Contemporary Monolithic Ceramics and the Digital Dental Team

Contemporary Monolithic Ceramics and the Digital Dental Team is organized by Minnesota Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry (MACD) and will be held on Sep 26, 2026 at Valley Dental Arts, Stillwater, Minnesota, United States of America.

Description:
The proper space management, contour, surface texture, final surface color, and polish can take average looking restorations and create an exceptional esthetic result. These steps are critical to the success of dental restorations whether it’s composite or ceramics. The micro hand skills of “micro texture” can also be taught in composite or modeling wax; this can be a very useful exercise as it is easy to change composite or wax. The Author practices his sculpting skills at least once a month in both as he finds it is the fastest way to keep “trained”.

This is a lecture and hands-on workshop that uses composite as a medium to design, form, contour, finish and polish anterior teeth. The lecture part of the course will cover the following topics 

(1) the step-by-step process of managing the design of 6 anterior teeth for a specific maxillary arch relationship. 

(2) Specific guidelines for esthetic tooth arrangement both in size and position are the key elements taught during this course. 

(3) The esthetics of the individual tooth i.e. the individual form and color characteristics of teeth and the inter-relationships between teeth. 

(4) Micro-esthetic elements of surface texture, and polish will be covered in a very systematic easily learnable format, with composites materials

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to design and proper space management (i.e. correct macro esthetics) for anterior teeth.
• Learn the 6 levels of micro-esthetics of individual teeth and learn the step-by-step process of completing the 6 levels for composite materials. Including shaping, texturizing, custom coloring and polishing composite materials.
• Learn the color distribution in a natural tooth and how to layer it correctly
• Live typodont demonstrations will be used to demonstrate the step-by-step approach for the Learning objectives.