STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES
Overview
Covering all the topics in esthetic dentistry so that the dentist can master their clinical skill and have an upper edge in their dental practices amongst their colleagues.
Highlights
- Perfectly designed course content for the budding dentists to master their esthetic skills which can be immediately applied in their clinical practices
- Practical treatment planning for all esthetic as well as complicated cases
- Over the shoulder mentoring by the experts
- One on one discussion
- Live Demonstration
- Hands on training on models
- State of the art Infrastructure
- Advanced Armamentarium and Equipment
Topics Covered
GENERAL PROCEDURES
- History and evolution
- Indications/contraindications
- Types
- Direct and Indirect
- Armamentarium used
- Design considerations
- Steps in tooth preparation
- Isolation and soft tissue management
- Impression making
- Shade selection
- Temporization
- Trial and luting of restorations
- Precaution and maintenance
CLINICAL STEPS
- Diagnosis and treatment planning
- Importance of diagnostic wax up
- Composite restorations
- Anterior deprogramming devices
- Shade selection
- Tooth preparation
- Repair- Ellis Fracture
- Smile designing
- Diastema Closure
- Bleaching
- Soft tissue management
- Impression making
- Temporization
- Trial and luting of final restoration.
COMPOSITES RESTORATION
- Shade selection and tooth preparation for composites
- Designs for tooth preparation
- How to apply bonding agents
- Indications and contraindication for composites
- Prevention of shrinkage and discoloration
PREPARATION & RESTORATION TECHNIQUES
- Class I, Class II, Class V cavity design for composite
- Sandwich technique in deep cavity cases
- Retention features in cavity
- Prevention from shrinkage (from light and material part)
- Common problem with composites
- Matrix band placement
- Polishing
REPAIR OF ELLIS FRACTURES (TYPE 1 & 2)
- Proper treatment planning
- Shade selection
- Isolation
- Tooth preparation
- Restoration
- Polishing the composite
SMILE DESIGNING
The basic shape of the face
The lateral profile
Vital elements of smile designing and their role.
- Tooth components
- Dental midline
- Incisal lengths
- Tooth dimensions
- Zenith points
- Axial inclinations
- Interdental contact area (ICA) and point (ICP)
- Incisal embrasure
- Sex, personality and age (Dentogenic concept)
- Symmetry and balance
- Soft tissue components
- Gingival health
- Gingival levels and harmony
- Interdental embrasure
- Smile line
- Golden proportion (Lombardi),
- Recurring esthetic dental proportions (Ward),
- M proportions (Methot) and
- Chu’s esthetic gauges.
Soft tissue component of smile design
- Gingival health
- Interdental embrasure (cervical embrasure)
DIASTEMA CLOSURE
- Eliminating the etiological factors
Hypertrophic labial frenum
Supernumerary teeth/Mesiodens
V-shaped midline bony clefts
Developmental cysts in the orofacial midline
- Introduction for esthetic procedures
- Analyzing Esthetic Parameters
Tooth proportion (Golden proportion)
Chu’s esthetic guide
Tooth components
Dental midline
Incisal lengths
Tooth dimensions
Zenith points
Axial inclinations
Interdental contact area (ICA) and point (ICP)
Incisal embrasure
Sex, personality and age (Dentogenic concept)
Symmetry and balance
Soft tissue components
Gingival health
Gingival levels and harmony
Interdental embrasure
Smile line
- Isolation
- Shade selection
- Usage of matrix band
- Polishing the restoration to prevent discoloration
BLEACHING
- History and Categories of Bleaching
- Types of Bleaching
- Office Bleach
- Home Bleach
- Vital and Non-vital Bleaching
- Problems with Bleaching
- Management of Sensitivity after Bleaching
- Prognosis after Bleaching
- Home applied technique
- Precautions and instructions
GOALS
- To restore the function and integrity of tooth structure
- To enhance the smile and inspire confidence.
- To restore chipped, worn, discolored, misaligned, broken and stained teeth.
- To correlate the various elements of dental, facial and skeletal components.
- To restrict the smile makeover to the dental composition.
- Help act as a reference guide between the clinicians and laboratory personnel.
The Head of the Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics is the in charge for the Esthetic Clinic.
The cases are done by the Postgraduate students who are assisted by the Interns.