This study club designed specifically for new dental graduates provides a quality educational environment to encourage development of new skills and understanding, promote personal and professional growth, and facilitate collaboration. Contact Dr. Chanel Stohrer for more information and to join this club.

Led by Dr. Chanel Stohrer and hosted by Inter-Chrome Dental Lab in our Training Center, The Forum, the club meets the last Tuesday of each month. Note our new location at 2117 Smith Ave., Suite A, Chesapeake, VA 23320.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Join us on Tuesday, September 26th for our next New Graduate Study Club
TOPIC: Diagnosis and Treatment of the Worn Dentition: Utilizing Analog & Digital Workflows
SPEAKER: Dr. John C. Cranham DDS

6:00pm – 6:30pm: Dinner
6:30pm – 7:30pm: Presentation
7:30pm – 8:00pm: Q&A Wrap-Up

Our study clubs will now be held at our new location:
Inter-Chrome Dental Lab, 2117 Smith Ave., Suite A, Chesapeake, VA 23320

What to Expect

The aging baby boomer population presents itself with many unique challenges. Unlike their parents, they expect to keep their teeth in health and function for their entire life. They also will be living longer in a world with increased stresses, making occlusal wear/occlusal disease one of the greatest threats to their dentition. These same groups of people are also spending billions of dollars to stay healthy and look their very best. Being able to design comprehensive treatment plans that will address occlusal, aesthetic, and biologic along with the correct material selection will be essential to the successful restorative practice. Dr. John Cranham will teach each participant how to diagnose the cause of a variety of wear problems, along with the clinical work pearls to ensure success. Special emphasis will be placed on both analog and digital workflows that can be used to obtain success.

You will learn:

How to recognize the cause of various wear problems along with the “clinical pearls” to utilize to predictably solve the problem.
A step-by-step programmed approach to optimum treatment planning.
What essential data you will need to gather to comprehensively diagnosis and plan a complex wear case.
How and when to safely open the vertical dimension of occlusion.
Why photography plays an important role in case analysis.
How to choose the correct restorative material to solve functional and aesthetic problems.

About Our Speaker:

Dr. John Cranham resides in Chesapeake with his wife of 32 years, Kim. He practices with his daughter Kaitlyn and focuses on esthetic dentistry, implant dentistry, occlusal reconstruction, TMJ/Facial Pain, and solving complex problems with an interdisciplinary focus.

John has been an active educator since 1995. In 2004 he began lecturing at the The Dawson Acade my with his mentor Pete Dawson, which led to the merging of Cranham Dental Seminars with The Dawson Academy in 2007. He became a 1/3 partner and its acting Clinical Director and held that position until September of 2020. To date, he has presented over 1650 full days (over 8000 hours) of continuing education all over the world. Today he has partnered with Lee Culp CDT and their focus is on integrating sound occlusal, esthetic, and sound restorative principles into efficient digital workflows. He does this under the new umbrella of Cranham Culp Digital Dental.

Dr. Cranham has published numerous articles on restorative dentistry and in 2018 released a book “The Complete Dentist” he co-authored with Pete Dawson. In 2020 he published a book entitled “The Cornell Effect-A Families Journey Toward Happiness, Fulfillment and Peace”. It is an up from the ashes story about his adopted son, who overcame incredible odds, and ultimately inspired the entire family to be better. John’s book climbed to #5 on the Amazon best-seller list in Nov. 2022 in its category, and to date has sold over 100,000 copies. Of all the things he has done, he believes getting this story down on paper is having the greatest impact.

AUGUST 29, 2023

TOPIC: BIOLASE Webinar – The Elevated Operatory: How to Enhance Patient Care with Diode Lasers
6:00pm – 6:30pm: Dinner
6:30pm – 7:30pm: Webinar
7:30pm – 8:00pm: Wrap-Up

This study club was held at our new location:
Inter-Chrome Dental Lab, 2117 Smith Ave., Suite A, Chesapeake, VA 23320

2023 Calendar of Events

1/31/23: Q&A for labs and dentists with Inter-Chrome Dental Lab

2/28/23: Building a Successful Implant Practice – Dr. Mark Reichley & Nobel Biocare

3/28/23: Comprehensive case Planning – Dr. John Cranham

4/25/23: Implant SkillZ Overdenture Therapy – Chadd Ladd, ZimVie Lab/Digital Rep. Each participant will receive a locator tool to take with them and a locator model for patient education to practice on. 4 CE credits.

5/30/23: Plan + Simple: Business Secrets to Success – Darren Lemke (Approach Management)

6/27/23: ORTHO Case Study presentation – Dr. Ross Savage