Syllabus Details2007-2008

Day 1   Treatment Planning

•  Introduction
• Treatment planning.

• Patients desires/needs, History taking, examination, SHEEP (single tooth assessment technique), occlusion, special tests (x-rays, including Digital systems), impressions, mounted study models (discuss small lab set up in practice), photography, record keeping, presentation of treatment plan, relevance of medical history.
• Case presentations
• Discussion of example cases
Day 2    Periodontics
Overview

• Aetiology

 

AM Non Surgical Treatment- Theoretical and hands-on

 

PM  Surgical Treatment-Theoretical and hands-on session

Over view of regeneration techniques

 

 

Day 3   Endodontics-Conventional Treatment Techniques

 

• Overview
• Conventional Endo –theory, papers, success rates etc
• Hands on with hand instruments and rotary instruments on blocks
• Lecture ‘Restoration of the Endodontically Restored Tooth’.

 

 

Day 4  Endodontics-Retreatment and Surgical

 

• Overview and discussion of retreatment surgical techniques
• Retreatment-theory, papers, success rates, etc
• Special equipment (ultrasonics and microscopes, post removing equipment, etc)
• Retreatment- hands on. Microscopes for participants to use

 

 

 

Day 5  Intracoronal Restorations

 

• Amalgams
• Composites

• Enamel/dentine structure and bonding- assessment of bonding systems
• Rubber Dam
• Posterior composites (materials, matrix systems, wedge systems, etc)
• Anterior composites (review of systems)
• HFO hands on

 

• Overview and presentation on indirect intracoronal tooth coloured restorations (Dr Hormoz Pourkavoos BDS MFGDP)
• CEREC

 

 

Day 6   Crowns and Veneers

 

• Lecture on theoretical considerations of crowns (success rates, design, retention, resistance, practical techniques, temporization, equipment suggestions, impressions, lab instructions, etc)
• Veneers as above

 

PM hands-on session on models/phantom heads. FGC, anterior PBC and single unit veneer including provisionals

 

 

Day 7   Smile Design

 

• Theoretical considerations of smile design (social impact, golden proportion, occlusal planes, face shape, wear, colour, etc)
• Bleaching
• Plastic Perio
• Imaging and photography- lecture and hands-on with Photoshop Imaging technique to demonstrate to patients a proposed outcome.

 

 

 

Days 8-11  Edentulous Spaces

 

Day 8   Treatment options

 

• Treatment options, rationale, papers, shortened dental arch concept, etc.
• Denture design
• PM Orthodontics and their use in practice –Dr Alan Jones (Consultant Orthodontist)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 9   Bridges

 

• AM-Theory, options, design, retention, resistance form, temporization, impressions, lab instructions, etc

 

PM-hands on, on models/phantom heads. Posterior PBC, anterior all ceramic or adhesive

 

 

 

Day 10  Implants

 

• Overview
• Designs, systems, procedures,
• Restoration,

Mini Implants and use in retention of dentures

 

 

Day 11   The Worn Dentition

 

• Overview, aetiology, assessment, classification, examples of cases
• Composites, Principles of the Dahl Concept, increasing VDO, “Mocking up” an occlusal scheme prior to definitive restoration.
• Hands on build ups on models
• Splints/Occlusal Appliances

 

 

Day 12  Emergencies/Practice management/ Treatment Planning Revisited

 

AM

• Emergencies/ medicine in practice (Dr Nathalie Richard MB BS, BSc, MRCP, MRCGP, PGDL  Specialist in Emergency Medicine)
• Practice management/ costing/ presenting treatment

 

PM Treatment planning revisited presentation of certificates

 

 

Relevant papers can be discussed at the beginning of each day.

 

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