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Yosemite
November 2-4, 2017
Location: Yosemite Majestic Lodge (formerly Ahwahnee) (room blocks) Seminar Fee: $480 Per Person Registration Begins: 2:00pm Thursday Seminar Begins: 2:30pm Thursday (Next day start times will be announced) Concludes: TBA Saturday Payment: The preferred way to register is payment by check. It would be wise to reserve your place (and confirm availability) before sending the check. Alternatively you may securely FAX (510-652-8729) or call us (510-483-2411) for registration by credit card. Cancellation Policy: Should you need to cancel, we require at least 14 days notice for a full refund (less any credit card bank fees if you registered using credit card). CE Credit: 14 Hours |
The Biomechanics of Tooth Function and Restorative Implications and Techniques
Advances in our understanding of how a tooth functions at the biomechanical level have led to significant changes in how we prepare and restore teeth. Historically, the emphasis has been on creating a strong restoration without regard to preserving tooth structure, too often leading to catastrophic tooth loss. Biomimetic designs now focus on how to protect vital biomechanical components of tooth structure while providing aesthetic and durable restorations.
A key component to this paradigm shift is to fully utilize adhesion for all hard surfaces. Adhesion replaces mechanical retention. Improved bonding options, combined with current advances in restorative materials and techniques, allow us to come closer to reproducing nature’s designs than ever before. The final outcome of this presentation is to learn to utilize and trust adhesion to replace virtually all mechanical retention. Preservation of tooth structure is top priority. Participants will leave with an understanding of why they should never cut a new full crown prep again and to never restore a posterior endodontically treated tooth with a full crown.
Come and see how these concepts are changing dentistry, improving restoration longevity and predictability.
A key component to this paradigm shift is to fully utilize adhesion for all hard surfaces. Adhesion replaces mechanical retention. Improved bonding options, combined with current advances in restorative materials and techniques, allow us to come closer to reproducing nature’s designs than ever before. The final outcome of this presentation is to learn to utilize and trust adhesion to replace virtually all mechanical retention. Preservation of tooth structure is top priority. Participants will leave with an understanding of why they should never cut a new full crown prep again and to never restore a posterior endodontically treated tooth with a full crown.
Come and see how these concepts are changing dentistry, improving restoration longevity and predictability.
- Important anatomical dental structures we never learned at Dental School. Remove these at the tooth’s peril.
- The compression dome concept. This completely changes preparation designs and restorative techniques
- Why has enamel got Hunter Shreger bands? Ask the Mantis Shrimp.
- Find out about the Bio-Rim, peripheral rim of enamel, the subocclusal oblique transverse ridge, the compression dome of enamel.
- Adhesion, the core to successful biomimetic dentistry. We can now bond restorative materials to teeth as well as enamel is joined to dentin.
- Restorative options depending on what part of the tooth is damaged.
- Understanding the 6 fracture modes in teeth. Learn to identify various fracture modalities
- Failure to correctly identify the fracture mode can lead to restorative failure and unnecessary endo to alleviate the symptoms. Learn the various techniques required.
- How to restore endo posterior teeth without crowns, based on the compression dome concept
- How CADCAM adhesive dentistry fits so well with biomechanics and biomimetics when teeth reach a certain level of damage
- Everything you will learn will be immediately applicable in your practice.
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Graeme Milicich practices in Hamilton, New Zealand. He lectures and trains internationally in the fields of minimal intervention, caries risk assessment and management, clinical applications of hard-soft tissue lasers, CAD-CAM technology and tooth biomechanics.
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