Incidental Wear Course

  • If you are confident with single tooth dentistry and want to start managing larger tooth wear cases then this comprehensive 6-day course is the one for you!

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The Wear Course Premise:

As educators, who are passionate about restorative dentistry, this is the course we have always wanted to write. The course will run through the fundamentals of how to diagnose, take appropriate records, plan and transfer tooth wear cases.

While the fundamentals of how to manage tooth wear haven’t changed too much over the decades the materials and methods used have evolved enormously. In this course we will provide a historical context for analogue methods used in the past and best practice analogue workflows today. We will also full embrace and showcase how we implement digital workflows and transfer techniques on a daily basis.

This course will take place over two 3 day modules:

Module 1: Assessment, Records and Facially Generated Treatment Planning

Module 2: Transfer techniques, Case discussion, Compromises and Complications

The course will be written and delivered by Alan Burgin, Chris O'Connor, Ollie Bailey and Colin McGurik.

As anyone who has done one of our courses knows we invest heavily in the practical sessions we run and this course is no exception. The course will allow delegates the chance to fully plan real life cases with both a digital and analogue workflows and will teach a multitude of transfer techniques including injection moulding, semi indirect, indirect composite shells, additive indirect composites, direct palatal shells and fully direct.

We will be sharing our experience and tips for managing tooth wear cases in primary and secondary care and there will be considerable time devoted to case discussions and reflections to consolidate learning.

This course is suitable for Dentists and assumes a reasonable mastery of single tooth restorative dentistry. While we do not insist that delegates have completed our direct and indirect programmes to take this course they (or similar equivalent courses) are advisable.

Practical Exercises Covered:

  • Examination for tooth wear cases

  • Smile design

  • Recording and mounting analogue facebows/ DFA

  • Recording and mounting analogue CR records using a variety of techniques

  • Digital techniques for recording and mounting casts in CR

  • Analogue waxing to plan a FMR step by step

  • Digital waxing to plan a FMR step by step (in Exocad)

  • Equilibration

  • Lab stages and planning your transfer appointments

  • Injection moulding technique from stent manufacture to clinical steps

  • Semi indirect and indirect additive composites

  • Palatal stents, indirect palatal shells and unguided direct transfer techniques

  • Provisional indirect transfer techniques

This 6 day course is associated with 42 hours Verifiable CPD.

Course places are limited to small groups and we hope to run the course at least annually.

Delegates on our waitlist will have priority booking for new cohorts so please sign up via the link at the bottom of our course booking page if no spaces are currently available.

The course is written and delivered by Alan Burgin, Chris O'Connor, Ollie Bailey and Colin McGurik.

Module 1

Diagnosis, prevention and aetiology of wear

The comprehensive assessment

Occlusion Terminology

Anatomy

Analogue records and mounting

Digital records and mounting

Facially Generated Treatment Planning

Strategies for creating space

Occlusal Design in Ideal and compromised situations

Adjunctive treatments

Case Discussion and planning cases

Module 2

Transfer strategies overview

Transfer sequencing

Injection Moulding technique

Semi indirect and indirect additive composites

Palatal stents, indirect palatal shells and unguided direct transfer techniques

Provisional indirect transfer techniques