October 10th and 11th 2025

at Burbank Lab at USC in Los Angeles California

EARLY REG UNTIL 8/1/25 = $997.15

AFTER 8/1/25 = $1295

This is a 2-day Course including Lectures, Demonstrations, and Hands-on Lab Sessions on how to Design a smile,  Create Natural Contours, Texture, Luster and Surface Color in digitally generated and machined veneers, adding THE HUMAN TOUCH.

Lunch and snacks provided.

          COURSE OVERVIEW

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 high strength glass ceramics, as a medium to design, form, contour, finish and polish anterior teeth. The lecture part of the course will cover the following topics (1) Smile design, 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 color, surface texture, and polish will be covered in a very systematic easily learnable format, with high strength glass ceramics.

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  glass ceramic, 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. 

TOPICS COVERED

     Smile design and space management and Shaping 6 anterior teeth in Glass Ceramics.

     Contouring 6 anterior teeth in Glass ceramics, and  materials and techniques used.

     Texturizing 6 anterior teeth glass ceramics,  and materials and techniques used

     Custom  external colorization of 6 anterior teeth.

    Custom polishing techniques  to create natural differential surface luster.

THE FINAL (HUMAN) TOUCH SCHEDULE

DAY 1 (9am- 7pm)

Lecture 1: Macro Esthetics design and techniques

Demonstration: Step by Step designing and space management for 6 anterior teeth in Ceramics

Hands-on Step by Step designing and space management for 6 anterior teeth in glass Ceramics

Lecture 2: Micro Dental Esthetic Design and Techniques & Micro texture

Demonstration: Step by Step micro DESIGN contouring 6 anterior teeth in glass Ceramics

Hands-on: Step by Step micro DESIGN contouring 6 anterior teeth in glass Ceramics

DAY 2 (9am- 6pm)

CONTINUATION: Hands-on: Step by Step micro DESIGN contouring 6 anterior teeth in glass Ceramics

CRYSTALLIZE

Lecture 3: Surface Paint, glaze and polish glass ceramics

Demonstration: Surface Paint, glass ceramics

Hands-on: Surface Paint  Glass Ceramics

EVENT ADDRESS (Link to Google Maps)

1031 w. 34th St. LL  #107 Los Angeles CA 90089

Burbank Lab at USC campus

Link to Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/MMW17gTwU6qRKUGbA

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