The Dental Therapists course is specifically designed to increase the practical knowledge and skills of the Therapist taking them to a higher level of performance. The course exposes Dental Therapists to a broad range of best and emerging practices to increase the contribution and value they can deliver to a practice.
The course will help increase the variety of work you can undertake by improving your knowledge and skills in areas such as composite anterior and posterior fillings, bonded amalgam fillings and cores, placement of retraction cord and, impression taking. Attending the course will also enable the Therapist to undertake some of the basic work of the Dental Technician to improve efficiency in the restoration process.
The Dental Therapists course uses practical sessions to improve your hands-on techniques. It will increase your understanding and ability to execute best practice and build your confidence in being able to deliver great results consistently for you and the practice. The course is designed to help improve Therapist income levels by increasing the range of activities which can be successfully undertaken.
For the Dentist, the course can help drive down the cost of providing patient treatments whilst maintaining quality levels.
Tipton Training courses can enable practices to protect or increase their income streams and profitability by providing quality service at affordable prices to patients who may have less discretionary spend in the current economic climate.
The couse is designed to increase the capabilities of the Dental Therapist in the practice by ensuring that the Therapist is appropriately trained in all the following techniques.
Topics Covered
- Cosmetic Imaging
- Tooth Whitening/Intra and Extra oral
- Introduction to Intra Oral Photography
- Rubber Dam placement
- Composite anterior and posterior restorations
- Topical Anaesthetic placement
- Shade Taking
- Pouring, casting and mounting study casts
- Constructing prep guides and bleaching trays
- Alginate / Rubber base Impressions
- Facebow Registrations
- Use of the Florida Probe
- Indices to screen/monitor disease
- New types of fissure sealants
- Oral Anaesthetics (inflation/block). Use of the Wand
- Bonded Amalgam fillings and cores
- Use of correct matrices
- GIC restorations
- Use/placement of retraction cord
- Crown Preparations and placement of prefabricated crowns for primary teeth.
- Sales/Marketing techniques
- Aesthetic Dentistry
