Introducing the Tooth Wear Course: your solution to a common challenge!
Discover a comprehensive two-day program designed to address the increasing prevalence of tooth wear. This course is tailored to help you effectively discuss this condition with patients and provide predictable solutions. We’ve developed this course based on real-life clinical scenarios and the essential skills needed to solve them.
Join us as we guide you through the patient’s journey, from initial assessment to interceptive treatment, maintenance, and recalls. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to enhance your expertise in managing patients with toothwear.
Aims & objectives
- Discuss the value in copy/pasting direct composites and their alternatives.
- Explain step-by-step technical and clinical processes including maintenance, consenting, and occlusal appliances.
- Discuss different ways to communicate a smile design with the dental laboratory.
- Describe occlusal concepts and records needed when altering the patient’s occlusion.
- Discuss when, how, and why apply the Dahl concept.
Hands-on exercises
- Smile design of 4 wear cases on a tablet with a stylus (hands-on)
- Anterior deprogramming and occlusal registration (hands-on)
- Injection moulding for the worn dentition: monoshade and layering (hands-on)
What can you expect from this course?
Extensive theoretical plot about tooth wear: rationale for restorative versus orthodontic approach, Systematic approach to patient assessment,
Dental photography, managing tooth wear with a focus on Dahl’s principal, …
Hands-on approach: multiple exercises on MIT, smile design of 4 wear cases, anterior deprogramming, and occlusal registration, …
All under the professional guidance of Dr. Kostas Karagiannopoulos (King’s College)
