The Final Touch for Composite (September 13th to 14th, 2024)

Course overview: 

This is a 2-day Course including Lectures, Demonstrations, and Hands-on Lab Sessions, The course is intended for dentists but is open to technicians and auxiliaries. Participants will shape,  micro-texture, externally color, and polish 6 Composite teeth, and As An Added Bonus We Will Custom layer a full composite tooth Tooth, with the Crown, the root and Internal Colorization. 

What you will learn

• Space management and shaping 6 interior teeth with either vita Enamic or Ivoclar tetric CAD.

• Contouring 6 anterior teeth in Vita Enamic or Ivoclar Tetric CAD materials and techniques.

• Texturizing 6 anterior teeth either Vita Enamic or Ivoclar Tetric CAD.

• ⁠Fabricating by custom layering a whole composite tooth with root.

• Shaping and Micro Texturing.

• Final color finish and polish.

FULL COURSE DESCRIPTION

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 in composites.

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 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, and 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 the participants 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 hotel within walking distance is:

Courtyard Burbank Airport

2100 Empire Ave. Burbank CA 91504