Course Structure

This course consists of two parts – an online pre-course lecture on veneer preparations and two days of face-to-face live in-person hands-on training.

Day 1

• The morning session will consist of a Smile Design lecture which will include:
• How to choose between creating a natural smile or a media smile for your patient?
• Cosmetic Imaging techniques for sales and treatment planning
• Assessing Occlusal vertical dimension
• Creating the correct Occlusal planes for the full mouth recon.
• Choosing the ideal centre line for your patient.
• Communication with the technician about the correct smile line and anterior Occlusal plane.
• Creating ideal aesthetics by incorporating golden proportion into your restorations.
• Understanding Anterior tooth shapes and anatomy to create beautiful Anterior composite and porcelain restorations

Day 2

• Using phonetics to ensure correct tooth profiles
• Lip lines and central incisor dominance
• 50:40:30 rule for contact areas
• Importance of the Dennis Tarnow rule for eliminating black triangle disease.
• Creating the ideal buccal corridor and changing the emergence profile v banana teeth
• Soft tissue aesthetics
• Restorative solutions to uneven gingival margins
• Use of pink composite and porcelain to mimic gingival tissue.
• Using Anterior restorative Ortho GDP techniques to create ideal aesthetics before restoring