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Dr Greg Tilley will be presenting and demonstrating the innovative ProTaper Filing System as well as the Thermafil Obturation System and their applications in endodontics.  Greg will also discuss recent additions to the ProTaper range.click for further details …

Objective:
The objective of the seminar is to gain a thorough understanding of the clinical application of Rotary Endodontic technology through scientific and practical perspectives of the Maillefer ProTaper Universal Filing System.

Learning Outcomes:
The seminar will provide the attendee with the knowledge to utilize the correct ProTaper Universal File sequence and technique for cleaning and shaping of a root canal.

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Lecture                                                                         International Speaker

Micro-invasive treatment of caries by resin infiltration

To treat caries in its initial stages helps to prevent severe long-term damage to the dentition. Non- and minimally-invasive approaches contribute substantially to reaching this aim. Recent techniques and products allow dentists to offer gentle, painless treatment options to their patients and, at the same time, to prolong the life span of their patient’s teeth.

This lecture will address the scientific foundations and clinical aspects of caries infiltration - a new concept for the micro-invasive treatment of early caries lesions. Dr. Paris together with Dr. Meyer-Lueckel (University of Kiel, Germany) have been working scientifically on the development and evaluation of this technique. The aim of caries infiltration is to arrest caries lesions by penetration of the lesion porosities with special low viscosity light curing resins, so called infiltrants. That way, diffusion pathways for cariogenic acids are blocked and lesions are arrested and stabilised. Particularly difficult-to-reach interproximal lesions that are not likely to respond to non-operative therapy alone can be treated by caries infiltration with almost no sacrifice of tooth substance. Another indication comprises aesthetically impairing vestibular lesions that can be camouflaged by resin infiltration.

 

TOPICS:

• The caries process
• Diagnostic challenges for proximal caries
• Traditional treatment options
• New concepts in caries therapy
• Caries sealing – ‘the seal is the deal’
• Caries infiltration – scientific background and clinical application

PRESENTER:

Sebastian PARIS, DDS

 

COURSE DETAILS:

Course fee: $125

CPD credit hours: 3

Registration at 8:00am

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ADVANCEMENTS IN AESTHETIC RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY

Vital Elements for Clinical Success

DAY 1 - CURRENT CONCEPTS

• Update on the latest bonding technology
• Understanding self-etching primers
• Why phosphoric etching of dentine is contra-indicated when using self-etching primers
• Long term stability of dentine bonding
• Choosing the best light source
• Bond tooth fragment without composite
• Highlights of posterior composite techniques
• Bite formed occlusion
• Eliminate recurrent caries
• Excellent contacts
• Convert a Class II into a Class I
• Why flowable composites are the best first increment
• Wedge may be contraindicated
• Controlled 9 year clinical trial: GIC liner vs. no GIC liner
• Composites
• Why high shrinkage does not matter!
• What determines composite wear rate
• Choosing the best materials
• Increasing retention of class V fillings
• Eliminate Post-Op Sensitivity
• Thermal sensitivity
• Bite pressure sensitivity
• Why Class I is the most difficult to solve
• New concepts in lab work
• Porcelain Repairs That Actually Work
• Porcelain chips and metal exposure
• Eliminate need for HF
• Repair fractured metal on bridge
• Make endo opening disappear
• Fully opaquing metal
• Adhesion Bridges
• Metal backed, successful designs
• Why electrolytic etching of metal is contraindicated
• Metal free, successful designs
• Speeding and slowing Panavia
• Impressions
• VPS impressions without string
• Don’t wash off blood, it’s displaced
• Developments and limitations in fast whitening
• Does the light really help?
• Low peroxide concentration may be more effective than high concentration
• How long it takes to permanently 'bleach' moderately tetracycline stained teeth
• Veneered teeth can be successfully whitened

DAY 2 - ADVANCED CONCEPTS

• Determining Final Occlusion
• Finding functional CO
• No commercially driven equipment needed
• Adhesion Replaces Retention Form
• Think onlay, not crown
• Think veneer, not crown
• Temporaries retained on flat preps
• Unicem: acceptable without adhesive?
• The Latest Bonding Technology
• Make any bond work compatibly with any composite
• Eliminate radiolucency in x-rays
• The new porcelains and pressed ceramics
• The best aesthetic choice for anterior crowns
• Single metal free crowns
• Metal free bridges
• Bonding to zirconia (Lava) and alumina (Procera)
• The porcelain brand on Lava is more important than the frame
• Why Empress 1 is usually a poor choice for veneers but a great choice for crowns
• Bonding reinforces all-ceramic crowns
• Optimising Cerec adhesion
• The Next Major Paradigm Shift In
• Why it’s better to leave caries
• Limitations of caries reversal with GIC
• MTA Pulp Cap Clinical Trials
• Would you believe 97.9% success at 9 years?
• Use Portland cement or genuine MTA?
• What’s New and Current with
• Esthetic porcelain veneers
• How to treat tetracycline cases with conservative veneers
• How about “no prep” veneers?
• What is the best prep?
• Avoid commercially driven preps to accommodate the wrong material
• Sectional veneers are often the answer (with 18 year recalls to prove it)
• What is the ideal impression technique?
• A revolutionary polymerizable Try-in system
• The dentist’s big fear, a single central incisor colour matched while staying in enamel
• The Optimal Choice of Materials to Simplify the Office
• Dump the fridge
• Restock with a simple selection
• The Terrific Twenty
• 20 pearls in about 20 minutes

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Lecture                                                                         International Speaker

Micro-invasive treatment of caries by resin infiltration

To treat caries in its initial stages helps to prevent severe long-term damage to the dentition. Non- and minimally-invasive approaches contribute substantially to reaching this aim. Recent techniques and products allow dentists to offer gentle, painless treatment options to their patients and, at the same time, to prolong the life span of their patient’s teeth.

This lecture will address the scientific foundations and clinical aspects of caries infiltration - a new concept for the micro-invasive treatment of early caries lesions. Dr. Paris together with Dr. Meyer-Lueckel (University of Kiel, Germany) have been working scientifically on the development and evaluation of this technique. The aim of caries infiltration is to arrest caries lesions by penetration of the lesion porosities with special low viscosity light curing resins, so called infiltrants. That way, diffusion pathways for cariogenic acids are blocked and lesions are arrested and stabilised. Particularly difficult-to-reach interproximal lesions that are not likely to respond to non-operative therapy alone can be treated by caries infiltration with almost no sacrifice of tooth substance. Another indication comprises aesthetically impairing vestibular lesions that can be camouflaged by resin infiltration.

 

TOPICS:

• The caries process
• Diagnostic challenges for proximal caries
• Traditional treatment options
• New concepts in caries therapy
• Caries sealing – ‘the seal is the deal’
• Caries infiltration – scientific background and clinical application

PRESENTER:

Sebastian PARIS, DDS

 

COURSE DETAILS:

Course fee: $125

CPD credit hours: 3

Registration at 8:00am

click for further details …

ADVANCEMENTS IN AESTHETIC RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY

Vital Elements for Clinical Success

DAY 1 - CURRENT CONCEPTS

• Update on the latest bonding technology
• Understanding self-etching primers
• Why phosphoric etching of dentine is contra-indicated when using self-etching primers
• Long term stability of dentine bonding
• Choosing the best light source
• Bond tooth fragment without composite
• Highlights of posterior composite techniques
• Bite formed occlusion
• Eliminate recurrent caries
• Excellent contacts
• Convert a Class II into a Class I
• Why flowable composites are the best first increment
• Wedge may be contraindicated
• Controlled 9 year clinical trial: GIC liner vs. no GIC liner
• Composites
• Why high shrinkage does not matter!
• What determines composite wear rate
• Choosing the best materials
• Increasing retention of class V fillings
• Eliminate Post-Op Sensitivity
• Thermal sensitivity
• Bite pressure sensitivity
• Why Class I is the most difficult to solve
• New concepts in lab work
• Porcelain Repairs That Actually Work
• Porcelain chips and metal exposure
• Eliminate need for HF
• Repair fractured metal on bridge
• Make endo opening disappear
• Fully opaquing metal
• Adhesion Bridges
• Metal backed, successful designs
• Why electrolytic etching of metal is contraindicated
• Metal free, successful designs
• Speeding and slowing Panavia
• Impressions
• VPS impressions without string
• Don’t wash off blood, it’s displaced
• Developments and limitations in fast whitening
• Does the light really help?
• Low peroxide concentration may be more effective than high concentration
• How long it takes to permanently 'bleach' moderately tetracycline stained teeth
• Veneered teeth can be successfully whitened

DAY 2 - ADVANCED CONCEPTS

• Determining Final Occlusion
• Finding functional CO
• No commercially driven equipment needed
• Adhesion Replaces Retention Form
• Think onlay, not crown
• Think veneer, not crown
• Temporaries retained on flat preps
• Unicem: acceptable without adhesive?
• The Latest Bonding Technology
• Make any bond work compatibly with any composite
• Eliminate radiolucency in x-rays
• The new porcelains and pressed ceramics
• The best aesthetic choice for anterior crowns
• Single metal free crowns
• Metal free bridges
• Bonding to zirconia (Lava) and alumina (Procera)
• The porcelain brand on Lava is more important than the frame
• Why Empress 1 is usually a poor choice for veneers but a great choice for crowns
• Bonding reinforces all-ceramic crowns
• Optimising Cerec adhesion
• The Next Major Paradigm Shift In
• Why it’s better to leave caries
• Limitations of caries reversal with GIC
• MTA Pulp Cap Clinical Trials
• Would you believe 97.9% success at 9 years?
• Use Portland cement or genuine MTA?
• What’s New and Current with
• Esthetic porcelain veneers
• How to treat tetracycline cases with conservative veneers
• How about “no prep” veneers?
• What is the best prep?
• Avoid commercially driven preps to accommodate the wrong material
• Sectional veneers are often the answer (with 18 year recalls to prove it)
• What is the ideal impression technique?
• A revolutionary polymerizable Try-in system
• The dentist’s big fear, a single central incisor colour matched while staying in enamel
• The Optimal Choice of Materials to Simplify the Office
• Dump the fridge
• Restock with a simple selection
• The Terrific Twenty
• 20 pearls in about 20 minutes

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THE MICROSCOPE IN EVERYDAY DENTISTRY: GETTING A CLOSER VIEW.
Thursday 8 April 2009

 

The enhanced magnification and illumination provided by the dental operating microscope can be applied to almost all clinical situations. These include the diagnosis of caries, cracks and fractures, pit and fissure restorations, all stages of cavity, veneer and crown preparations and endodontic, periodontal and oral surgery procedures. In many dental specialties the microscope is already considered the standard of care, and its use in general practice is growing. By encouraging good posture the microscope benefits the health of the dentist and the chair side assistant. When combined with documentation facilities, the microscope is an excellent tool for patient education, record keeping and legal defence.

 

This course will emphasise your use of the microscope in every day clinical situations by means of “hands on” exercises on extracted teeth and tooth models. A team approach utilising a chair side assistant will be emphasised. Those who use loupes should bring them to the course. Loupes will also be available for trial.  All reference material will be supplied. Your presenters are an endodontist and two general practitioners all with extensive microscope experience who look forward to sharing their knowledge with you.

 

TOPICS:

 

·         The microscope: what features to look for         

·         Adjusting and focusing the microscope

·         Dentist, assistant and patient positioning for optimum results

·         Pit and fissure restorations

·         Endodontic access cavities, canal location and instrumentation

·         Veneer preparation

·         Cavity preparation

·         Crown preparation

·         Periodontal procedures

·         Documentation and record keeping

 

PRESENTERS:

Steven COHN, BA, DADDS, Cert Endo, DABE, FADI

Jennifer DAY, BDS

Rick SPENCER, BDS (Hons) Syd

 

COURSE DETAILS:

Course: 115610

Thursday 8 April 2010

8:30 am – 5:00 pm includes full day’s catering

Registration from 8:00 am

Sydney Dental Hospital, SURRY HILLS

Limited to 20 participants

$995 Dentist

CPD credit hours: 6

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Ultrasonics in Modern General Practice

Overview

The traditional role of ultrasonics in dental practice has been largely one of scaling teeth. However, in the last 15 years ultrasonics has expanded to other areas of clinical dentistry. In addition to periodontal procedures, ultrasonics is important in operative dentistry, from the placing of pit and fissure sealants to crown preparations. In endodontics, ultrasonics is used to clean debris from the pulp chamber and to find and locate canals. Ultrasonics assists in the cleaning, shaping and obturation of the root canal system and is essential for the removal of obstructions such as posts and separated instruments during re-treatment. It is also essential for periapical surgery.

The purpose of this practical “hands on” workshop is to introduce you to these ultrasonic techniques by carrying out various exercises on tooth models. The only requirement for the workshop is enthusiasm and a willingness to learn! All materials will be supplied. If you use magnifying loupes please bring them to the course (loupes will be available for trial as part of the course). Your instructors are a general practitioner, prosthodontist and endodontist, all with great experience in using ultrasonic treatment in everyday practice.

Topics

• Power setting and tip selection for optimum results
• Pit and fissure restorations
• Endodontic access cavities, canal location and removal of obstructions
• Veneer preparation
• Cavity preparation
• Crown preparation
• Periodontal procedures

Presenters

Steven COHN, BA, DDS, Cert Endo, DABE, FADI, FICD, FPFA

Bill DAWES, BDS, MSc Cons Dent, FRACDS, FICD

Rick SPENCER, BDS (Hons) Syd

 

Course No: 115710

Friday 9 April 2010

 Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm (Registration from 8:30am) - includes full day's catering

Venue: Sydney Dental Hospital, 2 Chalmers Street, Surry Hills, Sydney

Cost: $1095

Audience: Dentists Limit: 22

CPD Hours: 6

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Dr Mark Evans will be presenting and demonstrating the innovative ProTaper Filing System and its application in endodontics.  Mark will also discuss recent additions to the ProTaper range.
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