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The Final Touch for Composites

Bone & Tissue Regeneration Course - Sponsor - Burbank Dental Lab - CA

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The Final Touch for Composites

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HANDS ON 2-DAY COURSE

The Final Touch for Composites

DR. ED MCLAREN

The Final Touch for Composites - Course taught by Dr. Ed McLaren

ABOUT THIS COURSE

Designing and creating anterior teeth using composite, and creating a layered full contour composite tooth: form, contour, finish, and polish

Proper space management, contour, surface texture, final surface color, and polish can transform average-looking restorations into an exceptional esthetic result. These steps are critical to the success of dental restorations, whether it is composite or ceramic.

The micro hand skills of “micro texture can also be taught in modeling wax; this can be a beneficial exercise as it is easy to change wax. The Author practices his sculpting skills at least once a month in wax, as he finds it is the fastest way to stay “trained.”

This is a lecture and hands-on course that uses composite 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. Specific guidelines for esthetic
    tooth arrangement, both in size and position, are the key elements taught during this course. 
  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 different materials, composites, and wax. Dr. McLaren will also demonstrate how he layers composites by fabricating a full tooth with both the crown and root, and participants will follow suit. 

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 involve taking six (6) maxillary teeth that have been machined or printed as six (6) oversized blocks of composite, and specifically determining the correct esthetic parameters, including 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 develop all these critical skills.

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Stevenson Dental Education Center

570 E. Arrow Hwy., Suite B
San Dimas, CA 91773

Stevenson Dental Solutions is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.

Stevenson Dental Solutions designates this activity for 18 continuing education credits.

DATE

Sept. 5-6, 2025

9:00 AM – 7:00 PM PST
With a 1-hour lunch break

Credits

CE Units: 18

Contact

Peyton Chiu
(909) 788-4087
shipping@stevensondentalsolutions.com

TUITION FEE

$1,820

EVENT LOCATION

Stevenson Dental Solutions

570 E. Arrow Hwy., Unit A
San Dimas, CA 91773
(951) 720-2896

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