Educational Courses

The Next Steps:
A Four Session Continuum in Orthodontics

80 Credit Hours per session

David Jackson, DDS, FAGD, IBO

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Note: Non-members or those whose dues have expired will also be charged membership of $245 at the time of registration.

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David Jackson, DDS, FAGD, IBO

Dr. Dave is a graduate of Baylor University and Baylor College of Dentistry. He is a past president, Diplomate, and senior instructor of both the American Orthodontic Society and the International Association for Orthodontics. He also is a Board Examiner for the Academy of Diplomates of the American Orthodontic Society. Dr. Jackson operates two highly successful practices and employees over twenty-five team members. His insight to the real world of orthodontics in the general and pediatric dental office is honest, sincere, informative, and entertaining. He believes in .TEAM ORTHODONTICS. and stresses the key to successful integration of profitable orthodontics is directly related to staff training and empowerment. His personal mission and genuine desire is to advance your orthodontic knowledge base and make orthodontics an integral and profitable part of your practice.

Course Benefits

• A six-hundred page course manual you will refer to for years
• Downloadable orthodontic and practice management forms
• Your own personal case presentation page
• Access to cases Dr. Jackson has treated per the web site: www.orthoplusseminars.com
• Blogs and Webinars with Dr. Jackson
• Quarterly AOS Journal (Dr. Jackson writes an article in every journal)
• Access to the annual meeting of the American Orthodontic Society
• Tier Advancement forms
• Lifetime Mentoring
• 24-hour access to Dr. Jackson via email and personal cell phone
• Dr. Jackson.s 82 page office policy manual
• Students may monitor the immediate following year at NO CHARGE
• Prior Next Step students may attend FREE with the referral of NEW doctor to the course.

Course Description

The Next Steps is intended to further your orthodontic education. The Next Steps is a course designed for the orthodontic practitioner who has just completed a basic course, and/or the doctor who may have been practicing orthodontics and would like an update in the latest concepts. The course consists hands-on and clinical lectures on Friday and Saturday with a half-day Sunday devoted to reviewing your cases that you may be having difficulties with and/or orthodontic cases you are considering for treatment. A total of 80 continuing hours of credit may be gained (20 per session).

Session 1

• Expanded Cephalometrics
• Expanded Diagnosis
• Systematic Treatment Planning
• “Forming Your Orthodontic Practice Correctly”
• Aligners — the Good, The Bad, The Ugly
• “Wireology”
• Brackets, Slots, and Orders of Bends
• The Jackson Straightwire Series
• The Six Types of Orthodontic Appliances
• The Sim Analysis
• Phase I Treatment
• Prefabricated Utility Archwire
• Rapid Palatal Expansion vs. Slow Alveolar Remodeling
• Regional Acceleratory Phenomenon
• Bundles of Bones Theory

• Exercise 1 First Order Bends
• Exercise 2 Second Order Bends
• Exercise 3 Third Order Bends
• Exercise 4 Integrating Bands into Straight Wire Orthodontics

Session 2

• Expanded Diagnosis
• Marketing your Orthodontics and Practice
• Right Fees at the Right Time
• Distalization vs. Mandibular Repositioning
• Distalization Appliances
• Mandibular Repositioning Appliances
• Alternative to Headgears
• The Profile Enhancer
• Treating Anterior Open Bites
• Habit Appliances
• Treating the Tongue Thrust
• Intraoral Elastics — When, Where and What Size
• Treating Diastemas and Midlines
• Treating Rotated Molars
• Phase I Retention — the Fixed removable Lingual Arch

• Exercise 5 Fabrication of an Arch Wire with No Torque
• Exercise 6 Fabrication of an Arch Wire with Torque
• Exercise 7 Fabrication of Helical, Omega, and T-Loops
• Exercise 8 Fabrication of Molar Uprighting Springs

Session 3

• Expanded Diagnosis
• The Business of Orthodontics
• Getting Paid for Your Services
• Dealing with Compliance Issues
• Adenoids and the Craniofacial Complex
• Alternative treatment to Surgical Class III patients
• Knowing When to consider Extraction Orthodontics
• Extraction Mechanics
• Closing Spaces
• Tooth/Arch Discrepancies
• Treating Canted Occlusions
• Treating Impacted Canines
• Treating Impacted Second Molars
• Partial Anodontia
• Case Finishing Pearls

• Exercise 9 Fabrication of a Fixed Removable Lingual Arch
• Exercise 10 Fabrication of a Utility Arch Wire
• Exercise 11 Placing a Lower Multi Distalizing Appliance
• Exercise 12 Mandibular Repositioning Appliances

Session 4

• Expanded Diagnosis
• Developing your own Orthodontic Philosophy
• Orthodontic Scheduling in a General Practice
• Increasing Your Orthodontic Patient Load
• The self-ligating Bracket
• Alternative Expansion with .040 Stainless Steel
• Alternative to the Open coil Spring — The Closed Arch
• Treating the Class III patient
• Treating with three archwires
• Phase II Retention
• Orthodontics and TMD
• Surgical Orthodontics
• Asymmetry in Orthodontics
• Partial Dentures, Crowns, and Bridges in Orthodontics
• A Touch of “TADS”

• Exercise 13 Fabrication of a Transpalatal Appliance
• Exercise 14 Expanding and Opening Space without OCS
• Exercise 15 Fabrication of a Buccal Expansion Appliance
• Exercise 16 Placing a Nitanium Palatal Expander

Special Features

Monitoring Policy Students may monitor for free the year following their initial participation in the class. Previous participants may retake the series or single sessions at half price, space permitting.

Schedule Flexibility Sessions between cities may be interchanged. A missed session can be taken the next year.

Membership

Founded in 1975, the American Orthodontic Society is the world's largest association of general and pediatric dentists who practice orthodontics. In addition to our fine continuing education programs we offer many other benefits for you, your staff, and your practice. Call us today at 800-448-1601.

Schedule

Schedule: Registration begins at 7:30 AM. Classes Friday and Saturday will be from 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM. Sunday will be from 8:00 AM until noon. (80 hours of continuing education).

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 80 hours will be granted for this course.

Class Location

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American Orthodontic Society is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.