This course will be an intense lecture program for all practitioners wishing to update their skills in anterior bonded restorations using direct composite resins and indirect porcelain veneers. Although bonded ceramics seem to represent the ultimate biologic, functional, mechanical and aesthetic restoration for compromised anterior teeth, the number of ultraconservative treatment strategies and materials continues to grow. The practitioner is faced with many esthetic treatment modalities and products. The major disadvantage of this evolution is that it becomes increasingly difficult to make the appropriate choices in a given clinical situation. The availability of various treatment alternatives often allows for selection of an approach that conserves the maximum amount of intact tissue and which complies with the biomimetic principle - Bio-emulation TM. Treatment options should always first include the simplest procedures such as chemical treatments and freehand composites and then progress toward more sophisticated approaches such as laminate veneers.

Objectives

• The latest scientific discoveries about no-post no-crown restorations
• The core values of biomimetic restorative dentistry
• A review of ultraconservative approaches
• Important procedures to improve the success of your direct composite resin restorations
• The possibilities of novel semi-indirect approaches using anterior customized CAD/CAM composite resins
• The keys to the success of indirect ceramic restorations (wax-up, mockup, preparations, delivery).

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Dr. Pascal Magne is currently the Director of the Center for Education and Research in Biomimetic Restorative Dentistry (CER BRD) in Beverly Hills. In 1989, he became lecturer at the Geneva School of Dental Medicine, while practicing and receiving training in fixed prosthodontics. He pursued two doctorates, in 1992 (DMD) and in 2002 (Ph.D.), the latter while co-authoring the book Bonded Porcelain Restorations in the Anterior Dentition--A Biomimetic Approach, with Professor Urs Belser (translated into 12 languages). He would add to his research on dental innovations at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry in 1997-1999. He has been widely published, resulting in many awards. Pascal was recruited as a full-time tenured faculty of the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry at the University of Southern California School in 2004, as the Don and Sybil Harrington Professor of Esthetic Dentistry. At USC, Dr. Magne spearheaded a multitude of curricular innovations in the areas of biomimetics, minimally invasive dentistry, and bonding techniques. His scholarly activity during his years there yielded over 100 peer-reviewed publications and many continuing education programs nationally and internationally. In 2021, Dr. Magne published the second edition of his bestselling book entitled Biomimetic Restorative Dentistry.