, Para functional Activity and how to diagnose the risk to porcelain stability, Use of Splints.
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DR Institute Programs include:

All clinical training, Training manual for all techniques learnt, ie: clinical photography workshop, marketing, case presentations, new patient examinations etc; Breakfast and lunch on both days, dinner (Thursday night of the second week) and certificate presentation on the final day. All course fees are an investment in training that will provide every dentist with the opportunity to take their practice to a higher level of productivity and efficiency. Places are limited, so please book early.
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