Digital Symposium 2017

10 part series of videos, recorded at the Digital Symposium 2017.

The role of digital technologies and materials for full arch implant reconstructions. Part 1 - Dr's. Andrea Agnini and Alessandro Agnini

Aims and objectives:

Gain an overview of the role of digital technologies and materials for full arch implant reconstructions, taking into consideration:

• The digital workflow employed for full arch materials in the digital environment – all the steps that are needed in a digital case

• When, where and how the new technologies are being incorporated into the treatment plan sequence
• The benefits of intra-oral scanning in implant dentistry
• The role of digital technologies in implant provision in the aesthetic zone. Understanding the limitation of scan bodies in soft tissue contour and how to use digital to improve the soft tissue contour, created by provisional restorations
• The role of digital technologies in the surgical veneer grafting technique

The role of digital technologies and materials for full arch implant reconstructions. Part 2 - Dr's. Andrea Agnini and Alessandro Agnini

Aims and objectives:

Gain an overview of the role of digital technologies and materials for full arch implant reconstructions, taking into consideration:

• A history of the speaker’s experiences on the use of digital technology in full arch cases and how their protocol has evolved

• Current limitations of using digital technologies in full arch cases
• The choice of materials in the full arch case and selection protocols
• Soft tissue management
• Some tips on scanning full arch cases

The digital planning of the implant patient. Part 1 - Dr. Colin Campbell

Aims and objectives:

Use of a single complex implant case to demonstrate some of the advantages and challenges of introducing guided implant surgery into practice, taking into consideration:

• An overview of guided implant surgery
• Understand that it is a complex and detailed procedure
• The experience required to master the planning techniques
• Be aware of some of the benefits to the patient and the treatment team
• See how guided surgery planning can improve the discussion and consent processes in implant dentistry 

The digital planning of the implant patient. Part 2 - Dr. Colin Campbell

Aims and objectives:

Gain an understanding of guided surgery, taking into consideration:

• An overview of guided implant surgery

• Understand that it is a complex and detailed procedure
• The experience required to master the planning techniques
• Be aware of some of the benefits to the patient and the treatment team
• See how guided surgery planning can improve the discussion and consent processes in implant dentistry
• View a case, including planning (using the CBCT and STL and digital software), surgery (including incision design and flap raising tips) and execution of implant preparation and placement to understand guided surgery and the role of digital technology in this case
• The role of digital in making the prosthesis

A digital workflow for the whole team - Dr. Ian Buckle

Aims and objectives:

• Understand that we need to engage in the future to enhance what we are able to offer patients

• Where technology can help in all forms of dentistry
• The principles behind good dentistry, in order to make technology work
• Understand the digital workflow to include, digital impression taking, digital bite and digital wax-up
• Understand the relationship between analogue and digital dentistry

Digitising the patient. Part 1 - Dr. Jameel Gardee

Aims and objectives:

• Understand digital smile designing and digital planning for your aesthetic patient

• Gain greater understanding through a live demonstration
• Know what cameras can be used for the photographs
• What software can be used for the smile designing and digital waxup
• What printing methods are available for the mock up
• The step by step, and visit by visit, process in these cases

Digitising the patient. Part 2 - Dr. Jameel Gardee

Aims and objectives:

• Learn more about the mock up strategy

• A practical demonstration of the motivational mock up, how it is done and how the patient information is recorded before and after

SKYN concept art and technology - Livio Yoshinaga

Aims and objectives:

• Understand the role of manual and digital in dentistry, and gain an overview of what processes or procedures can be done digitally

• The steps in creating a workflow
• The SKYN working plan in 3 visits, and the complete digital plan, from seeing a patient to the motivational mock up

The CEREC single central - Dr. Simon Chard

Aims and objectives:

• Gain tips on using CEREC for the single central.
• Understand the challenges of the single central incisor restoration and the challenges.
• Introduction to key principles of aesthetics with CEREC.
• Discussion of shape and shade and how these can create the illusion of layering in monolithics.
• Gain some great tips on how to select the correct shade for your blocks.
• Gain an overview of the design parameters you can use to simplify morphology creation to deliver aesthetic monolithic restorations - inclusive of these design modes - Biogeneric individual and Biojaw, BioGeneric Copy, and Biogeneric Reference.

Elevating everyday restorative dentistry with intra oral digital impressions - Dr. Rupert Austin

Aims and objectives:

• Understand workflows for providing state of the art digital solutions for restorative treatment
• Consider expanded applications including implant dentistry and orthodontics
• Focus on digital scanning of crown and bridge cases in everyday clinical practice