Restorative & Aesthetic Dentistry Professional Training

DAY 1

Title: Bridge Design | Faculty: Prof. Paul Tipton | Time: 09:00 - 18:00

Description
With the ever increasing amount of peri-implant mucositis and peri-implantitis (19%-65%) dentists are changing their treatment planning options and looking to save more Endo and Perio involved teeth and use them as stand-alone teeth or as bridge abutments.

Outline
This course will cover bridge design in the morning covering different types of design such as fixed movable, fixed, adhesive and cantilever with hands-on practical in the afternoon on phantom heads.

Aims

• Discuss the reasons why bridges fail
• Learn about the use of stress breakers 
• Choose which abutment teeth to use for best success 
• Decide whether the tooth preps need added res and ret form
• Learn when Antes Law is still applicable in 2018
• Teach you to decide when to plan fixed - movable v fixed - fixed 
• Learn the skills to provide bridges in your practice the next day

Objectives

• Prepare a fixed movable bridge 
• Prepare a long span fixed bridge 
• Incorporate attachments into the bridge 
• Prepare box and grooves for added retention 
• Understand two-handed preparation 
• Plan a bridge for any combination of missing teeth 

Agenda

DAY 2

Title: Bridge Preparations Practical | Faculty: Prof. Paul Tipton | Time: 09:00 – 18:00

Course description

With the ever-increasing amount of peri-implant mucositis and peri-implantitis (19%-65%) dentists are changing their treatment planning options and looking to save more Endo and Perio involved teeth and use as stand alone teeth or as bridge abutments.

Course outline

This course will cover bridge design in the morning covering different types of design such as fixed movable, fixed, adhesive and cantilever with hands-on practical in the afternoon on phantom heads.

Course aims

• Discuss the reasons why bridges fail
• Learn about the use of stress breakers 
• Choose which abutment teeth to use for best success 
• Decide whether the tooth preps need added res and ret form
• Learn when Antes Law is still applicable in 2018
• Teach you to decide when to plan fixed - movable v fixed - fixed 
• Learn the skills to provide bridges in your practice the next day

Course objectives

• Prepare a fixed movable bridge 
• Prepare a long span fixed bridge 
• Incorporate attachments into the bridge 
• Prepare box and grooves for added retention 
• Understand two-handed preparation 
• Plan a bridge for any combination of missing teeth 

Agenda

DAY 2

Title: Articulator Selection in Restorative Dentistry | Faculty: Prof. Paul Tipton | Time: 09:00 – 18:00

This course is a step-by-step programme in the form of practical sessions, lectures, and demonstrations- delivering the Foundation for Private Dentistry. The course will take you through the theoretical, scientific and engineering principles behind restorative dentistry. The course is ideal if you are:

• Hoping to acquire new skills and build confidence to take on more complex cases
• An NHS practitioner and want to increase your private income or move fully into private practice
• A Principal looking for a course to update your skills using the latest techniques and materials and, in these modern times, help avoid litigation

It is also a perfect “refresher” course if you feel that your knowledge and techniques have become a little dated. The field of restorative and cosmetic dentistry is advancing at a rapid rate in terms of techniques and the materials available. We continually update our courses to ensure our delegates have a competitive edge in the market.

Course Outline

The morning session will consist of an articulators seminar and a practice in the afternoon covering mounting models & setting articulators.

Agenda

DAY 3

Title: Adhesive Bridge Preparation Techniques | Faculty: Prof. Paul Tipton | Time: 09:00 – 18:00

Course Objectives
By the time the delegates have completed this course will:

• Critique failures in Maryland bridge design
• Evaluate the criteria determining the type of Maryland bridge prescribed
• Describe the applications for: single cantilever, fixed-moveable, and fixed-fixed designs
• Incorporate design features to resist  forces: lingually, occlusally and coronally
• Produce preparations showing gingival finish lines of the correct depth and position
• Demonstrate guide planes to increase the wing height and give retention/resistance  form
• Present proximal grooves parallel to the tooth long axis and having mesial and distal walls
• Confine the  lingual groove within  the gingival and occlusal finish lines 
• Respect the preservation of the grooves‘ lingual walls when placing rest seats
• Confirm fixed-fixed bridge design features show a common line of a draw on all abutments

Course Aim
Attending this course will help delegates:

• Recognise the causes of Maryland bridge failure
• Determine the features which are ideal in Maryland bridge design
• Understand the forces which can displace the bridge
• Describe how the design features resist the displacing forces 
• Appreciate why we must maintain enamel in the preparation
• Realise the objective of the proximal guide  plane
• Predict the consequences of not temporizing  the preparation
• Discuss the options available for creating space for the bridge
• Identify the determinants for placement of the occlusal finish line in maxillary bridges

Course Topics

• ¾ crowns
• Single cantilever
• Fixed-moveable
• Tooth mobility
• Fixed-fixed
• Proximal extension
• Grooves
• Guide planes
• Rest seats

Agenda