Basics of Treatment Planning in Dentistry [B2B] – PDP088

Ask 10 Dentists for a treatment plan, and you will get 12 different recommendations. Treatment planning is an art, but our diagnosis should be highly scientific. Making decisions of what specific treatment we should recommend to our patients is the very foundation of daily practice. With the experienced Dr Paresh Shah we discuss the How, What and Why of the Treatment Planning process in this Back to Basics in Dentistry series. https://youtu.be/raZiERy8U4o Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl: If you are unsure what is the best treatment plan for your patient, it likely means you haven't asked enough questions. Ask more questions and seek your patients' drivers and goals. “Find an experienced mentor that will walk you through gathering the information.... [discover] why it's important to mount the cast rather than just holding it in with your hand.” - Dr Paresh Shah In this Episode, we discussed: Step by Step thorough Examination 12:50Importance of having a Checklist 27:34Records needed for a Comprehensive Exam 30:46Communication between patients and Dentists about Treatment Plan - in a way that doesn't confuse our patient 36:59Talking Money and Fees 47:18 Check out Dr. Paresh Shah’s Instagram to learn and be inspired! If you enjoyed this, you will of course love Zak’s Presenting Treatment Plans the Comprehensive Way  Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: And I don't know what it's like in the UK, but I'll tell you in North America, I've seen a lot of it. It's just hard. There's just not enough time because you're so focused on requirements and surfaces and canals and amount of teeth you're taken out rather than going 'Okay, let's just take a step back and let's focus on comprehensive dentistry.' And occasionally, you'll get a part time instructor that pulls you aside and teaches you all the stuff... Jaz's Introduction: Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati, and welcome to another episode of the Protrusive Dental podcast, back to basics series. Today we're covering this mammoth topic of treatment planning, right? Where do you even begin with treatment planning? Well, you begin here, because I'm going to break it down with Dr. Paresh Shah from Canada, all about the fundamentals of the kind of conversations you have with your patients. What is the sort of mindset you have when you're on treatment planning? What are the stages? How can you actually use your experience and use what the patient's goals are to help inform the best treatment plan possible for your patient? So it's something that I used to really puzzle me when I was a newly qualified dentist, I'd see a plan that was more complicated than just single tooth dentistry. And it will be like, how do I apply what I've learned from dental school to this patient in front of me. So it's something that you sort of refine as you gain more experience. Now, I'm hoping that after this episode, it shouldn't just give you that little bit more of an edge to allow you to think more rationally about your treatment planning. So like I said, hope you're enjoying this back to basic series. And it's been great fun to make it and the guests have been absolutely brilliant during this month. Thanks so much for watching. Now, if you have any more recommendations for topics, I'm always happy to hear them, you can DM me on Insta, you can comment below or you can email me jaz@protrusive.co.uk, I would love to hear your suggestions and I can get the right guests on as well as you want. The Protrusive Dental Pearl I have for this episode is very relevant to treatment planning. And it's this. If you have a patient and you're treating planning them, and it's a it's a bigger, more complicated problem. And I'm thinking like not just that it's multiple teeth, but even something like missing teeth, like something that's so common, right?