Conservative Cast Gold Restorations – January 18-20, 2019

Description

Conservative Cast Gold Restorations
Modern, Simplified Techniques for Clinical Success – a unique hands-on course

MasterPath Course G1

A RARE three-day lecture and hands-on experience!

Richard G. Stevenson III, DDS, FAGD, FACD, ABOD

Course Description

Long considered the finest material for restorative dentistry, gold is often (unfortunately) omitted from treatment plans as a viable option in today’s modern dental practice.  Dr. Stevenson’s presentation will focus on techniques to produce predictable precision gold castings, which both conserve and protect tooth structure.  Special attention will be placed on preparation designs to maintain esthetics, simplify clinical and laboratory procedures and allow practitioners to provide restorations of the highest quality. Each participant will prepare several ideal cavity designs on the typodont and two natural teeth for actual castings, which they will cast and seat and finish and polish, and take with them at the completion of the course.

Course Outline – Lecture Topics

1. Overview of Cast Gold
2. Indications
3. Esthetic considerations
4. The Basic Technique: The Class II Inlay
5. Diagnosis
6. Preparation design
7. Conservation of tooth structure
8. Block-out technique
9. Impressions
10. Temporization
11. Lab procedures
12. Cementation, finishing, and polishing
13. Variations on the Basic Technique
14. Techniques to increase retention and resistance
15. Invisible Onlays
16. 7/8 Crowns
17. Getting Paid for Excellence
18. Practice Management
19. Insurance billing procedures

Course Outline – Hands-on Session

Participants will prepare two natural teeth for ideal preparations and fabricate actual castings:

1. Class II inlay preparation
2. Invisible onlay preparation (or another prep variation)
3. Impress, fabricate casts, make dies
4. Wax-up and invest
5. Burn-out and cast inlays
6. Divest and finish castings

All materials, including typodonts, hand instruments, handpicks, lab supplies and gold for casting are supplies;ied during the course.

NOT INCLUDED: Loupes

Learning Objectives

At the completion of the two-and a half-day (20 hour) course, participants will learn how to:

• Better diagnose the most predictable and conservative cast restoration for any given situation
• Conserve tooth structure through the use of a “block-out” technique
• Create long lasting restorations, which are esthetically designed
• Cement, finish and polish gold restorations with natural contours and flush margins
• Select and train a lab technician capable of providing excellent castings
• Market cast gold within their practices
• Communicate with insurance carriers to increase claim acceptance

Course participants will each receive a comprehensive e-syllabus, instrument and supply list and information on additional resources to continue learning and applying the techniques presented in the course.

COURSE SCHEDULE

Friday, January 18, 2019

12:00 noon      Registration and welcome lunch
1:00 pm           Course overview, lab safety, introduction to cast gold
2:30 pm           Break
2:45 pm           Class II Inlay Demo
3:30 pm           Participants prepare class II inlay on typodont
6:00 pm           Day one concludes

Saturday, January 19, 2019

7:30 am           Breakfast
8:00 am           Prepare natural tooth for class II inlay
10:00 am         Impressions and pour casts, articulate casts
12:00 noon      Working Lunch
12:00 pm         Separate dies, Wax up inlays, Invest
6:00 pm           Day two concludes

Sunday, January 20, 2019

7:30 am           Breakfast
8:00 am           Group 1 cast inlays (4 participants), divest, and finish
9:00 am           Group 2 cast inlays (4 participants), divest, and finish
10:00 am         Group 3 cast inlays (4 participants), divest, and finish
12:00 noon      Working Lunch
12:00 pm      Seat castings on natural teeth, finish and polish
5:00 pm           Day three concludes, course evaluations, CE certificates

COURSE TUITION

$2750 ($2250 if paid prior to November 18, 2018)

Class size limited to 12 participants

January 18-20, 2019: Friday, Saturday and Sunday 7:30 am – 6 pm at the SDS Learning Center in San Dimas, CA
21 Course hours (ADA/CERP Approved Provider)

Breakfast, Lunch and Snacks Provided

 

Stevenson Dental Solutions, Inc is a recognized ADA-CERP Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.  Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to ADA CERP at www.ada.org/goto/cerp.