INTERDISCIPLINARY TREATMENT PLANNING. PRINCIPLES, DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION

This extraordinary book is an offshoot of the Seattle Study Club, a popular continuing education group with hundreds of chapters throughout the US and Canada. Based on the proposition that specific treatments and techniques come and go but comprehensive treatment planning is universal and timeless, this group unites clinicians of all levels and from all disciplines, challenging them to master the principles of total case management through interdisciplinary treatment-planning exercises. In keeping with that philosophy, this book articulates the seemingly mystical process by which master clinicians treatment plan their own cases. In the first part of each chapter, 17 of the world’s most prominent and respected clinicians candidly share the key principles that guide and inform their case-planning decisions and show stunning photographs from their cases. In the second part of their chapter, these contributors present the complete diagnostic facts and findings of one of their own cases and invite the reader to treatment plan the case. Applying the principles espoused in part one, the author then presents his/her own treatment plan and the actual treatment that was rendered along with large, full-color treatment and postreatment images and radiographs. Because the authors represent every specialty in dentistry—periodontology, orthodontics, prosthodontics, endodontics, and oral and maxillofacial surgery—this outstanding and innovative book demonstrates comprehensive treatment-planning principles from the perspective of every clinician.

Contents

1. Proportion, Display, and Length for Successful Esthetic Planning—Gerard J. Chiche
2. Altering Vertical Dimension in the Perio-Restorative Patient: The Orthodontic Possibilities—Vincent G. Kokich
3. Esthetics in Implant Therapy: A Blueprint for Success—Sonia S. Leziy, Brahm A. Miller
4. Endodontic Predictability—“Restore or Remove: How Do I Choose?”—John D. West
5. Guidelines for Treatment Planning the Ideal Soft Tissue Framework—Lloyd M. Tucker
6. Diagnostically Driven Interdisciplinary Treatment Planning—John C. Kois
7. The Tooth in Transition: Save or Extract?—Andrew M. Alpert
8. Approaches to Vertical Dimension—Frank Spear, Greggory Kinzer
9. Fundamental Treatment Planning: Applications of Three Basic Principles—Henry I. Nichols
10. Establishing a Stable Occlusal Scheme—Neil L. Starr
11. Management of Patients with Missing/Abnormally Proportioned Teeth—Ward M. Smalley
12. Materials Selection for Complete-Coverage All-Ceramic Restorations—Ariel J. Raigrodski
13. Effect of Orthognathic Surgery on Overall Treatment—Stephen Rimer
14. Orthodontic Forced Eruption in Interdisciplinary Treatment Planning—Ricardo Mitrani
15. Improving the Esthetics of Healthy Teeth with Porcelain Laminate Veneers—Galip Gürel
16. Human Factors in Comprehensive Treatment Planning—Michael Cohen
17. Approach to Treatment With and Without Endosseous Implants—Neil L. Starr