HANDS-ON: Improve your crown work (PO091112)

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SubjectOther
DescriptionThis course is essential for dentists who want to improve their diagnostic, planning and delivering skills in the provision of crowns. Our speaker will provide participants with evidence-based, comprehensive information on all aspects of conventional crown work and will look at the advantages and disadvantages of different crowns. He will also consider impression taking and temporary crowns and participants will be able to try out various techniques/materials for themselves.
Additional informationThe day will be part lecture/hands-on and will include:

• Principles of treatment planning and design
• Material selection
• Tooth preparation
• Impression taking
• Temporisation techniques
• Cementation
• Occlusion

Hands-on practice will be performed in the well equipped Phantom Head facility at the University of Portsmouth Dental Academy. The course is run in an informal setting where questions and debate are actively encouraged and will enable practitioners treating national health and/or private patients to offer cost effective indirect restorations that are long lasting and highly aesthetic.

In addition, attending this course will provide evidence to help delegates achieve compliance against many CQC outcomes.

This course is intended for General Dental Practitioners.

Mr Michael Thomas MSc BDS MRD RCS DGDP (UK) LDS RCS
Mr Michael Thomas is a Specialist in Prosthodontics and in practice at the Wessex Dental Specialist Centre in Fareham, Hampshire. He is also a Specialist Clinical Tutor in the dental undergraduate and Distance Learning Postgraduate programmes at King’s College London Dental Institute.
VenueDental Academy, Portsmouth  View details
Date & timeFriday 9 November 2012, 09:00 to 16:30
LecturerMigration  View details
Target audience

Recommended to all

Development outcomeNo development outcome
Course styleHands-on
Core topicNo core topic
CPD hours6:00
Cost£99.00
Aims
  1. To summarise the principles of treatment planning in the provision of crowns
  2. To demonstrate effective tooth preparation techniques
  3. To describe different impression and temporisation techniques
  4. To provide information about avoiding failures in crown work