Great Expressions Member Resources
Your Center for Courses and Support Information from Spear
In partnership with Great Expressions, our goal is to advance your individual clinical skills through prescriptive curriculum and pathways that will enhance your patients experience and increase your case acceptance. Your leadership has identified the following topics as your starting point and we hope you mindfully review each section in order.
Orientation Video
This video will provide an overview of Spear resources for Great Expressions Dental Center Members.
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Product Sheet: Spear Online
Sharpen your skills from home or the office — or from anywhere on the go — with more than 1,500 video lessons and other dental continuing education materials focused on clinical expertise, practice management and team training.
Follow the curriculum in order. Upon completion please contact your representative.
Course 1
The Treatment Planning Process
This course will describe the systematic treatment planning process, Facially Generated Treatment Planning with an added focus of airway prosthodontics.
Pathway 1
Case Presentation – Helping My Patients Choose Their Best Option
While there is no guaranteed method to get patients to say yes, you can help them sort through their values about their dentistry and identify the patients who will be most receptive to hearing what you have to say.
Pathway 2
Restorative Design
This pathway provides clinicians with the fundamentals of indirect restoration armamentarium, material options and fabrication techniques. Watch Dr. Bob Winter demonstrate various anterior and posterior tooth reduction methods using depth limiting and axial reduction burs.
Pathway 3
Anterior Tooth Preparations
This Pathway gathers a series of courses on how to do more effective anterior preparations for minimal preps and more predictable restorations.
Pathway 4
Considerations for the Edentulous Patients
These courses will walk you through treatment options for the fully edentulous patient.
Pathway 5
Approachable Endodontics
This Pathway provides clinicians with a better understanding of endodontic basics including diagnosis, instrumentation, and treatment so practitioners gain confidence and become more comfortable providing endodontic therapy in a restorative practice.
Pathway 6
Excellence in Anterior Composite Restorations
This Pathway includes a hands-on component where clinicians will learn to construct their own custom composite shade guide to use in practice immediately. Upon completion, clinicians will have increased competency using direct composites as the final restorative material.
