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Comprehensive · Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced · Online Self-Paced, Hands-on, Lecture
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Spear Education combines campus workshops, online learning, and study clubs around Facially Generated Treatment Planning, the framework Dr. Frank Spear developed for planning care across airway, esthetics, function, structure, and biology. Its Core Curriculum workshops take dentists from comprehensive diagnosis toward predictable restorative care, while online lessons and study clubs help the ideas carry over into daily practice.
What makes the experience different:
- Learn within a system shaped by Dr. Frank Spear, a dual trained periodontist and prosthodontist with an MSD in periodontal prosthodontics from the University of Washington, who practices in Seattle with a focus on aesthetics and fixed prosthodontics and cofounded Spear Education in 2008.
- Attend three day Core Workshops on the Scottsdale, Arizona campus, which combine classroom instruction with hands on application in Facially Generated Treatment Planning, restorative design, complex case planning, and airway prosthodontics.
- Train in a campus built for dental education, with clinical labs, lecture halls, and on site accommodations, plus a Charlotte, North Carolina location with a similar hands on format for East Coast dentists.
- Add focused workshops on TMD, implant restorative dentistry, composite restorations, sleep medicine, and restoring the edentulous arch.
- Learn from resident and visiting faculty who are practicing dentists.
- Continue between visits through Spear Online and Spear Study Clubs, which meet in person or virtually around a faculty designed, case based curriculum that brings general dentists, specialists, and lab technicians together.
Best practical takeaways:
- A step by step framework for comprehensive diagnosis and treatment planning that starts from the face
- How airway, esthetics, function, structure, and biology affect one another
- Restorative design and sequencing for complex interdisciplinary cases
- Peer review of your own challenging cases in a study club
- Shared systems that help the whole team support comprehensive care
- Online resources to revisit concepts between campus visits
Clinical distinction: Spear is not a one time procedural workshop or simply an online course library. Its value is the way campus workshops, online learning, study club case review, and team training reinforce the same treatment planning framework over time, so concepts learned on campus become habits in the practice.
Best for: general and restorative dentists who want a long term, structured pathway into comprehensive and interdisciplinary care, from foundational treatment planning to complex restorative cases. It fits best if you can travel for campus workshops and want ongoing support from peers and a study club once you return to your practice.