Laboratory Techniques for Fixed Prostheses
Main language of instruction: English
Other languages of instruction: Catalan, Spanish
Head instructor
Dr. Santiago COSTA - scosta@uic.es
Office hours
At the end of the practices and also if the student wishes by appointment by writing to mail:
edgarcia@uic.es josegabrielm@uic.es
The program of Master degree in Aesthetic Restorative dentistry offers a very wide practical clinical activity and at the same time wants to deepen in the knowledge by students of dental laboratory.
Nowadays, in the world of modern dentistry, new technologies have developed a set of systems of work such as CAD-CAM, which require basic knowledge of materials and laboratory procedures to make restorers works and that the dentist could perform it in his/her own clinic. Therefore, in the subject of laboratory techniques of fixed prostheses, we develop these protocols of work and also provide students with the knowledge and basic tools to accomplish those objectives.
Students will follow the work protocols established at the University for different dental laboratory procedures. At the same time, they will acquire manual techniques of each of the steps to take and guidelines to successfully develop these protocols.
Advanced knowledge of the dental anatomy and occlusion.
The program of the University Master of Restorative Aesthetic Dentistry covers learning laboratory techniques necessary to carry out the rehabilitation treatment in patients requiring an aesthetically guided prosthetic rehabilitation. In addition to the proper use of prosthetic material of the laboratory to perform the previous steps for the definitive treatment.
In the program we will know the necessary materials and machinery to develop different laboratory techniques of fixed prosthesis. Establishing working protocols that will provide satisfactory routine.
The main objective of these practices in the labs is to provide students with the minimums skills and knowledge to perform previous steps in the laboratory of its own restorative treatments. Provide the student with technical and manual skills to successfully develop the necessary steps to obtain optimum results.
The development of practices will take place in the preclinical laboratory with the material and the machinery necessary to develop these techniques under supervision, after lectures and visual explanations of the steps, by the tutors of the course.
The student is able to make preparations in phantoms for non-adhesive fixed prosthesis
The students will be able to do articulator mounting of working models
The student is able to make the necessary wax for the correct diagnosis and to make provisional prosthesis and aesthetic tests
The student is able to make provisional teeth in a classic way
Students learn to make provisional teeth with CAD/CAM techniques
Students learn to make aesthetic provisionals for the anterior sector.
- Presentation of the course
- Introduction to laboratory/ models
- Assembly of models to the articulator (requirements MORE)
- Dental Basic Anatomy
- Hands-on, wax technique (master class)
- Simple provisionals
- CAD-CAM provisionals
- Posterior double load provisionals
- Final project+ presentations first term
- Assembly of teeth PC superior
- Work models of PC
- Maryland
- Anterior aesthetics provisionals, cut-back technique
- Final project+ presentations second term
- Posterior resin models
- Direct and indirect techniques in posterior resin models
- Keys preparation + anterior resin model + Geller model
- Indirect veneers preparation in anterior resin models
- Posterior preparation crowns
Laboratory practices of fixed prosthesis develop in the L7 laboratory, where are the necessary machines required to perform and make the production of diagnostic prosthesis, assembly on articulator, emptying plaster models, model preparation, etc.
Practice, always come preceded by a brief presentation of the work to be performed and a hands-on of each of the steps the student must follow, in order to show the manual skills needed to obtain good results.
During the first year, in addition to the practices in the laboratories, we have the collaboration of great professionals of the field, who perform presentations of different techniques and do an individualized hands-on for all.
There is a continuous assessment every day at the end of the practice. It will take into account the knowledge of the subject as well as the execution of work in practices and the active participation of students in their development
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