The Preps & Temps Course

This two-day ProsthoWorks programme develops outcome-based preparations and provisional restorations for anterior full-coverage cases. Case discussions connect material selection and laboratory planning with extensive practical work, which accounts for more than half of the course.

Planning and tooth preparation

• Prescribing wax-ups, making silicone stents, producing and assessing mock-ups, and using them to guide reduction.
• Selecting lithium disilicate and zirconia ceramics, burs and margins for the clinical situation.
• Single and multiple horizontal preparations, checking reduction, finishing and polishing.
• Tissue management, data capture and adapting preparations for optical scans.

Provisional restorations

• Material selection and fabrication of single crowns and linked crowns or bridges.
• Three practical provisional exercises using bisacryl and injectable composite.
• Shell provisionals, marginal fit, staining, glazing, fracture repair and linking or cementing provisional restorations.
• Laboratory communication and the distinction between luting and bonding ceramics.

Attendance and inclusions

Attend 11–12 March 2027 at the Radisson Blu Leicester Square, London. The fee is £1,700 plus 20% VAT, £2,040 total, including buffet lunch and daytime snacks. The programme offers 14 CPD hours, linked to GDC development outcome C.