Course No: ES10-09 15 CDE Credits (6 hrs Lecture; 2 hrs Hands-on)
What’s New in All Ceramics:
Techno-Clinical Perspectives & Prep Design
Fri., October 30 & Sat., October 31, 2009
Location: University of Toronto Centre for Continuing Dental Education, 1440 Don Mills Road, Toronto, ON
A component of the Restorative Esthetic Continuum**
Dr. Damon Adams
Lecture – What's New in All Ceramics: Techno-Clinical Perspectives
Hands-On – Prep Design: Achieving Beauty, Function and Longevity
Course Overview Friday
Knowledge of the latest indirect dental materials is vital to maximizing the aesthetic and functional success of your restorations. For all-ceramics, this must include a thorough understanding of their current clinical uses, treatment indications, preparation and impression requirements, factors related to occlusion, as well as any inherent material strengths and weaknesses. Dr. Adams will discuss the practical knowledge that is needed to make the best choices for all-ceramic restorations, and to optimize the team-created results. He will also highlight information that dental technicians really want you and your team to know, but may be afraid to tell you.
This dynamic seminar is recommended for doctors, assistants, and dental technicians.
Objectives:
- Simplifying all-ceramics to assist in making optimal choices by understanding the critical differences between available materials
- Treatment planning considerations for all-ceramics
- The 10 most common preparation errors with solutions
- Impression trouble shooting: key factors in all-ceramic success
- Digital impressions v. physical impressions: What are the advantages? Should you purchase a system now?
- Proper use of silane and silica/silane treatments
- Key photos to take for all-ceramic aesthetic success/shade taking considerations
- The role of occlusion in the longevity of all-ceramics
- An update: Do zirconium oxide restorations fail? Why? Why you need to be careful when cutting off zirconium oxide copings. What are the best burs to use? What are the financial implications?
- Ways to minimize all-ceramic fractures and failures
- Laser indications specifically for digital impressions and CAD/CAM
- What are the best cements for all-ceramics available today? How to increase bond strengths for zirconium oxide restorations.
Course Overview Saturday
In this Lecture & Hands-on Workshop you will learn:
- The 6 keys in the selection of an aesthetic post system
- Detailed preparation requirements for the latest and most proven pressed, aluminum oxide, and zirconium oxide all-ceramic systems
- Troubleshooting preparations from a techno-clinical perspective
- How to prepare (hands-on exercises with all equipment, burs and materials provided) consistent prep designs that will help your dental technician give you back optimal contours, aesthetics and occlusion
While many other techniques are rapidly changing in dentistry, preparation design will remain as a subject of major importance to achieving success in aesthetics, function and longevity of indirect restorations.
This interactive hands-on workshop provides doctors with a unique opportunity to acquire an excellent understanding of all-ceramic dental materials along with the most ideal prep designs for the latest pressed, aluminum oxide and zirconium oxide ceramic systems.* The value of a higher level of involvement with the dental laboratory team, a vital ingredient in preparation and impression evaluation, will be emphasized. Overall, the workshop is designed to assist any doctor in focusing on the details of preparations, regardless of their present level of care.
This will be a comfortable and interactive hands-on setting for doctors with limited attendance
**A component of the Restorative Esthetic Continuum
The goal of the University of Toronto Advanced Restorative Esthetic Continuum is to provide participants with a logical and insightful perception as to how to examine, treatment plan and deliver dentistry to their patients that is functional, esthetic and optimally maintainable.
Participants will receive a certificate from the University of Toronto Continuing Dental Education once completing each of the seven programs over a period not exceeding three academic school years. Each of the seven programs will take place on a Friday and Saturday in Toronto, Ontario. Each 2-day program will consist of a lecture and a hands-on component. The hands-on component will allow each participant to fully understand and practice what they have learned and to satisfy the University requirement to be able to give a certificate. Space is limited to 32 participants per session.
The courses are run in logical progression in order to give each doctor insight, perception, and the vision to achieve their restorative esthetic goals. Treatment planning and working with a dental team of specialists is stressed, although there is no way to learn everything in seven sessions, participants will acquire a fundamental and direction to continue their quest for dental excellence.
Tuition*
(includes continental breakfast, networking lunch, and afternoon refreshments)
| Prior to October 16, 2009 | After October 16, 2009 | |
|---|---|---|
| Dentists: | $995 | $1050 |
| Allied Professionals: | $125 | $150 |
There may be an additional charge for the purchase of materials that are required to complete the hands-on component of this course.
Course Time - Friday: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, Saturday: 8:30 am - 12:30 pm
*Register at the same time for 2 or more courses and receive a 10% discount on each course.
Advanced Restorative Esthetic Continuum Courses:
| September 25, 26, 2009 | The Veneer Studio: Veneer Preparation and Photography |
Dr. Gary Radz, Dr. Tony Soileau |
| October 30, 31, 2009 | Lecture – What's New in All Ceramics: Techno-Clinical Perspectives Hands-On – Prep Design: Achieving Beauty, Function and Longevity |
Dr. Damon Adams |
| December 11, 12, 2009 | Predictable Techniques for Total Esthetics | Dr. Robert Lowe |
| January 22, 23, 2010 | “Esthetics In Action” — Clinical Techniques, Materials and Technology |
Dr. Ross Nash |
| February 12, 13, 2010 | Smile Design: The Art of Temporization |
Dr. Elliot Mechanic |
| June 11, 12, 2010 | Advanced Technology in Aesthetic Surgery | Dr. Robert Miller |
| Date TBA | An Easy Approach to Predictable Anterior Direct Composite Restorations |
Dr. Robert Margeas, Dr. Marcos Vargas |
Biographies
Dr. Damon C. Adams, a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, is an assistant clinical professor serving in the dental residency program at the University of Toledo, College of Medicine. He lectures internationally emphasizing doctor-technician relationships and techno-clinical perspectives. He also facilitates hands-on preparation workshops designed to optimize the utilization of all ceramic systems. In addition to his years in private practice, he has had the opportunity to serve as a doctor-technician liaison for numerous dental laboratories throughout North America since 1996. Dr. Adams is the editor-in-chief of Dentistry Today and is listed in Dentistry Today’s Leaders in Continuing Education (2004-2009.) In addition, he also serves on the Advisory Board for Spectrum Dialogue (Palmeri Publications).
Dr. Adams is a member of the ADA, AGD, AACD, SCAD, and the National Association of Dental Laboratories. He is a Fellow in the International College of Dentists.
