Ceramic restorations: veneers, inlays, crowns. Handbook for 2022

– Aesthetic results using not invasive procedures

– Step by step non-prep or minimal invasive prep veneers

– Indications for using different materials: ceramic, LDS, composite etc. in different clinical cases

– Step by step procedures about aesthetic evaluation and treatment plan

– Choice of color, preparation, taking impression and cementation.

– Indirect ceramic restorations: indications

– Stages of creating indirect ceramic restoration:

- Isolation of the working field

- Removal of carious tissues

- Build up

- Adhesive techniques

- Preparation of posterior teeth for inlays, onlays, crowns

- Impressions/scanning

- The lab work: material selection

- Fitting restoration

- Fixing the restoration

- Finishing and polishing.

– Selection of material for the restoration of posterior teeth

– Overlap of the tubercles of posterior teeth: indications

– Advantages and disadvantages of indirect restorations

– Inlays: indications, survival rate, benefits of use

– Osteoresection: technique and indications.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists.

– Ceramic veneers: indications

– Planning of treatment with ceramic restorations

– Additive restorations: advantages and disadvantages

– Step-by-step protocol for making ceramic restorations: material selection, scanning, digital smile design, Wax-up, Mock-up

– Partial indirect composition restoration: protocol

– Features of the preparation of anterior teeth:

- On the vestibular surface

- In the cervical region

- On the proximal surface.

– Silicon guides for the preparation in anteriors

– The minimum thickness of the veneer, depending on the manufacturing method

– Adhesive veneers fixation protocol

– Interdisciplinary approach in the manufacture of aesthetic restoration.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists.

– Advantages of using ceramic materials in modern dentistry

– Characteristics and properties of ceramic materials: heterogeneous and homogeneous ceramics:

- Feldspatic ceramics: indications for use

- Lithium Disilicate

- Resin matrix ceramics

- Zirconia-reinforced lithium silicates

- Cubic zirconia: gradient technology of creation.

– The influence of the geometry of preparation on the transformation of zirconium frameworks

– Thickness of ceramic restoration: limits and limitations

– Difficulties in working with monolithic zirconium restorations

– Ceramic abutments: features of prosthetics on implants

– Monolithic materials vs bilayered materials

– The accuracy of the fit of ceramic restorations: clinical tips

– Chips of facing ceramics: causes and methods of prevention

– Repair of ceramic restorations: techniques

– Occlusive correction: recommendations

– Hygienic maintenance of ceramic restorations

– Fluorescence: techniques for creating an effect on ceramic restorations

– Fixation of ceramic materials: criteria for the selection of the fixation technique and fixing agent.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists.

– Finish line geometry: the value of the vertical geometry

– Soft tissue recession around ceramic restorations: multifactorial phenomenon

– Vertical preparation and gingitage: key aspects

– Vertical preparation vs horizontal preparation

– Gingitage: preparation technique and healing time of soft tissues

– Basic principles of the biological width concept

– Protocol of vertical preparation of teeth

– Restoration materials: metal-free ceramics

– Double retraction cord technique

– Problems of application of tetragonal zirconium dioxide

– Cubic zirconia vs tetragonal zirconium dioxide

– Lithium disilicate: recommendations for clinical use

– Additional laminate veneers: indications

– Simplified prosthetic protocol (SPP).

Recommended for: Prosthodontists.

– Restoration planning and digital smile design

– 14 aspects of an aesthetic smile

– Failures in fixing ceramic restorations

– Feldspatic ceramics vs lithium disilicate

– Avoiding chipping of veneered restorations

– Wax infection technique: advantages

– The technique of manual polishing of the ceramic surface

– Soft tissues: methods of maintaining pink aesthetics

– Optimizing the communication between the laboratory and the clinic

– Combination of CAD/CAM and craftwork in pressed ceramics techniques.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists.