2nd day Hands-On Workshop

The Final Touch 1-day Macro- Micro Course

Designing 6 anterior teeth using composite: Creating Ideal Form, Contour, Finishing, Creating Color Characteristics, Polish and Luster

Introduction

The proper space management, contour, surface texture, final surface color, and polish can take average looking restorations and create an exceptional esthetic result. These steps are critical to the success of dental restorations whether it’s composite or ceramics. The micro hand skills of “micro texture can also be taught in composite or modeling wax; this can be a very useful exercise as it is easy to change composite or wax. The Author practices his sculpting skills at least once a month in both as he finds it is the fastest way to keep “trained”.

This is a lecture and hands on workshop that uses composite as a medium to design, form, contour, finish and polish anterior teeth. The lecture part of the course will cover the following topics (1) the step-by-step process of managing the design of 6 anterior teeth for a specific maxillary arch relationship. (2) Specific guidelines for esthetic tooth arrangement both in size and position are the key elements taught during this course. (3) The esthetics of the individual tooth i.e. the individual form and color characteristics of teeth and the inter-relationships between teeth. (4) Micro-esthetic elements of surface texture, and polish will be covered in a very systematic easily learnable format, with composite materials.

This is a lecture and hands on course that uses composite as a medium to design, form, contour, finish and polish anterior teeth. The lecture part of the course will cover the following topics

The demonstration and hands-on part of the course will cover the armamentarium and the step-by-step process of these vital steps of form,
texture, surface color, and polish. Part of the course will be taking 6 maxillary teeth that have been machined as 6 oversized blocks of composite, and specifically determining the correct esthetic parameters of midline, tooth length and width, inter-tooth width relationships. Once these parameters have been determined the step-by-step process of creating these macro-dental esthetic relationships will be demonstrated and participants will do the same. Micro-esthetic parameters of form, contour, surface texture, and polish will be discussed in detail and participants will accomplish all these important skills.

Workshop Topics Covered:

1. Space management and Shaping 6 anterior teeth in machined composite.
2. Contouring 6 anterior teeth in machined composite materials and
techniques
3. Texturizing 6 anterior teeth composite and materials and techniques
4. Surface painting 6 anterior teeth to create custom natural color effects

5. Polishing 6 anterior teeth in composite materials and techniques

*Prizes will be awarded for the participants who demonstrated excellence
in achieving the workshop objectives