Course Outline:

There are many steps involved in the creation of a functional and aesthetic anterior composite restoration. This lecture and hands on course breaks down a number of the steps fundamental to obtaining excellent clinical outcomes with anterior composites.

Topics Covered:

• Aesthetic concepts: understanding optical aspects of natural teeth.
• Understanding colour: Concepts of Hue, Chroma, Value, Opalescence, incisal halo, intensives, characterizations.
• Shade selection, guidelines for perfect colour matching, how to make personalised shade guide and Button try technique.
• Layering: use of single / dual shades , two vs multiple layers , anatomical layering technique.
• Hiding the grey margins.
• Intraoperatory corrections, concepts of re-bonding to old composites.
• Steps to simple yet predictable finishing and polishing with secondary and tertiary textures.
• Layering technique and optimisation of each layer for anterior class IV restoration.
• Putty index fabrication.
• Margin and prep design.
• Mimicking opalescence, incisal halo, intensives and characterisations.
• Textures, finishing and polishing.