Courses

When patients present with an interest in restoring their smile or their worn damaged teeth, it can be a daunting task for dentists to treat. Knowing a global systematic approach to treating these cases can help greatly with solving these riddles. It begins with understanding how to build a solid foundation in occlusion and esthetics. A plan can then be created after learning how to obtain highly informative and accurate diagnostic records including properly mounted models and a series of photos. After a detailed plan has been created and staged, the clinician will need to know how to put it into action. This includes your prep design and temporization. And a focus too on how to relay information to the dental laboratory to create exquisite restorations that will be in functional harmony. 

Learning Objectives:

Records and Planning (2 Days)

• Data Collection – This includes obtaining the records needed to properly visualize your case from a 2-D and 3-D perspective. We will specifically look at obtaining accurate facebow and centric relation records. 
• Smile Design – There are multiple smile design protocols and software applications available to clinicians to help them with this process. Our goal with this will be to know the key design fundamentals so that the clinicians will be able to create a beautiful smile for their patients, regardless of whether they have a software application or not. 
• The 3-D Blueprints – The transition between the planning and the final restorations is the Diagnostic Wax Up.
• Staging the Plan – For complex cases it is particularly important to be able to work through a process to properly stage the treatment for optimal success. Treatment done in the wrong order can jeopardize the final outcome. We will end the day working through patient case examples both provided by the students and the instructors too. 

Preparations and Temporization (2 Days) 

• Veneer vs Hybrid vs Crown Preparations – Minimally Invasive Dentistry is become accepted as the gold standard for how we should approach tooth preparations. Knowing which tooth preparation to do and how to do it will help both the clinician and technician creating ideal restorations. 
• The Putty Guides – Properly created putty stents will not only help with making the final temporaries but will also help with guiding your tooth preparations. 
• The Preview of the Wow – Knowing how to make and adjust temporaries will allow patients to preview their final smile. This gives us a huge advantage to help with delivering the wow factor with the final porcelain restorations.
• Verti-Centric Records – Often one of the biggest struggles for dental laboratories when treating complex cases is when clinicians send inaccurate bite records. This creates major issues with how to set the final mount and can create problems with the occlusion of the final porcelain restorations.  
• Transitional Resin Bonding – This can be a handy tool to have in your bag when dealing with worn dentition cases. Especially when patients cannot afford to go through full porcelain restorations to restore their worn dentition. A specific technique will be given for how to create transitional resin bonding on teeth built off the diagnostic wax up.