"Restorative dentistry for the General Dental Practitioner"

Target participants

The course is aimed at General Practitioners who would like a structured programme to increase their practical and theoretical knowledge in providing high quality restorative dental care.

Aims and objectives

The course aims to provide confidence in treatment planning, coordinating and restoring more advanced restorative cases to a high level. We also aim to provide updated techniques and knowledge immediately transferable to your working practice.

A combination of didactic learning, observation, and practical hands on teaching techniques will be utilised.

Each practitioner will be encouraged to bring to each day, cases for peer review and group treatment planning. The small group nature of the course will allow open discussion and problem solving, for accelerated learning.

Course dates and content

This course will run over 8 months (one day per month) starting in September 2004 and counts towards 50hours verifiable CPD - certificates of completion will be awarded.

Day 1
Treatment planning 1, Facebow records, articulators, patient consultations, records - The information you have to get to plan the case for success.

Day 2
Occlusion and TMJ , vertical dimension, conformative and reorganised dentitions - When to accept the bite position, and when (and how) to change it.

Day 3
Preparation techniques for direct and indirect restorations, material considerations, impressions, provisionals, bonding and cementing, all ceramic systems - Full day of restorative hints and tips

Day 4
Shade taking and laboratory communication, digital photography - How to get better results from your laboratory and present your treatment to full effect

Day 5
Aesthetics, Golden proportion, smile design, bleaching techniques, veneers and computer imaging - How to achieve natural restorations in harmony with the patients features

Day 6
Perio/restorative interface, Ortho/restorative interface - Interdisciplinary foundation building

Day 7
Introduction to dental implants, types of systems, when and where to use, realistic outcomes, fee setting

Day 8
Treatment planning 2 - Comprehensive dental care "putting it all together"

 


Guest Presenters

Over the period of the course guest presenters will include:
Kevin Lochhead - course director
Crawford Bain - treatment planning and preio/restorative
Robert Lawson - ortho/restorative
John Wibberly - (Portland Ceramics) Laboratory techniques
James Tomlinson - (Nobelbiocare) Implant placement & the "Replace Select" system
Additional Speakers to be confirmed

Our goal in providing these courses is to create an enjoyable and thought provoking environment which will allow you to move your clinical dentistry in whichever direction you choose.

By their nature these courses are limited participation and places will be allocated on a first come first serve basis. (A number of places have already been reserved on the implant course.)

Please call Karen on 0131-220-5115 for further information or e-mail Karen@edinburghdentist.com