Global Diagnosis & Interdisciplinary Treatment Planning | Dr. Bill Robbins

What is global diagnosis, and how can a general dentist treatment plan complex interdisciplinary cases by answering just five questions? Dr. Bill Robbins, co-author of Global Diagnosis: A New Vision of Dental Diagnosis and Treatment Planning, explains the system he built with Dr. Jeffrey Rouse on the foundation of Kois and Spear's facially generated treatment planning.

In this episode:

- A family of dentists, and the VA residency that changed his path

- 25 years in academics, then private practice with Dr. Jeff Rouse

- The mentors who shaped him: Jim Summitt, John Kois, Frank Spear and Jeff Rouse

- Treatment planning from the incisal edge back, not the condyle forward

- Four global diagnoses, five questions, and the role of gingival levels

- The Global Diagnosis Education virtual study club, and why accountability changes how dentists practice

Plus dental news from early 2021: hygienists leaving the field and Texas loosening its COVID rules.

Dr. Bill Robbins practices in San Antonio and is an adjunct clinical professor in the Department of Comprehensive Dentistry at UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry. He graduated from the University of Tennessee dental school and completed residencies at the VA hospitals in Leavenworth and San Diego. He co-authored Fundamentals of Operative Dentistry and Global Diagnosis (Quintessence), is a Diplomate and past president of the American Board of General Dentistry, and is past president of the Academy of Operative Dentistry and the American Academy of Restorative Dentistry.

Chapters:

0:00 Intro

0:39 Our drinks and Lexington barbecue

4:58 Our week: the Texas freeze and North Carolina rain

7:43 News: 1 in 12 dental hygienists have left the field

13:03 News: how many hygienists caught COVID

15:02 News: a new COVID strain in California

17:06 Introducing Dr. Bill Robbins

20:08 A family of dentists and the residency that changed his path

24:53 From academics to private practice with Jeff Rouse

26:38 His mentors: Jim Summitt, John Kois, Frank Spear, Jeff Rouse

29:25 Chad's Dr. Summitt story

31:18 What is global diagnosis?

32:01 Treatment planning from the incisal edge back

33:38 Four diagnoses, five questions

35:48 The Global Diagnosis Education study club

39:42 Why study clubs change how dentists practice

41:46 San Antonio's best Mexican food

45:02 News: Texas loosens its COVID rules

50:55 Closing

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