Introduction

Patient demand for optimal esthetic restorations is becoming the standard. Gaining control of esthetic results within your office will both improve patient satisfaction and improve the bottom line.

How many times do you have to return a ceramic crown to the lab for an esthetic modification? How much does that extra appointment cost? To achieve optimal esthetic results with ceramic restorations like the labs do, you need to master extrinsic ceramic staining materials and techniques. This course will show you how easy it is and you will wonder why you haven’t done it years sooner.

Learn how to gain esthetic control in your practice, improve your esthetic results, impress your patients, get more referrals, and have more fun.

Topics

1. Understanding light and color, color perception, shade selection, and color mapping
2. Additive and subtractive color systems (how to control light and perception)
3. Extrinsic ceramic staining techniques for ceramometal, conventional ceramics,
4. Core and pressed ceramics
5. Shade modification, translucency alteration, maverick colors and special characteristics
6. Custom shade guides, laboratory communications
7. Staining techniques: hue modification, value modification, characterizations, special esthetic modifications, high temperature VS low temperature staining
8. Low temperature techniques for veneers and all ceramic restorations
9. Integrating ceramic staining into your practice in a time and cost affective way (staff delegation)
10. Hands-on: color modification and staining techniques

Faculty

Bruce J. Crispin, DDS MS, received a DDS in 1972 and an MS in 1975 (Fixed Prosthodontics) from the University of Michigan. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics, Professor emeritus from UCLA and an alumni member of Omicron Kappa Upsilon. He founded the UCLA Center for Esthetic Dentistry as well as "Esthetic Professionals", an educational, patient care, and laboratory facility in Tarzana, CA.

Dr. Crispin has published over 45 research and professional publications including the textbook "Contemporary Esthetic Dentistry: Practice Fundamentals". He has lectured extensively both nationally and internationally for the past 30 years.

The focus and scope of Dr. Crispin’s practice is on Esthetic Restorative Dentistry and Conservative Treatments to Reconstructions and Implants. His esthetic hands-on programs are in great demand and have widely imbued great value to the dental practitioner.

Tuition

$495.00 for Dentist. Additional dentist 25% discount

$350.00 for Non-dentist staff. 25% discount attending with dentist

Refund and Cancellation Policy

If a written cancellation is received 30 days or more prior to the first day of a program, a refund or credit will be issued, less a 25% processing fee. No refunds or credits will be issued if cancellation is made less than 30 days prior to the first day of a program, or is not submitted in writing.

Date

April 24, 2009 - 8 CE and AGD Credits

"An individual course which displays the AACD Recommended Private Education Course logo has a curriculum recommended by the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. It may prove helpful in gaining knowledge necessary for the Academy's Accreditation credential. Successful completion of this course does not guarantee Accreditation. Additional information about the Accreditation credentialing process is available by contacting the AACD at 800-543-9220 or www.aacd.com."