Developing the Ultimate Dental/Lab Assistant Act I

Provide In Office Training that will propel your assistant to new levels. You and your assistant will receive training at the office of Dr. Michael Fling with his lab assistant, where you will experience 2 dynamic days of training. In Act I, you will learn a step by step process for taking intraoral and clinical photographs. Then you will be exposed to downloading digital photos along with developing patient albums for consultation purposes using PowerPoint 2007. Techniques for taking diagnostic study casts, taking facebows and protrusive records, and techniques for mounting and finishing immaculate study casts will be described and completed by the participants. The “New Patient Experience” will be reviewed and how study models and photographs are used to convey information to the patient will be conveyed. Techniques for fabricating stints for bis-acrylic overlays will be conducted. These overlays are used clinically at the consultation appointment to allow the patient “to see” what the final outcome would look like before treatment is ever done. This technique is completed by each participant. A composite overlay is also fabricated by each attendee that illustrates clinically how alterations in free gingival margin height through crown lengthening would appear. This overlay is then used as a guide for the surgeon when surgery is performed.

Each participant will learn and participate in:

• Intra-oral photographs
• Downloading and storing photoss
• Creating Photo Albums in PowerPoint 2007
• Printing clinical photos
• Taking diagnostic study casts
• Taking diagnostic records
• Mounting and finishing diagnostic study casts
• Fabricating stints for additive bis-acrylic overlays
• Fabricating composite overlays for illustrating free gingival margin changes