Level 3 – Full Mouth Rehabilitation, Treatment Planning & Occlusion 5-7 December

This four day course comprises three hands on days in December teaching all the protocols followed by a Saturday in summer where it all comes together, with continued support at a treatment planning conference where all delegates will get the chance to have help planning a case as well as learning from all their colleagues presentations. There is an option to attend in person or present and attend by Zoom for the summer one day treatment planning seminar.

Traditional dentistry relied on preparation techniques requiring the removal of healthy tooth structure to provide mechanical retention. New materials and techniques offer a less invasive and additive approach to restorative dentistry.

This course will teach the general dentist to see the potential complications, find treatment options, and rehabilitate broken-down teeth using adhesive dentistry. We aim to help general dentists broaden their approach to confidently execute single-tooth dentistry and start taking on comprehensive full-mouth diagnoses and treatments.

A thorough grounding in occlusion in setting up a case will be given.

• How to use Lucia jigs and leaf gauges to gain centric record
• How to perform occlusal equilibration
• How to asses the TMJ
• Using face bows and setting articulators
• Is splint therapy needed first?
• How to position the occlusal plane and smile design
• How to work out VDO
• Concept of anterior guidance and long centric
• Occlusal concepts of canine versus group function
• The 4 steps of diagnosis
• How to treatment plan versus treatment sequence
• Leading a multidisciplinary team as the restorative dentist

Treatments covered in depth include how to treat the:

• Worn dentition case
• The Class 2 Div I case
• The Class 2 Div II case
• The Class 3, end to end cross bite patient
• Diagnose if the vertical dimension needs increasing and how to predictably transfer this from design to the mouth
• How to account for compensatory eruption without making the patient appear tooth especially in the gummy smile patient