Modules
Module 1 Foundations for Success
9/6/2024
9am-2pm
Breakfast and lunch provided
Outline Lecture/Hands-on:
- Introduction to Zest Practicum
- Market demand for edentulous patients
- Full Arch benefits to practice and patients
- Review treatment options for edentulous patients.
- Efficient and cost-effective treatment solutions
- Team approach for full arch restorations
- Case selection and patient assessment
- Treatment Planning
- Product Training
Module 2 Compelling Communication and Marketing
11/22/2024
9am-2pm
Breakfast and lunch provided
Outline Lecture/Participation:
- Introduction and purpose
- New Technology to practice
- Active listening
- Case presentation
- Handling objections
- Discussing financial: cost vs. value
- Marketing
Module 3 Effective Treatment Planning
1/10/2025
9am-2pm
Breakfast and lunch provided
Outline lecture/hands-on:
- Deep dive Full-Arch treatment planning guidelines
- Effective Referrals (surgical specialist, laboratory)
- Hand-on: Locator pick-up
- Group treatment planning session.
- Preparing patients for surgery
Module 4 Surgical Teamwork
9am-12PM (video and discussion)
Breakfast provided
Outline lecture:
- Understand surgeon’s practice structure, team roles, and expertise
- Discuss how to effectively work together as referrals
- Discuss your plan with the surgeon for restoring your own patient cases for the course
- Each dentist may attend own patients’ implant placement at surgeon’s practice
Module 5 Laboratory Teamwork
9am-12pm (video and discussion)
Breakfast provided
Outline partner with dental laboratory:
- Team introduction and roles
- Discuss goals, processes, and needs for creating an effective referral relationship and ensuring optimal care of your shared patients.
- View one or more of your own course patient restorations being fabricated by the lab
- Discuss the status, plans and next steps for restoring your own course patient cases.
Module 6 Team approach to Full- Arch Restorations
9am-2pm
Breakfast and lunch provided
Outline Lecture/hands-on:
- Introduction and purpose
- Roles of each team member and how to increase teamwork for successful clinical outcomes
- Review restorative processes and materials to complete full arch
- Intensive hands-on full arch restorative exercises
- Dialogue with the group about cases pending restoration, continue mentoring, and ensuring confidence to complete cases.
Module 7 Complete Your Restorations
Self-Guided:
- Attendee to partner closely with Zest Practicum Laboratory while fabricating final restorations and completing their own cases.
- Attendees engage with host surgeon, lab and Zest dental support team
- Attendees complete three-five (or more) full arch removable and fixed restorations to ensure confidence and proficiency during the program.
- Laboratory to attend one or more appointments with the dentist attendee while their patient restorations are completed/seated in practice.
Module 8 Celebrating Success!!
Dinner
- Introduction
- Presentation of participants cases, sharing the treatment experience and learning highlights.
- Presentation of Certificates of Completion
- Patient testimonials
- Discuss topics of future interest
- Closing and looking forward