April 2025 CE Event: “Elevate Your Everyday Anterior Composites, A Practical Predictable Approach"

Presentation by Dr. Marcos Vargas, University of Iowa professor, private practice in Restorative Dentistry

 

Location: DCDS Headquarters, 2001 K Street NW, 3rd Floor North, Washington, DC 20006

Meeting Attendance Note: Live streaming of this presentation is not available for those who want to access the presentation virtually. The recording of the presentation will be made available to all registrants within 48 hours of the presentation.

Contact: Cheryl Michi
Email: info@dcdental.org
Phone: (202) 367-1163

Registration closes the Monday before the event at 5pm.

Meeting Description:

Patient demands for esthetic and conservative dentistry has emphasized the need to produce long-live and life-like anterior restorations.  Resin composite materials with expanded shades, various opacities and improved handling have the potential to produce functional, long lasting, personally rewarding, cost effective, predictable and highly esthetic direct anterior restorations in daily practice.  Knowledge and understanding of the optical properties of tooth structure, the restorative material and the techniques will result into successfully achieving imperceptible direct anterior esthetic restorations.  This presentation, through clinical cases, will focus on teaching modern resin composite materials and techniques to achieve success in daily practice. Very practical tips and tricks will be offered throughout.  It will teach the practitioner when to select a single shade or multilayer technique for esthetics.  Shade selection and cavity preparation to achieve exceptional blending as well as the technical aspects of building direct resin composite restorations through the use of a step-by-step approach will be presented.  Additionally, adequate contouring, surface characterization and polishing to imitate natural dentition will be described.

Session 1 Description:

Resin composite come on a variety of shades representing the Vitapan shade guide, this is a misconception.  This portion will help the practitioner to correctly and rapidly select shades for resin composites.  Additionally, cavity preparation will help practitioners to blend their composite restorations.

Learning objectives Session 1:

• Select a shade under 10 sec.
• Produce cavity preparations for esthetics.
• Arrange your Vitapan shade guide for easy shade selection.

Session 2 Description:

Proper placement of resin composite is important to obtain the best possible outcome by minimizing voids and seam lines with composite resin restorations.  When pursuing esthetics composite restorations contouring and polishing is so important for proper blending.

Learning Objectives Session 2:

• Efficiently place resin composite restoration techniques overview.
• Properly contour and polish anterior composite
• Name the placing techniques for composite resins.

Conflict of Interest: Speaker reports no conflict of interest

Continuing Education Disclaimer: The District of Columbia Dental Society is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. It is the responsibility of each participant to verify the CE requirements of his or her licensing or regulatory agency and to contact them with any questions regarding licensing. The DC Dental Society designates this presentation for 2.0 CE.