The Final Touch for Composites (May 3rd and 4th - 2024)

MICRO-TEXTURING COMPOSITE

Creating Natural Contours, Texture, Luster and Surface Color in Dental Restorations

This is a 2-day Course including Lectures, Demonstrations, and Hands-on Lab Sessions, Contouring and MICRO-TEXTURING COMPOSITE. AS AN ADDED BONUS WE WILL CUSTOM LATER IN COMPOSITE A FULL TOOTH, THE CROWN, THE ROOT AND INTERNAL COLOURIZATION. The course is intended for Dentists, but open to technicians and Auxiliaries.

The proper space management, contour, surface texture, final surface color, and polish can take average looking restorations and create an exceptional esthetic result. These steps are critical to the success of dental restorations whether it is composite or ceramics..

This is a lecture and hands on course that uses Machined Composites ​​(in this course we will use either Vita ENAMIC or Ivoclar tetric CAD) as a medium to design, form, contour, finish and polish anterior teeth. The lecture part of the course will cover the following topics (1) the step-by-step process of managing the design of 6 anterior teeth for a specific maxillary arch relationship. (2) Specific guidelines for esthetic tooth arrangement both in size and position are the key elements taught during this course. (3) The esthetics of the individual tooth i.e. the individual form and color characteristics of teeth and the inter-relationships between teeth. (4) Micro-esthetic elements of surface texture, and polish will be covered in a very systematic easily learnable format, with different materials of ceramics and composites 

The demonstration and hands on part of the course will cover the armamentarium and the step-by-step process of these vital steps of form, texture, surface color, and polish. Part of the course will be taking 6 maxillary teeth that have been built up as 6 oversized blocks of, Enamic or Ivoclar tetric prior to the course and specifically determining the correct esthetic parameters of midline, tooth length and width, inter-tooth width relationships. Once these parameters have been determined the step-by-step process of creating these macro-dental esthetic relationships will be demonstrated and participants will do the same. Micro-esthetic parameters of form, contour, surface texture, and polish will gone over in great detail and participants will accomplish all these important skills. All of these skills will be taught in Composites.

Dr McLaren will demonstrate, and participant will do a full composite layered tooth with root. He will demonstrate how he layered different dentins, internal colors and different enamels.

Accommodation

The closest hotels for accommodation are the AC Marriott, Best Western and Hyatt Place which are 2 to 4 miles away from Art Oral America. More info about reaching the location will be provided before the course.