“Occlusion of the 21st Century”: Function, TMJ, Bruxism, Airway: The Modern Approach to Predictable and Stable Dentistry - Receive the Answers You Are Looking For
March 12 - 15, 2025
Course Overview
While dentistry has never had better treatment techniques, it is still facing problems in long term after initial treatment success. Over time, breakdown continues, and quite a few patients are developing into more and more complex “cases”.
In addition, more dysfunctional and symptomatic patients, and increasing bruxism are seen in dental practices. Since bruxing is a threat to dentition, surrounding tissues, implants, and dental treatment, it is feared by dentists.
The rise of “airway” patients raises another question of dental correlation and therefore is asking for solutions coming from the dental practitioners.
Therefore, some fundamental questions need to be asked:
Can we achieve stable dentitions for our patients?
Can we prevent continued dental problems, or do we have to accept this fact?
What are the main reasons for treatment failures in any dental discipline?
What role plays “Occlusion” in dental treatment? in restorative, prosthetics, periodontics, implants, and orthodontics
How to understand TMJ and symptomatic patients, especially after treatment?
Can dentists influence Bruxing activity?
How to approach the subject of restricted Airway?
Where is the correct starting point in treatment planning for simple to complex cases?
When to stay in Habitual Occlusion, when to go to Reference Position (historical CR)?
How to take a RP bite in a simple way, reliable and verifiable?
How to protect dentition and reconstruction from functional overload?
How do I become a “safer dentist” for “myself” and for my patients?
If you are asking yourself questions as above, we have the answers for you!
This Occlusion hands-on course is teaching the concept of “Modern Occlusion of the 21st Century”. It will connect the “dots” for you and will open your eyes to the root cause of dental problems and to solutions how to treat them.
It will organize everything you know and will put it in the right perspective.
This course on “Modern Occlusion” is based on extensive scientific evidence, clinical experience, and long-term clinical follow-ups.
It expresses the paradigm shift to an expanded view in dentistry to achieve predictable and stable treatment outcomes.
It is teaching the state-of-the-art in diagnosis and treatment planning to make you become a safer clinical practitioner.
It is the concept which is driven by Nature’s approach providing life-long-adaptive, well function in your patients and in your dentistry – for all disciplines.
It is the concept which makes “Occlusion” clear and easy to understand and takes out the unnecessary complexity which you might have learned.
This dental course is addressed to all dentists of any disciplines:
General Practitioners, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists, and Surgical Specialists
What if?
What if dental problems, too much endodontics, increasing tooth wear, tooth loss, decreasing periodontal and peri-implant tissues, post-orthodontic malocclusion, excessive bruxism, airway issues, and symptomatic patients, all above nowadays mostly seen in “good hygiene” conditions, would all be the expression of a similar cause?
This 4-day Occlusion course is divided into two parts with each teaching the subject in lecture and hands-on:
Part 1: Principles of Occlusion, Function, Dysfunction, the Craniomandibular System, Diagnostic Principles, the “New Patient” exam, Treatment Planning, Patient Education, Increased Case Acceptance, easy & reliable RP Bite, Comprehensive and Interdisciplinary Treatment planning
Part 2: “Initial therapy”- pre-treatment of dysfunctional patients, “post-treatment” occlusal protection –appliances for predictable control functional overload
All participants will perform the entire diagnostic process and analyze occlusion on each other. You will learn how to plan, deliver, and adjust a functional appliance which will protect TMJ and eliminates Functional Overload from teeth and your dental work. You will leave this course with your own occlusal protective appliance.
You will return to your patients being able to apply occlusal principles, to manage dysfunctional patients, and to protect their occlusion and dentistry from functional overload.
Your Benefit from this “Occlusion” course:
> Understanding the entire Masticatory Organ (TMJ, Occlusion & Function)
> Condition for Protective Occlusion
> Condition for Interference-free Function
> Simple, but powerful diagnostic approach to evaluate “Occlusion”
> Relevant diagnostic steps for risk assessment
> Diagnosis & treatment planning from single to complex clinical situations
> Interdisciplinary diagnosis & treatment planning for restorative, prosthetic, periodontal, surgical, and orthodontic treatment
> Patient education and increased case acceptance
> Initial therapy and post-treatment occlusal protection
> Functional appliances (so-called “splints”) in action
> Future Perspective: Occlusal Medicine, the New Foundation of Dentistry
Interested? … Join us for this Practice Changing Course!
You will return to your practice with increased confidence and competence in diagnosis and treatment planning, and with a new perspective of “Occlusion “and its relevance for your daily practice.
Heike Kraemer, D.M.D., Ph.D., M. Sc.
Miles Guyton, D.D.S.
I came to this course because I needed some CE hours and thought it sounded interesting. I will leave this course completely re-thinking how I practice. This knowledge is incredibly valuable. This should have been the first course I took out of school! I thought I was a good dentist and now I know I can be great! Thank you, Dr. Kraemer and Dr. Guyton.
I appreciated the comprehensive nature of the class. I believe I can now reliably find RP consistently, in the easiest of fashions. I especially like that obtaining RP is without the manipulation of the patient’s jaw, allowing the “human articulator” to provide the proper location. I believe this will allow for more accurate diagnosis and better patient outcomes. Thanks again for a great course. Highly recommended!
Dr. Heike Kraemer is an encyclopedia of dental knowledge. I appreciate the honesty and how to apply techniques in practice and expectations management predicted by patient and practitioners.
This occlusion course has demystified a lot of occlusion concepts that almost every dentist barely understands, coming out of dental school. After this course, every dentist will have a clear starting point and will be able to implement a system that will allow incorporation of complex occlusion concepts in treating every dental patient and help them improve not only their oral health, but also their overall health and well-being.
Dr. Heike Kraemer is a great teacher. I have attended numerous occlusion courses over the years, but her explanations are simple, precise, and easy to understand, and will be very helpful in implementation in daily practice. I have been needing a workflow for initial diagnosis and treatment planning, and I believe I have found it in this course. Thank you!
IDEA is the number 1 source of dental CE in my dental career. I appreciate the top dental professionals from all over the world and I have learnt a ton! I will surely be back.
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