There are many steps involved in the creation of a functional and aesthetic anterior composite restoration. This lecture and hands on course breaks down a number of the steps fundamental to obtaining excellent clinical outcomes with anterior composites.

Topics Covered:

• Aesthetic concepts: understanding optical aspects of natural teeth
• Understanding colour: concepts of Hue, Chroma, Value, Opalescence, incisal halo, intensives, characterizations
• Shade selection, guidelines for perfect colour matching, how to make personalised shade guide and Button try technique
• Layering: use of single / dual shades, two vs multiple layers, anatomical layering technique
• Hiding the grey margins
• Intraoperatory corrections, concepts of re-bonding to old composites
• Steps to simple yet predicatble finishing and polishing with secondary and tertiary textures
• Layering technique and optimisation of each layer for anterior class IV restoration
• Putty index fabrication
• Margin and prep design
• Mimicking opalescence, incisal halo, intensives and characterisations
• Textures, finishing and polishing