Advanced Operative Aesthetic
&
Restorative Dentistry Course [PGCert EduQual Level 7]
We all want our dentistry to look beautiful and aesthetic, we want to have the confidence and clinical skill to enhance a patients smile, be able to deal with different clinical scenarios and produce work to a high standard both anteriorly and posteriorly.
Learn how to do this predictably and consistently with our unique
“Hands-On Operative Aesthetic and Restorative Dentistry Course”
Dentistry is the artistic delivery of a scientific subject but one does not need to be an artist to make dentistry beautiful. However, the dentist must obtain a certain set of skills in order to produce aesthetic functional dentistry.
Course Details
- Duration:13 Days
- Cost: £8,820 + VAT
- Location/Venue: LonDec, London
- Starts: October 2025 – Waiting List Active
Course Description
Smile Design and Patient Management
- Introduction to aesthetic and restorative dentistry
- The patient exam, diagnosis, prognosis and introduction to treatment planning
- Caries and Periodontal Disease
- Discussion of the perception of beauty
- Assessment of facial landmarks
- Smile Design
- Treatment planning for the aesthetic case
- Dentist-Patient Communication and the art of Soft Skills
Hands On:
Smile design exercises in groups with 1:1 guidance
Day 1Colour, Shade Assessment and Bleaching
- Understanding properties of colour in aesthetic dentistry
- Aesthetic shade analysis & mapping for direct and indirect restorations
- Shade guides and light correcting lamps
- What to record & how to record
- Lab communication
- Understanding aetiology of discolouration
- Tooth whitening techniques: Vital and Non-Vital
- Tray Design
- Managing sensitivity
- Tetracycline staining
- Micro-abrasion and Resin Infiltration
- Legality, Marketing & Fee setting
- Managing patient expectations
Hands On:
Shade analysis & mapping using light correcting lamps
Day 2Clinical Photography
(70% Hands-on 30% theory)- Photography in dentistry
- Camera, lens and flash selection
- Tools for photography
- Deep understanding of camera settings
- Contrastors and polarising filters
- Softbox lighting imaging
Hands On:
- Clinical Photography
- Contrasted Images
- Soft box artistic images
Day 3
Anterior Composite Artistry
(70% Hands-on 30% theory)- Anatomy of anterior teeth
- Understanding different composite systems
- Deep understanding of bonding
- Understanding the use of Diagnostic Wax-ups
- Biomimetically restoring the anterior tooth
- Layering techniques: creating internal & external effects
- Blending margins and preventing white lines
- Composite Veneers: when and how to do them
- Diestama closure
- Finishing and Polishing composites
- Trouble shooting
Hands On:
- Biomimetically restoring anterior teeth
- Diestama closures
- Composite veneers
- Finishing and polishing
Day 4Veneers and Soft Tissue Management
(70% Hands-on 30% theory)- Indications
- Material Selection & Ceramics
- Clinical techniques – APT/APR
- Bur Selection
- Step by step guide – Prep, Impressions, Try in, Temporisation, Cementation
- Immediate Dentine Sealing
- Types of veneer designs
- Lab Communication
- Fee Setting
- Soft tissue management
- Gingival bio-types, Biological width & Bone sounding
- Soft tissue retraction techniques
Hands On:
- Veneer preparation using APT/APR technique
- Impressions
- Fabrication of provisionals
- Freehand Veneer Preparation
Day 5Anterior Crowns
(70% Hands-on 30% theory)- Types of anterior crowns: dentine bonded crowns, e.max & metal ceramic
- Indications & Case selection
- Preparation, temporisation, cementation
- Handpiece and Bur Control
- Bur Selection
- Adhesive cementation techniques & Cement selection
- Occlusion
- Soft tissue management: Electro surgery and lasers
Hands On:
- Anterior Crown preps for e.max, dentine bonded & metal ceramic crowns
- Temporisation
- Electro-surgery and Laser
Day 6
Posterior Composite Artistry
(70% Hands-on 30% theory)- Posterior tooth anatomy
- Restoring Class I & Class II cavities using biomimetic layering techniques
- Composite handling, sculpting and packing
- Composite staining
- Understanding the use of different matrix systems
- Occlusion
- Preventing and addressing issues of sensitivity
- Rubber dam isolation
Hands On:
- Biomimetically restoring posterior cavities using composite
- Using sectional and circumferential matrices
Day 7Posterior Onlays and Crowns
(70% Hands-on 30% theory)- Posterior onlay and full coverage crown preparation
- Indications
- Material selection
- Bur selection
- Preparation techniques
- Handpiece and Bur Control
- Marginal elevation techniques
- Temporisation
- Adhesive cementation techniques
- Cement selection
- Restoration of endodontically treated teeth
- Post and Cores
- Assessing restorability of badly broken down teeth
Hands On:
- Onlay preps
- Full coverage crown preps
- Post preps and Core build up
Day 8Tooth Surface Loss and Full Mouth Rehab
(70% Hands-on 30% theory)- Tooth surface loss: types, diagnosis, prevention and treatment
- Conformative vs Re-organised approach
- Occlusion
- Increasing OVD
- Facebow and Articulators: how and when to use
- Diagnostic wax ups and techniques for build-ups
- Direct vs Indirect restorations for treatment of toothwear
- Long-term provisionals
- Splint therapy
- Lucia Jigs
Hands On:
- Composite build-ups of tooth surface loss cases
- Facebows
- Lucia jigs
Day 9
Replacement of Missing Teeth
(70% Hands-on 30% theory)- Indications for replacing missing teeth
- Types of bridge designs and when to use which design
- Material selection
- Preparation of bridges, temporisation and cementation
- Soft tissue management and aesthetic pontic site creation
- Aesthetic Denture design
Hands On:
- Bridge preps: Resin Bonded bridges, Fixed-Movable, Fixed-Fixed
- Fibre-reinforced composite bridges
- Denture design
Day 10Practice Day
(70% Hands-on 30% theory)- Complex case assessment & Treatment planning
- Management of multi-disciplinary cases
- Problem solving
Hands On:
Delegates to practice hands on techniques taught throughout the year
Day 11Bringing it all together
- Maintenance of patients
- Fee Setting
- Complex treatment planning
- Creating a clinical referral pathway
- When to refer
- Dealing with failures and Trouble Shooting
- Certificate presentation
Day 12
