Kois Center
with Dr. John Kois
Comprehensive · Intermediate, Advanced · Hands-on, Lecture · 46.5 CE credits · $12,275.95
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The Kois Center is a Seattle based curriculum for restorative dentists, taught almost entirely by Dr. John Kois and built around risk based, diagnostically driven treatment planning. Before choosing treatment, dentists learn to assess each patient's periodontal, biomechanical, functional, and dentofacial risk, then plan and sequence care from that diagnosis rather than from the next procedure.
What makes the experience different:
- Learn directly from Dr. John C. Kois, a prosthodontist with an MSD in periodontal prosthodontics from the University of Washington, who practices in Tacoma and Seattle and is a past president of the American Academy of Restorative Dentistry and the American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry.
- Move through a primary curriculum from treatment planning and functional occlusion through the periodontal and restorative interface, biomechanics, implant restorations, and advanced treatment planning, with in person and online pathways for the early courses.
- Train in small classes at the Center's Seattle facility, where the main lecture room streams clinical procedures live from an adjacent operatory.
- Work with an assigned mentor before, during, and after each course who helps with case presentations and questions, supported by clinical instructors in breakout sessions.
- Study a curriculum updated several times a year as evidence changes, drawing on the Center's own published research.
- Stay connected through study groups, an alumni network, and an annual symposium for graduates.
Best practical takeaways:
- A systematic comprehensive exam organized around periodontal, biomechanical, functional, and dentofacial risk
- Diagnosis driven treatment planning and sequencing for complex restorative cases
- Practical principles of functional occlusion
- Managing the periodontal and restorative interface
- Biomechanical reasoning for restoration design and material choice
- Planning and restoring implant cases
- Staging larger cases over time so comprehensive care stays realistic for the patient
Clinical distinction: The Kois Center is not a weekend technique course or a single occlusion seminar. It teaches dentists to identify and manage risk before deciding what to treat, and to choose the treatment most likely to last. Its value is the way risk assessment, diagnosis, occlusion, periodontal health, biomechanics, and implant restoration are taught as one connected system by one instructor across the curriculum.
Best for: general and restorative dentists who want an evidence based framework for comprehensive care and are prepared to commit to a multi course curriculum with travel to Seattle. It fits best if you already treat, or plan to treat, worn, heavily restored, or interdisciplinary cases and want a consistent system for deciding what to do, in what order, and why.