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Course Overview
By simplifying clinical techniques & developing materials and equipment following years of clinical experience and research, we can now offer our patients high quality, time efficient, predictable aesthetic restorative treatment, which is minimally invasive and affordable, often in a single appointment.
This course will cover everything from photography and communication to the restorative process and how to restore smiles in everyday practice.
This course is for dentists and therapists.
Course Speaker:
About the course leader, Louis Mackenzie
Louis Mackenzie is a GDP working in Birmingham and is a clinical lecturer at the University of Birmingham School of dentistry and in the postgraduate department at King’s college London. He delivers lectures nationally and internationally on direct and indirect restorative techniques, minimally invasive dentistry and clinical photography and runs a series of popular hands-on courses. He is a member of the editorial board of Dental Update journal, is the head of clinical training at Simplyhealth Professionals and is academic lead of the University of Birmingham’s Master’s programme in Restorative Dentistry.
Course content
This comprehensive, full-day, hands-on course will provide a practical training using the latest materials, equipment and clinical techniques for predictable, minimally invasive, aesthetic and cosmetic restorative dentistry for dentists and therapists.
By the end of this course, delegates will be able to demonstrate knowledge, understanding and practical skill in aesthetic restorative and cosmetic procedures in the following subject areas:
Aesthetic assessment and diagnosis
Practical procedures for smile design
Mobile Dental Photography (MDP) for diagnosis, communication and documentation
Tooth Whitening (including air polishing and internal bleaching)
Material selection (including bulk-fill materials)
Anatomical placement and shaping techniques
Optimising light curing
Finishing and polishing techniques
Anterior composites:
Case selection
Composite shade selection
Isolation and adhesion
Anterior matrices
Placement and shaping techniques (including a fast, innovative method for direct composite veneers)
Finishing and polishing
Advanced direct composite techniques:
Polychromatic layering techniques
Managing wear cases with direct composite
Fibre-reinforced composite resin-bonded bridges
7 Hours
Learning Development Outcomes: A & C
Development outcomes
By the end of this course delegates will be able to enhance patient care by optimising all clinical stages of assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning and minimally invasive aesthetic and cosmetic restorative procedures. This course conforms to the GDC’s development outcomes for enhanced CPD. (Outcome C: Maintenance and development of knowledge and skill within your field of practice).
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