Ceramic restorations of frontal teeth

– Analogue protocol

– Fluorescence of zirconia. Appearance and features. Where it comes?

– Multilayers ceramics. Comparing to natural teeth

– Shades of ceramics

– Stained and layered ceramic

– Review of ceramic layering techniques. Advantages and limitations

– Importance of incisor edge restoration

– Coloring of tooth structures. Combined techniques

– Creating texture for anterior restoration. Layering. Baking, glazing, polishing

– Importance of using right materials when layering ceramics

– Full ceramics.

Recommended for: Dental technicians.

– Ceramic material options

– Lifelike shading

– Light absorption and light reflection value control

– Achieving individual degrees of translucency

– Ceramic firing: less firing vs multiple firings 

– Humidity control

– Сolor recipes

– One bake technique: advantages and disadvantages

– Internal core technique

– Full labial cut-back technique

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Dental technicians.

– Minimally invasive approach to teeth preparation

– Keys for successful minimal preparation

– Step-by-step video protocol of minimal invasive tooth preparation

– Removing A-prismatic layer and sclerotic layer

– Vertical preparation and esthetic re-contour

– Recommendations for tooth preparation

– Features of interproximal area micropreparation

– Cord technique

– Non-conventional tooth preparation

– Reduction controlling

– Instruments selection

– Video protocols of preparation:

- Incisal zone

- L-zone

- Margine zone

- Interproximal area.

– Clinical cases:

- Esthetic rehabilitation

- Diastema closing

- Teeth fracture treatment

- Discoloration masking.

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, Orthodontist, Periodontist, Implantologist, Endodontist, Pediatric Dentist, General dentist.

– Planning aesthetic treatment: from photography to Mock-up

– Ceramics or composite: pros and cons

– Direct and indirect restoration: indications

– Veneers: indications and stages of treatment

– Photography in dentistry: planes, light source, size

– Digital smile design

– Principles of communication with a dental technician

– Wax-up: areas of clinical interest

– Dental technician: materials for precise minimally invasive restorations

– Wear, abrasion, erosion

– Preparation of teeth for veneers: practical aspects of the "window" and "butt-joint" methods

– Try-on and fixing of indirect restorations: adhesive preparation and materials.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Restorers, General dentists.

– Shape and shade design using the additive layering technique:

- the sequence of ceramic material application

- the technique the dentin layer applying 

- the technique the enamel layer applying

- incisor edge processing

- features of applying ceramics on the palatine surface.

– The interproximal contacts correction on the model

– Creating physiological morphology

– Imitation of natural surface textures

– Glaze – corrective firing

– Mechanical polishing for an optimized gloss level.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Dental technicians.

– The concept of vertical geometry: paradigm shift in prosthetic dentistry

– Gingitage: methods and recommendations for the prevention of complications

– Gingivectomy and gingitage: differences and indications

– Selection of restoration ceramic material for laminates during vertical preparation

– Lithium disilicate for laminates: advantages

– The same material on the teeth with different types of prosthetics: veneers and an implant

– Indications for the use of non-prep veneers

– Step-by-step clinical and laboratory stages of manufacturing non-prep veneers

– Methods of surface treatment of veneers and teeth prior to bonding 

– Restoration of peg shaped and tetracycline stained teeth with non-prep veneers.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Restorers, General dentists.

– The responsibility and the psychology of the smile:

- Patient’s and Dentist’s requests.

– Dentist and dental technician communication

– Wax up: aesthetic rules, reference points, the V concept, and the patient's desire

– Buccal wax up: indications and advantages

– Digital Smile Design (DSD)

– Physcial properties of dental materials and the choice of materials in various cases

– Materials and Techniques:

- Glass Ceramics

- Feldspathic Ceramics.

– Analogic Approach:

- Platinum foil technique

- Press and stain technique

- Press and Build-up technique

- Refractory die technique.

– Digital Approach:

- Oral Scan

- Digital Wax-up

- Mock up

- CAD/CAM Procedures

- Shape and Texture.

– Clinical cases. 

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Dental technicians, General dentists.

– Ceramic veneers: indications

– Planning of treatment with ceramic restorations

– Additive restorations: advantages and disadvantages

– Step-by-step protocol for making ceramic restorations: material selection, scanning, digital smile design, Wax-up, Mock-up

– Partial indirect composition restoration: protocol

– Features of the preparation of anterior teeth:

- On the vestibular surface

- In the cervical region

- On the proximal surface.

– Silicon guides for the preparation in anteriors

– The minimum thickness of the veneer, depending on the manufacturing method

– Adhesive veneers fixation protocol

– Interdisciplinary approach in the manufacture of aesthetic restoration.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists.

– Treatment planning: 

- from Wax-up to Mock-up

- from analog to digital workflow

- DSD and understanding the patient's demand

- CEREC BioCopy design

- digital mock-up and design with CEREC.

– Preparation: no prep, prep-less, full-prep:

- preparation geometry and future path of insertion

- feathered incisdal edge, palatal chamfer, butt-joint incisal edge.

– Introduction to intraoral scanning: techniques, scaning protocols, and reference points

– Material selection criteria: biocompatibility, longevity, aesthetics, optical properties, strength, and cost efficiency

– Classification and characterization of chairside monolithic materials:

- silica ceramics (feldsphatic porcelain)

- IPS e.max lithium disilicate.

– ZLS (zirconica reinforced lithium silicate):

- hybrid ceramics.

– Clinical cases. 

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Dental technicians, General dentists.

– Levels of macro-dental esthetic

– Optimal surface creations levels

– Choosing tooth form depending on the patients face

– Steps of tooth shaping:

- Initial measurements on tooth proportion

- Canine angle creation

- Lingual surface creation

- Embrasure forming.

– Profile and incisal view

– Step-by-step video protocol of surface creation

– Burs selection

– Wax texturing

– Polishing tools and materials.

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, Orthodontist, Periodontist, Implantologist, Endodontist, Pediatric Dentist, General dentist.