Restorative Course – Dublin

Duration

10 days

Location

Dublin: TBC

Prices

€625 per day

6 month payment terms available

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The Restorative Course delivers an integral foundation for success in private practice. This course leads to a Postgraduate Certificate in Restorative Dentistry. You will be awarded 60 hours of Verifiable CPD.

With insights from the renowned Professor Paul Tipton, you will learn key theoretical, scientific and engineering principles.

Topics covered include occlusion, preparations, occlusal examinations, porcelain veneers, adhesion composites, perio/endodontics, articulators, treatment planning, TMJ/splints and bridge design.

Backed with this knowledge, you can offer comprehensive treatment options to your patients and boost your income potential.

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You will be awarded Verifiable CPD as a result of realising each Learning Outcome below.

Unit 1: Principles of Occlusion

Learning Outcome 1: Comprehensively evaluate and demonstrate the understanding of basic, intermediate and advanced principles of occlusion.
Learning Outcome 2: Evaluate, select and apply appropriate occlusion techniques for manipulation of the jaw, identification of slides, managing and controlling occlusion for a reorganised bite.
Learning Outcome 3: Evaluate and apply appropriate techniques relating to TMJ and Splints, which splint to use when and where, management of the patient, maintenance and review.

Unit 2: Porcelain Veneers

Learning Outcome: Critically appraise current techniques and accompanying material considerations involved with the application of porcelain veneers.

Unit 3: Bridge Design

Learning Outcome: Demonstrate an understanding of Bridge Preparation Techniques and Adhesive Requirements.

Unit 4: Treatment Planning and the Use of Articulators

Learning Outcome 1: Evaluate the Treatment Planning Considerations to be made for Patients.
Learning Outcome 2: Demonstrate understanding of the principles of articulators, types of articulators and the science behind choice of use.

Unit 5: Endodontics and Periodontics

Learning Outcome 1: Evaluate the Endodontic restorative management of teeth.
Learning Outcome 2: Demonstrate an understanding of periodontology.

Unit 6: Adhesion Composites

Learning Outcome: Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of adhesion composites and their application to patients.

A brief overview of topics covered on the 10 days is as follows, please note course day sequence might change based on the course stream you are registered on:

Day 1: Principles of Occlusion

5 Principles of Occlusion
Slides between RCP and ICP
Gnathology and Pankey style Occlusions
Importance of Condylar Position
Bruxism
Anterior Guidance
Mutually protected occlusion
Jaw registrations on live patients
Facebow registration practical on live patients
Load testing the joint
Choosing your condylar position
Types of canine guidance
Occlusal adjustment
Progressive guidance, programmed guidance
Long and wide centric, freedom in centric
Treatment of Class 2 patients
Lucia jigs practical on live patients

Day 2: Preparations/Posts

Understanding bur selection
Tooth anatomy v Tooth Prep
Lab techniques
Functional cusp bevels
Shillingburg winged preps
Convergence angle and axial inclination
Creating the ideal ferrule
Parallel vs Tapered posts
Nayyar cores
Shenker Post
Adhesive Fibre/Zirconia Posts
Minimal Cavity Designs
Air Abrasion and Ozone
Tunnel/internal/minibox/slot preparations
Laser Cavity preparations

Day 3: Occlusal Examinations

Classification of lateral movement
How to examine the TMJs
Muscle palpation
Importance of RCP
How the slide determines the treatment plan
Conformative v Reorganised approach
4 factors that identify your Occlusal plan
Canine discussion and cusp angles
Occlusal Examination practical on live patients

Day 4: Porcelain Veneers

Media vs Natural Smiles
Conventional v slice preps
Prepless veneers
Lab techniques to make Veneers
Feldspathic v Emax
Cementation techniques
Smile design and smile imaging
Geller Models
Diagnostic waxing prototypes

Day 5: Adhesion Composites

Contraction (C) factor
Treatment of pulpal exposures
Placement and shrinkage, flowable and chemically cured composites
Surface layer considerations
Staining techniques
Classification of Dentine bonding agents and appropriate use
Bonding to different types of dentine
Tooth Anatomy
Rubber dam placement practical

Day 6: Perio/Endodontics

The 4 pillars of endodontic treatment
Coronal seal
Fracture risk, detection and prevention
Vital pulp therapies and prevention of pulp necrosis
Management of cracked teeth
Treatment of infections
Needs and characteristics of patient
Six-point periodontal examination
Gingival exposure/margins
Dento-gingival complex, biotype, keratinised tissues
Gingival recession
Risk Assessment: e.g. biological caries, loss of retention, fracture, abutment or restorations
Aetiological considerations
Merits of remedial action, options

Day 7: Articulators

Mounting your own Models on the semi adjustable Articulator
Average value articulator
Arbitrary v Kinematic facebows
Semi adjustable & Fully adjustable articulators
Importance of Condylar inclination
Bennett movement v immediate side shift
Bennett shift v progressive side shift
Understanding the importance of intercondylar distance
Why are your restorations always high

Day 8: Treatment Planning

Treatment Planning the large restorative case, sequencing treatment
Dahl appliances, diagnostic waxing and the curve of spee
Boyle's plane analyser, importance of the Occlusal plane
Vertical dimension and facial aesthetics, golden proportion
Pink porcelain, emergence profile and soft tissue position
Custom made Anterior guidance tables
Treatment planning practical
Diagnostic waxing practical
Occlusal adjustment on models practical

Day 9: TMJ/Splints

Types of splint
Lucia jigs
Michigan Splints
Tanner Appliances
Anterior Repositioning splints
Anterior splints and deprogrammers
Avoiding a Closed Lock
Classification of clicking
Splint adjustment practical on live patients

Day 10: Bridge Design

Choosing fixed/fixed v fixed moveable design
Cantilever designs
Adhesive bridge preps
Choosing the retainer type
Perils of double abutting
Reasons for bridge failures
Flexing v length of bridge
Lindhe and Nyman bridges/Periodontal Prosthesis
The use of stress breakers

The Restorative Course is a must for anyone motivated by providing high quality dentistry. The format of teaching enhances competence and knowledge in key areas of restorative work, boosts clinical skills and confidence. Professor Tipton's style of presenting is charismatic and inspires performance to utmost precision. Joining Tipton Training has been the best investment of time and energy I have made for the past 5 years. This journey has been truly worthwhile and financially rewarding once the new skills were applied in clinical practice.
- I Stamatova, 2017

I cannot recommend the restorative course enough to any dentist who wants to enjoy their dentistry more and take their dentistry to the next level. It covers the gaps your knowledge will have post university and will give you the confidence to take on private cases. The first morning alone blew my mind. If you want fulfilment in your career do this course without delay.
- N Karunaratne, 2017

It has opened my eyes to many aspects of Dentistry I didn’t consider as important beforehand. I feel it's just the beginning of my journey. I now ask myself more questions. The areas that were not very clear at the beginning of the course started to fall in place like missing pieces of the puzzle. My main thought now is that I want to do the course again. I am very grateful and thankful to everyone who made this course happen and work.
- V Mikenaite, 2017

The restorative course has given me knowledge and skills to improve my dentistry and offer patients a wider range of treatment options. I feel more confident in my career path and am excited about my future prospects.
- J Gilliland, 2017

Who should do this course?

Most dentists coming on this course are either already practicing Private Dentistry or are NHS dentists wishing to move to Private Dentistry. However, this course is aimed at any dentist wishing to improve their clinical work and invest more time into understanding occlusion, stabilising and improving the patients teeth and well-being.

How much practical work is involved?

The Restorative course consists of a mixture of lectures, demonstrations and practical sessions. It is 60% theory and 40% practical. On the majority of course days there will be a lecture in the morning and a practical session in the afternoon. On the 14-day programme, 10 days include a practical afternoon session.

How much reading is involved?

The theory is based on reading material provided to you within the e-learning page on the website. This will be available to you up to 4 weeks prior to the specific course module. The theory is based on scientific articles hand-picked by Professor Tipton. Reading material is required for most course days and the time investment in reading may vary for each module. All reading material is essential as Professor Tipton may refer back to specific points during the course.

I am struggling with more complex cases and more private work, will this course help?

The restorative course will open your eyes on how to deal with more complex and private cases, allowing you to be more organised and confident when delivering dental care to your patients. We also offer delegates to bring study models and pictures to discuss with any of our clinical team including Professor Paul Tipton.

Do I treat patients on the course?

No, we do not have live patients on this course. However, it is expected that you do participate in group work with your peers on the course day. This includes practising the techniques you have been taught on the course on each other.

I am confused about which course will suit be best. Can you tell me the difference between the Restorative and Operative (Phantom Head) course?

The PG Certificate in Restorative Dentistry is a more theoretical course with 6 full days on Occlusion. Other topics include Posts, Porcelain Veneers, Bridge Design, Endodontics, Periodontics & Minimal Invasive Dentistry. The PG Certificate in Operative Dentistry has 10 face-to-face days which are 100% practical, intense hands-on training working on Phantom Heads to improve your tooth preparation skills. It all depends on your experience and comfort level with Occlusion, Treatment Planning and tooth preparation techniques. The courses complement each other perfectly. We have had some delegates who join one course and then join the other immediately after. Should you plan to do both courses we suggest doing the PG Diploma in Prosthodontics and taking advantage of 30 months interest free finance. You can complete the PG Diploma in 18 months. In addition to the added clinical skills and treatment advantages, you will also save 6% on fees by enrolling straight onto the Diploma. If you initially only want to enrol to one course, the ideal pathway would be to begin with the PG Certificate in Restorative Dentistry and then follow on with the PG Certificate in Operative Dentistry.

What is covered in the course fees?

We cover the cost of light curing units, composites and impression materials needed within the course. We will provide a Michigan Splint for each delegate provided that you bring your study cast for the articulator practical. Adhesion composite models and treatment planning models are also included in the course fees. A light lunch and refreshments will be available. Whilst we try to accommodate any dietary requirements, we cannot always guarantee.

Are there any additional course costs?

As part of the Articulator training day (Unit 1), we require delegates to bring an unmounted upper and lower study model of themselves on good quality stone which they will mount onto articulators on the day. These models are then sent to our laboratory and we have a Michigan splint made. The splints are then fitted in the delegates own mouths as part of the TMJ Splint training day (Unit 1). We believe this is the best experience a dentist can have of the end to end process. The cost of splints is included in course fees, however, the unmounted upper and lower study model must be provided by the delegate.