ESSENTIALS SERIES

The Pankey Essentials is a series of four advancing courses. Through these courses you will receive the behavioral and technical knowledge you need to realize a bright future. You will practice and develop your behavioral and technical skills. You will grow exponentially within a learning community of support.

Essentials Series

The Essentials four-course curriculum is the foundation of what we teach at Pankey. These four courses are designed to accomplish one over-arching technical learning objective for anyone who attends. After finishing the Essentials you will be able to confidently and competently examine, diagnose, treatment plan, treatment sequence and execute any restorative case regardless of complexity. For decades, attending the Pankey Institute has transformed the clinical expertise of dentists around the world, and it is also so much more. In addition to exquisite clinical education, woven through every Essentials Course is a financial curriculum that will help you maximize profitability, successfully save and invest and understand how to manage your practice using monetary indicators. Every course will deepen your knowledge of what dentistry needs to look like for you to love your career, and live a life you love. Improving patient relationships, team relationships and becoming a better communicator is also woven through.

Essentials 1: Aesthetic and Functional Treatment Planning

Location: The Pankey Institute

CE HOURS: 39

Transform your dental practice experience to achieve heightened predictability, profitability, and personal fulfillment. Unlock the gateway to success with The Essentials Series, where Aesthetic and Functional Treatment Planning lays the foundation…

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Essentials 2: Occlusal Appliances & Equilibration

Location: The Pankey Institute

CE HOURS: 44

Introducing Essentials Two, the next installment in our comprehensive four-course series, tailored to enhance your proficiency in working with patients facing functional challenges. This course is meticulously crafted to equip…

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Essentials 3: Restorative Integration of Form & Function

Location: The Pankey Institute

CE HOURS: 41

As you progress through the Essentials Series, Essentials Three shifts the educational spotlight to the realm of Complex Restorative Dentistry. Understanding the fundamental principle that “form follows function” becomes paramount…

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Essentials 4: Posterior Reconstruction & Completing the Comprehensive Treatment Sequence

Location: The Pankey Institute

CE HOURS: 44

In this culminating course of the Essentials Series, we bring all the pieces together to fulfill our overarching learning objective: equipping you to confidently and competently navigate any dental case,…

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Essentials 1 Off Campus 2025: WAGD

This Essentials 1 will be held at the Washington Academy of General Dentistry (WAGD) Transform your dental practice experience to achieve heightened predictability, profitability, and personal fulfillment. Unlock the gateway…

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Essentials 1 Off-Campus 2025: Hinman Dental Meeting

Location: The Hinman Exhibit Hall

CE HOURS: TBD

Special E1 Off-Campus Series Hosted at the Hinman Dental Meeting Transform your experience of practicing dentistry, increase predictability, profitability and fulfillment. The Essentials Series is the Key, and Aesthetic and Functional Treatment…

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Essentials 1 Off-Campus 2025: Chicago Midwinter Dental Meeting

Location: Chicago Midwinter Meeting

CE HOURS: TBD

Special E1 Off-Campus Series Hosted at the Chicago Midwinter Dental Meeting Transform your experience of practicing dentistry, increase predictability, profitability and fulfillment. The Essentials Series is the Key, and Aesthetic and Functional…

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