Introduction

Introduction

This practical course offers more than 25 real clinical exercises, allowing you to practice and improve your current skill set in the area of tooth preparation, isolation, bonding as well as dental photography.

This unique hands on course consists of minimally invasive preparations for different types of ceramic restorations including veneers, crowns for anterior and posterior teeth as well as In-On-and Over-Lays. Practical and intense exercises include ergonomics and preparation of teeth on upper and lower jaw and different quadrants! 100% practical information based on lateral thinking, fully assisted step-by-step methods and high-end technical hands-on sessions makes this course among the best in tooth preparation, bonding and ceramic resotation.

Learn all the secrets, tips and tricks of:

• Ceramic veneers: planning and clinical performance. Step-by-step preparation.
• Protocols for anterior and posterior crown preparations. Full contour veneers.
• Minimally invasive indirect restorations for posterior teeth: on-lays, over-lays and veneer-lays + step-by-step luting procedures, rubberdam isolation and dental photography.

This comprehensive hands-on course is based on lateral thinking, new techniques, step-by-step methods utilising the latest technology and many exercises to help master optimal aesthetic outcomes. If you are a beginner, you will master tooth preparation with confidence as well as having the ability to manage a vast of difficult clinical cases. And if you are an experienced dentist, this course will provide you many practical tips that will enhance your current clinical workflow and skill set.

Day 1: MASTERING ANTERIOR PREPARATION: veneers and crowns

HANDS-ON COMPONENT 

• Silicon indexes to control tooth reduction.
• Type 1 class preps for colour change
• Type 2
• Type 3
• Solving situation with class 3 caries defect
• Solving sitaution with class 4 caries defect
• Diastema simulation
• Crowding / teeth rotations.
• Black triangle
• Window prep
• Full contour veneer for anterior teeth
• Minimally invasive anterior corwn 

Please note: all caries defects will be made in real time and will be restored with composites which will assist in understanding veneer prep design of different clinical cases. The course will allow for participants to present cases which will be simulated as exercises and resolved practically as a group.

Day 2: MASTERING POSTERIOR PREPARATIONS: in-on-overlay and crowns

HANDS-ON COMPONENT

This workshop provides an insight to minimal invasive and precise preparations of posterior teeth in onlays  and veneer-lays (upper and lower jaw). Step-by-step techniques will consist of:  

• Silicon index for prep control.
• Inlay.
• Onlay.
• Overlay.
• Veneer-lay (different types, including veneers for premolars).
• Occlusal veneer.
• Imitation of severe caries defects.
• Immediate dentin sealing.
• Cavity design optimisation, closing undercuts by composite.
• Minimally invasive posterior crown.

The participants will progress through various exercises including inlay, onlay, veneer – lay preparation, with IDS and deep marginal elevation techniques.

Day 3: ISOLATION, BONDING AND DENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY

HANDS-ON COMPONENT

• Bonding procedures of veneer and crown step-by-step.
• Rubberdam isolation.
• Dental photography portrait and artistic pictures.

All exercises included preparation of upper and lower teeth both left and right sides to get best practical components.

Notes: participants need to bring their own cameras with macro lenses and flash (twin bracket or ring flash).