Full Face Course Session 1 : Introduction to the FACE Treatment Philosophy

Introduction to the FACE Treatment Philosophy:

• Diagnostic Tools for a more Comprehensive Diagnosis
  

Introduction to the FACE Treatment Philosophy 
Benefits to patient treatment outcomes and your practice efficiency

• Functional Occlusion Concepts: Why and What does it mean?
  

Andrews Six Keys to Funcional Occlusion, SCP, optimal over jet/ over bite and lingual occlusion 
Importance of diagnosing from Seated Condylar Position

• Use of Semi-adjustable articulators in orthodontics: introduction and importance
  
• Wax Bites technique to capture Seated Condylar Position: 
  

Centric Occlusion (maximum intercuspation) and Centric Relation (stable condylar position) - Why do they differ? 
The importance of good impressions and how to take them

• Facebow: Instructions for using facebow CPI Theory and Practice
  
• FACE Cephalometric analysis: Ricketts, Roth: Jarabak and Bjork analysis
  

Importance of Natural Head Position in Diagnosis and planning 
Hard and Soft Tissue Analysis

• Introduction to Dolphin Imaging: CO/CR Conversion, VTO Clinical Application to enhance diagnosis
  

Clinical Practice

• Clinical demonstration in taking wax bite registrations: clinical practice in taking wax bites
  
• Clinical demonstration of the facebow: clinical practice of the facebow
  
• Clinical photography – techniques for Intra & extraoral
  
• Clinical demonstration of the articulator mounting: clinical practice of articulator mounting (every doctor mounts his case)
  
• Clinical demonstration of CPI: clinical practice of CPI
  
• Occlusal Diagnosis and interpretation of the CPI readings of the mounted models, occlusal analysis of the mountings and interpretation of the CPI readings of the mounted models