Course Description
Occlusion Seminars
Date for session 1:
Session 1: This session lecture is about General background,Centric Records, History of Occlusal
Concepts, centric Records taking them, verifying them, and using them.
There will be 1 day of lecture and 1 day of hands-on. Each participant must bring a facebow and an
articulator, or you will be able to rent for modest fee from Denar.
Date for session 2:
Session 2: Lecture: Clinical Exam, Rom, Muscle Exams, Internal vs. External Joint problems,
Hands on: Spray Paint Models, trial equilibration, Centric records on Partner, Pinned posterior
Segments, Vericheck centric records, comparing various bite registration materials.
Broderick Flagg.
Date for Session 3:
Session 3: Lecture: Occlusal Schemes and how they releate to clinical; Anterior Guidence, Cuspid rise,
Long Centric, Group function, Interfearences both working and non-working. Hands on;
Making temperarory Bite Planes, adjusting bite planes, Making NTI deprogramer with essix,
Partners Models verifying first centric contact, adjusting bite planes on partner.
Date for session 4:
Session 4: lecture: If NOt Why NOt, what have you learned what have you incorporated into your practice
How can we help implement. Putting it altogether.
Participants present their own Cases.
***Possibility of fith Session if class feels it would be beneficial, at no extra tuition.
Note: this course can travel if you have 8-10 doctors who are interested.