Ceramic Veneers (From the Diagnosis & Preparation To The Temporisation & Cementation)

This comprehensive program will teach you about the importance of proper planning and diagnostics, applying facial parameters, taking adequate pictures/videos from the face analysis, preparing and cementing veneers, knowledge of ceramic science and colour matching and tooth form selection.

Outline:

Lectures:

- Facial parameters
- Facial lines and how to use them
- The facial flow concept
- How to take proper pictures for a smile analysis
- Why videos are better and how to take them
- Dynamic smile analysis
- Tooth form
- Correlation between tooth for and gender
- Treatment planning for aesthetic cases
- Communication between laboratory and the clinic
- Biological background  
- Preparation rules for thin veneers, veneers, crowns and partial crowns.
- Non-prep veneers, advantages, disadvantages, answers and proper planning for a successful treatment
- Ceramic materials, new improvements, classification, guidelines for their choice
- Adhesive cementation, classification of cements, tips and tricks

Hands-on Training:

- Tips and tricks for Keynote
- New apps
- Analysis with computers of how we should analyse the face
- Practical exercises for pictures and videos
- Face and dynamic smile analysis
- Tips and tricks with the iPhone
- Application of the concept and practical exercises of several clinical cases
- Drawings
- Preparation of teeth in order to correct imperfections and asymmetries
- Integrating the face
- Direct mockups as a motivational tool and as a functional-aesthetic correction tool
- Preparation of a classic veneer, a thin veneer and a crown.
- Different type of incisal finishing lines. How deep should we prepare? Layering vs monolithic or cut-back?
- Cementation of a veneer and a crown.
- Value shade concept
- Total etch vs self etch cements

Interactive Sessions:

- Clinical cases discussion and application of the concept
- Clinical cases discussion, comparison of different materials will be done (PFM, Zirconium oxide, glass ceramics)
- Cementation techniques (overview). Several fully documented, step by step clinical cases will be presented and discussed