Dental Continuing Education
AGD PACE-Approved Provider
Others start with treatment.
We start before it.
Teeth tell the story. Wear, fracture lines and a shifted midline record where the mandible is going and what will break next. BIS Institute teaches dentists to notice that story before the first prep.
Where to start
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The Clinical Lens
Online · self-paced · 1 CE
Eight signs you need to check before any prep, any restoration or any appliance. -
Before You Restore
Online · self-paced · 3 CE
TMJ and occlusion: what to check in the joint and the bite before every restorative decision. -
Hands-On Level 1
Oakville · January 29–30, 2027 · 14 CE
Two days of screening, examination and diagnosis.
Bring your own cases.
You have done this procedure
a thousand times. This time,
the problems started after.
A routine patient. Dentistry you know by heart.
Then the bite feels wrong. The jaw aches. You try a splint. It does not help. The adjustments do not help either. A case you expected to close keeps coming back to your chair.
The problem was not the treatment. It was there before you started, visible, and no one taught you to notice it.
Small steps before treatment.
Giant steps in the dentistry you deliver.
What you see before treatment
decides how that treatment ends.
Before you prep.
Before you restore.
Before you prep those veneers.
Before you deliver the splint.
Before you start aligners.
Before you extract.
Before you place the implant.
Before you graft.
The signs are there before treatment.
Most dentists were never shown where to look.
Teeth tell the story.
A wear facet. An abfraction. A fractured cusp.
Each is usually treated as the problem. Each is the result of something that came before it.
Why this tooth? Why this angle? Why now?
Ask that, and the signs start to tell a story. That story is where the diagnosis begins.
Function-Driven Diagnosis.
The method every BIS Institute course is built on.
Dentistry is rarely presented
as a complete picture.
The clinician has to learn to build understanding, identify what matters, and sustain the result.
Build. The clinical foundation: diagnosis, occlusion, forces and clinical logic. The Clinical Lens, Before You Restore, Level 1.
Identify. Pause. Observe. Recognize the pattern, find what is missing, and build the treatment plan around it. Levels 2 and 3.
Sustain. Turn understanding into stable, intentional decisions that last. Levels 4 to 6, Study Club, mentorship.
See the signs. Find the relationship. Complete the picture.
Not another philosophy.
What comes before every one of them.
Most continuing education begins with treatment: how to prep, how to restore, which material to use. Few courses ask what was happening before the patient sat down.
What if the starting point is not where you think it is?
BIS Institute begins earlier, at the signs that decide how long any treatment will last. A dentist trained in any philosophy still needs this step.
Usable Monday. The exam changes on every patient, not only the difficult ones.
One method. It works with the training you already have.
Nothing you learned is wasted.
Fewer courses. A clear path to competence, at a lower cost.
Real cases. Bring your own. See ours from first visit to finished case.
What to check before
every treatment
Early signs come first.
Wear facets, fracture lines, a click, a shifted midline. They appear long before pain does.
Joint, muscle and occlusion are read together.
Evaluated together, they show where to start.
Stability comes before restoration.
A restoration placed on an unstable foundation does not hold.
Diagnosis starts with sequence, not equipment.
A structured examination shows more than added technology.
The plan follows the diagnosis.
Once the joint and the bite are stable, the treatment plan becomes clear.
A case that does not add up?
Send a short description of it. We will suggest where to start.
Dr. Agatha Bis
Dr. Agatha Bis
Over thirty years in private practice treating the cases other dentists could not resolve, with a clinical focus on occlusion, the temporomandibular joint and restorative dentistry.
Dr. Bis founded BIS Institute to teach what she wishes every dentist had been taught: what to notice before treatment starts. Because everything after depends on it.
The dentistry you are missing is
already in your chair.
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