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Courses for dentists

Planmeca Digital Academy offers a comprehensive hands-on training curriculum that can improve team efficiency - increasing production, revenue, and profits while decreasing costs and inefficiencies for improved practice performance. Our course programs begin the moment you purchase the Planmeca FIT or Imaging system and lead you to more advanced programs to increase your technical knowledge and proficiency.

CAD/CAM Basic Programs

These core classes are offered to New & Existing customers and provide basic knowledge of the Planmeca CAD/CAM system.

Red Carpet Elements Training

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Implementing a new digital workflow touches many areas of your practice. Our approach to CAD/CAM training is to provide a solid foundation for dental professionals and their staff members, then continually build upon this knowledge over the course of a year and beyond.

This 2-day hands-on course will benefit new users of our Planmeca FIT® complete CAD/CAM solution as well as dentists and staff that want to optimize their techniques and tools. During this course, you will gain the experience necessary to implement the complete digital workflow from intraoral scanning, designing a variety of restorations, finishing and understand the different types of materials for milling.

OBJECTIVES

  • Review equipment and functionality for optimum CAD/CAM results.
  • Learn preparation guidelines with recommended materials and clinical protocols.
  • Understand the importance of soft tissue management for CAD/CAM success.
  • Scan, design, mill and finish multiple restorations.
  • Understand materials and characterization options with indications for clinical success.
  • Integrate an efficient CAD/CAM workflow within a practice.

PREREQUISITES

Planmeca FIT System Owner

FACULTY

Planmeca Faculty

CE Credits: 10

Format: Lecture/Hands-on

AGD subject code: 250

COURSE TUITION

$2,000 (includes airfare & hotel)

Red Carpet Elements Plus Training (with Planmeca PlanMill 50 S)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Implementing a new digital workflow touches many areas of your practice. Our approach to CAD/CAM training is to provide a solid foundation for dental professionals and their staff members, then continually build upon this knowledge over the course of a year and beyond.

This 2-day hands-on course will benefit new users of our Planmeca FIT® Plus complete CAD/CAM solution as well as dentists and staff that want to optimize their techniques and tools. During this course, you will gain the experience necessary to implement the complete digital workflow from intraoral scanning, designing a variety of restorations, finishing and understand the different types of materials for milling.

OBJECTIVES

  • Review equipment and functionality for optimum CAD/CAM results.
  • Learn preparation guidelines with recommended materials and clinical protocols.
  • Understand the importance of soft tissue management for CAD/CAM success.
  • Scan, design, mill and finish multiple restorations.
  • Understand materials and characterization options with indications for clinical success.
  • Integrate an efficient CAD/CAM workflow within a practice.

PREREQUISITES

Planmeca FIT Plus System Owner

FACULTY

Planmeca Faculty

CE Credits: 10

Format: Lecture/Hands-on

AGD subject code: 250

COURSE TUITION

$2,000 (includes airfare & hotel)

 

CAD/CAM Elements Training In-Office

If you would like to schedule training in your office, please contact us at 630.529.2300 or email at education@planmecausa.com.

2D & 3D Imaging

Ready for the next level of 2D & 3D Imaging training?

Training Courses for CBCT and Implant Workflow

CBCT Basics and Implant Planning (Online)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The first half of this 4-hour virtual course is designed to provide a basic foundation in reading 3D radiographs in a dental setting. The second half focuses on implant treatment planning skills. It provides a strong overview of digital dentistry using the latest technology.

OBJECTIVES

  • Review the principles of CBCT technology, radiation, dose and how to systematically review a CBCT scan
  • Review how a CBCT can be utilized for different clinical applications
  • Understand the fundamentals of restorative driven implant planning
  • Learn best practices for successful implant outcomes

PREREQUISITES

Planmeca CBCT equipment owners or those who are considering purchasing CBCT but want to learn more about the software. Recommended videos from our video library:

FACULTY

Oral and Maxillofacial Radiologist, Dr. Peter Green
Periodontist Dr. Zachary Evans, D.M.D.

CE Credits: 4

COURSE TUITION

$199

CBCT Basics, Interpretation and Implant Workflow

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This 2-day hands-on course is designed for both new CBCT users and others who wish to enhance their diagnostic and implant planning skills. It provides a strong foundation in CBCT principles, interpretation, and takes a deep dive into the complete digital implant workflow from a restoratively driven prospective. Attendees will work on multiple implant cases from a simple single site implant to more complex scenarios.

OBJECTIVES

  • Review the principles of CBCT technology, radiation, dose and how to systematically review a CBCT scan and interpret findings
  • How to identify anatomic landmarks in CBCT
  • Review how a CBCT can be utilized for different clinical applications with hands-on examples
  • Understand the fundamentals of restorative driven implant planning
  • Gain hands-on experience with CAD/CAM workflows and create digital wax-ups
  • Utilize surgical guides for implant treatment
  • Learn best practices with anterior and multi-unit implant cases

PREREQUISITES

Planmeca CBCT equipment owners who have had their initial CBCT orientation. Users must have the ability to open a patient chart and manipulate a CBCT image. Recommended videos from our video library:

CE Credits: 12

COURSE TUITION

$2000

Training Courses for Orthodontics

CBCT Basics for Orthodontists (Online)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This four-hour online course is designed specifically for the orthodontist who is using CBCT in their practice for taking records, diagnosis and treatment planning. The course will cover principles in CBCT imaging with a focus on the applications in orthodontic treatment.

OBJECTIVES

  • Review the basic principles of CBCT radiation dose and risks for the orthodontic patient
  • Identify anatomic landmarks in CBCT
  • Discuss the basic principles of anatomically based orthodontics using CBCT volumes
  • Learn orthodontic treatment planning and workflow

PREREQUISITES

Planmeca CBCT equipment owners or those who are considering purchasing CBCT but want to learn more about the software. Recommended videos from our video library:

FACULTY

Oral and Maxillofacial Radiologist, Dr. Peter Green
Orthodontist, Jay Burton, DMD, MBA

CE Credits: 4

COURSE TUITION

$199

CBCT Basics, Interpretation and Treatment Planning for Orthodontists

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Orthodontists will spend 2-days learning how to take their practice to the next level using CBCT technology. The first half of this course will focus on the foundations of radiology and reading large volume CBCT scans. The second half of the course provides an in-depth understanding of how to use CBCT technology to improve your diagnosis and treatment planning skills. Attendees will enjoy hands-on learning with actual cases and discuss how to leverage the latest technology for the best outcomes.

OBJECTIVES

  • Review the basic principles of CBCT radiation dose and risks for the orthodontic patient
  • Identify anatomic landmarks in CBCT
  • How to systematically review a CBCT scan and interpret findings
  • Discuss the basic principles of anatomically based orthodontics using CBCT volumes
  • Learn orthodontic treatment planning and workflow
  • Gain an understanding of diagnostic image sets using 3D
  • Evaluate several cases and identify best practices for ideal outcomes

PREREQUISITES

Planmeca CBCT equipment owners who have had their initial CBCT orientation. Users must have the ability to open a patient chart and manipulate a CBCT image Recommended videos from our video library:

CE Credits: 12

COURSE TUITION

$2000

Check back for registration dates in the future.

 

2D/3D In-Office Training

If you would like to schedule training in your office, please contact us at 630.529.2300 or email at education@planmecausa.com.

Advanced Courses

Planmeca has partnered with global leaders in digital dentistry, to offer advanced CAD/CAM and 3D imaging courses to help clinicians master new skills and achieve a higher level of dentistry. These courses are taught at Planmeca headquarters, 25 miles from O’Hare International Airport.

CAD/CAM - Puck to Perfect: A Dive into Chairside Puck Milling

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is geared towards general dentists and prosthodontists who are interested in getting more out of milling.

Topics include:

  • Changing your new patient experience with digital smile design in PlanCad Premium
  • Maximizing accuracy when scanning complete arches
  • Milled and printed mockups
  • Shell provisionals in PlanCad Premium
  • Characterizing PMMA with Empress Direct
  • Scanning in centric relation
  • Digital virtual equilibration in CR
  • Digital articulation principles
  • Occlusal Guards in PlanCad Premium
  • Designing multiple unit restorations
  • Designing bridges
  • Dry Milling Zirconia on 50s Mill
  • Characterizing and finishing a Zirconia Crown
  • 3D face scanning, Is it worth it?
  • A dive into digital copy dentures

PREREQUISITES

Red Carpet Elements Plus

FACULTY

Dr. Walter Renne

CE Credits: 14

COURSE TUITION

$3,000 (excludes all travel costs)

CAD/CAM - Posterior Conservative Ceramics

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is designed to introduce attendees to the new gold standard in indirect restorative dentistry: partial coverage glass ceramic restorations. Up to date, evidenced-based lecture content will be combined with ample hands-on experience for everything from preparation design to final delivery.

Topics include:

  • 21st century adhesion: what’s new, and what’s not
  • Why the full coverage crown is no longer the ideal solution for single tooth problems
  • Clinical decision-making guidelines for predictable, long lasting restorations
  • How to make partial coverage restorations an accepted, predictable and profitable part of your practice
  • Understanding modern esthetic indirect restorative materials and their management
  • Hands on experience with realistic clinical scenarios from prep to delivery

PREREQUISITES

Red Carpet Elements

FACULTY

Lead Faculty: Clint Stevens
Assisted by: Tony Mennito

CE Credits: 14

COURSE TUITION

$3,000 (excludes all travel costs)

CAD/CAM - Scan Olympics - How To Scan Complex Cases

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is geared towards dental team members who are interested in getting more out of the Emerald or Emerald S scanner.

Topics include:

  • Retraction
  • Scan pattern
  • HD snapshot best practice
  • Practice scanning quadrants
  • Bite articulation manual alignments
  • Complete Arch Scan pattern
  • Practice scanning typodonts
  • Master Complete arch scan on Patient
  • Complicated prosthetic scan workflow
  • Scanning for Dentures
  • Scanning in Centric Relation
  • Scanning Open Bite
  • Scanning Implants

PREREQUISITES

Red Carpet Elements

FACULTY

Faculty Lead Wally Renne with the assistance of Planmeca Clinical Specialists

CE Credits: 14

COURSE TUITION

$1,800 (excludes all travel costs)

CAD/CAM - From Block to Beautiful: Making Magic with e.max

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is geared towards general dentists and prosthodontists who are interested in utilizing CAD/CAM software to restore anterior teeth to maintain or improve the overall esthetics of the patient.

Topics include:

  • Review principles of adhesive dentistry and material properties of bondable ceramics with an emphasis on e.max.
  • Learn preparation principles for common conservative anterior preparations such as veneers, ¾ crowns and cingulum preservation preparations.
  • Work on typodont teeth altered to simulate clinical situations requiring restoration using the above preparations and to include how to design a single central incisor.
  • Discuss how digital photography plays a key role in anterior CAD/CAM procedures.
  • Execute the workflow for creating these restorations, from prep to delivery.
  • Review and practice adding stain, glaze and texture to anterior ceramics to allow them to blend in seamlessly.

PREREQUISITES

Red Carpet Elements Training

FACULTY

Lead Faculty: Tony Mennito
Assisted by: Casey Bennett

CE Credits: 14

COURSE TUITION

$3,000 (excludes all travel costs)

Planmeca Digital Academy is designated as an Approved PACE Program Provider by the Academy of General Dentistry. The formal continuing education programs of this program provider are accepted by AGD for Fellowship, Mastership and membership maintenance credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by a state or provincial board of dentistry or AGD endorsement. 4/1/2018-3/31/2021 Provider ID# 322731

Planmeca Digital Academy 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 the designated number of hours by boards of dentistry. Planmeca Digital Academy designates this activity for the continuing education credits.

Tuition fees for advanced courses exclude all travel costs.

Some portions of free programs are of a commercial/promotional nature.

The federal government imposes certain restrictions on, and pursuant to the Sunshine Act requires public reporting of, transfers of value to a practitioner. That includes education programs to the extent that less than a fair market value for such program is paid. Your distributor representative can advise you on the reportable amount.

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