"The Final Touch" for Composite

September 13 @ 9:00 am - 7:00 pm

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“The Final Touch” for Composite

Course Overview

This is a two-day, hands-on course that includes lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on lab sessions. It is intended for dentists but is open to technicians and auxiliaries. Participants will shape, micro-texture, externally color, and polish 6 composite teeth. As an added bonus, we will custom-layer a full composite tooth—with the crown, the root, and internal colorization.

Full Course Description

The proper space management, contour, surface texture, final surface color, and polish can transform average-looking restorations into exceptional esthetic results. These steps are critical to the success of dental restorations in composites.

This is a lecture and hands-on course that uses Machined Composites (in this course, we will use either Vita ENAMIC or Ivoclar Tetric CAD) as a medium to design, form, contour, finish and polish anterior teeth.

The lecture part of the course will cover the following topics:

  1. The step-by-step process of managing the design of 6 anterior teeth for a specific maxillary arch relationship.
  2. This class will teach specific guidelines for esthetic tooth arrangement, both in size and position.
  3. The esthetics of the individual tooth (i.e., the individual form and color characteristics of teeth and the inter-relationships between teeth).
  4. Micro-esthetic elements of surface texture and polish will be covered in a very systematic, easily learnable format with composites.

The demonstration and hands-on part of the course will cover the armamentarium and the step-by-step process of these vital steps of form, texture, surface color, and polish. Part of the course will be taking 6 maxillary teeth that have been built up as 6 oversized blocks of Enamic or Ivoclar tetric prior to the course and specifically determining the correct esthetic parameters of midline, tooth length and width, and inter-tooth width relationships.

Once these parameters have been determined, the step-by-step process of creating these macro-dental esthetic relationships will be demonstrated, and participants will do the same. Micro-esthetic parameters of form, contour, surface texture, and polish will be reviewed in great detail, and participants will accomplish all these important skills. All of these skills will be taught in Composites.

Dr. McLaren will demonstrate, and the participants will do a full composite layered tooth with root. He will demonstrate how he layered different dentins, internal colors, and enamels.

Who is Dr. Ed McLaren

Dr. Ed McLaren, DDS MDC
DR. ED MCLAREN

Dr. McLaren is a Prosthodontist and Master Dental Ceramicist. He currently is the CEO of ArtOral America, a specialized high-end private teaching institute based in Park City, Utah.

He also maintains a private practice limited to prosthodontics and esthetic dentistry, in which he does all of his own ceramics.

Originally, Dr. Mclaren attended the University of Redlands, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude. He received his D.D.S. from the University of the Pacific School of Dentistry, where he graduated Omicron Kappa Upsilon. After several years of general practice, he received his specialty certificate in Prosthodontics from UCLA School of Dentistry.

Dr. McLaren is a member of the American College of Prosthodontists, Pacific Coast Society of Prosthodontists, International College of Prosthodontists, American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry, International Society of Dental Ceramics, International Association of Dental Research, American Association of Dental Research, American Dental Association, and the California Dental Association.

Dr. McLaren is still actively involved in many areas of prosthodontic and materials research. He has also authored and/or co-authored over 90 articles. He is performing ongoing clinical research on various restorative systems. He has presented numerous lectures, hands-on clinics, and postgraduate courses on ceramics and esthetics across the nation and internationally. He published a book on his ceramic techniques and features dental photographic art, entitled “The Art of Passion: Ceramics, Teeth, Faces, and Places.”

Dr. McLaren retired from Professorship at both UCLA and UAB School of Dentistry. He was the director of the UCLA Center for Esthetic Dentistry, a full-time didactic and clinical program for graduate dentists.

He was also the founder and director of the UCLA/LACC Master Dental Ceramist program. This postgraduate program is a full-time master ceramist program for dental technicians, featuring extensive experience with the newest esthetic restorative systems.

At UAB, he was the founder and first director of the Advanced Dental Esthetics, founder director of the Advanced Dental Esthetics, Restorative & Biomaterials Program, founder and director 3-year advanced ceramics and digital technology for technicians program, founder and director one-year esthetic and restorative fellowship Restorative & Biomaterials Program, founder and director 3-year advanced ceramics and digital technology for technicians program, founder and director one-year esthetic and restorative fellowship. Dr Mclaren was also an Adjunct Assistant Professor for the University of Oregon Dental School.

Dr Mclaren was also an Adjunct Assistant Professor for the University of Oregon Dental School.

What you will learn

  • Space management and shaping 6 anterior teeth with either Vita Enamic or Ivoclar Tetric CAD.
  • Contouring 6 anterior teeth in Vita Enamic or Ivoclar Tetric materials and techniques.
  • Texturizing 6 anterior teeth, either Vita Enamic or Ivoclar Tetric CAD.
  • Fabricating by custom layering a whole composite tooth with root.
  • Shaping and micro texturing.
  • Final color finish and polish.
Art Oral America - Dr. Ed McLaren

Friday, September 13 – Saturday, September 14, 2024

Starts at 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM PST (with a 1-hour lunch break)

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Spaces Available (Capacity: 18)

$1,699

16 CU Hours

Venue

Leading dental lab in USA - Burbank Dental Lab

Advanced Technology Center

2111 Kenmore Avenue – Burbank , CA 91504

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