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.

– 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.

– 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.