Composite Veneers: all restorative techniques

Pantelis Kouros

– The subjectivity factors of visual shade matching:

- observer
- shade guides
- incident light
- composites.

– The 4 color dimensions:

- Color reading and matching best options of available composites
- Methods of shade-matching.

– Cross-evaluation of colorimetry tools
– Visual comparison to shade-tabs: methods for shade-matching, highlighting pros and cons using explanatory examples
– The importance of each color quality in human perception
– Universal shade approach vs. Layering technique
– Shade-related cases: indications and contra-indications
– Shade approaching of major composite manufacturers: mixing and combining materials for optimum results
– Evaluation of visual and digital shade selection. Analyzing step-by-step digital methods and evaluating the feasibility and results for each one.

Gustavo Pasarelli Petris

– Smile design: the full protocol
– Documentation, wax-up, mock-up
– Pink White Balance: shape guidelines of the future restoration
– The anatomy of cental incisors:

- buccal incisal edge
- proximal edge
- reflection area
- shadow area
- secondary and tertiary anatomy.

– The shape of composite veneers
– Shape correction and texture
– Light and dental tissue interaction: understanding light, color, op and translucency
– Composite materials accroding to their translucency and mechanical properties
– Direct class IV restorations and direct repair of restorations
– Repair bonded fragments: corrections on old restorations - adjusting shape and polishing steps
– Sequence of finishing and polishing: the right materials and instruments selection
– Layering
– Clinical cases.

David Gestakovski

– Intorduction and scientific background
– Flowable composite materials: mechanical and physical properties
– Case selection: purely additive and/or minimally invasive
– Planning of treatment in analog and digital:

- photo protocols
- impressions: silicon or alginate
- wax-up: the aesthetic and functional aspects
- mock-up: the aesthetic and functional aspects.

– Transparent silicon index production:

- materials used for manufacturing
- step-by-step video demonstration.

– Advantages of The flow injection technique
– Pricing and number of appointments according to Dr. David Geštakovski workflow
– Most common mistakes
– Tips and tricks.

Bora Korkut

– Functional and aesthetic direct composite restorations:

- Occlusion
- Pre-restorative treatment - Clear Aligner Therapy (CAT).

– Indication, treatment planning, resin composite selection, and instrument selection:

- Indications and contra-indications for direct composite restorations
- Intraoral analysis and treatment planning (golden ratio for esthetic restorations)
- Pre-restorative resin infiltration (ICON) option
- Selection of resin-based composite material (poly-shade composites, simply-shade composites, single-shade universal composites, and flowable composites)
- Selection of instruments for isolation and composite layering (rubber-dam instruments, specific anterior restoration spatulas, and composite brushes).

– Shade Analysis – Rubber-dam Isolation – Preparation – Adhesion:

- Clinical shade selection techniques for resin-based composite materials (visual, dental photography, cross-polarization photography, quantitative image processing)
- Clinical rubber-dam isolation protocols for anterior restorations
- Minimally invasive preparation (bur types and selection) for crown fractures and full veneers.

– Monochromatic and Polychromatic Layering Techniques:

- Free-hand layering
- Layering with special matrix bands
- Layering with palatal templates (silicone index).

– Finishing & Surface Texturing & Polishing:

- Material selection
- Primary, secondary, and tertiary morphologies
- Additive and subtractive finishing techniques
- Surface texturing
- Clinical application protocols.

Stefano Gelli

– Composites: chemical, mechanical, and physical properties
– Clinical indications for composite veneers
– Guide to the selection of the correct composite for the clinical case:

- Optical characteristics
- Polishability
- Mimethism.

– Anatomy of the upper incisors
– The longevity of composite veneers:

- Marginal features
- Discoloration
- Debonding.

– Full protocol for direct composite veneering
– Clinical cases.

Arthur R. Volker

– Classification of composite materials according to physical, chemical, mechanical, and optical properties
– The injection molding method of composite restoration:

- advantages of heated composite
- heated flowable composite
- heated paste composite
- heated composite used for monochromatic layering.

– Sectional metal matrices: advantages, indications, disadvantages
– Sectional plastic matrices: advantages, indications, disadvantages
– Full contour metal matrices: indications, advantages, and application technique
– Tofflemier modified full contour metal matrix
– Full contour plastic matrices: indications, advantages, and application technique
– The flat Mylar full contour plastic matrix
– 1 matrix, 2 ways: clinical tips and tricks by Dr. Volker
– Polychromatic and monochromatic layering strategies
– Tints / opaquers: indications and application protocols
– The effect of the matrix system on the gingiva
– The wide range of matrices available and suggestions for practitioners
– Clinical cases.

Arthur R. Volker

– Principles of smile design and analysis of proportions
– Integration of mathematical algorithms of dental aesthetics to smile design
– Composite options and determinants for matrix selection
– What is Bioclear matrix?
– The protocol of injection molding using Bioclear matrices
– Overmolding of veneers using Bioclear matrices
– Black triangles resolution and diastema closure
– Bioclear method for composite restorations:

- biofilm removal
- isolation and preparation
- layering techniques
- finishing and polishing.

– Clinical cases.