Communicating and Mastering Lab Artistry

Note: Attendance at the Facially Generated Treatment Planning and Occlusion in Clinical Practice workshops are prerequisites to attend Communicating and Mastering Lab Artistry.

Course Objectives

The ceramist is a key member of your interdisciplinary team. This course focuses on including the perspectives of the dentist and ceramist from the inception of the treatment plan, a collaboration that creates the opportunity for optimal esthetic and functional outcomes. During class we will compare and contrast ceramic systems based on functional and esthetic uses.

Discussion and hands-on exercises will give you the skills to perform in-office alteration of ceramic restorations. You will practice cutting back and adding incisal translucency and characterizations, altering contacts and contour, repairing fractures, and staining, glazing and firing the restorations. Gifted restorative dentist and photographer Frank Spear will teach photography for lab communication.

Participants Will Learn:

• Standardized lab communication for optimal results
• Materials qualities and applications
• Shade information collection through observation, photography and
• electronic instrumentation
• To repair, alter, stain, glaze and fire ceramic restorations
• Why even a well-written and documented prescription can produce variable results, and how to reduce that variability