Presented by Dr. Jason Smithson BDS (Lond), DipRestDentRCS (Eng)
Date: September 20-22 or November 8-10
AGD Credits: 16
Fee: $3,495 per dentist, includes breakfast, lunch and materials
Course Summary:
Direct resins in the anterior and posterior dentition have become a common day-to-day treatment modality, and can produce functional, long lasting and highly aesthetic restorations. The philosophy of the course is to introduce a simple technique, which results in a highly aesthetic restoration that is easy to place using minimal shades of composite resin. The program is extremely practical, user friendly and it is 2/3 hands on.
What You Will Learn:
- Preparation design and protocol to reduce the risk of voids, bond failure and sensitivity. Flowable composite as a liner: why, when and how?
- Heating composite resin: the pros and cons.
- The influence of the C-Factor
- How to assess the occlusal scheme pre-operatively and accurately build up your restoration so that little, if any, occlusal adjustment is necessary.
- A simplified, stratification technique using external and internal tints and a novel placement technique to consistently achieve lifelike resin restorations.
- An overview of matrix systems - Learn to choose the best for each situation to achieve anatomical contours in a class 2 situation.
- The use of tints to seamlessly blend the restoration with the surrounding tooth structure. Which ones to use and how to customize and modify them.
- Strategies for the direct restoration of the broken down tooth.
- Shade Selection: De-mystify the science and use it as a practical day-to-day tool.
- How to harness anatomy to create optical illusions, which result in restorations that are invisible to the human eye.
- How to produce a rapid, inexpensive indirect mock up and silicone index to precisely determine lingual contours and incisal edge position.
- How to handle class IV's, direct resin veneers, discolored teeth and diastema closure. All techniques are illustrated with step-by-step clinical cases in a "cookbook" approach.
"An extremely talented and thoughtful speaker who engages his audience in a positive and practical 'you caan do this in your own generalist practice' way, which motivates them to try it all out confidently on the next patient!"