ADVANCED RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY – Master Path Curriculum

Hands-On CE Courses and Workshops for Dentists Overview

Our hands-on dental CE courses and workshops are designed to help you with complex challenges, gaps in knowledge, and topics not covered in depth during dental school and other post-graduate courses. Dentists often get frustrated with expensive CE courses that don’t translate to real-world dentistry. We teach evidence-based techniques, problem-solving, and readily learnable skills that positively impact your practice. We schedule our courses on the weekend as much as possible to avoid taking away from your production days. Unless it’s explicitly noted, the daily schedule is 8-5. All of our courses are BOTH ADA-CERP and AGD PACE Approved and qualify for Fellowship and Mastership pursuits in the Academy of General Dentistry.

If you’re interested in signing up or learning more about our dental CE courses, contact Stevenson Dental Education today. We can help recommend the perfect session for you or answer any questions.

A Digitally Integrated Comprehensive Dentistry System

Our Master Path System was designed to create a dentist with cutting-edge knowledge and exceptional skills.  With over 38 years of formal education training, Dr. Stevenson has created a curriculum that starts with establishing a solid FOUNDATION with the Neomimetic Esthetic Restorative Dentistry Course and then moves to the DESIGN & FUNCTION course in Clinical Occlusion, then on to PROTECTION & SUPPORT with our Posterior Ceramic Restorations course.  Course IV covers ESTHETICS & PATHWAY with Anterior Ceramic Restorations which includes veneers from A to Z.  Course V introduces Gold Restorations using the Tucker Technique to achieve restoration CONSERVATION & LONGEVITY.  When your rehabilitation requires Implants, it is critical to design the prosthesis first and perhaps even more critical to connect the restoration to the implant in a way that achieves BIOLOGICAL ASSEMBLY with implant restorative, assuring a long and healthy connection.  In our final course, COMPREHENSIVE RENOVATION we use a simple algorithm so all dentists may complete Full Mouth Rehabilitations which have great fit, last long, and look natural. Our System of 7 Courses will transform your dentistry, improve your skills, and increase your confidence in treating patients with complete and excellent care. Most participants start with Course I and work through the program in sequence for the most cohesive learning experience, although this is not required.  No matter where or when you start learning from Stevenson, you will value the information and the transformation you experience.

COURSE I

Build a Strong Foundation

During this intensive 4-day, 36-hour course, participants will learn evidence-based current best practices for performing a world-class comprehensive exam, creating a sequential treatment plan, understanding occlusion, professional digital photography, effective isolation techniques, tooth structure conservation, formulating a dynamic diagnosis during disassembly and using restorative materials based on the best scientific literature.

At course completion, participants will be able to implement these best practices right away and open doors to a more fulfilling life as a dentist.

COURSE II

Clinical Occlusion and Function

During this 2-day 18-hour course, participants will learn how to generate a functional diagnosis using a logical algorithm that is practical and clinically relevant, and how to take centric relation records using three different techniques. The corrective steps to optimize a stable occlusion will be presented with hands-on exercises to reinforce concepts and techniques.

[It is recommended that participants take Course I before this course]

COURSE III

Providing Protection and Support with Posterior Ceramics

During this 2-day 18-hour course, participants will learn how to prepare posterior teeth for ceramic onlays and crowns using a simplified 5-step technique.  Tissue management, provisionalization, digital scanning, design, and milled and printed restoration fabrication will be covered, with each participant making a ceramic onlay, which will be adhesively delivered during the hands-on sessions.

[It is recommended that participants take Courses I and II before this course]

COURSE IV

Creating an Esthetic Pathway with Veneers

During this 3-day 27-hour course, participants will learn how to prepare anterior teeth for ceramic veneers and crowns using a digitally designed aesthetic prototype technique.  Tissue management, provisionalization, digital scanning, design, and veneer delivery will be covered, with each participant delivering two ceramic veneers, which will be adhesively delivered during the hands-on sessions.

[It is recommended that participants take Courses I, II, and III before this course]

COURSE V

Conservation and Longevity – Conservative Gold Restorations

During this 3-day 27-hour course, participants will learn how to prepare teeth for conservative gold restorations including inlays, onlays, partial coverage crowns, and pin-retained restorations.  Long considered the finest material for restorative dentistry, gold is often (unfortunately) omitted from treatment plans as a viable option in today’s modern dental practice. This three-day course will focus on techniques to produce predictable precision gold castings that conserve and protect tooth structure. The entire process from diagnosis to delivery will be practiced in the extensive hands-on sessions leading to two delivered gold restorations.

[It is recommended that participants take Course I before this course]

COURSE VI

Biological Assembly – The Implant Restorative Connection

During this 2-day 18-hour course, participants will learn how to create the optimal implant restoration on single implants, multiple implants, and All-on-X cases.  Digital and analog workflows will be covered, abutment design, cemented vs screw-retained crown indications, impressioning with scan bodies and open and closed tray techniques, and immediate provisionalization using both chairside and digital pre-designed methods will be practiced.

[It is recommended that participants take Courses I and II before this course]

COURSE VII

Comprehensive Renovation with Full Mouth Restorations

The optimal digital workflow incorporates occlusal and esthetically optimal restorative planning and execution. This 3-day 27-hour course will lay out a clinically applicable and practical digital workflow for dentists wishing to incorporate the latest technologies for the treatment of comprehensive restorative dentistry.  Concise techniques will be described and practiced hands-on for ease of understanding from the simple single tooth restoration to the full mouth digital rehabilitation. The use of intraoral scanners, 3-dimensional printers, CAD/CAM, and efficient workflows are essential to take full advantage of the technologies currently available. This course will take the digital beginner to the next level and provide more experienced providers with insights into improving the quality and predictability of their more complex cases.
[It is recommended that participants take Courses I, II, III, IV, V, and VI before this course]

The Master Path Curriculum Schedule

COURSE I: FOUNDATION
Neomimetic Esthetic Restorative Dentistry (“NERD”) – 4 days

COURSE II: DESIGN & FUNCTION
Clinical Occlusion – 2 days

COUSE III: PROTECTION & SUPPORT 
Posterior Ceramic Restorations – 2-days

COURSE IV: ESTHETICS & PATHWAY 
Anterior Ceramic Restorations (Veneers) – 3-days

COURSE V: CONSERVATION & LONGEVITY 
Casted, Milled and Gold Foil Restorations – 3-days

COURSE VI: BIOLOGICAL ASSEMBLY 
The Implant Restorative Interface – 2-days

COURSE VII: COMPREHENSIVE RENOVATION
Full Mouth Rehabilitation – 3-days