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Restorative Foundation

Restorative Foundation

£ 997
  • 10 Online Modules, 20 hours CPD
  • Suitable for all dentists, therapists and students
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Detailed Course Overview

Access and master techniques remotely – your fastest way to overhaul your clinical practice.

Module 1 - Evidence Based Dentistry

  • Attitudinal changes to restorative dentistry in the past generations
  • Methods to interpret information, with reference to the accepted form of critical thinking within dentistry
  • Inductive, deductive and abductive reasoning

Module 2 - Treatment Philosophy

  • Progression of our consent process and the relevant case law guiding our approach
  • Priorities for patient driven treatment planning, and be able to apply adaptable approaches to your practice
  • Pathologically driven treatment planning versus elective treatment planning
  • Patient indicators of case complexity
  • Techniques for primary disease control
  • Dentist-patient communication in elective dentistry

Module 3 - Assessment

  • Systematic data collection for patient examination
  • Anatomical basis for occlusion
  • Dynamic patterned behaviour, interferences and constrictions
  • Piper classification as a means for diagnosis
  • Classical aesthetic (smile design) parameters and non-conventional indices
  • Classical causes for tooth wear and a pattern-based approach relating to interferences and constrictions
  • Updated terminology and concepts in assessing and working with occlusion for single and quadrant dentistry
  • Orthodontic indices used to diagnose malocclusions
  • Normal gingival progressions and biotypes
  • Macro, micro and nano indices of smile design

Module 4 - Photography

  • Components of a digital camera setup and the differences across the major brands
  • How to record and depict shade
  • Interactions between shutter speed, ISO and aperture
  • Clinical techniques for comfortable clinical photography
  • Consistent clinical photography
  • Data organisation

Module 5 - Materials & Directs

  • The chemistry, biomechanics and applicability for composite resin
  • The chemistry, biomechanics and applicability for ceramic
  • Current composite/ceramic brands
  • Natural layering vs freehand vs stent approaches to composite resin
  • The manufacturing processes for ceramic and the advantages/disadvantages of the various systems
  • The pitfalls of PFM and its role in dentistry today

Module 6 - Concepts in Ceramic

  • Posterior onlay vs full coverage crown decision making
  • Onlay design principles and techniques
  • Immediate Dentine Sealing
  • Cervical Margin Relocation
  • Techniques for margin design for veneers/crowns/bridges – Gurel technique, vertical preparation, marginless
  • Simplified and logical bur sequence for restorative dentistry
  • Biomechanical principles in ferrule, posts and cores
  • Gingival recontouring, principles and practice
  • Design parameters for resin retained bridges
  • Key principles in conventional bridge design
  • Keys to success in analogue impressions

Module 7 - Chemical Retention

  • The composition of enamel-dentine-cementum and the basis for chemical adhesion
  • The biochemistry associated with adhesive bonding in the past and today
  • Wet bonding and the critical stages
  • Adhesive agents and cements available in the UK
  • The isolation methods available and indications for each
  • Principal methods for temporisation and the indication for each
  • A safe approach to insert single/multiple units and the clinical steps required

Module 8 - Implant Restoration

  • Components within implant restoration
  • Principles of implant placement and design through the years
  • The three methods of retention
  • Major implant systems and their prosthetic differences
  • Methods available to manage soft tissue aesthetics in anterior implants
  • Techniques available to restore single tooth posterior implants
  • How to find and work with an implantologist

Module 9 - Everyday Occlusion

  • Anatomical basis for occlusion
  • Dynamic patterned behaviour, interferences and constrictions
  • Piper classification as a means for diagnosis
  • Classical causes for tooth wear and a pattern-based approach relating to interferences and constrictions
  • Updated terminology and concepts in assessing and working with occlusion for single and quadrant dentistry
  • Advanced techniques in managing AOBs, class III and class II division II cases
  • Management of occlusal wear
  • Bite registrations
  • Splint therapy
  • Articulators: Hinge, average value, semi and fully adjustable

Module 10 - Restorative Interfaces

  • Working effectively with specialist colleagues
  • Progression of inter-disciplinary cases in their phases
  • Systematic diary management
  • Primary reasons for failure and how to manage ceramic fracture
  • Maintainance of composite resins for the long-term
  • Internal auditing within restorative dentistry

Frequently Asked Questions

If you have another question, just send it to us.

Although hand skills require practical teaching, most of restorative dentistry is knowing ‘what’ to do and ‘when’ to do it. This can be taught in a remote online setting, in preparation for live courses. This course does not remove the need for hands-on learning, but gets your theory and knowledge up to a level so that you can hit the ground running when you do decide to take practical courses.

Yes! The restorative foundation online course is the most comprehensive online course, and is recommended instead of the shorter focused courses.
The course is 10 modules, each taking approximately one-two hours to complete, including the prerequisite reading. Access to the course is indefinite!

Sure, just drop us a message 😊

Aside from being one of the few online versions that you can take from the comfort of your home, it can be completed at your own pace. Some will like to learn one module at a time, and others prefer an intensive approach. Our online course is more cost-effective than the year long restorative courses, and this is due to them being delivered online and not including a practical element.

Yes, for Restorative Foundation there is a dedicated private Facebook group for sharing cases and gaining advice. We can answer questions you have as well as assist with treatment planning.

Certain sub-modules are modified and re-filmed periodically, to provide the most accurate information to date.
Yes! Just send us your student ID or MOD90 card.

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