DAY 1

The Exam Cycle: where the magic really happens Speakers: Dr Monik Vasant and Dr Asif Syed

• Objective: To enable you to conduct the perfect exam cycle 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
• – Enhanced CPD high level learning outcomes : A,B,C

DAY 2

Photography & Marketing Masterclass Speaker- Dr Monik Vasant

• 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
• Enhanced CPD high level learning outcomes : A, C

DAY 3

The components of a beautiful smile Speaker- Dr Monik Vasant

• 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
• Enhanced CPD high level learning outcomes: C

DAY 4

Occlusion and tooth wear Speaker: Dr Monik Vasant

• 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
• Enhanced CPD high level learning outcomes : C
• Required delegate items:
• – Loupes

DAY 5 AND 6

The components of a beautiful smile Speakers- Dr Monik Vasant

• Objective: To learn when and how to use crowns, onlays and inlays to restore compromised 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
• Enhanced CPD high level learning outcomes : C
• Required delegate items :
• – Loupes
• Location:
• – Skills Lab

DAY 7

Minimal / no preparation veneers Speakers: Dr Monik Vasant

• 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 prepless
• – Ceramics vs composite
• – The motivational mock up
• – 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
• Enhanced CPD high level learning outcomes: C
• Required delegate items:
• – Loupes
• Location:
• – Skills Lab

DAY 8

Bridges Speakers: Dr Monik Vasant

• 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 bridges
• – 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
• Enhanced CPD high level learning outcomes: C
• Required delegate items:
• – Loupes
• Location:
• – Skills Lab

DAY 9

Orthdontics for the GDP Speakers: Dr Monik Vasant

(Advanced invisalign for the GDP and the Ortho-restorative interface inc accreditation to Invisalign Go also given but not a standard go training course)

• Objectives: To introduce anterior alignment 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
• Enhanced CPD high level learning outcomes : A, C

DAY 10

Aesthetic periodontology Speakers: Dr Monik Vasant

• 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
• Enhanced CPD high level learning outcomes : C
• Required delegate items:
• – Loupes

DAY 11

Implants Speakers: Dr Monik Vasant

• Objectives: To introduce you to the world of dental implants and give you the skills and knowledge to restore a single unit.
• Aims:
• – Introduction to dental implants
• – Imaging
• – Fundamentals for implant success
• – Overview of literature on success and survival
• – Planning
• – Immediate vs delayed
• – Managing the anterior soft tissues to perfection
• – Temporisation
• – Restoration of single implants
• – Avoiding pitfalls
• – Managing the failing implant
• – Maintenance
• Enhanced CPD high level learning outcomes : C

DAY 12

Implants Speakers: Dr Monik Vasant

• 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
• Enhanced CPD high level learning outcomes: C
• Required delegate items:
• – Loupes
• – Extracted teeth mounted in putty with access holes cut

DAY 13

Treatment planning, revisionSpeakers: Dr Monik Vasant

• Objectives: To be able to tie together all the knowledge over the course and carry out treatment planning exercises
• Aims
• – Treatment planning practicals
• – Managing multidisciplinary cases
• – Practicals planning multiple cases
• – Revision
• – Presentations and MCQ
• Enhanced CPD high level learning outcomes : C
• Required delegate items:
• – Final case presentations on own devices