Dental Gold Restorations: Cast and Foil – Apr 28 and 30, 23

Description

NEWLY DESIGNED Gold Restorations: Cast and Foil
Modern, Simplified Techniques for Clinical Success – a unique hands-on course
MasterPath Course 7

The Clinical Course – 2-days: Friday and Sunday

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. In this two- or three-day course, Dr. Stevenson’s presentation 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. 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.

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. 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. Practice Management
20. Insurance billing procedures

Course Outline – Hands-on Sessions

DAY 1
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. Take final impressions of your preparations and hand them off to the lab tech/dentists on the Lab Day

DAY 2 (Optional 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. Optional 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

Learning Objectives

After the three-day, 21-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
• 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 8 UNITS of CE by ADA/CERP for Each Day Attended.