Glamour Portrait Photography That Evokes Emotions And Anterior Composites That Rival Porcelain!

2023 Date: October 12-14, 2023

* NOTE: For travel plans, all workshops run from 8:00 AM through 5:30 PM daily.

COURSE SYNOPSIS:  

Learn and shoot in our two day lighting workshop that will prepare you to create striking portraiture! We cover everything you need to know to set up your own portrait shoots and execute them successfully. We will discuss equipment choice while learning how to use soft boxes, LED panels, lighting set-ups, posing, basic studio lighting techniques with different styles. Bring your camera and get ready for hands-on instruction! This is a beginning course.

Ninety-three percent of all communication happens in non-verbal cues…which is other than the text, or the words that are spoken. Most dentists are already utilizing clinical photos to help diagnose and treatment plan many cosmetic cases. Then they turn around and use these same images for their marketing. These clinical photos are to be used for educating the patient and documenting cases. They are not meant to be used for marketing. Since many people buy through emotion and not logic, portrait photography is the best way to expose your patient’s emotional side of the brain. Remember, glamour images evoke emotion, creates desire…Emotion sells.

At this workshop, we will cover how you can set yourself apart from other “family and cosmetic dentists’ through the use of portrait/glamour photography. Make sure you bring your camera and memory cards so you can participate. Also if you want a current head-shot image, make sure you dress appropriately so you can come away with a glamour photo of your own to use for your marketing. We will have participants pose as well as take pictures of each so you can experience both sides of the camera. 

In the second part of this 3 day course Dr. David Chan will have the participants take part in a live hands-on demonstration how to shape and finish anterior composite restorations that virtually rivals porcelain.

“Contour is King”: This part of the course provides the participants with many priceless pearls to predictably shape and polish anterior composite restorations to the level that they can rival the beauty of the most esthetic porcelain restorations every single time.

A common challenge for most dentists is the ability to shape anterior composite restorations whether they are direct composite veneers, class IV or class III restorations to the degree that they so beautifully blend into the remaining dentition and thereby become one.

Dr. Chan will discuss and demonstrate in detail the predictable techniques to develop the primary, secondary, tertiary tooth anatomy in composite restorations for any tooth shape imaginable utilizing a few simple tools and seamlessly polish those restorations within a few minutes.

In this course, the participants will learn and witness in front of their very own eyes how simple it is to recreate natural tooth morphology and finish anterior composites to conservatively and aesthetically restore natural teeth.

Classes are limited in size so everyone can leave feeling competent that they can set up a studio at their office. Also the smaller number of participants will allow everyone to be constantly active and shooting different models to practice this amazing new skill!

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Dr. Bernie Villadiego

• You will be able to leave this weekend with images that you will be able to use to decorate the walls of your dental office.
• How to fully utilize portraits for internal and external dental marketing for social media and to set yourself apart from all the other cosmetic and family dental practices around you.
• How to set up and prepare for clinical and portrait shots.
• Learn what gears and accessories to buy.
• Learn basic camera settings for amazing results.
• Learn simple ways to evaluate your images.
• Learn different sources and types of lighting and how they affect your image.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Dr. David Chan

• Learn simple systematic contouring and polishing techniques to create exceptional anterior composite restorations that can match the best porcelain restorations or the beauty of natural teeth.
• The participants will witness these simple step by step processes demonstrated live on how these amazing results with composite resin can be obtainable by anyone.
• How to predictably create the correct primary anatomy with anterior composites.
• How to predictably create secondary anatomy with anterior composites.
• How to predictably create tertiary anatomy with anterior composites.
• How to predictably achieve a truly amazing polish with anterior composite

 Testimonials

• You are truly "an educator". You made this workshop all about US.... the attendees and not about you. If I had your skills and accomplishments, I would have had a giant head :-)

             Therefore, it was also a great lesson/ workshop in humility. 

             I wish to emulate it. 

             I'm leaving here, very inspired by your kindness and generosity.

             Now I need to make sure I practice and practice and practice!

             Very sincerely, with my warmest regards,

             Keerti, Redmond, WA

• “Having been in practice for 20 years and attended many continuing education courses, Dr. Chan’s Anterior Composites course is by far the best course I have attended.” – Randall J. Teich, DDS – Newport, OR  

• “Hands-on courses do not get better than this! Small class sizes combined with step-by-step mentoring ensure that you take your anterior composite resin skills to new heights in a matter of days, thank you Dr. Chan!” -E. Wong, Ontario, Canada  “

• "Thank you so much Dr. Chan for the truly wonderful anterior composites course. It was a beautiful experience. My primary goal was to get more joy out of doing composite restorations and that goal was exceeded.” – Randy McVey, DMD – Garden City, KS

• As a young dentist my experience with esthetic composites was very limited. Dr. Chan's course was exactly what I needed at this point in my career! His didactic and one on one hands on teaching style guided me during the two day course and at the end of it I felt I had the tools and guidance needed to start doing these in the office the next day! Dr. Chan is extremely generous in the advice that he gives, never holding anything back and showing you exactly how you can replicate his stunning results. Furthermore both Dr. Chan and his lovely wife are so kind and welcoming; it was truly a great atmosphere to learn. I would highly recommend his course to others looking to excel and master anterior composite

             Thank you!
            Serena, Ontario, Canada