Professional Consultations for Dentists
Implementing Comprehensive Patient Care
Every independent clinical dentist has a choice of providing provisional palliative patchwork patient care or definitive comprehensive oral-craniofacial patient care. In either case, these dentists need to acquire the necessary advanced knowledge and clinical skillsets as well as the business skillsets to provide it effectively and successfully.
There are many clinical dentists who have attended numerous post-graduate seminars, dental meetings, and joined professional associations and study clubs to acquire additional knowledge and clinical skillsets regarding treating various types of disorders involving the components of the masticatory system.
Unfortunately, many have attempted to implement what they were taught into their clinical practices and failed. What I have found was most all these dentists did this without modifying their existing patient care method, patient care system, patient care business model, and sales method. They didn’t even think about it and most of their efforts failed to work.
We also need to realize, how to make the transition depends on many factors unique to each dentist and the location of their clinical practices. Most important is what the doctor wants to do for a living when going to the office every day as well as defining their purpose.
Dr. Carlson has developed proven methods to assist those clinical dentists who want to learn to know how to make the transition successfully.
3-D Cephalometric Analysis Using CBCT-Scans
There are occasions when clinical dentists, chiropractors, and craniosacral therapists are faced with the challenges of treating patients who have various multifactorial disorders involving the structures of the head, neck, and face including the oral-facial, cranial, cervical bones, and mandible as well as the dentition of their patients. It’s knowing the condition of their size, shape, configuration, alignment, posture, and position.
This type of analysis is for clinicians who care for patients who have symptoms arising from neurological, neuromuscular, skeletal, and joint disorders where the source of the disorder is structural in nature. They need to realize the condition of the size, shape, configuration, and alignment of the oral-facial, cranial, cervical bones and mandible affects the function of the componets of the neurocranium and neural proprioceptors located in the cranial sutures as well as the function of the temporomandibular joints and the oral craniofacial-cervical muscles and nerves.
These structural disorders can create malfunction of the neural proprioceptors found in the cranial sutures, dural meninges, brain, brainstem, the 12 cranial nerves, pituitary and pineal glands, skeletal muscles and nerves, temporomandibular joints, and the cervical spine. Using CT-Scans dentists can determine when the condition of these bones may be causing the functional and/or structural disorders they have been asked to treat.
Realize:
- There are five neuromusculoskeletal structural platforms of the human body and the cranial-facial-mandibular-dental-cervical platform is one of them.
- Importance that the direction of the action/reaction forces created by contraction of oral-craniofacial-cervical muscles has on the function of the body’s oral-cranial-facial-cervical-dental segment and cranial-facial-mandibular-dental-cervical platform and the structure and function of the components of the neurocranium
- Importance of orthogonal alignment of the cranial-facial-mandibular-dental-cervical platform and orthocranial™ occlusion as they relate to treating oral-facial, cranial, cervical disorders as well as disorders involving the structure and components of the neurocranium
- The method and elements of orthocranial™ cephalometric analysis of the oral-cranial-facial-cervical-dental segment
- Analysis can provide evidence as to the cause of various neurological functional disorders.
- What evidence concerning the condition of oral-cranial-facial-cervical-dental segment found on the analysis can be used to help determine a diagnosis
- Evidence of malformation, distortion, and/or malalignment of the structure of the oral-cranial-facial-cervical-dental segment can be used to justify treatment objectives to remedy the neurological functional disorders.
Dr. Carlson is able assist clinical dentists, chiropractors, and craniosacral therapists by analyzing the condition of the oral-facial, cranial, and C1-C-4 cervical bones and dentition found on CBCT Scans using the 3-dimensional orthocranial™ cephalometric analysis method he has developed.
Caring for Edentulous Patients
Everyone, patients and dentists alike need to realize people who are missing most of all of their natural teeth and seek help from dentists to replace them are not denture patients. They are individuals who have had their natural teeth removed and are partially or completely edentulous.
Dr. Carlson is able to assist clinical dentists who want to treat them effectively, successfully, and profitable.
Dr. Carlson has pioneered and taught many dentists and lab technicians both here in American, Canada, and internationally a new paradigm of providing removable prosthetics. He can help you take the mystery and guesswork out of providing the most functional and comfortable replacement teeth possible, well beyond the current standard of care.
While demand for removable prosthetics is increasing, there are not enough dentists and qualified dental laboratory technicians available to meet the demand. Many dental practitioners have stopped offering full dentures in their practices because it is no longer profitable.
Dentists must learn how to put the profit and predictability back into removable prosthetics otherwise the lack of availability will just get worse.
It is not overstating that some patients will smile fully and eat comfortably for the first time in years, bringing them tears of joy. In addition to the many new treatment techniques Dr. Carlson has mastered, he can help dentists utilize his system of precise communication with the laboratory, which will greatly improve success.
Here are some of the many topics that Dr. Carlson can address:
- Concept of Orthocranial Occlusion™ & Dentition Design™
- Patient Analysis & Records
- Using the AccuLiner for Analysis & Creation
- Establishing the Optimal Occluding Inter-Arch Mandibular Position
- Initial & Final Impressions
- Aesthetic Tooth Selection
- Engineered Bite Rims
- Functional Dentition Design™
- Phonetic Relationship of Teeth
- Bite Registration
- The Try-In Appointment
- Marketing Your Prosthetic Services