Together Creating Life Changing Smiles
Smile Design
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General Dentists
Audience -
Free
Cost -
2 CE Credits
Credits -
Self-Instructional
Method -
April 21, 2021
Released -
April 21, 2024
Expires
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What's included?
Course Description
Smile design is a science and an art. Success and beauty is created in the clinical planning. In this 2-hour video, Dr. Tomaro will take you through the clinical steps necessary to create the beauty patients are seeking. Proper diagnosis and patient selection are the keys to success. The following clinical procedures will be discussed: evaluation of the smile corridor, facial analysis, occlusal evaluation, communicating with the laboratory technician, diagnostic wax-up, preparation of the teeth, creating temporaries the patient wants to keep, and the clinical steps to adhesion (why use the best materials available to us).
Learning Objectives
- Understand the role of “the golden proportion” in smile design
- Identify the rules of smile design
- Learn how the laboratory technician duplicates nature
- Understand adhesion
- Learn how to create beautiful smiles
Course Details
- Course Fee: Free
- Credits: Catapult Education designates this continuing education activity for 2 credits
- Method: Self-Instructional
- Audience: General Dentist, Dental Hygienist, Dental Assistant
- AGD Subject Code: 250, 780
Course contents
Meet the instructor
Tony Tomaro, DDS
Dr. Tony Tomaro and his exemplary staff provide industry-leading, comprehensive dental care. Every patient receives a thorough oral examination, which often include models, radiographs, photos and even PowerPoint presentations to help educate patients about the importance of dental procedures, regularly-scheduled follow up visits, and at-home oral hygiene practice. This inclusive strategy ensures Dr. Tomaro and his staff get to know every patient personally, in order to provide precise solutions to every dental issue. They are careful to examine every matter related to teeth, bite, jaw alignment, and muscles ensuring lasting, customized results.
Dr. Tomaro graduated from the University of Michigan, School of Dentistry. Prior to his relocation to Las Vegas, Nevada, Dr. Tomaro enjoyed 26 years of private practice in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He provides live-patient treatment courses, as well as peer lectures to dentists nationally and internationally. His teaching focuses on techniques related to Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD), General Dentistry (Tooth Colored Fillings & Crowns), Diagnosis, Cosmetic Dentistry, Treatment of Headaches, and Neuromuscular Dentistry procedures that are used in daily patient care.
Dr. Tony Tomaro is a published author and a consultant for dental laboratories and manufacturers, and a current contributing author to national dental publications and dental laboratory publications on several topics, including general dentistry, cosmetic dentistry and TMJ. He is affiliated with the following prestigious organizations: ADA - American Dental Association, MDA - Michigan Dental Association, NDA - Nevada Dental Association, and is a member and product reviewer for Catapult Education.
Dr. Tomaro has completed extensive dental and other academic training, including a degree in Dental Surgery from the University of Michigan, Master’s Degree in Biology/Histology at the University of Michigan, a Bachelor of Science-University of Michigan, and exclusive training in Dental Implant Surgery and Restoration, Rotary Endodontics, FACE—Advanced Dental Reconstruciton and TMJ, and Neuromuscular Orthodontics, Laser surgery, and additional training. His extensive and comprehensive knowledge of TMJ (TMD) and difficult bites has prompted dentists to seek him for their own personal treatment.
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Catapult Education, LLC is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.
Approved PACE Program Provider. FAGD/MAGD Credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by a state or provincial board of dentistry or AGD endorsement. 6/1/16 to 5/31/20. Provider ID 306446.