What You’ll Learn

HERE’S A PEEK AT WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

Contributor: Dr. Brian Gray

Your group will use this Learning Case to expand your skills and expertise to:

• Create a systematic approach to planning & sequencing comprehensive care
• Develop overlapping treatment phases to reduce overall treatment time
• Incorporate minor tooth movement to establish ideal function
• Establish excellent communications with specialists for seamless inter-office patient visits
• Plan for contingencies and achieve optimal results

Contributor: Dr. Glenda Owen

Your group will use this Learning Case to expand your skills and expertise to:

• Evaluate treatment options for treating a patient with a partially edentulous maxilla and poor fitting removable partial denture.
• Understand the importance of developing a transitional treatment plan
• Have multiple provisional options for supporting various treatment plan options

• Evaluate treatment options for treating a patient poor aesthetics and a gummy smile
• Understand the importance of evaluating the mandibular incisal aesthetic exposure during PMS sequencing
• Utilize segmental diagnostic wax ups when determining mandibular incisal position
• Make a trial mandibular incisal edge to evaluate same

Contributor: Dr. Glenda Owen

Your group will use this Learning Case to expand your skills and expertise to:

• Identify the cause and effect relationship of para-functional activity to specific to the loss of anterior guidance and destruction of the dentition
• Identify how the occlusal disfunction contributes to the periodontal condition
• Determine an appropriate treatment plan to address this para-functional activity
• Determine an appropriate treatment plan to solve the resultant restorative need
• Discuss various analogies, metaphors, stories and conversations that help patients come to understand the role of para-function in creating this condition

Contributor: Dr. Roger Solow

Your group will use this Learning Case to expand your skills and expertise to understand the value of:

• Interdisciplinary treatment vs multidisciplinary treatment
• A of comprehensive exam
• A surgical guide dictated by the restorative specialist
• Learning from and teaching specialists so that referrals are enhanced in both  directions
• The evolution of patient esthetic concerns/ demands

Contributor: Dr. Nancy Ward

Your group will use this Learning Case to expand your skills and expertise to:

• Evaluate treatment options in treating a Class2 Div II wear case
• Have conversations with a patient who feels hopeless about her aesthetics
• Evaluate different options to help patient visualize the end result of treatment
• Have conversations about financing a complex case

Contributor: Dr. Woody Wooddell

Your group will use this Learning Case to expand your skills and expertise to:

• Manage Interdisciplinary patient treatment
• Diagnose bone and tissue volume in the edentulous areas
• Manage gingival contour for long term stability in the high smile patient
• Manage apical resorption in a treatment plan
• Manage biologic width violation 8 and 9

Contributor: Dr. Dag Zapatero

Your group will use this Learning Case to expand your skills and expertise to:

• Determine options to establish a proper envelope of function in a wear case
• Coordinate treatment with your specialist to maximize efficiency in treating a case
• Evaluate the orthodontic options to establish proper envelope of function
• Determine the restorative options to establish proper anterior guidance

Contributor: Dr. Woody Wooddell

Your group will use this Learning Case to expand your skills and expertise to:

• Evaluate treatment options when treating an edentulous ridge
• Determine options for restoring vertical dimension
• Determine options for establishing proper esthetic placement of teeth
• Have conversations about financing a complex case

Contributor: Dr. Woody Wooddell

Your group will use this Learning Case to expand your skills and expertise to:

• Management of post-radiation xerostomia
• Assessment of decay risk
• Determination of desired definitive gingival and incisal positions
• Occlusal management of the Class II restorative patient
• Treatment sequencing

WE’D LOVE TO SHOW YOU MORE

As actively practicing dentists in the Baltimore, Maryland area and long term members of L.D. Pankey Alumni Association – we know how valuable Pankey Study Clubs have been to us and welcome the chance to talk to you.

Whether you have general questions, need help in starting a group, or you would like to see a full case demo – we’re here to support you in every step.

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