Totally Aesthetics
A programme designed to give the knowledge, confidence and skills to perform high level, minimally invasive restorative and aesthetic dentistry. Suited to General Practitioners at any stage of their careers and all types of practice settings. Giving the flexibility to gain a education and qualification conveniently, and in a timeframe that suits the individuals own needs. The course is run from our state of the art training institute in central London, featuring full phantom head including micromotors, benchside monitors, live feeds from surgeries and a plethora of digital scanners to supercharge the learning experience.
Double Your Earnings
Achieve an average 100% increase in monthly private earnings
Elevate Your Skills
Develop expertise in aesthetic dentistry, leading to more complex and rewarding dental cases
Advance Your Career
Open new professional doors and elevate your career in the competitive dental industry
Overview
A programme designed to give the knowledge, confidence and skills to perform high level, minimally invasive restorative and aesthetic dentistry. Suited to General Practitioners at any stage of their careers and all types of practice settings. Giving the flexibility to gain a education and qualification conveniently, and in a timeframe that suits the individuals own needs. The course is run from our state of the art training institute in central London, featuring full phantom head including micromotors, benchside monitors, live feeds from surgeries and a plethora of digital scanners to supercharge the learning experience.
The programme is evidence based containing an ideal mix of theory and practical delivered through face to face days and an additional comprehensive online learning platform. The taught days feature large practical components ensuring the delegates leave with the confidence to carry out the work in practice. The programme not only focusses on the technical skills but also the non clinical skills such as communication, marketing and other soft skills required to flourish in general practice. The incredible career development of our alumni are testament to this.
In addition to the considerable online resources on our learning platform delegates receive personalised mentoring and support throughout the programme and long after.
Programme Structure
The programme is made up of:
- The Totally Composite Course (2 days)
- The Totally Aesthetics Course (17 days)
*From January 2024 the posterior and anterior maestro courses will be integrated into the totally aesthetics course. Delegates who have previously competed these courses can those to opt out of these days on the totally aesthetics course.
Upon successful completion of the courses and submission of assessments, the delegate will be awarded a Diploma in Restorative & Aesthetic Dentistry (EduQual level 7). EduQual is a regulated awarding body, approved by SQA-Accreditation, a globally-recognised national qualifications regulator in the UK.
A structured seventeen-day comprehensive year-long programme designed to give the clinical and non-clinical skills required to perform high-level minimally invasive restorative & aesthetic dentistry. Designed to build on skills gained in the Totally Composite covering all other aspects of modern-day comprehensive dentistry. The course includes evidence-based theory, significant practicals (including phantom head), constant mentoring and significant online resources via a comprehensive online learning platform featuring clinical papers, webinars and videos. The aim is to not only give the knowledge and technical skills but also to give the soft skills to be successful in practice.
As of January 2024 the posterior and anterior maestro courses will form part of this programme. Delegates who have previously completed these days already will be able to opt out.
Each of the 17 days covers a different topic:
- The examination
- Photography and marketing masterclass
- Smile Design
- Occlusion & tooth wear
- Aesthetic periodontology
- Orthodontics
- Totally guided
- Posterior Maestro
- Onlays
- Endodontics
- Veneers
- Crowns
- Implants
- Anterior Maestro
- Anterior Maestro
- Bridges
- Treatment
Benefits: Immediate Return on Investment
Our data from alumni leaving our diploma programmes shows the huge impact the courses can have.
- Gained confidence
- Earning more - delegates see an average 100% increase in their gross monthly private earnings
- Improved job prospects
- Enjoying work more
- Able to do more private and aesthetic dentistry
- Doing bigger cases
- Become a better dentist
- Is life changing
Fees & Payment Information
Flexible payment options available.
A £1000 inc. VAT non-refundable deposit will be required in order to secure your place, followed by six equal course fee instalments.
Prerequisite
Attending the Totally Composite course before the Totally Aesthetics course is required to ensure that all participants start at the same level. This foundation will enable us to advance rapidly and build upon the concepts covered in the previous course.
The Totally Aesthetics Diploma is a structured seventeen-day comprehensive year-long programme designed to give the clinical and non-clinical skills required to perform high-level minimally invasive restorative & aesthetic dentistry. Designed to build on skills gained in the Totally Composite courses, covering all other aspects of modern-day comprehensive dentistry. The course includes evidence-based theory, significant practicals (including phantom head), constant mentoring and significant online resources.
A programme designed to give the knowledge, confidence and skills to perform high-level, minimally invasive restorative and aesthetic dentistry. Suited to General Practitioners at any stage of their careers and all types of practice settings. The course is run from our state-of-the-art training institute in central London, featuring full phantom head including micromotors, benchside monitors, live feeds from surgeries and a plethora of digital scanners to supercharge the learning experience.
In addition to the considerable online resources on our learning platform delegates receive personalised mentoring and support throughout the programme and long after.
Upon successful completion of the course, submission of assessments, and payment of the awarding body diploma registration fee the delegate will be awarded a Diploma in Restorative & Aesthetic Dentistry (EduQual level 7). EduQual is a regulated awarding body, approved by SQA-Accreditation, a globally recognised national qualifications regulator in the UK
Reserve your space on our Totally Aesthetics course by signing up with an upfront deposit.
Course Content
Objective
To learn how to conduct the perfect examination which is the engine room for high quality dentistry.
Aims:
- Learn the importance of the first impression
- The structure
- The five principles of the perfect examination
- Conducting the perfect examination
- Workflows for different situations
- Time and appointment
- The art of patient communication
- Reducing barriers
- How to overcome objections
- Presenting your findings and photographs in the perfect way
- Understand fee setting
- Know your numbers- fee setting
- Marketing
Objective
To give you the skills to take beautiful dental photographs and then present them in a stylish professional format.
Aims:
- Introduction to photography
- Camera settings
- Taking intraoral, extra-oral and artistic portrait photographs
- Working with software and apps to create beautiful presentations, videos and literature to showcase your work
- Understanding how to use social media to let patients see what you do
Objective:
To give you a knowledge of all the elements you need to understand how to design a beautiful smile and update you on the latest developments in tooth whitening
Aims:
- The components of an ideal smile
- Smile design theories
- Anterior morphology
- Traditional smile design
- Introduction to facially driven treatment planning and the Digital Smile Design (DSD) concept.
- Lab communication
- Wax up techniques
- Digital vs analogue techniques
- Aetiology of discolouration
- Extrinsic or intrinsic
- Managing extrinsic discolouration
- Non-vital whitening techniques
- Vital tooth whitening techniques
- Managing the single discoloured tooth
- Managing Sensitivity
Objective:
To understand occlusion and learn how to manage tooth wear.
Aims:
- Learn the key principles of occlusion
- Occlusal terminology
- Finding and recording centric relation
- When to use centric relation
- When to work confirmative and when reorganised
- Face-bows how to do, including practical
- Articulators and when we use them
- Laboratory communication and diagnostic wax-up
- The aetiology of wear and its diagnosis and management
- When to intervene
- Dahl technique
- Increasing OVD
- Minimally invasive full-mouth rehabilitation techniques
- Pros and cons of direct vs indirect approach
- Guided rehabilitation practical
- Splints
Objectives:
To update on the latest in periodontology and teach how to do predictable aesthetic periodontal surgery
Aims:
- Update on the latest classification in periodontology
- Periodontology and its role in aesthetic dentistry
- When to refer
- Managing recession
- Understand what is possible in terms of root coverage
- Understand when and how to do predictable crown lengthening
- Gingivectomy vs crown lengthening with bone removal
- Using digital technology to assist
- Assessing the bone position
- Laboratory communication
- Practical sessions on crown lengthening and root coverage
- Guided vs unguided surgery
- Periodontal maintenance
- Periodontal appliances
Objectives:
To introduce the role of orthodontics and the advanced use of aligners in multidisciplinary dentistry.
Aims:
- Introduction to orthodontics
- Orthodontic principles
- The orthodontic assessment
- Overview of the various appliances
- When to treat and when to refer?
- Accreditation to Invisalign Go
- Advanced Invisalign
- Intra-oral scanning for orthodontics
- Simulating outcomes
- Multidisciplinary treatment planning
- Orthodontics and implantology
- Managing spaces
- Creating space
- Performing IPR correctly
- Avoiding complications
- Management of complications
- Retention
- Post case finishing
- Consent
Objectives:
To understand how to plan and execute fully guided direct composite restorations in both anterior and posterior situations.
Aims:
- Laboratory communication and diagnostic wax-up
- Dahl technique
- Guided vs freehand composites
- The mock-up
- Comparing guided placement techniques in both anterior and posterior situations
- Guided anterior smile makeover practical
- Guided poster practical
- Finishing and polishing
Objective
To understand how to execute advanced posterior direct composite restorations.
Aims
- Overview of the latest posterior materials and their use
- Detailed posterior morphology
- Advanced posterior isolation
- Choosing the right matrix
- Margin elevation techniques
- Back-to-back restorations
- Replacing missing cusps
- Class V’s
- Finishing posteriors
Note: Delegates can opt out of this day if they have already done it asastand alone course previously.
Objective
To learn when and how to use onlays to restore compromised posterior teeth.
Aims:
- Overview of case selection
- Overview of the various ceramics available and their indications
- Anterior crowns
- Managing the dark stump
- Posterior crowns vs overlays vs onlays vs inlays
- When to cover cusps
- Laboratory communication
- Intra-oral scanning
- Practicals cowering the various preparation techniques
- Perfecting the margins
- Conventional impressions
- Chair-side design
- Chair-side milling
- Shade selection
- Temporisation techniques
- Isolation and cementation techniques
Objectives:
To update on the latest in minimally invasive endodontics
Aims:
- The latest theories and practices in endodontics
- Diagnosis of pathology
- MI access cavity design
- Cleaning and shaping
- Irrigation
- Obturation techniques
- Practical sessions on how to use the latest equipment
- Use of posts
- Restoration of endodontically treated teeth
- Diagnosing fractures
- Managing anterior and posterior fractures
Objective:
To enable you to provide beautiful veneers in a minimally invasive fashion
Aims:
- Review of the literature on performance
- Overview of case selection and planning
- Additive vs subtractive
- Laboratory communication and the different types of diagnostic wax up for veneers
- Digital vs analogue
- Preparation vs prepress
- Ceramics vs composite
- The motivational mockup
- Understanding the various ceramic materials available, when to use and how preparations differ
- The guided preparation (Gurel) technique
- Managing the margin
- Controlling the soft tissue
- Sandwich crowns
- Conventional and digital impression techniques
- Shade selection
- Perfect provisionalisation techniques
- Isolation and cementation techniques
Objectives:
- To learn when and how to use crowns to restore compromised posterior teeth
Aims:
- Overview of case selection
- Overview of the various materials available and their indications
- Crowns vs veneers vs composite
- Monolithic vs layered
- Managing the dark stump
- Immediate dentine sealing
- Preparation techniques
- Perfecting your margins
- Laboratory communication
- Practicals covering the various preparation techniques
- Intra-oral scanning
- Conventional impressions
- Shade selection
- Temporisation techniques
- Cementation and bonding
Objectives:
To introduce you to the world of dental implants and giveyou the skills and knowledge to restore a single unit.
Aims:
- Introduction to dental implants
- ImagingFundamentals for implant success
- Overview of literature on success and survival
- PlanningImmediate vs delayed
- Managing the anterior soft tissues to perfection
- Temporisation
- Restoration of single implants
- Avoiding pitfalls
- Managing the failing implant
- Maintenance
Objectives:
To advance the planning and technical skills in smile makeovers with composite veneers and complex individual teeth build ups.
- Overview of the latest anterior materials their use
- Detailed anterior morphology
- Smile design overview
- Direct single layer composite veneers
- Direct multi layered composite veneers
- Cut back techniques
- Shade masking & hypoplasia
- Smile makeovers including full arch practical
- Intensive advanced technical course (two day course)
Delegates can opt out of this two day programme if they have already done it as a stand alone course previously.
Objectives
To give you the knowledge and skills to replace missing teeth with fixed bridges.
Aims
- Review of the literature on performance
- Bridges vs Implants
- Theory behind choosing abutment teeth
- Bridge design – fixed-fixed, fixed-moveable or cantilever
- Conventional bridges
- Adhesive bridges
- Fibre-reinforced composite bridges
- Hybrid bridges
- Telescopic bridge
- An overview of the various types of materials and indications.
- The various preparations for the different designs including practicals
- Management of the pontic site
- Occlusal considerations
- Temporisation
Objectives
To be able to tie together all the knowledge over the course and build on it for complex case management.
Overview:
- Revisiting core aspects from the programme
- Occlusion part two
- Increasing OVD
- Full mouth functional trials
- Minimally invasive full mouth rehabilitation
- Pros and cons of direct vs indirect approach
- Treatment planning
- Managing Multidisciplinary cases
- Awards ceremony and celebration
Course Information
Dr Adam Lane
Ingleby House
Dr Aamir Vaghela
Bricketwood Dental Practice
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A programme designed to give the knowledge, confidence and skills to perform high level, minimally invasive restorative and aesthetic dentistry. Suited to General Practitioners at any stage of their careers and all types of practice settings. Giving the flexibility to gain a education and qualification conveniently, and in a timeframe that suits the individuals own needs. The course is run from our state of the art training institute in central London, featuring full phantom head including micromotors, benchside monitors, live feeds from surgeries and a plethora of digital scanners to supercharge the learning experience.
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FAQs
Find answers to commonly asked questions about our courses.
This course is suitable for any dentist who has completed our Totally Composite course and would like to complete our Post-Graduate Diploma programme.
We will email you a month in advance before every course day to let you know exactly what is required for you to bring for that specific course and everything else we provide for you!
You will need to be a fully registered and qualified dentist to be eligible to enrol. Also, you can only do this course once you have completed our Totally Composite course
This can be done at any time after completing Totally Composite. Some of our delegates start straight away and others join us up to months/years later. It really depends on when is the right time for you in your career!
You will officially receive a Level 7 Post-Graduate Diploma in Restorative and Aesthetic Dentistry which is certified by the examination board EduQual.
If you choose to sign up but would like to defer to the next cohort we can certainly do this with a notice period of at least 4 weeks before your original start date.
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