Vertical Preparation: Updated Concept for Aesthetic Rehabilitation

– Updates on the Vertiprep technique:

- Bur protocols designed specifically for the Vertiprep technique

- Minimal prep

- Verticrowns

- Lap protocols designed specifically for the Vertiprep technique.

– Soft tissue stability with the Vertiprep approach

– Step-by-step lab protocols to achieve biological stability with the Vertiprep technique.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Dental technicians, General dentists.

– The history of vertical preparation

– Dental specialists opinion on vertical preparation then and now

– Evolution of vertical preparation technique

– Critical evaluation of the vertical preparation technique

– Periodontal aspect to vertical preparation technique

– Literature review and analysis of clinical cases.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Dental technicians, General dentists.

– The endo-prostho approach to a long lasting restoration

– Treatment approach to endodontically treated teeth

– Advantages of vertical preparation technique. Minimal invasive approach

– Evaluation of tooth fracture risks in various clinical cases

– Occlusal load evaluation in the vertical preparation technique

– Compressive and tensile toughness of tooth structure and dental prosthetic restorative materials

– Material selection for prosthetic restorations

– The ferrule effect

– Analysis of clinical cases. 

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Dental technicians, General dentists.

– Features of of the flame-shaped bur

– Analyzing results of clinical cases using the flame-shaped bur

– The Toe-Heel Concept. Application of the Toe-Heel concept during preparation

– Preparation protocols using the flame-shaped bur. Evaluation of the most common mistakes

– Steps to dealing with supragingival and subgingival undercuts

– Indication and advantages of working the batt-shaped bur

– Conventional approach vs edgeless preparation approach

– When to take impressions: perfect timing

– Step-by-step video demonstration of tooth preparation with the vertical preparation technique using a batt-shaped bur

– Analysis of clinical cases and long-term results. 

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Dental technicians, General dentists.

– The technique of maximum enamel saving

– The correct bur axis when preparing the tooth

– Excessive tapering of the restoration and how to avoid it

– Minimal invasive preparation for maximum dentin preservation

– Selective dentine drilling technique for anterior teeth

– Selective dentine drilling technique for compromised teeth

– The emergence profile consideration with vertical preparation technique.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Dental technicians, General dentists.

– Critical biomechanical zones of the tooth

– Evaluation of occlusal contact

– Determination of the critical area of thickness for occlusal stability

– Protocols of inverted shoulder preparation

– Features of preparation, finishing the abutment and impression taking

– Clinical cases analysis of application of inverted shoulder preparation approach.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Dental technicians, General dentists.

– Analysis of common mistakes when preparing a tooth

– How to avoid interference between the provisional crown and the tooth?

– Analysis of common mistakes when manufacturing provisional crowns

– A confirmed and recognized approach to provisional prosthetics. Clinical cases

– Step-by-step Video demonstration of analogic temporary crown fabrication:

- Fabrication protocols of posterior temporary crowns

- Fabrication protocols of anterior temporary crowns.

– Evaluation of tooth and soft tissue margins in relation to the temporary crowns

– Tricks and lifehacks of provisional prosthetics

– Analysis of clinical cases.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Dental technicians, General dentists.

– Video demonstration of a clinical case in an endo-prostho approach for clinical crown lengthening:

- Full steps of an endo surgery and retrograde obturation

- Tooth preparation protocols for a full crown restoration.

– Step-by-step protocols for manufacturing digital provisional crowns on EXOCAD

– Protocols of finishing and polishing of the digital provisional crown in the lab

– Protocols of delivering the digital provisional crown to the patient

– Protocol of in-office adjustment of the provisional crown

– Confederation of the most common mistakes with provisional restorations

– Mistakes when preparing teeth

– Step-by-step prosthetic restoration of endodontically treated teeth:

- Defining a missed canal, endo surgery and retrograde obturation

- Healing and follow-up

- Evaluation of the prosthetic restoration.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Dental technicians, General dentists.

– Provisional restorations in relation to the periodontal tissue. Where to stop doing provisional restorations?

– Guided periodontal tissue adjustment with provisional restorations

– Adjustment of subgingival provisional crown margin

– Analysis of clinical cases:

- Application of the inverted shoulder approach when preparing the abutment tooth

- Fabrication and clinical adjustment of the provisional crowns.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Dental technicians, General dentists.

– Defining of the interaxial dentin

– Occlusal force distribution on the coronal and apical part

– Literature and clinical analysis review of the success rate and failure of crown post and core treatment approach

– Clinical indications of fiber posts

– Adhesion of fiber posts to the tooth tissue

– Analysis of clinical cases:

- Failure of fiber posts

- Dr. Maiolino overview of fiber post restoration.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Dental technicians, General dentists.

– Post and core approach to prosthetic restorations. Evaluation of treatment outcome

– The biomechanical aspects of a post and core restoration

– Comparing the advantages and disadvantages of metal cast posts and fiber posts

– Step-by-step video demonstration of metal cast post placement and abutment build-up and preparation

– Application of metal cast posts in the aesthetic zone:

- Laboratory aspects

- Clinical aspects.

– Analysis of clinical cases.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Dental technicians, General dentists.

– What is the true prosthetic space and why is it important?

– Pros and cons of having a free tooth/abutment height

– Prosthetic crown thickness: consideration in different prosthetic crown materials

– Evaluation of the crown marginal seal and the occlusal seat in different clinical scenarios and in different tooth preparation techniques

– Die spaces and the precementation space of a crown

– The optimum thickness of the restoration

– The relationship between reliability, aesthetics and long-term restoration

– Reasons of chipping restorations at the stages of fitting and chewing

– Geometry and biomechanics of dental preparation for indirect restorations

– Analysis of clinical cases.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Dental technicians, General dentists.

– Literature review on the crown thickness and occlusal force load resilience

– Classification of cracks and fractures of prosthetic crowns

– The influence of preparation design on fracture resistance

– The effect of reduced occlusal thickness of a crown on fracture resistance

– Analysis of clinical cases. Follow-up on a prosthetic crown of the upper first molar.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Dental technicians, General dentists.

– Ideal time to take impressions

– Advantages and indications of delayed impression

– Advantages and indications of immediate impression

– Edge and edgeless preparation: indications and contraindications, pros and cons

– Detailed comparative characteristics of edge and edgeless preparation

– Clinical case: restoration of a severely damaged tooth. Choice of preparation method.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Dental technicians, General dentists.

– Die preparation: tools and techniques

– Step-by-step protocols of die preparation with digital and analog method

– Die preparation protocols during edge and edgeless preparation

– Pre-cementation retention (frictional fit)

– Post-cementation retention (cement fit)

– Die spacing for improving post cementation retention

– Setting for inverted spacing

– Using digital technologies to calculate spacing

– Processing of the gingival margin of the crown.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Dental technicians, General dentists.

– Materials for cementation and bonding of indirect restorations

– Comparative characteristics of luting materials

– Selection of the luting cement in accordance to the structural materials of the indirect restoration

– Clinical cases. Decision making strategy.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Dental technicians, General dentists.

– Ergonomics of working the with the dental microscope and red-ring hand piece

– Utilizing the coliberated notches for occlusal reduction

– Step-by-step video demonstration of preparing upper molar on a dental model:

- Protocols of occlusal reduction

- Protocols of interproximal separation and preparation

- Protocols of buccal and lingual reduction and the inverted shoulder approach

- Protocols of working with a batt-bur

- Edgeless vertical preparation protocols.

– Step-by-step video demonstration of fabrication of inverted shoulder:

- Bur selection

- Preparation technique

- Finishing and polishing.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Dental technicians, General dentists.