Covering different aspects of digital dentistry, these videos were recorded at the Digital Dental symposium in 2016, in London UK.
The implant workflow. Part 1 - Dr. Colin Campbell
Aims and objectives:
Gain an understanding of the digital implant workflow, taking into consideration:
- CEREC versus 3Shape: practical comparison
- Digital impressions and study models, accuracy and reliability
- CBCT and digital treatment planning
- Computer-assisted implant placement
The implant workflow. Part 2 - Dr. Craig Parker
Aims and objectives:
Gain an understanding of the digital implant workflow, taking into consideration:
- Guided surgery demonstration, irrigation beneath the guide
- Digital workflow pathways
- Digital implant workflow cases
- Correct 3D implant placement
- Sinus grafting
Speaking the same language - a powerful digital workflow between dentists and laboratories. Part 1 - Dr. Daniel Vasquez and Frankie Costa
Aims and objectives:
Through discussion, learn about the workflow between the dentist and the laboratory, taking into consideration:
- History of CEREC
- CEREC and InLab
- From conventional to digital
- Profitability
- Same day digital dentistry, single through to multiple unit restorations
- Digital workflow, to include diagnostics, preparation, design, impressions, milling, fit
- CEREC connect
- The power of digital dentistry
Speaking the same language - a powerful digital workflow between dentists and laboratories. Part 2 - Dr. Daniel Vasquez and Frankie Costa
Aims and objectives:
Through this practical demonstration, learn how the CEREC software and hardware work and how they integrate with InLab, taking into consideration:
- Sirona Connect administration to include data input, file uploads, transfer requirements, personalisation, case acceptance, parameters, milling strategy, export, mobile app
- digital workflow to include scanning, occlusion, materials, milling, fit, polish
- Marketing
Indirect vs direct restorations - indications for cuspal coverage - Dr. Nikhil Sethi
Aims and objectives:
- Advantages of direct composite for cuspal coverage
- Virtues of direct composite over indirect, direct composite engineering principles for large cavities
- Key points and benefits of composites in large cavities, wear cases
- Comparison with indirect restorations
Milling or filling - Dr. Alif Moosajee
Aims and objectives:
Gain an understanding of restoring structurally compromised teeth in the digital age, taking into consideration:
- Technology in dentistry, to include loupes, handpiece, intra-oral camera, CEREC
- Restorations in posterior teeth and reasons for failure between direct and indirect
- Preparation design considering conservation, when to cover cusps
- CEREC design
- Bonding
- Workflow
Direct composite cuspal coverage versus mill or fill in the digital age - Dr's. Alif Moosajee and Nikhil Sethi
Aims and objectives:
Gain an understanding of direct composite cuspal coverage. What is the best way to restore structurally compromised teeth, taking into consideration:
- Fractures
- Large cavities
- Restoring wear
- Indirect or direct
- Materials and methods
- Engineering principles
- Financial considerations
- Rationale, planning and protocol
CEREC - demonstration - Frankie Costa
Aims and objectives:
Through this practical demonstration, understand InLab software and hardware, taking into consideration:
- The InLab system to include software, data input, file types, file uploads, file downloads, communication, import, export, portal, compatibility, parameters, hardware
- Digital workflow to include design, materials, milling
- Scanning to include layering, virtual articulation, surgical guides
CEREC - My first year - Dr. Harmeet Grewal
Aims and objectives:
Learn about the journey, his first year in CEREC, taking into consideration:
- An introduction to CEREC to include the software, parameters
- Comparisons between Omnicam, Bluecam and Milling units
- Benefits for patients and clinicians
- Digital workflow to include preparation, photography, administration, scanning, materials, design, milling, staining and glazing, furnace, fit
- Marketing
An introduction to Digital Smile Design - Dr. Jameel Gardee
Aims and objectives:
- Understand the stages of Digital Smile Design
- The benefits of Digital Smile Design, case acceptance and consent, and the workflow of Digital Smile Design
- How this can be used in daily practice, and the advantages of using video in Digital Smile Design
- Understand ethical selling and case acceptance of the patient through the Digital Smile Design process
The digital occlusal connection - Dr. Ian Buckle
Aims and objectives:
Understand the digital occlusal connection, taking into consideration:
- CEREC in daily practice
- The importance of understanding occlusion and function
- Occlusal instability; fracture, migration, mobility, fremitus
- Functional aesthetic excellence; materials, procedures, the concepts
- The complete examination; joints, muscles, teeth
- TMJ-Occlusal examination
- Vision of optimum care; optimum oral health, anatomic harmony, functional harmony, occlusal stability, aesthetic success
- Equal intensity bilateral contacts, anterior guidance, centric relation
The smile designer - Dr. Imad Ghandour
Aims and objectives:
- Understand the stages involved in planning
- Appreciate the use of technology and digital dentistry in smile design
- The importance of photos, videos, mock-ups and trial smiles, in communication with the patient
- Learn the different stages involved in 2 different smile design study cases
View from the lab. Part 1 - planning, creating and selling high definition files - Tony Knight
Aims and objectives:
Learn about planning, creating and selling high definition files, taking into consideration:
- Game changing dental technology
- CADCAM to include zirconia, titanium
- Digital workflow, scanned preps, virtual articulation, diagnostic wax-ups, temporaries, models, milling
- Crowns, inlays, bridges, telescopic, bars, orthodontics, dentures
- 3D printing, wax printing, laser metal sintering, CrCo/Titanium, with/without attachments
- Digital implant planning, surgical guides
- Monolithic restorations, milled, layered, morphology, colour, polish
- Prepping for milled restorations
- Digital smile design
- Selling the smile, marketing, evidence of success
View from the lab. Part 2. intelligent digital design - Stephen Green
Aims and objectives:
Gain knowledge on education and innovation using the latest digital technology, taking into consideration:
- Why digital technology, quality of production, choice of materials, return on investment, external market, internal market, competition, change
- Why choose digital
- How is the market changing to include benefits
- Digital workflow man vs machine
- Recruitment and selection
- Education for the dental technician and the dentist
- Market development