What to Do When Temporary Crowns and Bridges Go Wrong -and- This Crown Doesn’t Fit: What the Lab Needs to Make Flawless C+B Cases

Two Topics / One Day

What to Do When Temporary Crowns and Bridges Go Wrong

During this course, common problems and solutions for provisional restorations will be discussed and demonstrated. The hands-on portion will allow individuals to: improve their temporization technique, achieve excellent esthetic results, reduce chair-time, and improve overall patient satisfaction.
Expect to be able to use these techniques the very next time you fabricate a provisional restoration, and more importantly, to be able to instruct other staff members on making the temporization procedure easier and faster.

Learning Objectives:

• Review current materials and techniques for fabricating C+B Provisionals
• Learn how to make C+B Provisionals quickly
• Fabricate and correct C+B Provisionals that have gone wrong
   

 This Crown Doesn’t Fit: What the Lab Needs to Make Flawless C+B Cases

The key to predictable, well-fitting, functional, and esthetically pleasing crowns and bridges centers around producing margins that everyone can see (the lab technician, the dental assistant, and the dentist) and capturing perfect impressions. Through the use of videos and still images clinicians will learn how to create flawless crown and bridge preparations. Clinicians and their team members will be introduced to methods and materials that will improve the quality and efficiency of both crown preparations and impressions.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn what dental laboratories are looking for in preparation design and impressions
• Learn techniques for creating ideal crown margins
• Understand different options to manage soft tissue, which will contribute to capturing a flawless impression
• Review techniques on making digital and 
• traditional impressions
   

Dr. Lipscomb is a graduate of The University of Howard College of Dentistry and an international speaker with lectures specializing in restorative mini dental implants. He has been performing restorative procedures for over 20 years and placing mini dental implants since 2006. During that time, he has overseen hundreds of MDI cases and has gained the experience to provide hands-on training for restorative and mini-implant procedures to other doctors. He is a speaker for Catapult Education's Speakers Bureau, serves on the editorial advisory board for Dental Product Shopper, and has written several articles for publications including Dental Economics, Dental Products Report, and Dental Product Shopper. Dr. Lipscomb’s unique dental experience includes both private practice and public health service in community health centers