You can have a precise marginal fit, perfect occlusion and a reliable, biocompatible material that wears better than natural enamel, but if the shade is off, even just a little, the patient will notice, and a remake will be in the works. Although most of us have a strong understanding of VITA 3D-Master Shades—including value, chroma, hue and the advantages they provide clinically and in differentiating laboratories—the challenge is getting dentists and their teams to use this superior, evidence-based approach to taking shades. Join Dr. Mark Murphy to learn how to create a lunch-and-learn for dentists and their teams that helps them understand and use the 3D-Master shade language so their shades become more predictable and their color language more scientific. Attendees receive a DVD of the lecture.

See iC for yourself! In this hands-on workshop, see how the Ceramco iC Integrated Ceramics system enables you to create PFM, press-to-metal and all-ceramic restorations of exquisite beauty from one porcelain and one ingot. Ceramco iC streamlines production, reduces duplicate inventories and increases throughput an average of 25% (calculation based on manufacturer’s directions for use firing and processing times).

Through lecture and demonstration, Matt Tait shows how to use the SensAble Dental Lab System to digitally design flexible and metal partials, as well as full-contour crowns and bridges. See the latest design enhancements and workflows to increase your productivity and address a broader range of restorations including metal occlusion, metal dummies and open facings. Learn how built-in automated features, best practices, presets and libraries save time and deliver consistent results. Tait also covers selected combination cases using the C&B feature set in conjunction with partial framework design. This course is appropriate for technicians of all levels, with or without experience in digital design.

Mary Valentine, CDT, demonstrates tips and techniques to finishing IPS e.max CAD. The course covers basic staining and glazing, layering and cutback techniques, and crystallization.

Tom Bormes covers how to properly assess and assist in treatment planning and case design. He reviews milled bars and hybrid fixed removables; when and how to segment fixed bridges; and when an overdenture should be retained by a bar, stud attachment or magnet. He also covers how to design combination cases.

3Shape Scan & Design Training: Daniela Behringer, CDT, covers the 3Shape scan/design system, including the new impression scanning module, latest software upgrade, case creation, scanning, and single-unit and bridge designs.

Dependability & Aesthetics—Success with Porcelain Fused to Titanium: Daniela Behringer, CDT, provides instruction and hands-on training on the Triceram porcelain system and shows how to create lifelike restorations using the benefits of a titanium substructure coupled with the esthetics of this porcelain.

ORIGIN CAD/CAM System Demonstration—Efficient Production, Diverse Material Selection, Precise Milling: See how ORIGIN solutions—including zirconia, wax, cobalt-chromium (NP), full-contour ceramics, castable PMMA, Vita CAD Temp and NobleTitan Titanium—can be milled efficiently and accurately from one milling system. Become part of the ORIGIN digital solution with features including 4- and 5-axis ORIGIN mill options, 3Shape scan/design and DuoTron fast zirconia sintering.

Roger Dawson, CDT, covers 3M’s newest digital restoration, the Lava DVS (Digital Veneering System). Learn how full-contour design software and the Lava Scan ST design system enable splitting design files to mill a zirconia coping and an enamel feldspathic porcelain full-contour veneer, and find out how the Lava DVS system can increase productivity while delivering an esthetic restoration.

Roger Johansen, CDT, offers new and innovative ways to optimize your lab’s business and production processes to maximize your productivity and growth.

Denture Set-Up Techniques: Find out what’s new in the hot topics of removable and implant-supported overdentures. Jim Collis, CDT, addresses a variety of occlusal schemes and tooth mold selection appropriate for each. He offers an advanced-level demonstration of model analysis, and discusses tooth setup techniques for both VITA Physiodens and the new “EasyCentric” Multi Functional tooth lines, as well as cutting-edge techniques for festooning and naturalizing denture bases using modern light-cure composite materials.

An Esthetic Approach to Layering Zirconia Oxide Substructures: Rich Pavlak, CDT, demonstrates how to create restorations that combine the strength of zirconia with the esthetic properties and accurate shade matching of VITAVM^®9 porcelain. He discusses the use of effect powders, layering for natural appearance, translucency, surface texturing and contouring.

Excellent Esthetics with Porcelain Veneers Using a Foil Technique: Fausto Catena, CDT, demonstrates a simplified and effective method of fabricating laminate veneers using a modern foil technique. Explore the natural-looking beauty of VITAVM^®13 porcelain combined with a cost-effective method of creating laminate veneers that reflect high-end value and enable the ceramist to achieve consistent shade matches with internal characterization, shaping and texturing.

Excellent Esthetics with Porcelain Veneers: VITAVM9 and VITAVM13: In this Spanish-language program, Felix Pages, CDT, demonstrates a simple and effective method of fabricating laminate veneers using a modern foil technique. Explore the natural-looking beauty of porcelain combined with a cost-effective method of creating laminate veneers that reflect a high-end value and enable the ceramist to achieve consistent shade matches with internal characterization, shaping and texturing.

High Strength and Extraordinary Beauty with CAD/CAM: The Sirona inLab and VITA Substructures Made Easy: Join Jim McGuire, CDT, to learn how to create fast and economical CAD/CAM frameworks and restorations using the Sirona MC XL milling system to mill a variety of materials, including CAD-Waxx, a wax substitute; Vita YZ, a zirconia oxide material that provides both strength and translucency; and VITABLOCKS Mark II and TriLuxe forte, feldspar ceramics for veneers, inlays, onlays and full-contour restorations that can be marketed as a premium same-day service product.

VMK Porcelain's 3rd Generation—Master the Art: Bill Mrazek, CDT, demonstrates the buildup process on restorations using VITA's new third-generation VMK porcelain, which features super-fine particle size, comfortable handling and natural esthetics. Modifiers of VMK porcelains are reintroduced to modify the general shade and create natural anomalies that appear in dentition. Mrazek also discusses the place of VITA VMK porcelains in today's ceramics.

Join Nobel Biocare to see the next generation of scanner technology—the NobelProcera optical scanner—and powerful CAD software and other new products, including custom-milled titanium implant overdenture bars, custom abutments for popular competitive platforms and more. Kim Solomon, NobelProcera specialist, offers hands-on experience with the advanced NobelGuide (prosthetic-driven implant case planning) and intuitive NobelProcera software at product stations.

The instructor is Terry McQuiston, CDT.

Tom Nieting introduces the world’s largest digital dental network, which eliminates physical impressions and enables you to communicate directly and efficiently with your professional partners! CEREC Connect is a communication platform that allows direct digital communication between dentists and laboratories via a Web-based portal, providing dental professionals access to a full database of inLab laboratories.

Bob Posey, CDT, covers GC's new One Powder Build Ceramic and its One Firing Pressable System. He demonstrates the possibilities of using a new family of production ceramics, Initial IQ. Learn how these materials can cut up to 50% of your lab's production time in just one firing. This clinic includes both a lecture and a hands-on segment.

Mary Valentine, CDT, demonstrates tips and techniques to finishing IPS e.max CAD. The course covers basic staining and glazing, layering and cutback techniques, and crystallization.

See iC for yourself! In this hands-on workshop, see how the Ceramco iC Integrated Ceramics system enables you to create PFM, press-to-metal and all-ceramic restorations of exquisite beauty from one porcelain and one ingot. Ceramco iC streamlines production, reduces duplicate inventories and increases throughput an average of 25% (calculation based on manufacturer’s directions for use firing and processing times).

Patient-specific abutments, available for all major implant systems, take a leadership role in digital implant dentistry. In his lecture and table clinic, Lars Hansson, CDT, FICOI, demonstrates lab-based scanning, proprietary Atlantis VAD™ (Virtual Abutment Design) software, Atlantis™ WebOrder and the unique Atlantis 3D viewer for case review and approval, and provides an overview of the features and benefits.

Norbert Duepner, CDT, discusses Argen's new economical alloys and the benefits of using them as well as new assay and refining technology.

Zirconium dioxide has proven to be a very reliable and trendy material for all types of restorations. Alessandro Cucchiaro, MDT, covers the ABCs of zirconia, including where it comes from and how it's obtained, and introduces the MAD/MAM milling system, briefly showing the original system developed in Europe in 2003. This easy-to-use and highly affordable method of producing zirconia copings can be used for single units to full bridges, as well as screw-retained bridges.

Join Ann Schmitt, CDT, for an interactive discussion covering partial framework design. Learn ways to troubleshoot issues that happen daily in the partial department, and participate in open discussion concerning the future of partial denture technology and how it fits into your laboratory.

Kris Schermerhorn, CDT, describes the many options now available to replace metal and acrylic with state-of-the-art thermoplastics, whether making clasps, removable partial dentures, provisionals or anti-snoring appliances. He provides step-by-step processing instructions and reviews cases.

Join Nobel Biocare to see the next generation of scanner technology—the NobelProcera optical scanner—and powerful CAD software and other new products, including custom-milled titanium implant overdenture bars, custom abutments for popular competitive platforms and more. Kim Solomon, NobelProcera specialist, offers hands-on experience with the advanced NobelGuide (prosthetic-driven implant case planning) and intuitive NobelProcera software at product stations.

The instructor is Gene Rosa, MDT

Tom Bormes presents a brief history and explanation of the science of reinforcement and strengthening of polymers, offering the rationale of why some designs work and others don't as well as a hands-on demonstration of Perma Fiber and Perma Mesh. All attendees have the opportunity to grind and polish the materials.

Meet the NBC requirement for documented scientific credit in regulatory standards as you review safety and asepsis procedures.

Join Nobel Biocare to see the next generation of scanner technology—the NobelProcera optical scanner—and powerful CAD software and other new products, including custom-milled titanium implant overdenture bars, custom abutments for popular competitive platforms and more. Kim Solomon, NobelProcera specialist, offers hands-on experience with the advanced NobelGuide (prosthetic-driven implant case planning) and intuitive NobelProcera software at product stations.

For Sirona inLab users only: During this interactive Q&A session with Barry Diener, users learn about the latest features and additions to Sirona inLab, including the new inEos Blue Dental Digitizer featuring Bluecam technology, and find out everything you always wanted to know but didn’t have the opportunity to ask.

You can have a precise marginal fit, perfect occlusion and a reliable, biocompatible material that wears better than natural enamel, but if the shade is off, even just a little, the patient will notice, and a remake will be in the works. Although most of us have a strong understanding of VITA 3D-Master Shades—including value, chroma, hue and the advantages they provide clinically and in differentiating laboratories—the challenge is getting dentists and their teams to use this superior, evidence-based approach to taking shades. Join Dr. Mark Murphy to learn how to create a lunch-and-learn for dentists and their teams that helps them understand and use the 3D-Master shade language so their shades become more predictable and their color language more scientific. Attendees receive a DVD of the lecture.

The instructor is Peter Pizzi, CDT, MDT.

William Devine, CDT, covers the fundamentals of gypsum science and gypsum manufacture and product applications, as well as new equipment for the model department. Changing chemistry in the laboratory causes variances in the working nature of these materials which, in turn, cause problems in finished restorations and appliances. Knowing the fundamentals allows you to make correct decisions when choosing and using foundation materials. This course is a must for new technicians and a great review for seasoned technicians and managers.

As labs look to expand their services and develop profitable removables departments, many are choosing Valplast Flexible Partials. Peter Nagy offers new and existing Valplast labs an overview of flexible partial history, theory, function and design, and fabrication techniques.

The Biodenta Company offers your laboratory the newest Swiss Technology with little or no investment and the ability to compete in the CAD/CAM market. Amir Juzbasic, MDT, CEO, shows how you can easily design your own abutments, crowns and bridges, and make additional income. Learn a new and better way to develop your business with superior outsourcing capabilities and expand your business as never before. See the new age ceramic technology that reduces labor costs while increasing your ability to retain more profits with the new 2in1 ceramic.

Luke Kahng, CDT, discusses how to improve communication between clinicians and technicians regarding color, modifications and characteristics, as well as how to become a high-end technician. Through a step-by-step breakdown of the production process, Kahng demonstrates how to systematically achieve that “AHA” effect in restorations using the GC One-Body™ technique with Lustre paste. This clinic includes both a lecture and a hands-on segment.

A predictable outcome in esthetic restorative dentistry is dependent on the laboratory-dentist relationship, comprehensive assessment and planning with the entire dental team, the quality of the implant site and tissue response, and the selection of appropriate implants and components. Dr. Frank Higginbottom, DDS, reviews recent advances in digital technology and the future, the importance of the partnership between the dentist and lab, the differences between various metals used for copings and abutments, and how each may be beneficial depending on the particular case.

Victor Rodriguez, CDT, introduces new materials for use with implant-supported dentures. He covers the science behind NanoFilledComposite material, why it’s ideal for use with implant-retained prosthetics as well as case presentations showing the latest techniques in implant-supported prosthetics.

Martin Schmid, CDT, offers a scientific approach to successful and predictable results with C&B investments. He covers controllable expansion rates, precise and consistent fits, mixing times, and helpful hints to increase productivity and minimize finishing time. Learn how to avoid porosities and short castings, and review the area of rapid-firing investments. Special attention is given to spruing: direct vs. indirect techniques, the proper use of a runner bar (reservoir) and how to position copings on them.

Roger Johansen, CDT, offers new and innovative ways to optimize your lab’s business and production processes to maximize your productivity and growth.

Roger Dawson, CDT, covers 3M’s newest digital restoration, the Lava DVS (Digital Veneering System). Learn how full-contour design software and the Lava Scan ST design system enable splitting design files to mill a zirconia coping and an enamel feldspathic porcelain full-contour veneer, and find out how the Lava DVS system can increase productivity while delivering an esthetic restoration.

Mary Valentine, CDT, demonstrates tips and techniques to finishing IPS e.max CAD. The course covers basic staining and glazing, layering and cutback techniques, and crystallization.

Join Nobel Biocare to see the next generation of scanner technology—the NobelProcera optical scanner—and powerful CAD software and other new products, including custom-milled titanium implant overdenture bars, custom abutments for popular competitive platforms and more. Kim Solomon, NobelProcera specialist, offers hands-on experience with the advanced NobelGuide (prosthetic-driven implant case planning) and intuitive NobelProcera software at product stations.

Bruce Wonderland introduces the latest developments in doctor/laboratory communication. With CEREC Connect, the technician is able to design the restoration on the basis of a virtual model, without the need for a physical model. New developments also now offer the laboratory a conventional production method from which to work. Learn about CEREC Connect, Sirona’s new central model fabrication center and how to gain access to a full database of CEREC dentists from an expert in CAD/CAM laboratory applications.

Frank Munzenmayer, CDT, and Ted Smudde, managing director of Candulor USA, offer an efficient way of producing a characterized denture with the Candulor Color Set. Learn how to cut processing time in half using the PolyMaster Auto-cure processing flask and increase profits.

Zirconia and lithium disilicate are among the latest innovative ceramic materials used for esthetic restorations. There are many advantages to using zirconia as evidenced by the recent Noritake CZR Study. This lecture provides key insights and facts that support the use of zirconia in your daily casework. Kimiyo Sawyer discusses the features and benefits of zirconia based on material science and the fairly new lithium disilicate. Adam Mieleszko presents clinical applications resulting in a superior esthetic zone.