Removable Prosthodontics Essentials: Complete Dentures in the Digital Era

1- Primary and secondary impressions for an upper complete denture

Aims and objectives:

• Understand the anatomy of the denture bearing area, and the recording of the functional sulcus in the anterior and posterior areas
• How to mould and soften the impression compound, prior to the initial impression
• Tips on marking the borders on the impression for the special tray
• Demonstration of the special tray
• How to design the correct special tray, using green stick wax, for posterior border moulding
• How to take the special tray impression, in alginate, and what areas to mark, and inform the lab

Presented by: Andrew Shelley

- Primary and secondary impressions for a lower complete denture

Aims and objectives:

• Learn two techniques for recording the impression of the edentulous lower jaw. The admixed technique, described by McCord and Tyson in 1997, and functional impression technique
• Understand the anatomy related to the lower edentulous area
• How to mould and soften the impression compound, prior to the initial impression
• Demonstration of the special tray, and the special tray upper impression, using the Ad
• Mix technique
• Demonstration of the functional impression from the base, recording the movement of the lips and other soft tissues

Presented by: Andrew Shelley

- The bite registration stage

Aims and objectives:

• Learn how to cut a post dam
• How to assess and record lip support
• How to establish the correct vertical dimension
• How to present the recording of the occlusal and incisal planes
• Use of the alma gauge at the bite registration stage
• How to record the interocclusal relationship
• How to avoid errors in mounting the casts in the laboratory
• Some tips in tooth selection

Presented by: Andrew Shelley

- The try in stage

Aims and objectives:

• Learn how to prescribe lip support, and vertical dimension, for complete upper dentures with natural lower teeth
• Assessment of peripheral seal, fit, occlusion and appearance
• How to prescribe tooth position for a reset in the laboratory
• How to make minor changes in tooth position, at the chairside, for natural- looking tooth positions
• How to re-register where there are discrepancies in the occlusion

Presented by: Andrew Shelley

- The fit stage

Aims and objectives:

• Illustration of the assessment of new dentures
• Three techniques to identifying the location of sore spots, on the fitting surface of dentures
• A simple guide to denture occlusion
• Aspects of denture cleaning
• Some common denture faults

Presented by: Andrew Shelley

- 7 top tips in removable prosthodontics

Aims and objectives:

• Understand the importance of the 7 key steps
• Gain insight and tips on achieving an accurate impression, and how to record the retromolar pad area well
• A hands-on tip: how to make special tray impressions for the upper and lower dentures
• Recording centric relation for the occlusion, and tips on using the Gerber Condylator to achieve this
• Tips on the optimal try-in

Presented by: Finlay Sutton

- Computer-aided engineering of complete dentures and implant prostheses Part 1 Aims and objectives:

Gain an understanding of the computer-aided engineering of complete dentures and implant prostheses, taking into consideration:

• View the first digital denture ever made
• Gain an overview of the 5 ways in which digital technologies can help fabricate complete dentures
• Brief overview of the Ava
• Dent complete denture system that enables fabrication of complete dentures, within 2 visits, and the benefits5 methods for obtaining clinical records for digital dentures

Presented by: Charles Goodacre

- Computer-aided engineering of complete dentures and implant prostheses Part 2

Aims and objectives:

Gain an understanding of the computer-aided engineering of complete dentures and implant prostheses, taking into consideration:

• An overview of the complete denture fabrication process, using digital technologies
• Learn more about custom milled denture teeth from the Ava
• Dent system
• The Ava
• Dent protocol for immediate loading of the implant fixed complete denture and how this process reduces appointments and provides benefits

Presented by: Charles Goodacre

- Relevance of complete denture knowledge in today’s world of implantology

Aims and objectives:

• Gain tips on the provision of complete dentures
• An understanding of the detail of the features to record in complete denture patients, including extra orally and intraorally during examination
• How to record these features accurately and practically
• A checklist you can use for complete denture patients
• An overview of tips for primary impression techniques, including choice of the correct trays for good impressions
• Tips on recording the posterior limit of the upper denture, before taking the primary impression using a T burnisher
• Tips on making primary impressions to record the entire periphery
• Digital impressions
• Jaw relation recording
• Centric relations methods
• Tips on anterior teeth selection, arrangements and try in

- It's loose, it hurts, my bite feels wrong. The denture problem

Aims and objectives:

• Understand the costings, and tiers, for denture provision
• Know the management principles of dentures
• Tips on denture impressions - primary and definitive
• Knowing the impression materials
• Tips on creating good stability and retention

Presented by: Dentinal Tubules

Course: Removable Partial Dentures

Lessons:

• 1 - Components and Concepts
• 2 - Kennedy Classification and Applegate’s Rules
• 3 - Surveying
• 4 - Retentive Clasps
• 5 - Major Connectors, Minor Connectors, and Finish Lines
• 6 - Fulcrum Lines, Stress Release, and Indirect Retention
• 7 - Fabrication Methods and Materials

Duration: 53 min · Presented by: Ahmed M. Mahrous

Course: Crown Seating

• 1 - When Interproximal Contacts Are Too Tight During Crown Seating
• 2 - How To Avoid Pinching the Gingiva During Crown Seating
• 3 - When a Crown Doesn’t Seat
• 4 - When Interproximal Contacts Are Too Loose During Crown Seating
• 5 - Adjusting a Crown in High Occlusion During Crown Seating
• 6 - Adjusting Deficient Occlusal Contacts During Crown Seating
• 7 - Discovering a Crown’s Shade Is Wrong During Crown Seating
• 8 - Encountering Gingival Recession During Crown Seating
• 9 - Benefits of Using a Digital Workflow for Crown Seating

Duration: 25 min · Presented by: Ricardo Mitrani

Course: Direct Resin Restorations

• 1 - Direct Resin Restorations in the Posterior Dentition, Class I
• 2 - Using Particle Abrasion To Improve Bond Strength
• 3 - Reasons for White Line Failures
• 4 - Adjustment-Free Restorations
• 5 - Getting a Solid Contact Point
• 6 - Closing the Box
• 7 - Direct Resin Restoration of a Midline Diastema, Restoring (1)8 - Direct Resin Restoration of a Midline Diastema, Restoring (2)9 - Direct Resin Restoration of a Midline Diastema, Contouring
• 10 - Direct Resin Restoration of a Midline Diastema, Restoring (3)

Duration: 1 h 50 min · Presented by: Jason Smithson