Hands-on Training

Hands-on training is easy to do using ITI Checklists. It may be offered within the practice, in a Dental Assisting School Program, or in a University Orthodontic Residency Program. Hands-on training is currently offered at New York University Department Of Orthodontics to incoming orthodontic residents and international dentists. Contact ITI at 1-877-872-4611 if you want assistance in giving hands-on courses or email us for more information about our consultation services.

• Given to up to 10 users at one time 

  • 10 Users in a practice
  • 10 students and faculty in a school
  • 10 Orthodontic residents and faculty

•  Courses to be taught in the Hands-on Training are selected

  • Courses are identified such as

    • Photography

    • Alginate Impressions

    • Appliance Model Fabrication

    • Cephalometrics

    • Facebow Registration, Bite Registration, and Mounting Models

    • Separators and Banding

    • Orthodontic Bonding and Bracket Positioning

    • Wire Ligation and the Retie Appointment

    • Assisting during the Finishing Phase

    • Debanding

    • Treatment Record

    • Assisting during the New Patient Exam

    • Preparing Records for a Diagnosis and Treatment Planning Session

    • Patient Treatment Consultation

    • Train the Trainer and Practice Management

  • Multiple half-day sessions are scheduled for the Hands-on Training

• All Users study and pass selected online courses prior to Hands-on Training

  • Users obtain ITICourses Online Accounts before Hands-on training is scheduled

  • Required courses are specified in the Knowledge Profile

  • Students study Knowledge Profile courses and pass all post-tests earning CE Certificates before Hands-on training. Dr. Rebecca Poling and other faculty are "Supervisors" of User accounts and monitor learning

  • Reports are generated that all online courses have been completed by all Users

• Users Setup Notebooks before Hands-on course begins

  • Contains copies of all CE Certificates that are earned

  • Credentialing Task Form to be completed in Hands-on Training

  • Packet of Checklists and Forms are given to each User before the Hands-on Training to be completed in the course

• Hands-on Training Schedule

  • 3 days to 8 days in length

  • Combination of

    • Short lectures

    • Lab/Dentoform/Crowded Models sessions

    • Preclinical sessions working on a partner

    • Actual clinical sessions working with patients

  • Users complete all tasks on Credentialing Task Form

    • Performance Steps Checklists

    • Quality of Results Checklists

• Each student is "Credentialed"

  • Must complete all tasks listed on Credentialing Task Form documenting performance with photographs of projects

  • Projects are evaluated with checklists and kept in the User's Notebook

• At the end of the course, each student submits a Notebook with self-evaluations for every Credentialing Task

  • Students are given Packets of Checklists and Forms to use in Hands-on Course and insert in personal Notebook

  • Notebook contains

    • Copies of all CE Certificates earned online

    • Photographs of all completed projects

      • Final photographic series

      • Alginate impressions

      • Poured and trimmed study models

      • Placed separators

      • Fitted bands on a dentoform

      • Bracket positioning on a crowded model

      • Each step in bonding a live "patient-partner" using "toothpaste-etch"

      • Others

    • Student evaluations of quality of final projects using Product Checklists 
      • Check which criteria were not met
      • Teaches a Product Standard for each project

    • Student evaluations of steps of each procedure using Procedure Checklists 

      • Evaluate which steps should have been performed differently to produce a better product-result 

      • Objective is to train students to perform each procedure in a standard way and to learn from their "mistakes"

    • Completed Practice Forms such as:

      • The New Patient Exam from partner

      • New Patient Exam filled in from Sample Patient Photographs and Panorex

      • Cephalometric tracing, measurements, analysis, and superimposition from Sample Patient cephs

      • Model analyses from Sample Patient models

      • Treatment Record, Diagnosis and Consult Checklist, Treatment Plan, Financial Forms, Consent Checklist, from Diagnosis and Treatment Planning Session of Sample Patient

    • Practice Management activities of the team

      • Morning huddle reports

      • Afternoon wrap-up reports

      • Team member feedback forms