Struggling to make dentures Help is at Hand

Agenda

09:15 Registration

09.30 Speaker Matt Haines

Understanding what a private denture is

• Difference between NHS denture and Private

• Different private denture

Materials (Oral Ceramics)

• Chrome /Flexi /Acrylic

Talking money

• Price options/ Lab costs / Profit margins ie hourly rate

• Denture design

11.30 Break

12.00 Speaker Matt Haines

Consultation

• Understanding the patients desired outcome. I.e. cosmetic and function

• Materials selection

Primary impressions

• Alginate syringe /video /demo

Copy box technique

• Explaining the use of a copy technique /demo

13.00 Lunch

2.00 Speaker Matt Haines

Special tray

• Border moulding /Functional impression technique alginate and silicon

• video

Bite

• Vertical dimensions /Centre line /Incisal tip /Agar tragus occlusal line

• Alma gauge /Manchester bite rims /

• How to record F/F - demo /Video and demo

Lab communication ( Oral Ceramics)

• How to convey information to the lab /Lab docket /photos

Assessing try in

• lip support /incisal tip /occlusion

How to fit and adjust dentures

• Burs to use /Dos and don’ts /Trouble shooting /Printed guide and electronically

4.30 Expected Course end

All subjects will be delivered by Evidence-Based practice

Program Educational Aims and Objectives

The aims of the course are to review:

• The types of dentures available for treatment planning

• Costs to dentists and patients

• Denture design

• The stages of denture construction

Learning Outcomes

• Participants will understand the importance of denture design and treatment planning

• Participants will understand how the costs involved in making different types of dentures.

• They will understand the different stages involved in making a denture and review different techniques

Development Outcomes

This CPD course meets the criteria for the GDC’s development outcome C

SPEAKER

Matt Haines Dip CDT RCS (Eng)