Dental Gold Restorations: Cast and Foil – Nov 1-3, 2024

Description

NEWLY DESIGNED Gold Restorations: Cast and Foil & Laboratory Technique
Modern, Simplified Techniques for Clinical Success – a unique hands-on course

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. This three-day course will focus on techniques to produce predictable precision gold castings that 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. During the second day we will learn the laboratory procedures required to fabricate world class castings the technique from start to finish.  On Sunday, participants will seat, finish and polish the castings made during the lab session on the second day, and take their work home after the course. In addition to the castings, each participant will learn the fundamentals of direct filling gold (gold foil) and place class I gold foils into natural teeth.

Course Instructor

Richard G. Stevenson III, DDS, FAGD, FACD, ABOD
Click HERE for Dr. Stevenson’s CV
NOTE: Dr. Stevenson reports no conflicts of interest with manufacturers or suppliers that would bias his presentation. All material presented will be based on the latest science and evidence available to the best of his ability.

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. The Tucker Cast Gold Lab Technique (for the Lab Day participants)
12. Cementation, finishing, and polishing
13. Variations on the Basic Techniques
14. Techniques to increase retention and resistance
15. Invisible Onlays
16. 7/8 Crowns
17. Direct Filling Gold
18. Getting Paid for Excellence
19. Overview of Clinical Procedures
20. The Tucker Cast Gold Lab Technique
21. Creating a profitable workflow with near zero remakes with cast gold

Course Outline – Hands-on Sessions

DAY 1

1. Class II inlay and onlay preparations and variations
2. Invisible onlay preparation (or another prep variation)
3. Take final impressions of your preparations pour impressions in stone

DAY 2 (Lab Day)

1. Impress, fabricate casts, make dies
2. Wax-up and invest
3. Burn-out and cast inlays
4. Divest and finish castings

DAY 3

1. Adjust and seat castings on natural teeth
2. Finish and Polish castings
3. Gold foil workshop

All materials, including typodonts, hand instruments, handpieces, lab supplies, and gold for casting and foil, are supplied during the course.

NOT INCLUDED: Loupes and Lab Gowns

Learning Objectives

After the three-day, 24-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
• Fabricate cast gold restorations in the laboratory and be able to train your lab to do the same
• Learn to prepare and manipulate direct filling gold for class I cavities

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.

Approved for 24 UNITS of CE by ADA/CERP