Dental CE Course: Composite Mirroring: Simplifying the Details....

2-Day Hands-On Training Course
Dates: June 5 & 6, 2009

Composite mirroring is the contemporary dentist most minimal invasive procedure when there is tooth that is missing, diseased or unsightly to achieve the patient’s desired outcome. Direct composites in the esthetic zone tend to be one of the most challenging procedures and so it is too often overlooked as a viable treatment option.

With the advances in adhesive dentistry and composite materials and techniques, we can restore teeth in the most conservative, least invasive, predictable fashion by the use of composites. Learn the 10 parameters involving composite materials and techniques to assure clinical success. Relearn and master the use of tints, opaquers, proper armamentarium, adhesive dentistry and finishing and polishing to create these restorations that can marvel tooth structure.

Develop and further refine the skills used to layer composite to build in polychromicity, dentinal lobes and incisal effects and halo. Ceramist’s techniques for developing life like restorations will be discussed. In the afternoon session, emphasis is placed on direct composite veneer restorations in the esthetic zone, such that every clinician can return to their offices and confidently place seamless restorations at a higher artistic skill level.

Course Objectives

-Evaluation of the various types of composite materials: advantages, disadvantages and clinical usage.
-Is there any value to tint and opaquers?
-Preparation design and 7 important steps to create an invisible restoration
-"Layering” techniques to build in polychromicity and translucencies
-Comprehensive evaluation of contour and color and their effects on final esthetic for anterior restorations.
-The next to last step, finishing and polishing.


Composite Mirroring: Simplifying the Details...

June 5 - 6, 2009

XPert Presenter(s):

Brian P. LeSage, DDS FAACD
Cosmetics
CA, USA
Dr. Brian P. LeSage graduated magna cum laude with the Omicron Kappa Upsilon Honor Dental Society award from the University of Maryland, Baltimore Col ...
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Course Detail(s):

Composite mirroring is the contemporary dentist most minimal invasive procedure when there is tooth that is missing, diseased or unsightly to achieve the patient’s desired outcome. Direct composites in the esthetic zone tend to be one of the most challenging procedures and so it is too often overlooked as a viable treatment option.

With the advances in adhesive dentistry and composite materials and techniques, we can restore teeth in the most conservative, least invasive, predictable fashion by the use of composites. Learn the 10 parameters involving composite materials and techniques to assure clinical success. Relearn and master the use of tints, opaquers, proper armamentarium, adhesive dentistry and finishing and polishing to create these restorations that can marvel tooth structure.

Develop and further refine the skills used to layer composite to build in polychromicity, dentinal lobes and incisal effects and halo. Ceramist’s techniques for developing life like restorations will be discussed. In the afternoon session, emphasis is placed on direct composite veneer restorations in the esthetic zone, such that every clinician can return to their offices and confidently place seamless restorations at a higher artistic skill level.

Course Objectives

Evaluation of the various types of composite materials: advantages, disadvantages and clinical usage.
Is there any value to tint and opaquers?
Preparation design and 7 important steps to create an invisible restoration
"Layering” techniques to build in polychromicity and translucencies
Comprehensive evaluation of contour and color and their effects on final esthetic for anterior restorations.
The next to last step, finishing and polishing.

Workshop

This workshop will allow the clinician to practice the art and science of composite artistry in a “clinical” environment. The same skills you observed in lecture the first day through explanation, diagrams and clinical photography will be applied directly on a typodonts tooth or model. The exercise will involve placing the bevel, incrementally building the dentinal lobes. Placing surface anatomy and texture, and polishing to the appropriate finish and luster will be emphasized.

Additionally, you will fabricate a direct composite veneer using a matrix that will demonstrate incisal effects, maverick colors and incisal halo. MacroEsthetics and more importantly MicroEsthetic principles will be covered in depth, which will enable one to place a seamless direct anterior composite restoration.