Course Objectives (4 Credits)

No-prep versus minimal-prep versus prepped veneers: a tougher ceramic and the ability to press it very thin – just 0.3 mm in thickness where a veneer needs to be thin – provide you and your patients with more esthetic options. Exciting results are possible, sometimes without shots, drilling, cord packing, and temporaries. This presentation covers the use of very thin, laboratory-fabricated veneers. Participants that complete the presentation will acquire useful information in many areas, including the following:

• Veneers: what has and has not changed
• Use of a study model
• Discussion of the clinical significance of gingival emergence profile
• Shade-adjustability using medium-value translucent cement, or low value, or high value
• Incisal translucency: what to expect and what can be achieved
• Tooth preparation, impressions, shade-taking, try-ins, seating and cementation, clean-up and polishing
• See many before-situations and the results that can be achieved after little or no tooth-preparation
• Practice tips and demonstrations of recommended instruments and materials are provided

Summary

Prep versus no-prep veneers: what does your patient want? Will the answer surprise you? From packing cord, laser contouring and minor orthodontics to minimal prepping and even no prepping at all, grab insights from these seven cases that will change the way you practice dentistry. Technology exists that will enable you to address many commonly encountered esthetic challenges and achieve patient-pleasing results, sometimes without shots or drilling.

Challenge your perceptions about what is possible, throw out your dentin bonding agent, and gain confidence in your ability to deliver what many patients want, with minimal and no-prep porcelain veneers. These tough and yet very thin and translucent press-ceramic veneers are shade-adjustable using a low value cement for a "not so Hollywood look", or a translucent medium value cement for the "most natural" look, or a high value cement for a "more white" look. Many practice tips and techniques and recommendations about materials are provided.

CAUTION: When viewing the techniques, procedures, theories and materials that are presented, you must make your own decisions about specific treatment for patients and exercise personal professional judgment regarding the need for further clinical testing or education and your own clinical expertise before trying to implement new procedures.