Dental CE Course: Interdisciplinary Clinical Approaches to Achieve Dental Esthetics

Dentists today are constantly required to improve and maintain their patients' dental and facial esthetics. Although challenging, once predictable esthetic results are achieved, it is most rewarding to patients and the dental team. Often, clinical case selection and treatment planning require a careful consideration of a multitude and inter-disciplinary factors and conditions affecting the patient as well as thorough knowledge of the most current concepts and techniques of esthetic dentistry. In this course, faculty experts from different disciplines of dentistry will discuss the most up-todate concepts and clinical approaches to help you achieve better and more predictable esthetic results in your practice.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED:
How to plan interdisciplinary cases for ideal esthetic results
How to perform smile analysis
How to properly sequence complex cases
How to conduct a clinical examination with emphasis on facial esthetics and develop an effective, protocol-based facial treatment plan
Conservative approaches to achieve esthetics and function with bonded restorations
The use of bonded porcelain restoration in the anterior and posterior dentition
Techniques to minimize postoperative sensitivity after placement of direct bonded restorations
Essential elements in the design, optimization, fabrication and luting of bonded porcelain restorations
How digital photography and computer technology can be used to facilitate documentation and communication
Esthetic periodontal therapy for smile reconstruction
Criteria for esthetic implant reconstruction
How to achieve soft tissue harmony by preservation and regeneration of the interdental papilla, root coverage and soft tissue grafting
How to preserve and augment extraction sockets and edentulous ridges for ideal implant placement
An approach to reduce tissue healing time, increase patient acceptance and enhance esthetics by using minimally invasive surgery
Criteria for immediate placement and provisionalization of implants in the esthetic zone
Criteria for selection of ideal implant site and abutment
Principles of diagnosis, treatment planning and design of esthetic removable partial dentures
State-of-the art esthetic material selection for removable partial dentures
How to identify multiple clinical factors associated with removable partial denture design