Applied Occlusal Principles

Once you have a good understanding of the theory of occlusion and have mastered Appliances it’s time to move on to the next level. Applied Occlusal Principles teaches you the Hands-On Skills to manage your patients, using your own patients!

This hands-on programme is conducted in a modern, well equipped multi-operatory Private Practice utilising one-on-one supervision with patients from your own practice, making this the most practical, efficient and cost-effective occlusion learning experience available in dentistry.

These sessions teach you to treat your own patients:

• How to conduct a thorough occlusal examination, how to manipulate your patient to CR, how to carry out muscle and joint palpation.
• How to find Centric Relation, how to take a Facebow and Bite Records, and how to use them to properly mount your own models on an articulator.
• How to choose an articulator, how to set it for your patient and how to use it properly.
• How to make, adjust and review your Stabilisation Splints.
• More practice with Jigs, Quicksplints and partial Appliances.
• We explain why Equilibration is misunderstood and why it DOESN’T damage teeth in a properly selected patient. We show you how to assess and Equilibrate your patient’s models and how you can use additive and reductive techniques to create a harmonious Occlusion for your patient.
• The big cases. Why a correctly functioning occlusion is essential for restorative cases.

As well as learning all these skills, we will teach you more about TMD, including an introduction to Intra-capsular issues, so you'll know when and how you can treat these patients and whether you should be concerned if your patient has a click.

Occlusion Management is fundamental to the delivery of first class dentistry and occlusal knowledge saves you from many mistakes and failures.

We recommend that you have attended our Comprehensive Appliance Course and completed at least 10 cases of your own to make the most of this course.

We aim to run this course late 2026/early 2027 depending on interest, please register interest below, many thanks!