The course consists of lectures and a special focus on hands-on model workshops. The course will provide comprehensive overview of esthetic considerations during restorative procedures. The course will teach how to select patients for crowns vs veneers in order to achieve predictable and reliable long-term outcomes. It focuses on single anterior restorations and what can be done in order to fabricate invisible restorations in anterior esthetic zones. The course will also teach both digital and analogue workflows.

Day 1

Lecture Topics:

• Principles of esthetic dentistry, case selection, treatment planning in the esthetic zone
• Preparation guidelines for crowns vs veneers vs direct restorations
• Basic clinical dental photography, data acquisition and file management, smile design

Day 2

Hands-on Workshop:

• Veneer preparation
• Veneer preparation using a silicone matrix prep guide
• Digital scanning of finished preparation
• Demo of smile design
• Mock up/ temporary fabrication using a matrix obtained from previously designed smile makeover/3D printed model
• Finishing and polishing