Minimal intervention smile design: Creating beautiful anterior composite restorations

Session Overview:

Are you using composite resin to just place ‘fillings’?

Composite resin has become a bedrock of modern clinical practice but are you just using it to place fillings? We can improve both function and aesthetics for our patients in a minimally invasive and rewarding way. For the practitioner who wishes to harness its full potential, composite resin can be used as a valuable tool in smile design, restoration of wear cases, diagnostics and much more.

In this lecture Dr. Richard Lee will share techniques to produce predictable, aesthetic and functional integration of composite resin restorations. From free hand restorations to injection moulding multiple direct composite veneers, consideration will be given to appropriate diagnosis, planning, techniques and instrumentation.

Aims: To update and provide an understanding of restoring anterior teeth with direct composite resin.

Objectives: Discuss techniques to produce predictable, aesthetic and functional integration of composite resin restorations. From free hand restorations to injection moulding multiple direct composite veneers, consideration will be given to appropriate diagnosis, planning, techniques and instrumentation.

Learning Content: This lecture is designed to create an understanding of the limits and benefits of anterior composite restorations.