1 YEAR CLINICAL MASTERS PROGRAM

MASTERING CONTEMPORARY PROSTHODONTICS

COURSE FEE: €8,950

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Starting from a single tooth restoration to a full mouth reconstruction, Prosthodontics remains the

basic foundation in clinical Dentistry involving basic steps like the diagnosis, treatment planning,

tooth preparation, impression, model articulation, laboratory procedures and final delivery.

Current evolvement in computer technology (DSD, intraoral scanners, CAD/CAM procedures) enables

a faster and sometimes easier workflow in some of these steps, but still basic prosthodontic

rules need to be applied from the beginning till the end.

This 1-year curriculum aims to a comprehensive training in the field of prosthodontics starting from

the clinical evaluation and documentation at the first appointment till the final delivery, including

basic steps throughout the treatment.

Topics:

- Dental photography

- Diagnosis – treatment plan

- Digital smile design (DSD)

- Articulators and face bow

- Occlusal concepts in modern prosthodontics

- Maximum intercuspation (MI) vs centric relation (CR)

- Management of full arch-mouth cases increasing or reducing the VDO

- Tooth preparation designs in modern prosthodontics

- Reconstruction of endodontically treated teeth

- Modern prosthetic concepts on implant rehabilitations

- The digital patient concept

- CAD/CAM technology in prosthodontics

- Ceramic veneers

- The synergy between digital and analog workflow. When and how?

- Materials used in Prosthodontics. What has changed?

- Cementation procedures

In all sessions live patient demonstrations, and hands on will be performed. At the end of this curriculum

all the participants will be able to complete a prosthetic rehabilitation starting from ceramic

veneers to full mouth cases using updated modern concepts.

SCHEDULE:

Module 1 (Athens) 15-18 May 2024

Dental photography-clinical evaluation diagnosis-DSD -treatment plan-Interdisciplinary

dentistry: the biometric age

Instructors: Fl. Cofar, S. Pelekanos, I. Roussou, A. Ricci

DAY 1

09.00-10.30 Treatment position according to the prosthetic

space. Occlusal registration (CR or MI)

I. Roussou

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.30 Altering the VDO according the prosthetic space.

The use of anterior deprogrammer and occlusal

splints.

I. Roussou

12.30-13.30 Light lunch

DAY 2

13.30-15.00 Full mouth rehabilitations. Diagnosis and treatment

sequence.

I. Roussou

15.00-15.30 Coffee break

15.30-17.30 Practical Part (hands on).

Anterior deprogrammer, Increasing the VDO, occlusal

adjustment

I. Roussou

09.00-10.30 Concepts of modern prosthodontics (esthetic and

functional analysis). Case analysis (esthetic and

functional analysis).

Articulators and face bow.

S. Pelekanos

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.30 Practical Part I (hands on)

Anterior deprogrammer and occlusal splints on

models

S. Pelekanos

12.30-13.30 Light lunch

13.30-15.00 Kois splint digital design. (Live demo)

S. Pelekanos

15.00-15.30 Coffee break

15.30-17.30 Practical Part (live patient)

Initial impression. Analog and digital workflow. CR

registration using anterior deprogrammer.

S. Pelekanos

09.00-10.30 Digital smile design and its contribution in prosthodontics.

Become the architect of the smile! Why to

adopt the Digital Smile Design philosophy?

A. Ricci

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.30 What are the advantages of DSD? Interview and

photo documentation

Diagnose functional and esthetic issues

A. Ricci

12.30-13.30 Light lunch

DAY 3

13.30-15.00 The facially generated Treatment Planning. And

then? Convert the planning in an STL file to be printed.

Outsource your design

A. Ricci

15.00-15.30 Coffee break

15.30-17.30 Photo and video documentation (LIVE DEMO)

Designing the new smile (LIVE DEMO on iPad App

and/or Keynote)

A. Ricci

DAY 4

09.00-10.30 Esthetic and functional fundamentals.

2D - 3D - 4D process of design.

Fl. Cofar

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.30 Inconsistencies in the design steps. From mock-up

to final restorations.

Addressing emergence profiles and models.

Fl. Cofar

12.30-13.30 Light lunch

13.30-15.00 Managing errors in occlusion and guided procedures.

Bottlenecks. Overcoming dark substrates and reductive

scenarios.

Fl. Cofar

15.00-15.30 Coffee break

15.30-17.30 Mindset and tools for consistency and predictability.

Initial impression. Analog and digital workflow. CR

registration using anterior deprogrammer.

Fl. Cofar

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Module 2 (Athens) 11-14 July 2024

Prosthodontics on implants (from single to full mouth rehabilitation)

Instructors: An. Corradini, F. Mintrone, V. Fehmer, S. Pelekanos, G. Vergoulis

DAY 1

09.00-10.30 Treatment planning for single implants in the esthetic zone.

Abutment design, selection (customized vs. prefabricated abutments, screw- vs. cement-retained) and treatment sequence.

S. Pelekanos

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.30 How to perform immediate loading and provisionalization.

The digital incorporation in contemporary implant prosthodontics.

S. Pelekanos

12.30-13.30 Light lunch

14.00-15.30 Concept of treatment: Supracrestal implant complex- from implant position to prosthetic design.

G. Vergoulis

15.30-17.30 Immediate loading and provisionalization, customization of the emergence profile and cervico (hands on).

S. Pelekanos

G. Vergoulis

DAY 2

09.00-10.30 Treatment plan with implants in edentulous cases with different treatment modalities (fixed vs removable vs “retrievable”).

Selecting the appropriate attachment and/or bar design for overdentures. Pink esthetics and how this need affect the treatment planning. 

Part I

S. Pelekanos

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-13.00 Treatment plan with implants in edentulous cases with different treatment modalities (fixed vs removable vs “retrievable”).

Selecting the appropriate attachment and/or bar design for overdentures. Pink esthetics and how this need affect the treatment planning. 

Part II

S. Pelekanos

13.00-14.00 Light lunch

14.00-15.30 Full mouth implant reconstructions FP1 TO FP3 (live demo)

S. Pelekanos

A. Corradini

15.30-16.00 Coffee break

16.00-17.30 Creating the digital patient (face hunter, plane analyzer)

S. Pelekanos

An. Corradini

DAY 3

09.00-10.30 Advances in Implant dentistry for your daily practice

-conventional and digital diagnostics (part 1)

- how to cement a monolithic crown to a Ti-base

V. Fehmer

An. Corradini

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-13.00 Advances in Implant dentistry for your daily practice

-conventional and digital diagnostics (part 2)

- restorative options, their possibilities and limitations

- selection of restorative options for predictable white and pink esthetic

V. Fehmer

I. Sailer

13.00-14.00 Light lunch

14.00-15.00 Presentation of the concept of complete digitalization of the patients and of the consequent advantages that can derive from it in the analysis of the patient himself and consequently in the realization of prosthetic restorations.

Facebow: evident limits of traditional face- bows and analysis of possible assembly errors in the articulator deriving from them

(traditional systems : according to the plans of C, FH and PH and the most revolutionary NHP)

Possibility of assembly in a digital articulator and use of digital face-bows with the different methods described and real advantages that can derive from them.

Implementation into the articulators with the individual condylar values ​​deriving from the recordings with a latest generation computerized axiograph systems

An. Corradini

15.00-15.30 Coffee break

15.30-17.30 Presentation of clinical cases performed with the methods described and analysis of patients in their different related positions.

Presentation of clinical cases processed with the help of all the digital systems listed:

(2D pictures - 3D Face scans pictures - Digital Facebows - CAD design softwares - CAM devices and manual prothesis manufacturing, refining, finalizing)

Possibility to see live and try softwares, tools and digital devices descripted into the previous presentation.

An. Corradini

DAY 4

09.00-10.30 Esthetic and functional analysis as base in prosthodontics.

Facebow vs natural head position.

Ideal orientation of the occlusal plain in prosthodontics.

F. Mintrone

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.30 Traditional vs Digital: when and why choose the digital path.

Intraoral scanning: scanning protocol and precision.

The digital patient concept.

F. Mintrone

12.30-13.30 Coffee break

13.30-15.00 From the single tooth to the full mouth rehab. From the first to the last generation of Zirconia: an evolving material.

F. Mintrone

15.00-15.30 Coffee break

15.30-17.30 Digital patient concept (live demo)

F. Mintrone

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Module 3 (Athens) 04-07 Sept. 2024

Instructors: S. Pelekanos, N. Mykhaylyuk

DAY 1

09.00-10.30 Hands on: Demonstration and hands-on of teeth

preparation for different types of veneers/onlays

N. Mykhaylyuk

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-13.00 Hands on: Demonstration and hands-on of teeth

preparation for different types of veneers/onlays

N. Mykhaylyuk

13.00-14.00 Light lunch

14.00-15.00 Demonstration and hands-on of different techniques 

of using rubberdam

N. Mykhaylyuk

15.00-15.30 Coffee break

15.30-17.30 Demonstration and hands-on of different techniques

of using rubberdam

N. Mykhaylyuk

DAY 2

09.00-10.30 Ceramic veneers - materials and step by step clinical procedures

S. Pelekanos

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.30 Ceramic veneers - cementation procedure, theory

and clinical video presentation

S. Pelekanos

12.30-13.30 Light lunch

13.30-15.00 Live case transmission (Athenasmile Pelekanos) – veneer cementation

S. Pelekanos

15.00-15.30 Coffee break

15.30-17.30 Hands on – silicon indexes, and practical veneer cementation

S. Pelekanos

DAY 3

09.00-10.30 Indications for ceramic veneers and onlays Rules of preparation.

Fabrication of ultra-thin provisional restorations Secrets of isolation.

Bonding procedures step by step Presentation.

N. Mykhaylyuk

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.30 Indication for minimally - invasive treatment.

Wax-up, mock-up, transfer of info to the lab.

Possible problems and mistakes.

N. Mykhaylyuk

12.30-13.30 Light lunch

13.30-15.00 Importance of magnification of MI treatment.

Choice of instrument for preparation.

Burs and enamel chisels.

N. Mykhaylyuk

15.00-15.30 Coffee break

15.30-17.30 Preparation for veneers/onlays. Step by step protocol (demo & hands on).

Fabrication of ultra-thin provisional restorations (demo & hands on).

N. Mykhaylyuk

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Module 4 (Munich) 15-16 Nov. 2024

Introduction into CAD/CAM-Technology, Practical Exercises in Pretreatment,

Preparation and Adhesive Technique

Instructors: Prof Dr. Edelhoff and team

DAY 1

THEORETICAL PART

Essentials, Biomechanics, Etiology of “Worn Dentition”, Diagnostics, Esthetic and Functional.

Analysis, Digital tools in Communication for Teamwork Dentist- Lab technician, Treatment planning,

Wax- up, Mock-up, New options in Esthetic and Functional “Test-drive” with the Munich Splint

Concept, Material selection including new CAD/CAM-Materials.

Single tooth restorations: Veneers, Onlays.

CAD/CAM-fabricated Zirconia based cantilevered resin bonded FDPs (CRBFDP), Preparation, Munich

Splint Concept: Simplified procedures in complex rehabilitations, Step-by-step, Case demonstrations.

Demonstrations of CAD/CAM - Materials and CAD/CAM - Systems including Munich Splints.

DAY 2

PRACTICAL PART I

• Munich Concepts

• Preparation of different Veneer - types & CRBFDP

on Simulating Units

PRACTICAL PART II

• Munich Concepts

• Preparation of Occlusal onlays with new Prep. -

Sets on Simulating Units

PRACTICAL PART III

• Munich Concepts

• Demonstration of Intraoral Scanners