Educational Courses

100 Credit Hours

Chris Baker, RN, DMD

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Note: Non-members or those whose dues have expired will also be charged membership of $195 at the time of registration.

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Call 800-448-1601 8:00 am to 5:00 pm cst, Monday through Friday and use your credit card to make your deposit and register for the course. This course fills every year and a prompt phone registration will assure your place in the class.

About Chris Baker, RN, DMD, Course Director
After practicing as a critical care Registered Nurse for 10 years, Dr. Baker earned her DMD from University of Kentucky and her certificate in Pediatric Dentistry from University of Connecticut. She also spent a year fellowship in Orthodontics at UConn, and served on faculty in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics for seven years. She then joined Dr. Walter Doyle in practice and teaching seminars. Today, after 25 years in dentistry, Dr. Chris’ approach to pediatric dentistry and orthodontics is based in prevention, with emphasis on orthodontic treatment procedures for the preschool and school-age child to improve the growth of the entire face. Her experience in practice management and her extensive knowledge of child behavior, parenting, and child management are elements integrated in her practice and teaching. Dr. Baker’s busy practice continues to provide state-of-the-art care to many children, and through Chris Baker Seminars, the outreach is wide. How would you feel if you knew you could guide child after child into young adulthood, free of dental disease and with healthy, stable occlusions and beautiful smiles in beautiful faces? You can.

There is no comparison…
This is your comprehensive “hands-on” course! Treat cases and increase revenue while the course is underway. Subsequent years are available to AOS members at only half the normal fee. Whether you choose to treat simple cases or want to understand the stomatognathic system and how it relates to orthodontics and all aspects of dentistry, this is your course. You will learn and use Straight Wire ® techniques, as well as wirebending procedures which can be used to augment the Straight Wire® system.

With over 16 years of teaching orthodontics, 8 of them alongside the late Dr. Walter Doyle in Doyle Seminars, Dr. Baker has taught hundreds of highly successful clinicians, both GP and pediatric.

How you will save time & money...
The Dr. Chris Baker Seminars, formerly Doyle Seminars, are designed to teach the principles of the major fixed and functional appliances with application to all present and future systems. There is no need to repeatedly travel around the country to learn bits of information from various clinicians teaching a particular appliance or treatment philosophy. You will be taught the foundational principles that allow you to utilize the appropriate and the most efficient clinical tools. With this course YOU intelligently evaluate treatment mechanics and determine what works best for you. Dr. Baker’s comprehensive course will give you predictable, consistent, reproducible treatment options that are not limited by manufacturer’s marketing. Your education will be “results-driven”, based on understandings and diagnosis which allow problemfocused mechanics.

What you will learn...
The objective of your course is to provide you a solid and confident knowledge of orthodontics, enabling you to provide quality long-term care to your patients. This occurs with a complete understanding of the biologic basis of tooth movement and functional appliances, growth, mechanical principles, diagnosis of problems, and efficient clinical application in an affordable, profitable manner. The five major divisions of the course content outline are (1) biological science, (2) physical science, (3) clinical science, (4) clinical experience, and (5) management science.

How you will learn...
With an integrated approach to diagnosis and treatment, your orthodontic training will include observation of orthodontic procedures through computer presentations. You will follow patient treatment from initial examination through sophisticated finishing procedures. Typodont exercises will be used to develop your wirebending skills and to reinforce the logical mechanical sequences for treating all major orthodontic problems. Cephalometric tracing exercises, lectures, reading assignments, reviews of literature, and case presentations by students will all be part of your learning process.

Where and when you will learn and have fun...
Baltimore is easily accessible from all regions of the United States. No matter the season, there are plenty of reasons to visit Baltimore for fun and education. Beautiful springs along the water, falls that blanket Maryland in color and history from the foundations of America make this a premier city. Further information on tourist attractions is available by visiting www.baltimore.org.

Phoenix, Arizona’s nearly perfect sunny days, year-around weather, and lush desert landscapes make this another special place for your AOS Chris Baker Seminars. Join us for classes between sunrises and sunsets rimmed by breathtaking mountain peaks. Visit www. arizonaguide.com for more information on the nearby attractions.

We encourage you to stay at the Embassy Suites BWI Airport Hotel, or the Embassy Suites Phoenix Airport Hotel, where the courses are being conducted. These hotels are making special rates available to our AOS members for each of your weekends, and both the BWI Embassy Suites and the Phoenix Airport Embassy Suites are only 5 minutes from the respective airport with free shuttle service. Your seminar schedule is designed to minimize out of office time and enable you to provide orthodontic services while the course is still ongoing.

Seminar Dates (Baltimore):
Weekend 1: September 5-7, 2008
Weekend 2: October 31-November 2, 2008
Weekend 3: January 23-25, 2009
Weekend 4: March 20-22, 2009
Weekend 5: May 1-3, 2009

Seminar Dates (Phoenix):
Weekend 1: October 17-19, 2008
Weekend 2: November 14-16, 2008
Weekend 3: February 6-8, 2009
Weekend 4: March 27-29, 2009
Weekend 5: June 5-7, 2009

The sessions are interchangeable if you have a conflict with a weekend for your primary location.

Course Outline

Weekend 1: Getting started: Records, Examination and Structured diagnosis - Hands-on: ceph tracing and examination

• Your orthopedic office systems
  
• The orthodontic examination, including muscle palpations
  
• The orthodontic patient
  
• The airway and its impact on childhood, growth and development, health, orthodontic treatment and adulthood
• Esthetics
• Gathering orthodontic records
• Cephalometric tracing
• Ricketts ceph analysis
• Your cases

Weekend 2: Diagnosis, treatment planning and beginning treatment - Mechanics: bracketing on models, looped arch wire

• Treatment planning and clinical considerations
• Review of “points and planes” measurements
• Skeletal classification and face typing
• Convexity in the frontal dimension
• Skeletal age vs. chronological age
• Airway and posture
• Profile and facial pattern
• Dental classification
• Problem analysis
• Use treatment planning checklist with sample case, side-by side on PowerPoint
• Mega concepts
• Class I, Class II, Class III
• Skeletal vs. dental problems
• Facial type and impact on treatment
• Extraction vs. non-extraction treatment
• Bracketing teeth
• Placement
• Sequence
• Bracketing cements
• Typodonts:
• Crowding treatment mechanics - Looped arch wire
• Your cases

Weekend 3: Case selection, Class I treatment, limited primary and transitional dentition treatment, transverse discrepancies - Mechanics: sectional, utility, and full arch wires

• Case selection - focus on Cl I crowded and mild Cl II
• Expansion – Maxillary Expanding Appliances
• Primary and transitional dentition treatment
• Phasing treatment – Phase I and Phase II
• Habits
• Crossbites
• The young Class III patient: Chin sling and facemask treatments
• When to consider extractions of primary canines: making your life easier, your patients’ lives better and reducing risk of canine impactions
• Typodonts
• full arch straight wire
• Wire bending: sectionals and Utility Arch Wires
• Your cases

Weekend 4: Understanding mechanics; early development of joints and occlusion, inter-arch A-P discrepancies, vertical discrepancies - Mechanics: distalizing cuspids, closing spaces

• Isolating MX vs MD etiologies
• Class I tx
• Class II tx
• Challenges in mechanics:
• Anchorage
• Friction
• Deepbites and biteplates
• ARS
• Distalizing molars
• Typodonts: canine retraction and contraction utilities
• Your cases

Weekend 5: Detailing the case and Retention - Mechanics: detailing wire, closing wire

• Case finishing and detailing
• Root angulation - panoramic radiograph
• Retention
• Retainer designs
• Use of retainers
• Typodonts
• Detailing wire
• Closing wire
• Your cases

Register Now! Don't Miss Out!
AOS membership ($195) is required. For AOS members, the seminar price is $3,980 with a 10% discount if you register by August 15, 2008. A $645 deposit is required at registration. $100 of the deposit is non refundable 2 weeks prior to the start of the course. The AOS is an Accepted Program Provider of the Academy of General Dentistry. A total of 100 hours: 67 hours lecture and 33 hours participation will be granted for this seminar. To register, please CALL 800-448-1601 between 8:30 AM and 5:00 PM CST, Monday - Friday for more information, or MAIL the completed registration form along with your deposit to: American Orthodontic Society, 11884 Greenville Ave., Suite 112, Dallas, TX 75243-3537. You may also register on-line at www.orthodontics.com. Attendance in this course is limited and the class fills up quickly. Please register early.

Recognition
The American Orthodontic Society is an Accepted Program Provider of the Academy of General Dentistry. The formal continuing education programs of the AOS are accepted for FAGD/MAGD credit. A total of 100 hours will be granted for this course.

Hotel Information
The Baltimore seminar will be held at the Embassy Suites BWI Airport Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. Call 410-850-0747. Rooms have been blocked at the preferred rate of $135 per night.

The Phoenix seminar will be held at the Embassy Suites Phoenix Airport at 24th Street. Call 602-957-1910. Rooms have been blocked at the preferred rate of $129 per night.

Please make your hotel reservations at least 4 weeks in advance to guarantee your preferred rate. Breakfast and an evening reception are included in the rate.