Smile design in full arch prosthetics

Course

In Leicester

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    Leicester

  • Duration

    3 Days

Suitable for: Clinicians who wish to improve their existing knowledge of full arch prosthetics and includes clinical demonstrations, lectures and discussion.

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Start date

Leicester (Leicestershire)
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Compass Building. Feldspar Close. Enderby, LE19 4SD

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Introduction

Until now it has not been possible to achieve the many aspects of the smile design in full dentures without time consuming and expensive individual characterisation of denture teeth. Manufacturing techniques could not reproduce the many small details in denture teeth that are needed to provide a natural appearance. Also, the arrangement of denture teeth and lack of choice across gender and various age groups was limiting to patients and did not provide them with the desired aesthetic effect. Furthermore the surface character, tooth proportions, and contact areas of existing denture teeth would not allow for Smile Design principles.

With the obvious and increasing patient interest in cosmetic dentistry this course introduces Smile Design in Full Arch Prosthetics using the Biogenic set principle and the next generation SR Phonares denture teeth.

Overview

This course explains how the next generation SR Phonares denture teeth can be set to the principle of Smile Design to solve many issues we have experienced in the past. First, we will establish the ideal smile as our goal, providing a direction for diagnosis and treatment planning in full arch prosthesis. By looking at the SPA factor, you will begin to employ the use of golden proportions and tooth symmetry in your work. The shape, position and arrange of anterior denture teeth will be discussed in detail with a specific focus on individual denture tooth dimensions and dominance. With this, you will develop your understanding of the relation of each anterior tooth to one another by use of the 50-40-30 rule.

This course will discuss how the individual elements of a natural looking smile, including the teeth, gums and lips and the face that frames it, interact together to present a pleasing smile. Because the teeth are static and the lips are mobile, we will consider the reference points that must be used to relate these parts to one another while optimising speech. Exploring how all of these elements exist in proportion to one another, the course will explain how these things work as a whole in a way that is unique to each patient and how you can achieve a visual balance.

Demonstrating how scientific principles, artistic abilities and geometric laws provide the guidelines for the look of our dentures, we will discuss the delicate combination of parameters that combined produce attractive aesthetics results in restoration using the full arch removable prosthetics. As no two humans are alike in appearance, this course will explain why we need to also look beyond these guidelines and consider the concerns of the patient, their individual needs, their character and lifestyle, when designing a natural looking smile.

Quickly, you will understand that your own personal touch and your creativity makes each case unique, and why this is particularly important in the restoration the front six upper teeth.

Aims and Objectives

  • Learn to model and understand the Zenith points of the gum, gingival levels and gum harmony in Smile Design Dentures
  • Understand the Sex, Personality and Age (SPA) in full arch prosthetics and learn how to apply these theories to full arch prosthetics - it has long been suggested that the upper anterior aesthetic shape and form reflects the persons gender, age and personality
  • Learn more about denture tooth choice - chairside, Lab side and Dentogenics (sex, personality and age factor)
  • Understand golden proportions and tooth symmetry in Smile Design dentures and learn the key factors in creating full arch prosthetics that achieve facial harmony - in dentistry the term golden proportion is a mathematical theory which concerns the proportions of the teeth to one another and the face.
  • Learn more about the shape, position and arrangement of denture teeth - set denture teeth according to the anatomy of the palate (papilla, rugae, intervestibular distance, bite classification, overcrowding)
  • Understand tooth dominance (individual and grouped)
  • Understand denture tooth dimensions (individual and grouped)
  • Understand tooth graduation - the principles of graduation of size and bilateral progression in size and shape of the denture teeth from the central incisor to the most visible posterior tooth
  • Understand denture tooth axis - the progression of distal inclination of the anterior teeth
  • Understand the relation of each anterior tooth to one another (Interdental Contact Areas) the broad zone in which two adjacent teeth in the anterior contact and the 50-40-30 rule
  • Understand incisal embrasures - aged, universal and mature, and the importance of incisal embrasure in different full arch prosthetics

CPD Hours: 24

Smile design in full arch prosthetics

Price on request