Composite Veneers: all restorative techniques

Lesson 1. Color in aesthetics: the science and beauty behind direct composite veneer restorations

The subjectivity factors of visual shade matching:

• Observershade guidesincident lightcomposites.

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.

Duration: 51 min · Presented by: Pantelis Kouros

Lesson 2. Single composite veneer: corrections of shape and color

• 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 edgeproximal edgereflection areashadow areasecondary 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.

Duration: 2 h 05 min · Presented by: Gustavo Pasarelli Petris

Lesson 3. The flow injection technique

• 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 alginatewax-up: the aesthetic and functional aspectsmock-up: the aesthetic and functional aspects.

Transparent silicon index production:

• Materials used for manufacturingstep-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.

Duration: 55 min · Presented by: David Gestakovski

Lesson 4. Monochromatic and polychromatic layering techniques. From material selection to finishing and polishing

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.

Duration: 1 h 22 min · Presented by: Bora Korkut

Lesson 5. Free-hand technique

• 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.

Duration: 1 h 29 min · Presented by: Stefano Gelli

Lesson 6. Matrixing strategies: simplifying composite veneer restorations

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

The injection molding method of composite restoration:

• Advantages of heated compositeheated flowable compositeheated paste compositeheated 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 matrix1 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.

Duration: 1 h 32 min · Presented by: Arthur R. Volker

Lesson 7. Modern anterior composite veneer techniques

• 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.

Presented by: Arthur R. Volker1 h 31 min