Dr Bob Winter: Anterior Restorative Dentistry is a course that focuses on the anterior part of the
mouth looking at two patients, treating the two patients start to finish. I've
created custom models that create two clinical scenarios to solve all of the -
I'll say - anterior historic challenges we face
from crowded dentition to spaces between teeth in diastemas, black triangles. So
going through the process of preparation design to create orthodontically
straight teeth in the final outcome and ... because I think that's typically
patients are looking for. So we go through all of the clinical steps of
preparation, provisionalization, inserting the final restorations, bonding
and cementation, as well as then adjusting ceramic. So learning the
techniques and instrumentation to adjust ceramic intraorally. The key items that
you learn are essentially solving all the esthetic challenges you face in
treating patients with indirect restorative dentistry. So designing the
case is the most important part. Handling provisionals
to be esthetically pleasing in the interim, making sure that they're
functionally ... we can do trial therapy and functionally check it out to make sure
the design is going to work, and then knowing how to insert and adjust, that
impacts their practices immediately because that's bread and butter for
restorative dentists. So you're able to implement all of these ideas and
techniques immediately when you go home. It's not something that you you need to
figure out and figure out how it's going to work into the practice. It's for
restorative dentists. It's things we do every day of our lives.
Dr. Gary DeWood: I think that
anterior restorative dentistry people tell us that what they love most about
that class is the opportunity to work with the provisionals because we don't
really have that in any other course that we offer and it's
that's always high in a dentist's list. Additionally, I find that the segment on
bonding and cementation is always incredible with back and forth because
so many of us have been told so many things and there's so many products out
there that it becomes a wonderful conversation. And the beauty of it is if
there's so many products out there, we know why: It's because they all work.
That's why they're there. And so it's been fun and what I hear back and people
tell me that they love was to understand that just because there's other things
out there doesn't mean it's they should go change something. In fact my favorite
line before I start that segment is, "Everyone in here has to make me a
promise. If what you have is working, you're not allowed to change anything
based on what we talk about." And so it's a really fun segment, and I think I hear
from people that they really love that segment.
Dr. Janette Larsen: So the course library that Spear
is really it's an amazing resource that I've implemented from the very beginning.
If I go to a workshop and I learn techniques sometimes it may be very many
months ... there'll be months before I'm able to implement what I learned and
it's so convenient to have the ... to be able to go back to the library and find
a technique that I was taught here and then reinforce what I learned and then
be able to apply it to a patient.
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