The Restorative & Aesthetic Postgraduate Certification

Elevate your career with our accredited Level 7 programme spanning over 12 months.
Start Date: June 2025

About Course

This comprehensive course is designed to equip dental professionals with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to excel in the field of aesthetic and restorative dentistry.

Our programme goes beyond traditional education by using a blend of theoretical curriculum, hands-on training, and clinical case studies. You should be able to understand more complex patient ases within dental practice and put this into practice straight away.

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Total cost

This 12 day course is priced at £8,375 + VAT.

Place a deposit of just £300 today to secure your spot and enter a choice of payment plans.

The programme

  • First impressions and communications styles
  • Identifying personality types
  • The principles of a methodical examination
  • Time management
  • Discussing fees and treatment plans
  • How to present findings and photographs
  • Managing expectations

  • Smile design theory and techniques
  • Biometric guidelines and facial anatomy
  • Facially driven treatment, planning and communication
  • Laboratory communication
  • Diagnostic wax up and mock ups
  • The patient journey
  • Discussing value not cost

  • Brands available and how to decide what to use
  • Posterior morphology
  • Isolation
  • Matrix systems
  • Sextant dentistry
  • Replacing missing cusps
  • Finishing and polishing
  • Managing occlusion

  • Material selection
  • Managing heavily broken down teeth
  • Deciding between Onlay vs Crown
  • Protocols for crown and onlay preparations
  • Perfecting the margins
  • Conventional impressions and digital scanning
  • Soft tissue management
  • Shade Selection
  • Temporisation
  • Cementation technique

  • Material selection
  • Managing heavily broken down teeth
  • Deciding between Onlay vs Crown
  • Protocols for crown and onlay preparations
  • Perfecting the margins
  • Conventional impressions and digital scanning
  • Soft tissue management
  • Shade selection
  • Temporisation
  • Cementation technique

  • AM
    • Camera settings
    • Photography techniques
    • Equipment associated with photography
    • Portfolio photos
    • Whitening protocol
    • Communicating whitening to patients
    • Shade and selection
    • Documenting whitening progress
    • Vital and non-vital whitening techniques
    • Managing sensitivity
     
  • PM
    • Options for replacing missing teeth
    • Bridges, Implants and Dentures
    • Treatment planning
    • Abutment teeth theory
    • Bridge design
    • Materials and indications
    • When and how to prepare

  • Composite materials and brands
  • Anterior morphology
  • Layering and cut back techniques
  • Closing spaces and diastemas
  • Peg laterals and microdontia
  • Isolation
  • Class V's
  • Finishing and polishing

  • Key principles of occlusion
  • Occlusal terminology
  • Finding and recording centric relation
  • When to conform and when to increase the vertical dimension
  • Laboratory components such as facebows
  • Communication with the laboratory
  • Diagnostic wax up key principles
  • Full mouth rehabilitation options and techniques

  • Patient selection and suitability
  • Case selection and patient suitability
  • Smile design and diagnostic mock up
  • Veneer preparation and design
  • Temporising
  • Understanding the importance of lab communication
  • Maintenance, expectations, and the patient journey
  • Cementation protocol

  • Material Selection
  • Managing heavily broken down teeth
  • Protocols for anterior preparations
  • Perfecting the margins
  • Conventional impressions and digital scanning
  • Soft tissue management
  • Shade selection and stump shades
  • Temporisation
  • When to Crown

  • Diagnosing toothwear
  • Management theories
  • Prevention
  • The Dahl technique
  • Conformative versus reorganised
  • Increasing the vertical dimension
  • Direct versus indirect
  • Splint therapy and its purpose

  • Consolidation of all topics covered
  • Case presentation from delegates
  • Dealing with specific case concerns
  • Practical hands-on sessions
  • Networking and social

Course Content

Instructors

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18 Students
5 Courses