Dental Continuing Education Seminar:
The Lost Art of Equilibration — Simplified
Dr. Culver is back in the business of helping dentists with the sale of their practices. After 14 years of seminaring and consulting with dentists on practice transitions, he has become nationally recognized on the subject. And now he can help you find the best route for the sale of your practice.
Call him at 360-378-7145 or email NormCulver@aol.com.
- Finally, here's a way to make equilibration simple,
practical, and profitable. - This is not one of those complicated occlusion classes
but a simple half day course, focused entirely on
equilibration. - Learn from a dentist who's done thousands of them for nearly 40 years
and can simplify the process for you.
- Learn on large scale models, exactly where to grind and why.
- Getting burned out? Here's a class that could make a difference.
Choose from several seminar locations or request private instructional meetings.
For more information, phone (206) 623-8632.
Why do so many dentists shun equilibration?
- Perhaps because they're considered unneeded?
- Not covered by insurance?
- Too complicated?
- Not profitable?
- Had some problems trying to do them?
- Or, because you've never really learned how to do them?
Finally here's a simple, three-step procedure for doing most equilibrations, start-to-finish, in two short appointments:
- Correction of eccentric contacts
- Adjustment of working and balancing sides
- Improvement of anterior guidance and esthetics
It can usually all be accomplished in about half an hour - really - and combined with other treatment appointments. Then you don't have to charge so much to profit from it.
Learn — in an intimate, small-group setting — what you may have been putting off for years.
- The shortcuts
- How to incorporate equilibration into your own practice
- How to obtain insurance coverage
- And make it profitable
About half of them are covered by insurance and the other half are worth it for the benefits to the patient.
After learning from the early experts — Pankey, Christensen, Dawson, and others — Dr. Culver developed a way of doing this procedure in a simplified and effective manner. Now, he can show you how to do the same thing. Unlike some of the more sophisticated seminars, this one is practical, it's given by an ordinary dentist and it demonstrates how to do a basic equilibration.
Why are there so many arguments against equilibration?
Dr. Gordon Christensen:
"For many dentists, this treament has been mystic and poorly understood. In reality, the concept is as simple as balancing tires on an automobile, or shortening one leg on a four-legged table when it won't stand without movement."
Christensen, G.J. Abnormal occlusal conditions: A forgotten part of Dentistry. JADA 1995; 126(12) 1667-68. Copyright © 1995 American Dental Association. Al rights reserved. Excerpted by permission.
Dr. Peter Dawson:
"If the important of occlusion in dentistry were universally understood, no dentist would even consider practicing without a working knowledge of the principles and skills required for successful occlusal equilibration."
Done properly and selectively, equilibration can cause no harm. That's because, instead of dictating any new occlusion, it only frees whatever occlusion the patient may already have.
Experts have long-since shown that, even though it's little understood and not commmonly done, equilibration can be of great benefit to patients. It can ease muscle and TMJ symptoms, prevent grinding and fractures, improve function and even help periodontal disease.
What have you been doing about such problems?
Wouldn't many of those patients with removable appliances love to get rid of them for an occulusion that feels better?
Equilibration Questions
Do you think equilibration will be hard to sell to patients?
Not once you've learned how simple and beneficial the procedure can be. Then you'll have found the way to patient acceptance.
Do you think removable appliances are better because they're reversible?
Well, neither are restorations reversible and I'll bet you do plenty of them?
Do you think patients will have trouble adjusting to an equilibration?
Almost never! In fact, they usually say it feels better.
Do you think the grinding will make the teeth sensitive?
Usually not much and that's almost always temporary. That's because there's usually little adjusting to be done and that's done on the thickest parts of the enamel.
What if you're doing a significant amount of restorative and there's heavy existing wear?
Isn't this a one-time opportunity to establish a better occlusion instead of perpetuating whatever occlusion the patient may already have.
Does equilibration seems hard to justify?
Aren't there are times when it might be harder not to justify?
What about the fees?
If it can be done along with other treatment and it only takes about thirty minutes, how about $250? And if it takes two or more separate appointments and there are some symptoms, how about $800? Wouldn't those fees be both profitable to you and fair to the patient?
Learn— in this concise half-day class...
...how to examine patients for:
Take abfractions, for instance - those little notches at the cemento-enamel junction - which are caused by stresses from occlusion. And adjusting for those stresses is what equilibration is all about.
- Eccentric prematurities and other interferences
- Grinding, bruxing and clenching
- Excessive wear facets and signs of fracturing
- Abfractions and hypersensitivity
- Masticatory muscle and TMJ symptoms
- Related periodontal disease
...how to simplify the procedure:
- Exactly what areas on contact to adjust
- When to adjust upper verses lower teeth
- How to minimize the need for mounted models
- How to equilibrate over implants
- When to use "T-Scan", deprogrammers or others such devices
Also learn when equilibration is not indicated, when to refer and when to use appliances or do restorations instead.
Learn how to make equilibration understandable and acceptable to patients.
Learn how to make equilibration profitable and significantly increase your income.
Read Dr. Culver's article on Dentaltown.
Choose from several seminar locations or request private instructional meetings.
For more information, phone (206) 623-8632.