Why you should attend this course?
Attending this course you will learn:
- Understand why Ante’s law is no longer relevant
- How to plan a long-span fixed bridgework
- When to use Copings in bridgework
- When and where to incorporate mobile teeth into bridgework (Lindhe and Nyman bridge)
- How to take impressions for mobile teeth
- Tooth preparation designs for adhesive bridgework
- How to prepare fixed movable bridges
Abstract
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. Understanding Bridge Design is therefore essential in modern dentistry.
This course will cover bridge design in the theory session covering success rates, stress breakers, abutment choice, and how it improves success rate. Different types of design such as fixed, adhesive, cantilever, coping bridges and Lindhe/Nyman bridges will be taught with hands-on practicals on phantom heads.
Course Outline
This course will cover bridge design in the theory session covering different types of design such as fixed, adhesive, cantilever coping bridges and Lindhe/Nyman bridges with hands-on practicals on phantom heads.
Course Aims
- Understand the reasons why bridges fail
- Learn about the use of stress breakers
- Choose which abutment teeth to use for the best success
- Decide when the tooth preps need added resistance and retention form
- Learn when Antes Law is still applicable in 2022
- Learn when to plan fixed-movable vs fixed - fixed types of bridge
- Learn the skills to provide bridges in your practice the very next day
- Learn how to do longer-span bridges
- Learn how to prepare teeth when tilted
- Learn how to use Endo and Perio-treated teeth as abutments
Learning Objectives
- Prepare a fixed movable bridge
- Understand the concepts of stress breakers – both mechanical and natural
- How to incorporate attachments into the bridge
- Prepare box and grooves for added retention
- Understand two-handed preparation to ensure the correct convergence angle
- Plan a bridge for any combination of missing teeth
- Understand how to plan all types of bridgework’
- Prepare a long-span fixed bridge
Agenda Day 1
| 08:00 – 08:30 |
Registration | Welcoming coffee |
| 08:30 – 10:30 |
Bridge Design Lecture |
| 10:30 – 10:45 |
Discussions with the faculty |
| 10:45 – 11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 |
Bridge Design Lecture (Continued) |
| 12:30 – 13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30 – 16:00 |
Hands-on Practical: Bridge Preparation – Fixed Movable Bridge |
| 16:00 – 16:15 |
Discussions with the faculty |
| 16:15 – 16:30 |
Coffee break |
| 16:30 – 18:00 |
Hands-on Practical: Bridge Preparation – Cantilever Bridge |
Agenda Day 2
| 08:45 – 09:00 |
Registration | Welcoming coffee |
| 09:00 – 10:30 |
Bridge Design Seminar |
| 10:30 – 10:45 |
Discussions with the faculty |
| 10:45 – 11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 |
Bridge Design Seminar (Continued) |
| 12:30 – 13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30 – 16:00 |
Hands-on Practical: Bridge Preparation- Long Span Fixed-fixed Bridge |
| 16:00 – 16:15 |
Discussions with the faculty |
| 16:15 – 16:30 |
Coffee break |
| 16:30 – 18:00 |
Hands-on Practical: Bridge Preparation – Anterior 6 Canine-to-canine |
