Anterior Composites - Doable, Predictable and Repeatable

Course Information

There are many steps involved in the creation of a functional and aesthetic anterior composite restoration. This lecture and hands on course breaks down a number of the steps fundamental to obtaining excellent clinical outcomes with anterior composites. Topics Covered: • Aesthetic concepts: understanding optical aspects of natural teeth. • Understanding colour: Concepts of Hue, Chroma, Value, Opalescence, incisal halo, intensives, characterizations. • Shade selection, guidelines for perfect colour matching, how to make personalised shade guide and Button try technique. • Layering: use of single / dual shades , two vs multiple layers , anatomical layering technique. • Hiding the grey margins. • Intraoperatory corrections, concepts of re-bonding to old composites. • Steps to simple yet predictable finishing and polishing with secondary and tertiary textures. • Layering technique and optimisation of each layer for anterior class IV restoration. • Putty index fabrication. • Margin and prep design. • Mimicking opalescence, incisal halo, intensives and characterisations. • Textures, finishing and polishing