Friday
Doctor/Technician

Esthetic Rehabilitation: A Comprehensive Prosthetic Approach 
Mauro Fradeani, MD, DMD 

The presentation will discuss the fundamentals required to accomplish a pleasing, functional and long lasting esthetic outcome: treatment plan, team collaboration, understanding of the patient’s needs and selection of restorative materials. A myriad of factors affect the esthetic and functional outcome of complex cases. Properly addressing those factors will facilitate the achievement of a predictable and successful prosthetic rehabilitation. Among others, factors that will significantly improve the functional and esthetic outcome include: proper preoperative esthetic and functional analysis, correct data transmission to the laboratory regarding the occlusal plane orientation and inclination, and definition of an appropriate incisal edge position.

A close collaboration is also needed between the surgeon and the restorative dentist both for treating natural dentition or dental implants, especially in challenging clinical situations such as patients with a high smile line. Material selection plays a fundamental role in management of complex rehabilitation cases. This presentation will also illustrate how to select and optimize the use of metal-free ceramic materials even in full-mouth rehabilitations. Nowadays an innovative operative protocol allows to face highly compromised clinical situations, with a minimally invasive prosthetic procedure (MIPP) that guarantees an excellent, long lasting esthetic result and a better acceptance of the treatment by the patient.

 Objectives and subjects covered in this seminar will include:

• Understand the patient’s needs and establish an ideal treatment plan
• Select the appropriate technique and ceramic material when approaching a full-mouth rehabilitation
• Learn innovative operative protocols with minimally invasive prosthetic procedures (MIPP)

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Saturday
Doctor/Technician

Esthetics and Function: Formulas for a Successful Occlusal Rehabilitation
Stefano Gracis, DMD, MSD 

When performing an occlusal rehabilitation, the development of an effective anterior guidance is a key element in the functional success of the treatment. This course will address the esthetic and functional parameters that should guide the clinician in creating an anterior guidance that separates the posterior teeth during all excursive movements while enhancing the smile of the patient.

The following are some of the topics that will be discussed: how do changes in overbite and overjet influence the effectiveness of anterior guidance? Can the vertical dimension of occlusion be varied? If so, what are the implications of such a change? When should maximum intercuspation be recorded and when centric relation? When should the models of the patient be mounted on an articulator? Which instruments should be used? The illustration of several clinical cases with extensive rehabilitations and an interactive discussion with the audience will help focus the important issues and thought processes to be applied. 

Friday/Saturday
Team Member Sessions

The FACD Catch Your Limit Leadership Challenge
Melissa Laughon, Catch Your Limit Consulting

For over twelve years, Catch Your Limit Consulting has created and lived a unique brand with a core value of helping their clients reach their full potential, or in their words, catch your limit. In this 1 ½ day interactive challenge, you’ll have the opportunity to focus on your personal and professional growth.

The Catch Your Limit challenge is not for weak of heart and requires courage, determination and leadership to master it. On Friday, Tom Laughon and Melissa Laughon will guide you in individual and group discussions and exercises.  On Saturday, they’ll take you on an unforgettable leadership journey – Scavenger Hunt Style – that will have you leading, teaming and creating like never before. 

Postured as a journey that has no end, the FACD Catch Your Limit Leadership Challenge is hands-on learning experience that has the power to transform the way you think about change, leadership, creativity, and teaming and is loaded with tools to take back to your organization:

• You will be challenged to reflect on your leadership communication style, how you are perceived by others, as well as how effective you are in communicating and interacting on a personal level with your clients, co-workers, community, friends and family.  With this knowledge, you will be more equipped to navigate the challenges of interpersonal communication that we face on a daily basis.
• Understand the similarities and differences between the generations in order to better leverage the talents of a diverse team. 
• Be mindful of the flexibility you’ll need to manage and motivate four very different generations.
• Understand your role in leading teaming and building a culture of teaming in your organization.
• Analyze functional and dysfunctional elements of your teams and tools you can learn and teach for overcoming specific teaming obstacles.
• Become more effective and efficient in terms of strategic thinking and decision making
• Creativity tools/processes that you can use and teach to your organization for faster, clearer thinking, improved communication and greater creativity
• How to handles differences in values and work styles in a creative setting
• Key steps in fostering an innovative workplace