William Robbins maintains a full-time private practice and is an adjunct clinical professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHCSA). He graduated from the University of Tennessee Dental School and completed a rotating internship at the VA Hospital in Leavenworth, Kansas, and a 2-year general practice residency at the VA Hospital in San Diego. Dr. Robbins lectures widely, publishes extensively, and is the coauthor of two textbooks. He has won several awards, including the Presidential Teaching Award at the UTHSCSA, the 2002 Texas Dentist of the Year Award, the 2003 Honorary Thaddeus V. Weclew Fellowship Award, the 2010 Saul Schluger Memorial Award, and the 2016 Academy of Operative Dentistry Award of Excellence.
This lecture will discuss a wide range of dental topics in which Dr. Robbins have experienced failures. He will use these failures to provide the lessons he have learned. These will include discussions about Biologic Width, Communication with Specialists, Communication with Patients, Implants in the Anterior Maxilla, Porcelain Veneers, Esthetic Crown Lengthening, Sleep Disordered Breathing, Dental Materials and Bonding Agents.
Upon completion of this course, attendees should be able to:
See many clinical and behavioral failures that the speaker has experienced during his 50 years of clinical practice
Learn the lessons that the speaker has learned dealing with these failures