Precision Academy Anterior Prep Course

Delegates will learn:

• Which occlusal schemes are favourable and which are not.
• They will learn how to assess occlusion, when to conform and when to reorganise.
• How to commission an accurate wax up and stents and how to use them to guide a case from start to finish.
• Delegates will prepare a 10 unit veneer and anterior crown case with perfect surfaces and finish lines.
• Which burs to use and when.
• How to deal with existing restorations and when to opt for a crown rather than a veneer.
• Impression taking: which retraction cord, when and why. How to place retraction cord for the perfect impression.
• How to take a consistently accurate impression.
• Delegates will take impressions of their own preparations.
• Provisionalisation: which material and how to maintain perfect gingival health.
• Delegates will make and bond provisional restorations for their own preparations.
• Shade taking to achieve predictable results with emax.
• Lab communication to eliminate errors.
• How to take accurate clinical photographs of your case to help the ceramist.
• Correct bonding protocol for emax, which bonding resin, when and how.
• Appropriate isolation for bonding. Delegates will isolate a 10 unit case with rubber dam, ready for bonding.
• Delegates will bond a 10 unit veneer/ crown case under rubber dam using both light cure and dual cure resin systems.
• Finishing and polishing for long term stability of restoration and soft tissues