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Complete dentures that fit, speak and stay put — analogue protocols, digital dentures and three bonus restorative mini-courses
UK prosthodontist Andrew Shelley and Charles Goodacre, past president of the American Board of Prosthodontics, lead the core of Removable Prosthodontics Essentials: Complete Dentures in the Digital Era: ten lectures that follow a complete denture from primary impression to fit appointment, then into CAD/CAM fabrication. Three short bonus courses on partial denture design, crown seating problems and direct resin restorations bring the total to 36 lessons and almost ten hours.
- 36lessons
- 9 h 53 minof video
- 4course blocks
- 6instructors
What you’ll be able to do
- Take compound and special-tray impressions for both arches, including the admixed and functional lower techniques
- Record lip support, vertical dimension and occlusal plane with an Alma gauge and a sound bite registration
- Run a productive try-in and adjust tooth position chairside or via a lab reset
- Find and relieve sore spots and deal with loose or uncomfortable dentures
- Understand how digital complete dentures can cut treatment to two visits
- Design removable partial dentures and handle common crown seating problems
Inside the course
The five clinical stages, filmed
Upper and lower impressions, bite registration with post dam cutting and tooth selection, the try-in and the fit appointment are each given their own lesson, with notes on what to mark and communicate to the lab.
Tips, troubleshooting and the digital route
Seven key steps including Gerber Condylator centric recording, a patient checklist, management of denture complaints and costing tiers, and two lectures on computer-engineered dentures with milled teeth and immediate-load fixed complete dentures.
Bonus: three focused mini-courses
Partial dentures from Kennedy classification and surveying to connectors and indirect retention; nine crown seating fixes from tight contacts to wrong shade; and posterior and diastema composite techniques including particle abrasion and white-line prevention.
Built for
- General dentistsA dependable, stage-by-stage denture routine for an ageing patient base.
- Recent graduatesClear coverage of the steps dental school often rushes.
- Clinicians moving to digital denturesAn overview of how scanned records and milling change the workflow.
Curriculum
Complete dentures 10 lessons
- Primary and secondary impressions for an upper complete denture
- Primary and secondary impressions for a lower complete denture
- The bite registration stage
- The try-in stage
- The fit stage (Andrew Shelley)
- 7 top tips in removable prosthodontics
- Computer-aided engineering of complete dentures and implant prostheses – Part 1
- Computer-aided engineering of complete dentures and implant prostheses – Part 2
- Relevance of complete denture knowledge in today’s world of implantology
- It’s loose, it hurts, my bite feels wrong: the denture problem
Bonus: Removable partial dentures (53 min) 7 lessons
- Components and concepts
- Kennedy classification and Applegate’s rules
- Surveying
- Retentive clasps
- Major connectors, minor connectors, and finish lines
- Fulcrum lines, stress release, and indirect retention
- Fabrication methods and materials
Bonus: Crown seating (25 min) 9 lessons
- When interproximal contacts are too tight during crown seating
- How to avoid pinching the gingiva during crown seating
- When a crown doesn’t seat
- When interproximal contacts are too loose during crown seating
- Adjusting a crown in high occlusion during crown seating
- Adjusting deficient occlusal contacts during crown seating
- Discovering a crown’s shade is wrong during crown seating
- Encountering gingival recession during crown seating
- Benefits of using a digital workflow for crown seating
Bonus: Direct resin restorations (1 h 50 min) 10 lessons
- Direct resin restorations in the posterior dentition, class I
- Using particle abrasion to improve bond strength
- Reasons for white line failures
- Adjustment-free restorations
- Getting a solid contact point
- Closing the box
- Direct resin restoration of a midline diastema, restoring (1)
- Direct resin restoration of a midline diastema, restoring (2)
- Direct resin restoration of a midline diastema, contouring
- Direct resin restoration of a midline diastema, restoring (3)
Before you buy
How much of the course is about complete dentures?
The first ten lessons; the remaining 26 are three short bonus courses on partial dentures, crown seating and composite work, running about three hours together.
Are individual lesson lengths listed?
Only for the bonus blocks. The complete denture lectures are not individually timed.
Is a specific digital denture system featured?
Yes, the digital lectures use the AvaDent system as their main example.
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 with bonus mini-courses |
|---|---|
| Instructors | Shelley, Goodacre, Smithson, Mitrani, Sutton, Mahrous |
| Contents | 4 blocks · 36 lessons |
| Duration | 9 h 53 min |
| Access | Lifetime, self-paced |
| Department | Dentistry |
| Delivery | Instant download · lifetime re-download |
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