Course Structure

This course consists of two parts – an online pre-course lecture on veneer preparations and two days of face-to-face live in-person hands-on training.

Day 1

• The morning session will consist of a Smile Design lecture which will include:
• How to choose between creating a natural smile or a media smile for your patient.
• Cosmetic Imaging techniques for sales and treatment planning
• Assessing Occlusal vertical dimension
• Creating the correct Occlusal planes for the full mouth recon.
• Choosing the ideal centre line for your patient.
• Communication with the technician the correct smile line and anterior Occlusal plane.
• Creating ideal aesthetics by incorporating golden proportion into your restorations.
• Understanding Anterior tooth shapes and anatomy to create beautiful Anterior composite and porcelain restorations 

The afternoon session will consist of veneer preparation hands-on training practical.

Day 2

• Using phonetics to ensure correct tooth profiles
• Lip lines and central incisor dominance
• 50:40:30 rule for contact areas
• Importance of the Dennis Tarnow rule for eliminating black triangle disease.
• Creating the ideal buccal corridor and changing emergence profile v banana teeth
• Soft tissue aesthetics
• Restorative solutions to uneven gingival margins
• Use of pink composite and porcelain to mimic gingival tissue.
• Using Anterior restorative Ortho GDP techniques to create ideal aesthetics prior to restoring

The afternoon session will consist of a veneer cementation hands-on training practical.

Important information

The participants must complete, before attending the face-to-face course, an online lecture

The pre-recorded online lecture on veneer preparations will show you the latest techniques for minimally invasive veneers and will include:

• the use of preparation matrices to guide tooth preps
• when to use Conventional vs slice preps
• prepless veneers and when they can and can't be used
• the importance of dentine sealing after preparation
• feldspathic vs Emax restorations and how to choose which to use
• impression techniques to ensure no distorted models
• how to avoid black triangles
• Geller Models vs standard modes for the fabrication of the Veneers
• diagnostic waxing and prototypes