Occlusal disease is the arguably the most underdiagnosed and undertreated segment of dentistry. A ‘piecemeal’ approach to dental care sees several professionals focussed on ‘single tooth dentistry’ that is procedure based. Lifestyles and the stresses of modern living on the other hand are bringing many patients into our practices with erosion, wear and tooth loss. The long term consequences of these conditions are affecting dentitions like never before. Are you seeing these patients in your practice and degenerating into ‘supervised neglect’ because you don’t know what to do. This course is for a practitioner like you. It is focussed on the the most modern occlusal philosophies but examines multiple other approaches to occlusal disease and care. You will truly learn how to diagnose and treatment plan occlusal disease patients and provide comprehensive dentistry regardless of whether it involves equilibration, additive restorative dentistry, removable prostheses or implants.
Our course dates for 2025-26 will be announced soon. Please contact us first to express interest. This is a didactics and hands on course that is provided in New Zealand, Australia and the USA.
In New Zealand, the course is always conducted at The ACE Institute’s facility in Hamilton, New Zealand. Hamilton is also centrally located and is a short one hour drive from Auckland Airport. Shuttle pick ups from the airport can be organised on request. Hamilton is also served by direct Air New Zealand flights from Wellington and Christchurch. Jetstar operates flights between Hamilton and the Gold Coast/Sydney in Australia.
Course fees are $3950 NZD plus GST (GST is charged only if applicable and is usually charged only to New Zealand participants).
Payment by internet banking to New Zealand Bank Account number 06-0637-0778725-000 of The ACE Institute (ANZ Bank New Zealand).
If sending a payment internationally by bank transfer, please use ANZ’s SWIFT code : ANZBNZ22. If the other party requires an 11 digit SWIFT, use ANZBNZ22XXX.
Payment by credit card is accepted with an additional card fee surcharge and is directly available from this website.
Clinical Session to treat one single full mouth rehabilitation case from start to finish:
Clinical Session Option (Extramural Location in Chennai, India) : Please contact the Course Coordinator if you wish to consider this option. Do visit the Occlusion and Oral Rehabilitation Hybrid Course page as well for details of this option.
Available to all New Zealand/Australia/USA participants
It is mandatory to complete the Occlusion and Oral Rehabilitation ‘in person’ didactic course curriculum to undertake this option. There is alternatively the option to complete the Occlusion and Oral Rehabilitation Hybrid ‘online’ course curriculum as well, if a participant wishes to do so.
In Australia, an additional alternative option to complete Dr. Paul Jay Hwin’s r3 (reorganise.replace.restore) course is available. Participants on this course are also accepted for our Occlusion and Oral Rehabilitation clinical session. Details of this course are available here.
This clinical session allows a participant to treat one patient requiring full mouth rehabilitation with teeth in both arches requiring treatment for occlusal disease. A participant will treat the patient over a period of 1 week at our Extramural hybrid course facility that can be viewed here.
Course fees for this option is $11950 NZD plus GST (GST is charged only if applicable and is usually charged only to New Zealand participants) and is payable as a non refundable registration deposit of $3950 NZD plus GST to confirm a place on the clinical session and thereafter in two equal parts of $4000 NZD plus GST- one part after temporary local council registration is confirmed and the other on invoice just before the onsite session. The Course fees includes access to all Occlusion and Oral Rehabilitation Hybrid online course materials, teaching models, hands on materials, diagnostic and treatment planning records, dental laboratory costs, materials, consumables, instrumentation, local council registration fees, clinical sessions and 1 on 1 faculty supervision.
The sessions will extend across 1 week with 1 didactic day (Sunday) followed by 6 clinical days (Monday – Saturday) that will also involve time for treatment planning, design and fabrication of multiple appliances and models involved in the process and laboratory procedures. A treatment debrief session will be conducted at the end of every clinical day. The fee also includes access to the university library and the ability to observe other clinical cases in the Department of Prosthodontics that will be treated by other participants.
This clinical session option involves:
An identified patient for a participant may require additive rehabilitative treatment for a variety of indications including wear, erosion, parafunction, occlusal dysfunction, esthetics, structural tooth structure damage, partial edentulousness or functional reasons. All identified patients will be carefully screened by the Department of Prosthodontics at Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals and diagnostic records will be made available in advance for treatment planning. Diagnostic records will include Upper and Lower intraoral scans, Bite records, Face scans, Photographs, Intraoral X-rays, CBCT and Cephalograms (where applicable). The patients will also be prior deprogrammed with an appropriate appliance and jaw relation records will be obtained. A full mouth wax up and mock up will be progressed in advance and a rehabilitated occlusion will be test driven in advance of the session. It must be remembered that this is not a clinical situation that is replicable in private practice and the pace of treatment on this course is not meant to be regarded as the clinical norm. The University environment of this course and the extensive prior diagnosis and treatment planning of patients is very unique to this course alone. Participants on this clinical session will however commence treatment from the very first stage and will treat their identified patient with the following protocols:
Step 1: Progress a comprehensive examination with complete dental, social and medical history with a previously fabricated deprogramming appliance provided by the Department of Prosthodontics. A full intraoral examination and periodontal charting will be completed as part of this exercise.
Step 2: Obtain all non-invasive diagnostic records again including analog impressions, analog bite records, digital intraoral scans, face scans, analog jaw relation records, digital jaw relation and jaw motion records and a full series of photographs. Intraoral X-rays, CBCTs and Cephalograms as applicable will be provided.
Step 3: Design and deliver a duplicate appropriate deprogramming appliance in order to understand the workflow.
Step 4: Participate in the design of a diagnostic wax up with a dental technician in the Department of Prosthodontics.
Step 5: 3D print diagnostic wax up models and generate analog and printed indices for fabrication of an intraoral mock up.
Step 6: Progress an intraoral mock up and refine the occlusion.
Step 7: Progress appropriate tooth preparations using the mock up as a preparation guide.
Step 8: Obtain records for design and fabrication of provisional restorations.
Step 9: Design, fabricate and deliver provisional restorations as indicated.
Step 10: Design, fabricate and finish definitive restorations for the upper arch in the dental laboratory with the help of a dental technician in the Department of Prosthodontics.
Step 11: Deliver definitive restorations in the upper arch while leaving the lower arch in provisionals to allow the Department of Prosthodontics to refine the patient’s occlusion as necessary and complete treatment over a period of time.
Step 12: Obtain interim patient records to simulate final treatment records that one would obtain after completion of a full mouth rehabilitation.
