Composite Veneers: all restorative techniques

– The subjectivity factors of visual shade matching:

- observer

- shade guides

- incident light

- composites.

– The 4 color dimensions:

- Color reading and matching best options of available composites

- Methods of shade-matching.

– Cross-evaluation of colorimetry tools

– Visual comparison to shade-tabs: methods for shade-matching, highlighting pros and cons using explanatory examples

– The importance of each color quality in human perception

– Universal shade approach vs. Layering technique

– Shade-related cases: indications and contra-indications

– Shade approaching of major composite manufacturers: mixing and combining materials for optimum results

– Evaluation of visual and digital shade selection. Analyzing step-by-step digital methods and evaluating the feasibility and results for each one.

Recommended for: Restorers, General dentists.

– Smile design: the full protocol

– Documentation, wax-up, mock-up

– Pink White Balance: shape guidelines of the future restoration

– The anatomy of cental incisors:

- buccal incisal edge 

- proximal edge

- reflection area

- shadow area

- secondary and tertiary anatomy.

– The shape of composite veneers

– Shape correction and texture

– Light and dental tissue interaction: understanding light, color, op and translucency

– Composite materials accroding to their translucency and mechanical properties

– Direct class IV restorations and direct repair of restorations

– Repair bonded fragments: corrections on old restorations - adjusting shape and polishing steps

– Sequence of finishing and polishing: the right materials and instruments selection

– Layering

– Clinical cases. 

Recommended for: Restorers, General dentists.

– Intorduction and scientific background

– Flowable composite materials: mechanical and physical properties

– Case selection: purely additive and/or minimally invasive

– Planning of treatment in analog and digital: 

- photo protocols

- impressions: silicon or alginate

- wax-up: the aesthetic and functional aspects

- mock-up: the aesthetic and functional aspects.

– Transparent silicon index production:

- materials used for manufacturing

- step-by-step video demonstration.

– Advantages of The flow injection technique

– Pricing and number of appointments according to Dr. David Geštakovski workflow

– Most common mistakes

– Tips and tricks.

Recommended for: Restorers, General dentists.

– Functional and aesthetic direct composite restorations:

- Occlusion

- Pre-restorative treatment - Clear Aligner Therapy (CAT).

– Indication, treatment planning, resin composite selection, and instrument selection: 

- Indications and contra-indications for direct composite restorations

- Intraoral analysis and treatment planning (golden ratio for esthetic restorations)

- Pre-restorative resin infiltration (ICON) option

- Selection of resin-based composite material (poly-shade composites, simply-shade composites, single-shade universal composites, and flowable composites)

- Selection of instruments for isolation and composite layering (rubber-dam instruments, specific anterior restoration spatulas, and composite brushes).

– Shade Analysis – Rubber-dam Isolation – Preparation – Adhesion: 

- Clinical shade selection techniques for resin-based composite materials (visual, dental photography, cross-polarization photography, quantitative image processing)

- Clinical rubber-dam isolation protocols for anterior restorations

- Minimally invasive preparation (bur types and selection) for crown fractures and full veneers.

– Monochromatic and Polychromatic Layering Techniques: 

- Free-hand layering

- Layering with special matrix bands

- Layering with palatal templates (silicone index).

– Finishing & Surface Texturing & Polishing:

- Material selection

- Primary, secondary, and tertiary morphologies

- Additive and subtractive finishing techniques

- Surface texturing

- Clinical application protocols.

Recommended for: Restorers, General dentists.

– Composites: chemical, mechanical, and physical properties

– Clinical indications for composite veneers

– Guide to the selection of the correct composite for the clinical case: 

- Optical characteristics

- Polishability

- Mimethism.

– Anatomy of the upper incisors

– The longevity of composite veneers:

- Marginal features

- Discoloration

- Debonding.

– Full protocol for direct composite veneering

– Clinical cases.

Recommended for: Restorers, General dentists.

– Classification of composite materials according to physical, chemical, mechanical, and optical properties

– The injection molding method of composite restoration:

- advantages of heated composite

- heated flowable composite

- heated paste composite

- heated composite used for monochromatic layering.

– Sectional metal matrices: advantages, indications, disadvantages

– Sectional plastic matrices: advantages, indications, disadvantages

– Full contour metal matrices: indications, advantages, and application technique

– Tofflemier modified full contour metal matrix

– Full contour plastic matrices: indications, advantages, and application technique

– The flat Mylar full contour plastic matrix

– 1 matrix, 2 ways: clinical tips and tricks by Dr. Volker

– Polychromatic and monochromatic layering strategies

– Tints / opaquers: indications and application protocols

– The effect of the matrix system on the gingiva

– The wide range of matrices available and suggestions for practitioners

– Clinical cases. 

Recommended for: Restorers, General dentists.

– Principles of smile design and analysis of proportions

– Integration of mathematical algorithms of dental aesthetics to smile design

– Composite options and determinants for matrix selection

– What is Bioclear matrix?

– The protocol of injection molding using Bioclear matrices

– Overmolding of veneers using Bioclear matrices

– Black triangles resolution and diastema closure

– Bioclear method for composite restorations: 

- biofilm removal

- isolation and preparation

- layering techniques

- finishing and polishing.

– Clinical cases. 

Recommended for: Restorers, General dentists.