Some Special Studies courses have prerequisites but they can be taken in any order, at any time.
Financial Management Level 1
Change Your Practice's Finances Forever
Length: 3 days
32 AGD Lecture & Participation Credits
Tuition: $3,900; $995 Admin.
Prerequisites: CI; Laptop with Excel
Upcoming Schedule: 10/9/08
How important is financial health to your vision of an ideal practice? It's vital.
Being financially healthy means the practice is thriving, but it also means your attention is not taken up by money worries. Instead, that attention can be placed squarely where it belongs: on your patients.
Financial Control
As part of our commitment to transforming your entire practice, we offer a course crafted specifically to address financial management. This three-day class will:
- Present sound financial management principles and give you practical ways to apply them to your practice.
- Introduce you to the Pankey Financial Management Tools.
- Provide hands-on exercises designed to sharpen your financial knowledge and organization.
- Give you access to our price point survey findings and talk about how you can implement these types of tools into your practice.
Gaining financial health is part of the overall strategy to creating the practice of your dreams. In just three days, we can have you well on your way to finances that are strong and organized. What's your financial dream?
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Dental Assistant
Help Your Team Experience Pankey
Length: 2 days
16.5 AGD Lecture & Participation Credits
Tuition: $1,990
Prerequisites: None
Upcoming Schedule: 6/19/08
This 2 day course introduces the participant to the Pankey Philosophy and provides experiential learning in:
- Taking excellent alginate impressions using the Alginator
- Pouring perfect casts
- Taking a facebow transfer*
- Mounting the maxillary cast with the facebow using the Accumount*
- Mounting the mandibular cast using a bite record*
- Setting up the articulator using a protrusive bite*
- Fabricating a splint shell on her/his own mounted casts*
- Creating an exquisite provisional using the indirect method
- Understanding appropriate mirror placement and retraction for excellent clinical photography
* Each participant will bring the facebow and articulator from their offices to use throughout the exercises. If a participant does not have these items, the Institute will provide them.
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The Pankey Masters Experience with Frank Spear
Learn from a master
Length: 2.5 days
22 AGD Lecture & Participation Credits
Tuition: $4,050
Prerequisites: None
Upcoming Schedule: 3/10/08
Frank Spear is undoubtedly one of the premier teachers in dentistry and regarded by some as the best speaker in the world. You will have the chance to join a small group for 2 1/2 days of the best learning available. Frank works with the class to custom design a course based on the requests of the participants, and then puts together workshops that have never failed to get rave reviews! Whether it is esthetics, implants, occlusal concepts or philosophy, he always seems to hit home with our participants. Frank is one of the unparalleled masters in dentistry!
Participants will:
- Help choose the course content
- Learn the most current concepts pertaining to the topics selected
- Interact on a very personal level with Dr. Spear
- Build a very special learning community in a small group setting
This class is only offered once per year and fills quickly, so register early. Class size is limited to 36 participants.
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The Pankey Masters Experience with Pascal & Michel Magne
For dentists and technicians
Length: 4 days
34 AGD Lecture & Participation Credits
Tuition: $7,190
Prerequisites: None
Upcoming Schedule: 4/2/07; 10/29/07
Limited to 24 Participants
Join Pascal and Michel Magne for this unique and intimate course that will ensure your success with creating the ultimate in esthetic restorations. This four day experience will give you the opportunity to interact on a very personal level with one of the premier dental/technician teams in the world. Limited to 24 participants who will learn the most current in esthetic principles from design to delivery, this chance is only available two times per year. You will learn:
- The principles of biomimetics
- The relationship of art and science to bonded porcelain restorations
- How to create a waxup that is beautiful and functional
- Preparation design for optimal results
- Matrices that make your workflow more streamlined
- Creating provisional restorations for veneers that are trouble-free and magnificent in their beauty
- How to deliver bonded porcelain restorations effectively
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Mastering Occlusal Concepts
Let Your Knowledge Soar
Length: 3 days
34 AGD Lecture & Participation Credits
Tuition: $3,875
Prerequisites: CII-E
Upcoming Schedule: 11/11/07
Completed CII-E but still wondering about some aspects of splints and equilibration? Mastering Occlusal Concepts is a golden opportunity to review concepts and continue practicing occlusal appliance and equilibration techniques with the assistance of experts at The Pankey Institute.
Gaining Mastery
You will gain mastery and confidence while working directly with occlusal masters. During this course, you will:
- Be able to recognize and correct imperfections in the occlusal scheme on the universal flat planed appliance.
- Recognize and understand the correlation between surface irregularities and interferences on the appliance and muscle release.
- Have an enhanced understanding of anterior guidance and its importance in a healthy occlusion.
- Understand crossover in relation to anterior guidance and condylar inclination.
- Be introduced to the Tanner appliance.
- Understand the nuances of mixing and handling acrylic in order to achieve an extremely dense, strong, thin, smooth and highly polished final result.
- Understand and refine the skill of relining an appliance.
- Be guided into discovering the importance of meticulous refinement of bite appliances.
- Have opportunity for interaction with faculty and fellow participants.
- Refine equilibration skills by hands-on experience with laboratory exercises.
Join us for this in-depth look at occlusal concepts and add another dimension to your practice's health.
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Digital Dental Photography
Embrace the Power of Technology
Length: 2 days
26 AGD Lecture & Participation Credits
Tuition: $1495 (Dentist); $900 (Assistant)
Prerequisites: Laptop with Windows 2000 or higher, with Photoshop Elements and ACDSee installed. Working knowledge of Windows 2000 or XP.
Upcoming Schedule: 11/8/07
Digital photography can propel your practice to the next level. Patients want to see results, and with photography, you can show them just that.
But getting started isn't always easy. Perhaps you're in a quandary over digital camera selection, preparation for capturing images, image composition and capture, image management, or digital presentations to benefit the patient. You may even feel fairly adept but know there is still much to be learned.
Dental Photography Expert Shares Knowledge
Dr. Steve Ratcliff, author of Digital Dental Photography: A Clinician's Guide, has designed this course that covers all aspects of digital clinical photography.
Each participant will be exposed to a complete system, from selecting the camera through utilizing digital images in treatment conference, post-treatment consultation, and internal marketing.
A Hands-On Course
This is a hands-on course, in which you will be using Institute cameras for your photo sessions, or if you choose, your own. Topics covered include:
- Camera Selection
- Other Dental Photography Equipment
- Techniques for Optimal Results
- Photo Composition
- ACDSee for File Management
- Adobe Photoshop Elements Basics
- Creating a Basic PowerPoint Presentation
Join us and see where photography will take your practice.
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The Pankey Scholar Program
Achieving Dreams Together
Length: 2 days
40 AGD Lecture & Participation Credits
Tuition: $3,900 (Session A); $3,900 (Session B) (2007 classes $4,250)
Prerequisites: See Below
Upcoming Schedule: GROUP 7 - Session A: May 31-June 1, 2007. GROUP 8 - Session A: August 16-17, 2007
The Pankey Scholar is intended for those who desire to continue their self-development by demonstrating the level they have achieved in philosophical understanding and application; behavioral relations with patients, staff, and others; clinical competency; and practice financial management.
Not a Degree, But an Honor
Completion of the program will not credit you with a degree utilized by other academic institutions, but your mature attitude and commitment will register with those associated with The Pankey Institute, who understand the value of this self-expression.
The Process
In two sessions, you will be asked to demonstrate your understanding of your practice financial situation and prudent managerial decision-making. Staff issues and application of philosophical principles will be revealed through group discussions.
You will also have the opportunity to display a portfolio of your excellent dentistry to the Scholar Panel.
The second session will follow the first by nine months, to allow time for participants to complete individualized growth assignments based on the discovery of the first session.
Each session is limited to six participants.
Fluent understanding of the principles of comprehensive patient care, occlusion, interdisciplinary care and restorative dentistry, as taught in the Continuum, will be afforded each participant.
Participants will also receive the opportunity to demonstrate excellent intra-oral photography (slide or digital) and case documentation.
Prerequisites:
- Completion of the most senior level Continuum
- Licensed dentist in good standing
- Participation in the Business System Development Program
- Written Vision and Mission Statements
- Written Position Papers with all specialists and lab technicians you utilize
- Documented portfolio of comprehensively treated patients
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