DentistryOnline courseRestoration
Direct composite veneers six ways: free-hand, matrix, flow injection, Bioclear and mono- or polychromatic layering
Rather than championing one method, Composite Veneers: all restorative techniques lets six clinicians each teach their preferred route to a direct composite veneer. Bora Korkut, David Geštakovski, Pantelis Kouros, Arthur R. Volker, Stefano Gelli and Gustavo Pasarelli Petris cover shade science, single-veneer colour matching, injection moulding, layering, matrix systems and finishing across 7 lessons and 9 h 48 min.
- 7lessons
- 9 h 48 minof video
- 6instructors
- 6techniques compared
What you’ll be able to do
- Read the four dimensions of colour and choose between universal-shade and layered composites
- Match a single central incisor veneer in shape, texture and translucency
- Make a transparent silicone index and inject flowable composite over a wax-up
- Layer mono- and polychromatic restorations free-hand, with matrix bands or a palatal key
- Pick the right sectional or full-contour matrix, including Bioclear, for veneers and diastemas
- Finish and texture composite to reproduce primary, secondary and tertiary anatomy
Inside the course
Colour and the single veneer
The course opens with shade-matching variables — observer, guides, light and material — and compares visual, digital and colorimetric methods. A two-hour lesson then goes from smile design and mock-up to incisor anatomy, class IV repairs and a polishing sequence.
Injection and layering
Geštakovski’s flow injection lesson includes case selection, photo and impression protocols, index fabrication on video, and how he prices and schedules the treatment. Korkut’s layering lesson adds pre-restorative aligner therapy, ICON infiltration, rubber-dam isolation and cross-polarised shade analysis.
Free-hand and matrix strategies
A free-hand protocol with notes on longevity, discolouration and debonding precedes two matrix lectures: heated composite injection, metal versus plastic bands, tints and opaquers, and Volker’s Bioclear workflow for overmoulding, black triangles and diastema closure.
Built for
- Dentists starting composite veneersSee several techniques before committing to one.
- Clinicians already doing direct veneersBorrow matrix and injection shortcuts from other schools.
Curriculum
1. Color in aesthetics: the science and beauty behind direct composite veneer restorations (51 min) 15 topics
- The subjectivity factors of visual shade matching:
- observer
- shade guides
- incident light
- composites.
- The 4 color dimensions:
- Color reading and matching best options of available composites
- Methods of shade-matching.
- Cross-evaluation of colorimetry tools
- Visual comparison to shade-tabs: methods for shade-matching, highlighting pros and cons using explanatory examples
- The importance of each color quality in human perception
- Universal shade approach vs. Layering technique
- Shade-related cases: indications and contra-indications
- Shade approaching of major composite manufacturers: mixing and combining materials for optimum results
- Evaluation of visual and digital shade selection. Analyzing step-by-step digital methods and evaluating the feasibility and results for each one.
2. Single composite veneer: corrections of shape and color (2 h 05 min) 18 topics
- Smile design: the full protocol
- Documentation, wax-up, mock-up
- Pink White Balance: shape guidelines of the future restoration
- The anatomy of cental incisors:
- buccal incisal edge
- proximal edge
- reflection area
- shadow area
- secondary and tertiary anatomy.
- The shape of composite veneers
- Shape correction and texture
- Light and dental tissue interaction: understanding light, color, op and translucency
- Composite materials accroding to their translucency and mechanical properties
- Direct class IV restorations and direct repair of restorations
- Repair bonded fragments: corrections on old restorations – adjusting shape and polishing steps
- Sequence of finishing and polishing: the right materials and instruments selection
- Layering
- Clinical cases.
3. The flow injection technique (55 min) 15 topics
- Intorduction and scientific background
- Flowable composite materials: mechanical and physical properties
- Case selection: purely additive and/or minimally invasive
- Planning of treatment in analog and digital:
- photo protocols
- impressions: silicon or alginate
- wax-up: the aesthetic and functional aspects
- mock-up: the aesthetic and functional aspects.
- Transparent silicon index production:
- materials used for manufacturing
- step-by-step video demonstration.
- Advantages of The flow injection technique
- Pricing and number of appointments according to Dr. David Geštakovski workflow
- Most common mistakes
- Tips and tricks.
4. Monochromatic and polychromatic layering techniques. From material selection to finishing and polishing (1 h 22 min) 23 topics
- Functional and aesthetic direct composite restorations:
- Occlusion
- Pre-restorative treatment – Clear Aligner Therapy (CAT).
- Indication, treatment planning, resin composite selection, and instrument selection:
- Indications and contra-indications for direct composite restorations
- Intraoral analysis and treatment planning (golden ratio for esthetic restorations)
- Pre-restorative resin infiltration (ICON) option
- Selection of resin-based composite material (poly-shade composites, simply-shade composites, single-shade universal composites, and flowable composites)
- Selection of instruments for isolation and composite layering (rubber-dam instruments, specific anterior restoration spatulas, and composite brushes).
- Shade Analysis – Rubber-dam Isolation – Preparation – Adhesion:
- Clinical shade selection techniques for resin-based composite materials (visual, dental photography, cross-polarization photography, quantitative image processing)
- Clinical rubber-dam isolation protocols for anterior restorations
- Minimally invasive preparation (bur types and selection) for crown fractures and full veneers.
- Monochromatic and Polychromatic Layering Techniques:
- Free-hand layering
- Layering with special matrix bands
- Layering with palatal templates (silicone index).
- Finishing & Surface Texturing & Polishing:
- Material selection
- Primary, secondary, and tertiary morphologies
- Additive and subtractive finishing techniques
- Surface texturing
- Clinical application protocols.
5. Free-hand technique (1 h 29 min) 13 topics
- Composites: chemical, mechanical, and physical properties
- Clinical indications for composite veneers
- Guide to the selection of the correct composite for the clinical case:
- Optical characteristics
- Polishability
- Mimethism.
- Anatomy of the upper incisors
- The longevity of composite veneers:
- Marginal features
- Discoloration
- Debonding.
- Full protocol for direct composite veneering
- Clinical cases.
6. Matrixing strategies: simplifying composite veneer restorations (1 h 32 min) 18 topics
- Classification of composite materials according to physical, chemical, mechanical, and optical properties
- The injection molding method of composite restoration:
- advantages of heated composite
- heated flowable composite
- heated paste composite
- heated composite used for monochromatic layering.
- Sectional metal matrices: advantages, indications, disadvantages
- Sectional plastic matrices: advantages, indications, disadvantages
- Full contour metal matrices: indications, advantages, and application technique
- Tofflemier modified full contour metal matrix
- Full contour plastic matrices: indications, advantages, and application technique
- The flat Mylar full contour plastic matrix
- 1 matrix, 2 ways: clinical tips and tricks by Dr. Volker
- Polychromatic and monochromatic layering strategies
- Tints / opaquers: indications and application protocols
- The effect of the matrix system on the gingiva
- The wide range of matrices available and suggestions for practitioners
- Clinical cases.
7. Modern anterior composite veneer techniques (Arthur R. Volker) 13 topics
- Principles of smile design and analysis of proportions
- Integration of mathematical algorithms of dental aesthetics to smile design
- Composite options and determinants for matrix selection
- What is Bioclear matrix?
- The protocol of injection molding using Bioclear matrices
- Overmolding of veneers using Bioclear matrices
- Black triangles resolution and diastema closure
- Bioclear method for composite restorations:
- biofilm removal
- isolation and preparation
- layering techniques
- finishing and polishing.
- Clinical cases.
Before you buy
How long is Volker’s Bioclear lesson?
No running time is given for lesson 7; the first six add up to about 8 h 15 min, leaving roughly an hour and a half for it.
Will six presenters mean overlap?
Some themes, such as smile design and finishing, recur, but each lesson centres on a different technique.
Do I get CME credit or a certificate?
No. Clinicapedia provides the educational content only — no CME or CE credits, MOC points or certificates of completion are included with this product.
Specifications
| Format | Online video course |
|---|---|
| Instructors | Kouros, Gelli, Pasarelli Petris, Korkut, Volker, Geštakovski |
| Contents | 7 lessons |
| Duration | 9 h 48 min |
| Access | Lifetime, self-paced |
| Department | Dentistry |
| Delivery | Instant download · lifetime re-download |
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