Whether you love making dentures and want to do them better, have limited experience with them and want to learn more, or hate making dentures, this day is aimed at you. It will be a comprehensive guide to providing predictable dentures for your patients.
This seminar will be clinically useful if you work in the NHS, in private practice or in both. The day will be totally practical and clinical, with tips and tricks that can be put into practice on Monday morning. The day will be peppered with nuggets of gold.
Finlay will share his secrets to providing dentures which fit fantastically, look great and which patients love.
Finlay will show never been seen before cases, demonstrating his methods and techniques used to deliver dentures with superb aesthetics and optimal function.
He will cover partial dentures, complete dentures, immediate dentures and implant retained dentures. It will be a thoroughly practical and clinically useful day; illustrated with photographs and videos showing how this day will ignite the whole dental team’s enthusiasm and love for removable prosthodontics, showing how we can change patients’ lives with beautifully made dentures. It will also be a perfect revision day for people who have attended any of Finlay’s courses or seminars in the past.
Finlay and his dental technician, Rowan Garstang, produce the following types of removable dentures exhibiting superb form and function;
1. Complete dentures
2. Partial dentures
3. Implant supported dentures
4. Implant supported dentures
Learning Aims, Objectives & Anticipated Outcomes
At the end of the seminar delegates should be able to:
1. Better understand state-of-the-art complete denture, partial denture and implant supported denture construction.
2. To learn that well designed and well-made removable dentures are a valid alternative to implant supported restorations.
3. To learn the biologically healthy Scandinavian design system for partial dentures.
4. To see the construction methods and function of partial dentures which work like removable bridges, protecting the periodontium of compromised abutment teeth.
5. To learn a system of partial denture design which anticipates future abutment failure allowing artificial tooth additions onto cobalt chromium minor connectors of the denture later.
6. To learn superb impression techniques.
7. To see perfectly accurate recording of centric relation with gothic arch tracing.
8. Learn how to maximise complete denture retention and stability.
9. Have improved ability to make dentures look like beautiful natural teeth.
10. Learn how to use implant attachments such as Locators® & bars in the best way.
11. Learn how to make dentures fit implants and the supporting soft tissues properly.
12. Have improved communication amongst the whole dental team.
13. Have improved patient outcomes when providing dentures.
14. Have improved understanding of metal reinforcement to strengthen the dentures.