Comprehensive Dental Care in General Practice

January 12 & 13, 2024

Location:Grand Bohemian Orlando

Comprehensive Dental Care in General Practice

This is a unique CE offering and is perfectly suited for those looking for hands-on opportunities, especially members pursuing their Fellowship or Mastership Award. 
Participation CE **Limited space**

Date: January 12-13, 2024
Delivery: In-Person Lecture & Hands-On
Presenter: Dr. Gary DeWood
Location: Grand Bohemian, Orlando - 325 S Orange Ave, Orlando, FL 32801
Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Friday and Saturday
Subject Codes: (16.0 hours)

180 – Occlusion:  2 hours
730 – Oral Medicine, Oral Diagnosis, Oral Pathology: 3 hours
780 – Esthetics: 3 hours participation
Sat AGD Credits Earned:
180 – Occlusion:  2 hours participation
730 – Oral Medicine, Oral Diagnosis, Oral Pathology: 3 hours
780 – Esthetics: 3 hours participation

TUITION: Detailed pricing is located in the registration information.

  • AGD Member Dentists: $400.30 // $700.30
  • Non-AGD Member Dentists: $700.30 // $1000.30
  • Staff (Non-DMD or DDS): $125.30 // $200.30

IMPORTANT DETAILS:

  • Hotel Group Block: Book your group rate for FL Academy of General Dentistry
  • Includes light breakfast, lunch, and coffee refreshed throughout the day
  • AGD membership will be verified before the course.
  • All CE participants will join the General Assembly luncheon on Saturday and do not need to register.
  • CE is uploaded to AGD and CE Broker
  • A paper certificate is only provided if requested.

Course Description
Most clinicians are familiar with the concepts of Facially Generated Treatment Planning, Smile Design, and Global Diagnosis.  These examples are three of many that create a flow and follow a thought process of Breathing, Smiling, Chewing, Structural Integrity, and Biologic Health that provide powerful tools to assess and plan appropriate treatment for any patient. Dr. Gary DeWood has taught these concepts to thousands at The Pankey Institute, The Seattle Institute, Spear Education, and in January to the Florida AGD in Orlando.  This two-day program will address examination, evaluation, testing, measuring, appliance therapy, differential diagnosis, treatment planning, case acceptance, treatment sequencing, interdisciplinary relationships, fee estimating, and continuing dental health maintenance in general practice.  Selected segments will provide hands-on experience in visualization and planning using templates and provide an opportunity for attendees to treatment plan a case they bring.

Dr. DeWood’s infectious energy and clear teaching style leave participants excited and ready to apply concepts immediately upon returning to their practice. Prepare for an educational experience that will leave you motivated and able to take your exams, your diagnoses, your treatment planning, and your ability to inspire your patients to ask you for your best stuff to the next level.

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:

  • Apply highly individualized analysis and treatment planning based on a flow that has been proven over more than 40 years and in many forms.
  • Help patients experience the relationship between their airway and the dental relationships that influence the health of their breathing.  Apply airway-directed and airway-aware principles to treatment.
  • Select, adjust, and evaluate an occlusal appliance based on the need for a differential diagnosis, ongoing therapy, or both.
  • See the connection between TMD and occlusion.
  • Transfer esthetic and functional information to an articulator, analog or digital, and design the desired occlusion using “mounted” casts and/or appropriately related models.
  • Help your patients SEE an outcome they can ask you to accomplish with them.
  • Sequence, develop an appropriate fee, and complete complex treatment in your practice or with your chosen specialists.
About the Speaker: Dr. Gary DeWood lives in Phoenix with his wife of 44 years, Dr. Cheryl DeWood. A native of Toledo, Ohio, Gary earned his D.D.S. from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in 1980, completed the University of Florida Facial Pain Center Curriculum from 1992 through 1995, and in 2004 earned a Master of Science degree at The University of Toledo College of Medicine.  He left full-time private practice in 2003 to serve as clinical director at The Pankey Institute, a position he held until 2008 when he joined Frank Spear in Seattle as the president of Frank’s education company, The Seattle Institute. As a founding member of Spear Education, formed by the merger of The Scottsdale Center and The Seattle Institute, he relocated to Arizona in 2009 as Executive Vice-President for curriculum and clinical education.  Today he serves as Executive Vice-President for Spear Education.  He maintains a limited private practice on the Spear campus and teaches in Spear workshops, Spear Online, Spear Study Clubs, and Spear Practice Solutions. Gary has presented to international audiences in the areas of occlusion, temporomandibular disorders, bite splint therapy, restorative dentistry, esthetics, financial management, and practice management.