Our didactic modules for this course are mandatory and will be available online from September 2025 and will need to be completed in 3 months time prior to attending our Occlusion and Oral Rehabilitation Hybrid Clinical Session course in India. Please contact us first to express interest as course registration is subject to a telephonic interview and eligibility for temporary local council registration. Please do not register until confirmation of acceptance is received. Our Clinical Session is scheduled for December 2025 and exact dates will be announced shortly.

The clinical facility is located in India and details are available on the Course Facility page (https://theaceinstitute.net/course-facility) The clinical facility is a fully functional dental institution with state of the art technology and a fully equipped dental laboratory. The Institution is located on Poonamallee High Road, an arterial road in Chennai and multiple hotels are situated in close proximity to the clinical facility. If a fee package that includes accomodation is selected, transport will be provided to/from the local hotel and the Course Facility.

A copy of your passport, a passport size photograph, a copy of your dental qualification, a copy of your current dental registration and a current CV will all be requested during Checkout as part of the registration process for this course. Please have these documents ready in PDF format before you progress a course registration.

Assistance will also be provided for Bureau of Immigration (India) documentation and visa applications, once registration is completed.

Despite this course being taught online, a table based series of hands on exercises/demonstrations is part of the course during a didactic session that is part of our Clinical Session at our extramural location. The primary purpose of these sessions is to ensure pre clinical competence.

Hands on session 1 : Photographs, Intraoral scans and Face scans

Hands on session 5: Setting up an analog and digital articulator

Hands on session 6: Occlusal equilibration on mounted casts

Hands on session 7: Digital waxup models and techniques to produce a mock up

Hands on session 8: Fabricating full arch provisional restorations on a worn dentition model

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.

Course fees do not include airfares, visa charges, accommodation and breakfast/dinner on course days.

Payment by internet banking should be made 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.

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.

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:

• Didactic lectures and patient treatment sessions
• Hands on sessions for treatment planning including design and fabrication of deprogrammer appliances, integration of analog and digital records, analog and digital articulation, occlusal equilibration, design and fabrication of diagnostic wax up models, design and fabrication of mock up indices, tooth preparation with the ACE Institute bur kit, design and fabrication of provisional restorations, provisionalisation, design and fabrication of definitive restorations, finishing of restorations with staining/glazing/polishing.
• Participation in treatment planning sessions of identified patients for multiple other participants that will expose the participant to a variety of patients and treatment plans.

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.

All patients will have to be treated in accordance with course protocols that require stringent diagnosis and treatment planning. All patients must also provide course prescribed full informed consent for their participation on the course.

All participants must be registered with the Dental Board of Australia or the Dental Council of New Zealand or a US State Dental Board or a State Dental Council in India, as applicable. For this clinical session option alone, the extramural hybrid course facility will organize local temporary dental registration with the local Dental Council, as necessary.