Indirect Restorations: Three-Day Practical Course (Incidental Training)

Scenario-based practical teaching develops preparation, provisionalisation and fitting skills for individual teeth, using digital and analogue workflows.

Programme

• Day 1: rationale for cuspal coverage; case and material selection; PFM, gold onlay, zirconia and lithium-disilicate preparations; conventional impressions and provisionals.
• Day 2: adhesive onlays, immediate dentine sealing, provisional onlays, digital scans, laboratory communication and adhesive cementation; veneerlays, smile planning, veneer preparations and temporisation.
• Day 3: indications for vertical margins, knife-edge and BOPT-style preparations, vertical-crown provisionals, impressions and laboratory records, deep margin elevation, intact onlay contacts and complex case selection.

Practical work

Exercises include anterior and posterior crowns, conventional and adhesive onlays, three veneer preparation types, a premolar veneerlay, vertical preparations, an anterior BOPT-style build-up, an eggshell provisional and deep margin elevation.

Dates and fee

Choose one three-day cohort: 25 to 27 February, 22 to 24 April, or 11 to 13 November 2027. Sessions run 09:00 to 18:00 in Newcastle upon Tyne. The full fee is GBP 2,600 including VAT and the provider's Indirect Bur Kit. Successful completion is associated with 21 hours of verifiable CPD and development outcome C. The booking button opens the provider's shop so you can choose your cohort.