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Fri Feb 19, 2010
Christchurch, New Zealand
Objective:
The objective of the seminar is to gain a thorough understanding of the clinical application of Rotary Endodontic technology through scientific and practical perspectives of the Maillefer ProTaper System.
Learning Outcomes:
The seminar will provide the attendee with the knowledge for utilising the correct ProTaper Univeral File sequence and technique for cleaning and shaping of a root canal.
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Fri Feb 26, 2010
Auckland, New Zealand
Fri Mar 5, 2010 to Mon Mar 8, 2010
Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
Dear Colleagues
We are pleased to announce that the 20th RACDS Convocation will be held in Perth, Western Australia. The Convocation will be conducted at the Burswood Entertainment Complex, 11-14 March 2010, and this invitation is open to Fellows and Members of the College, as well as our other Dental colleagues in Western Australia.
This premium biennial College event embraces the theme “Interdisciplinary Dentistry for the New Decade: something for everyone”.
The Scientific Program includes highly regarded international key note speakers, ably supported by Australasian lecturers. The Young Lecturer’s Award session will augment the Scientific Program.
A comprehensive Trade Display will run concurrently with the Scientific Meeting.
The Opening Ceremony on the 11th March promises much interest. Apart from the formal induction of new Fellows and Members into the College, the opening address will be made by an eminent former military officer whose career was at NASA.
The social events will enable opportunities to renew old friendships and network with your colleagues in a convivial ambience that only March in Perth, Western Australia can offer. The Burswood Entertainment Complex is a venue providing complete conferencing and leisure experience, with both four and five star accommodation options on site, 24 hour casino, golf course, day spa, restaurants and bars, all conveniently located within parkland on the shore of Perth’s Swan River.
The Local Organising Committee look forward to welcoming you to Perth next March.
click for further details …Thu Mar 11, 2010 to Sun Mar 14, 2010
Burswood, WA, Australia
Objective:
The objective of the seminar is to gain a thorough understanding of the clinical application of Rotary Endodontic technology through scientific and practical perspectives of the Maillefer ProTaper Universal Filing System.
Learning Outcomes:
The seminar will provide the attendee with the knowledge to utilize the correct ProTaper Universal File sequence and technique for cleaning and shaping of a root canal.
Fri Mar 19, 2010
Ahuriri, Napier Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
ADVANCEMENTS IN AESTHETIC RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY
Vital Elements for Clinical Success
DAY 1 - CURRENT CONCEPTS
- Update on the latest bonding technology
- Understanding self-etching primers
- Why phosphoric etching of dentine is contra-indicated when using self-etching primers
- Long term stability of dentine bonding
- Choosing the best light source
- Bond tooth fragment without composite
- Highlights of posterior composite techniques
- Bite formed occlusion
- Eliminate recurrent caries
- Excellent contacts
- Convert a Class II into a Class I
- Why flowable composites are the best first increment
- Wedge may be contraindicated
- Controlled 9 year clinical trial: GIC liner vs. no GIC liner
- Composites
- Why high shrinkage does not matter!
- What determines composite wear rate
- Choosing the best materials
- Increasing retention of class V fillings
- Eliminate Post-Op Sensitivity
- Thermal sensitivity
- Bite pressure sensitivity
- Why Class I is the most difficult to solve
- New concepts in lab work
- Porcelain Repairs That Actually Work
- Porcelain chips and metal exposure
- Eliminate need for HF
- Repair fractured metal on bridge
- Make endo opening disappear
- Fully opaquing metal
- Adhesion Bridges
- Metal backed, successful designs
- Why electrolytic etching of metal is contraindicated
- Metal free, successful designs
- Speeding and slowing Panavia
- Impressions
- VPS impressions without string
- Don’t wash off blood, it’s displaced
- Developments and limitations in fast whitening
- Does the light really help?
- Low peroxide concentration may be more effective than high concentration
- How long it takes to permanently 'bleach' moderately tetracycline stained teeth
- Veneered teeth can be successfully whitened
DAY 2 - ADVANCED CONCEPTS
- Determining Final Occlusion
- Finding functional CO
- No commercially driven equipment needed
- Adhesion Replaces Retention Form
- Think onlay, not crown
- Think veneer, not crown
- Temporaries retained on flat preps
- Unicem: acceptable without adhesive?
- The Latest Bonding Technology
- Make any bond work compatibly with any composite
- Eliminate radiolucency in x-rays
- The new porcelains and pressed ceramics
- The best aesthetic choice for anterior crowns
- Single metal free crowns
- Metal free bridges
- Bonding to zirconia (Lava) and alumina (Procera)
- The porcelain brand on Lava is more important than the frame
- Why Empress 1 is usually a poor choice for veneers but a great choice for crowns
- Bonding reinforces all-ceramic crowns
- Optimising Cerec adhesion
- The Next Major Paradigm Shift In
- Why it’s better to leave caries
- Limitations of caries reversal with GIC
- MTA Pulp Cap Clinical Trials
- Would you believe 97.9% success at 9 years?
- Use Portland cement or genuine MTA?
- What’s New and Current with
- Esthetic porcelain veneers
- How to treat tetracycline cases with conservative veneers
- How about “no prep” veneers?
- What is the best prep?
- Avoid commercially driven preps to accommodate the wrong material
- Sectional veneers are often the answer (with 18 year recalls to prove it)
- What is the ideal impression technique?
- A revolutionary polymerizable Try-in system
- The dentist’s big fear, a single central incisor colour matched while staying in enamel
- The Optimal Choice of Materials to Simplify the Office
- Dump the fridge
- Restock with a simple selection
- The Terrific Twenty
- 20 pearls in about 20 minutes
Sat Mar 20, 2010 to Sun Mar 21, 2010
Melbourne, VICTORIA, Australia
ADVANCEMENTS IN AESTHETIC RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY
Vital Elements for Clinical Success
DAY 1 - CURRENT CONCEPTS
- Update on the latest bonding technology
- Understanding self-etching primers
- Why phosphoric etching of dentine is contra-indicated when using self-etching primers
- Long term stability of dentine bonding
- Choosing the best light source
- Bond tooth fragment without composite
- Highlights of posterior composite techniques
- Bite formed occlusion
- Eliminate recurrent caries
- Excellent contacts
- Convert a Class II into a Class I
- Why flowable composites are the best first increment
- Wedge may be contraindicated
- Controlled 9 year clinical trial: GIC liner vs. no GIC liner
- Composites
- Why high shrinkage does not matter!
- What determines composite wear rate
- Choosing the best materials
- Increasing retention of class V fillings
- Eliminate Post-Op Sensitivity
- Thermal sensitivity
- Bite pressure sensitivity
- Why Class I is the most difficult to solve
- New concepts in lab work
- Porcelain Repairs That Actually Work
- Porcelain chips and metal exposure
- Eliminate need for HF
- Repair fractured metal on bridge
- Make endo opening disappear
- Fully opaquing metal
- Adhesion Bridges
- Metal backed, successful designs
- Why electrolytic etching of metal is contraindicated
- Metal free, successful designs
- Speeding and slowing Panavia
- Impressions
- VPS impressions without string
- Don’t wash off blood, it’s displaced
- Developments and limitations in fast whitening
- Does the light really help?
- Low peroxide concentration may be more effective than high concentration
- How long it takes to permanently 'bleach' moderately tetracycline stained teeth
- Veneered teeth can be successfully whitened
DAY 2 - ADVANCED CONCEPTS
- Determining Final Occlusion
- Finding functional CO
- No commercially driven equipment needed
- Adhesion Replaces Retention Form
- Think onlay, not crown
- Think veneer, not crown
- Temporaries retained on flat preps
- Unicem: acceptable without adhesive?
- The Latest Bonding Technology
- Make any bond work compatibly with any composite
- Eliminate radiolucency in x-rays
- The new porcelains and pressed ceramics
- The best aesthetic choice for anterior crowns
- Single metal free crowns
- Metal free bridges
- Bonding to zirconia (Lava) and alumina (Procera)
- The porcelain brand on Lava is more important than the frame
- Why Empress 1 is usually a poor choice for veneers but a great choice for crowns
- Bonding reinforces all-ceramic crowns
- Optimising Cerec adhesion
- The Next Major Paradigm Shift In
- Why it’s better to leave caries
- Limitations of caries reversal with GIC
- MTA Pulp Cap Clinical Trials
- Would you believe 97.9% success at 9 years?
- Use Portland cement or genuine MTA?
- What’s New and Current with
- Esthetic porcelain veneers
- How to treat tetracycline cases with conservative veneers
- How about “no prep” veneers?
- What is the best prep?
- Avoid commercially driven preps to accommodate the wrong material
- Sectional veneers are often the answer (with 18 year recalls to prove it)
- What is the ideal impression technique?
- A revolutionary polymerizable Try-in system
- The dentist’s big fear, a single central incisor colour matched while staying in enamel
- The Optimal Choice of Materials to Simplify the Office
- Dump the fridge
- Restock with a simple selection
- The Terrific Twenty
- 20 pearls in about 20 minutes
Fri Mar 26, 2010 to Sat Mar 27, 2010
Sydney, NEW SOUTH WALES, Australia
Thu May 27, 2010 to Sun May 30, 2010
Auckland, New Zealand
Six expert presenters combine, over two days, to provide participants detailed clinical cases, treatment strategies and step by step techniques to improve patient management. This major two day event will be held at Stamford Plaza, Brisbane CBD, Queensland on Friday & Saturday the 27th & 28th August 2010. For further details & registration form, visit www.stdental.com.au or contact the organisers at dentistry@stdental.com.au. www.stdental.com.au or contact the organisers at dentistry@stdental.com.au.
Course Content
Day 1: Rotary Endo vs Implants & Special Evening Infection Control Supplement
- Dr Glen Weston, endodontist, will present ‘The Rotary Endo Revolution’ (1/2 Day) and will detail advances in rotary endodontic techniques and strategies for successful treatment outcomes.
- Dr Rod Marshall, periodontist, will present ’Creating a Farvourable Periodontal Environment’ (1.5 hours) and will discuss how to achieve periodontal stability and case selection parameters.
- Professor Saso Ivanovski, periodontist will present ‘Implant Placement Techniques to achieve successful long term outcomes’ (1.5 hours) and will provide an update of the latest advances in implant placement techniques.
- Professor Laurence Walsh will present ‘Update 2010 on Infection Control’ (2 Hours). This special evening session presentation offers a comprehensive overview for dental practitioners and is also applicable to other members of the dental team wishing to update their knowledge on new developments in Infection control and practice accreditation. Changes in Infection Control guidelines and standards and their implications for dental practice will be detailed.
Day 2: Crowning Implants & Advanced Composite Rehabilitation
- Dr David Roberts, prosthodontist, will discuss ‘Crowning Implants – From impression to cementation’ (1/2 Day). The presentation will include parameters involved in placing implant crowns, occlusal parameters to avoid failure, screw vs. cement retained systems and aspects to achieve optimum aesthetic outcomes in crown and bridgework.
- Prof Ian Meyers will present ‘Advanced Composite Rehabilitation’ (1/2 Day) and will focus on conservative rehabilitation and restoration, case selection and consider the latest materials – those that work and those that don’t. click for further details …
Fri Aug 27, 2010 to Sat Aug 28, 2010
Brisbane, QUEENSLAND, Australia
'The Worn Dentition' 2 day symposium highlights the latest views on prevention, management, conservative restoration and aesthetic rehabilitation of patients presenting with dental erosion, attrition & abrasion. Cases of moderate and severe toothwear are increasingly presenting in day to day dental practice. The three expert presenters, Professor Ian Meyers, Professor William George Young and Dr Farid Khan, showcase the latest approaches and views to provide a comprehensive understanding of the field.
For further details & registration form, visit www.stdental.com.au or contact the organisers at dentistry@stdental.com.au.
Day 1: The Path to Successful Restoration
• A step by step approach based on the Stages of Toothwear is developed to manage patients presenting with moderate to severe toothwear
• Diagnostic principles are reviewed
• Lifestyle, Diets & Medications of patients with toothwear are evaluated
• Case Selection and patient factors influencing restorative outcomes
• Oral Medicine considerations influencing restorative outcomes
• Participants are taken through Clinical Cases of toothwear, study models, clinical histories and photographs, some of which will be analysed in a workshop format
• Toothwear lesion site specificity
Day 2: Restoration of the Worn Dentition
• Restorative aspects involved in rebuilding cases of dental erosion
• Techniques to work around the limitations of dental materials
• Developing a favourable Oral Environment to best restore a worn dentition
• Challenges toothwear patients present will be identified and further explored
• Methods to improve the Aesthetic Results in cases of moderate and severe dental erosion
• Template techniques for composite rehabilitation on masse
• Direct conservative restorative rehabilitation
• Various pitfalls in restorative approaches will be identified
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Fri Oct 1, 2010 to Sat Oct 2, 2010
Surfers Paradise, QUEENSLAND, Australia
