If you've been doing Six Month Smiles cases for a while, we can help you increase your confidence and take on more complex cases. This Advanced training opportunity for current Six Month Smiles providers who have completed the Braces Essentials training live or online.
Seminar Overview
Introducing Six Month SmilesInvisible Aligners!Our Level 2 Seminar will focus on advanced techniques for treating patients with Clear Braces, which now includes educatingon how to treat patients with Aligners and Mixed Appliances (Aligners on one arch and Braces on the other arch).
Educational objectives - At the completion of this course, attendees should be able to:
Diagnose and treatment plan complex Short-Term Ortho (STO) cases.
Set up combination cases involving STO and veneers, bridges, implants, bonding and/or recountouring.
Know when and how to use elastics, springs and other ancillary STO components.
Address complex challenges.
Understand retention – how, when and why.
Understand how to develop specific treatment plans and present cases.
Upcoming Courses
Doctor:£2,189 ($2,750) Team: £470 ($595)
15 CE / 14 ECPD
FAQ
How much experience should I have?
We recommend that you have treated a few patients with Six Month Smiles. You should know and understand the core concepts of moving teeth with Six Month Smiles Clear Braces before attending the Advanced Braces course.
Do I need to attend Level 2 to treat patients?
No, the course is not required to treat patients with Six Month Smiles. The Advanced Braces 2 Day Live course will improve your confidence, make Six Month Smiles more rewarding, and allow you to treat cases of additional complexity.
I am not confident - will Level 2 help me?
It depends. If you are already treating a fair number of patients and want to take on cases with more complexity, Advanced Braces 2 Day Live is the course for you. If you’re not treating many patients and want to increase your confidence in the fundamentals of Six Month Smiles, consider refreshing your skills with the Braces e-Course. As an existing Six Month Smiles provider, you qualify for a significant tuition discount.
Why Advanced Braces?
The main goal of the Advanced Braces course is to treat more patients with increased efficiency and additional complexity, core ideas covered are:
Overjet management and IPR
Arch development
Case management with primary or missing teeth
Improve root angulations
Finishing movements and moving stubborn teeth
Using Altered Bracket Position to speed up treatment
Topics Covered:
Tips & Tricks to make your cases go faster
Bite Guards (Bumpers) protocol for deep bite/crossbites
Posterior Box Elastics to level curve of spee/close open bites
POP Bends for finishing
Retainer Protocols: Preventing or managing relapse
Piggybacking when and why
Fixing a bite that opened up
Lining up the upper centrals for symmetry
Engaging the arch wire for most efficient movement
Troubleshooting various types of cases: Open Bites, Deep Bites, Crossbites, Severe Rotations, Severe Crowding, Extraction cases, Spaced Cases, Intrusions, and Extrusions.
15 CE / 14 ECPD Credits available
Questions?
Schedule a call with a Six Month Smiles representative.
Hands-on Training
Increasing Your Clinical Confidence, Clinical Excellence & Bottom Line.
Video
Video
Boost Your Confidence, Hone Your Skills
Length: 46 seconds
CE Zoom Nationally Approved PACE Program Provider for FAGD/MAGD Credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by any regulatory authority or AGD endorsement. 01/01/22 to 12/31/23. Provider ID # 373236. This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the standards of the Academy of General Dentistry Program Approval for Continuing Education (PACE) through the joint program provider approval of CE Zoom and Six Month Smiles. CE Zoom is approved for awarding FAGD/MAGD credit. AGD Code: Orthodontics – 370
