Hands on Anterior Composites with Jason Smithson

CPD: 6 hours verifiable

Anterior Composites

Direct resins in the anterior dentition can produce functional, highly aesthetic, long lasting restorations, which are conservative of tooth structure.

However, with the rise of aesthetic dentistry in the media, the public as consumers are becoming increasingly discerning: they demand and expect the best.

Dr Smithson aims to unravel and de-mystify concepts such as shade selection and micro and macro-anatomy and pull them together with a simple step by step protocol which includes treatment planning, fee setting, diagnostics, preparation, composite placement and finishing, allowing the average practitioner to achieve outstanding results on a consistent basis...time and time again.

What You Will Learn

  • Case assessment, time allocation and setting fees. Reduce your stress and get paid for your skill and knowledge.
  • Shade Selection: De-mystify the science and use it as a practical day-to-day tool.
  • A simple, rapid, yet novel concept to make incisal edge shade and anatomy obvious and effortless.
  • How to harness anatomy to create optical illusions, which result in restorations, which are invisible to the human eye.
  • Preparation design and instrumentation.
  • How to produce a rapid, inexpensive indirect mock up and silicone index to precisely determine lingual contours and incisal edge position.
  • How to handle class 4s, direct resin veneers, discoloured teeth and diastema closure: all illustrated with step-by-step clinical cases in a “cookbook” approach.
  • How to layer resin to achieve lifelike incisal halos and effects such as crack lines and opacities.
  • A simple, effective finishing protocol to allow composite resin to mimic natural enamel.

The practical class is a natural partner to the presentation: all aspects of the presentation will be covered on typodont models in a user-friendly manner, which is applicable to the General Practitioner and Specialist alike. Dr Smithson throughout will carry out each exercise in a stage-by-stage “Follow my Leader” fashion with close support.

The approach is casual and delegates are encouraged to ask questions as they work.

Learning Objectives:

  • The Class 4 Restoration
  • Direct Resin Veneer
Jason Smithson

Lecturers

Jason qualified at the Royal London Hospital in 1995; achieving a number of awards including The Constance Klein Memorial, The Stafford Millar, and The Malcolm Jenkins Scholarships, The American Association of Endodontics Prize and the Overall Award for Clinical Dentistry. His specific interest is direct composite resin artistry and minimally invasive all ceramic restorations and has presented to dentists internationally in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and throughout Europe.

He is involved in postgraduate dental teaching in both the Cornwall & Plymouth Foundation Dental Practitioners Schemes and is a Clinical Lecturer at The Peninsula Dental School, UK and Honorary Clinical Tutor in Restorative Dentistry at Warwick University: one of only two exclusively Post-Graduate Dental Schools in the UK. Jason is a Diplomat of The Royal College of Surgeons (England).

He has published widely in International Journals, and is only the second UK dentist ever to have an article accepted by the AACD journal: The Journal of Cosmetic Dentistry.

Jason is an Opinion Leader for a number of Dental Companies and is the only European dentists on the Teaching Faculty of the internationally acclaimed Center for Esthetic Excellence, Chicago, USA. He is the only UK Dentist on the European Restorative Advisory Panel, GCEurope, Belgium.

In 2009, he was awarded the Pankey Scholarship and in 2011 was voted in the "Top 20 Most Influential Dentists" by Dentistry Magazine.

Jason maintains a private dental office in Cornwall, England.