Key Topics

Day 1: 'CURRENT CONCEPTS' Contents

Day 2: 'ADVANCED CONCEPTS' Contents

Update on the Latest Bonding Technology

• Understanding self-etching primers
• Why phosphoric etching of dentine is contra-indicated when using self-etching primers
• Long term stability of dentine bonding
• Choosing the best light source
• Bond tooth fragment without composite

Porcelain Repairs that Actually Work

• Porcelain chips and metal exposure
• Eliminate need for HF
• Repair fractured metal on bridge
• Make endo opening disappear
• Fully opaquing metal

Highlights of Posterior Composite Techniques

• Bite formed occlusion
• Eliminate recurrent caries
• Excellent contacts
• Convert a Class II into a Class I
• Why flowable composites are the best first increment
• Wedge may be contraindicated
• Controlled 9 year clinical trial: GIC liner vs. no GIC liner

Adhesion Bridges

• Metal backed, successful designs
• Why eloctrolytic etching of metal is contraindicated
• Metal free, successful designs
• Speeding and slowing Panavia

Composites

• Why high shrinkage does not matter
• What determines composite wear rate
• Choosing the best materials
• Increasing retention of class V fillings

Eliminate Post-Op Sensitivity

• Thermal sensitivity
• Bite pressure sensitivity
• Why Class I is the most difficult to solve
• New concepts in lab work

Impressions

• VPS impressions without string
• Don't wash off blood, it's displaced

Developments and Limitations in Fast Whitening

• Does the light really help?
• Low peroxide concentration may be more effective than high concentration
• How long it takes to permanently 'bleach' moderately tetracycline stained teeth
• Veneered teeth can be successfully whitened

Determining Final Occlusion

• Finding functional CO
• No commercially driven equipment needed

Adhesion Replaces Retention Form

• Think onlay, not crown
• Think veneer, not crown
• Temporaries retained on flat preps
• Unicem: acceptable without adhesive?

The Latest Bonding Technology

• Make any bond work compatibly with any composite
• Eliminate radiolucency in x-rays

The Optimal Choice of Materials to Simplify the Office

• Dump the fridge
• Restock with a simple selection

MTA Pulp Cap Clinical Trials

• Would you believe 97.9% success at 9 years?
• Use Portland cement or genuine MTA?

The New Porcelains and Pressed Ceramics

• The best aesthetic choice for anterior crowns
• Single metal free crowns
• Metal free bridges
• Bonding to zirconia (Lava) and alumina (Procera)
• The porcelain brand on Lava is more important than the frame
• Why Empress 1 is usually a poor choice for veneers but a great choice for crowns
• Bonding reinforces all-ceramic crowns
• Optimising Cerec adhesion

The Next Major Paradigm Shift In

• Why it's better to leave caries
• Limitations of caries reversal with GIC

The Terrific Twenty

• 20 pearls in about 20 minutes

What's New and Current with

• Esthetic porcelain veneers
• How to treat tetracycline cases with conservative veneers
• How about "no prep" veneers?
• What is the best prep?
• Avoid commercially driven preps to accommodate the wrong material
• Sectional veneers are often the answer (with 18 year recalls to prove it)
• What is the ideal impression technique?
• A revolutionary polymerizable Try-in system
• The dentist's big fear, a single central incisor colour matched while staying in enamel