Dr Jason Smithson
Ultimate Treatment Planning: From Simple to Complex Cases
26-28 September 2025
Doubletree Hilton Granary Wharf, 2 Wharf Approach, Leeds LS1 4BR
A brand-new class for 2025 sharing 30-years of practical clinical experience: success, failure and everything in between.
Do you often think “where do I start” when a patient presents with teeth which are not in the ideal position or are worn?
Do you struggle to find the time to plan cases in your busy practice?
Do your patients often say “no” when you present complex treatment plans?
Do your ceramic or composite veneers chip or break soon after placement?
If you have answered “yes” then this may be the class for you.
Ultimate Treatment Planning: From Simple to Complex Cases
A comprehensive treatment planning course from initial planning concepts to completion and maintenance.
Are you curious how to best approach tooth wear cases?
So many of our patients present with tooth wear but how do we treat it?
Join Jason Smithson for 3 days as he brings together occlusal theory and how to relate what you learn in appliance courses to your tooth-wear cases.
Designed to enable the attende
An evidence-based deep dive with strong practical component over 3 intensive days.
*Updated course for 2025 with an extra day*
Third day to cover non clinical aspects of case management:
- Effective working
- Organising your mind
- Diary optimisation
- Case selection
- Increasing case acceptance
- Active listening
- Consent
- Photography
- How to draft a letter to patient
- Medico legal aspects
- As well as the clinical steps to take you from assessment to completion
THE YOU
How to work more effectively in less time:
- Organise your mind
- Diary optimisation
- How to say no.
- Strategies to manage the stress of a busy dental practice
THE PATIENT
How to Increase case acceptance and eliminate complaints
The role of active-listening, empathy, and body language in case acceptance.
Why my case acceptance is over 90%.
Fast and efficient treatment planning for complex cases
Why patients say no and preventing them from slipping through the cracks – how to consistently get from exam to treatment.
THE EXAMINATION
Rapid effective assessment of complex cases.
What do you need to look out for in the masticatory system?
The hard tissue exam and differentiating wear patterns.
When do I need mounted models and why?
THE PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography as a tool for planning, teaching, and social media.
Consent for GDPR compliance.
Equipment and accessories, settings and protocols for beautiful but efficient image capture.
THE PLANNING
Facially Generated Treatment Planning, begin with the end in mind.
How to approach complex cases in a systematic way.
How to ensure you achieve maximal aesthetic outcomes.
How to plan and schedule treatment in a logical manner with minimal complications to maximise your time and profitability.
THE OCCLUSION
How to prevent your reconstruction from breaking.
Practical, clinical occlusion as it relates to everyday dentistry.
Tooth Surface Loss: causes and the effects on planning and treatment.
How to create a perfect set of mounted records: facebow and occlusal registration.
When should you treat in CR and when is MIP acceptable?
How to do an equilibration and when is it essential
The diagnostic wax up
The mock up: how to transfer the models to the mouth.
THE COMMUNICATION
How to draft a treatment plan and write a letter.
Communication media: letter/email/phone.
Letter structure: closing the circle.
Lab communication.
Medico-legal aspects.
Follow up.
THE RESTORATION
Learn how to transfer the information on the articulator accurately to the mouth.
Restore a worn canine and a lateral and central incisor.
BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
Learn, practice and perfect - use the skills learned throughout the modules in a treatment planning round table discussion of clinical cases.
Dr Jason Smithson
Qualified at the Royal London Hospital in 1995; achieving a number of awards including The Constance Klein Memorial, The Stafford Millar, and The Malcolm Jenkins Scholarships, The American Association of Endodontics Prize and the Overall Award for Clinical Dentistry.
After spending 3 years in oral surgery residency in London and a further year practicing restorative dentistry in London’s Harley Street Medical District, he relocated to Cornwall in the extreme southwest of England. Jason practices at Revitalise, Cornwall, UK where his main focus is microscope enhanced adhesive dentistry.
His specific interest is direct composite resin artistry and minimally invasive all ceramic restorations and he has presented to dentists locally, nationally and internationally (USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe) on this topic. He is a Post-Graduate Clinical Lecturer in both the Cornwall & Isles of Scilly and Plymouth Foundation Dental Practitioners Schemes.
He has given hands on programs in the UK, Europe, Asia, Canada and USA on behalf of GC, Ivoclar, Kerr, Hereaus, Optident, Micerium, Carl Zeiss, Global, Velopex and Triodent. He is a UK “Opinion Leader” for Cosmedent (Enlighten Smiles), A European “Key Opinion Leader” for Hereaus-Kulzer and is a member of the European Restorative Advisory Board for GC Europe. Jason is Resident Faculty at The Centre for Esthetic Excellence, Chicago, USA. He is an Accredited International Trainer for Carl Zeiss Dental Academy.
Jason has achieved Diplomat Status in Restorative Dentistry from the Royal College of Surgeons (England).
He is on the Editorial Board of The Russian Journal of Esthetic Dentistry and has published numerous articles on adhesive and aesthetic dentistry in both the UK and abroad. He is joint author of “Vertical Margin Finish Lines In Fixed Prosthodontics”
BSOS Members
- 20hrs CPD (CE)
- Early Bird restricted to first 10 bookings. Full rate is £1750
- Practical clinical experience
- Detailed treatment planning
- Covering non clinical aspects of case management
- 3 intensive days with Dr Jason Smithson
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