Program Overview

Prosthodontics for Practice

Course Overview

This course aims to deal with conventional prosthodontic issues relevant to everyday practice. The course will focus on enhancing clinical skills required for these technique-sensitive procedures.

Course Details

• Start date: To be announced
• Duration: 15 hours of scientific CPD
• Location: Melbourne Dental School, Ground Floor Preclinical Laboratory, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton Vic 3053
• Study mode: Mixed
• Fees: $2,190 (inc GST)

What You Will Learn

The face-to-face sessions will be structured around each of the treatment options. Individual lectures will be given in the laboratory and will be immediately followed by the appropriate laboratory exercise. The laboratory exercises will be constructed around a clinical case requiring an extensive range of treatment modalities to be covered.

Major Topics

• Three-unit bridge design and preparation
• Post and core preparation
• Veneer design and preparation
• The place of the classic metal ceramic crown in current practice
• Anterior all-ceramic restoration
• Adhesive bridge preparation concepts
• Posterior ceramic inlay/only design and preparation
• Gold inlay/onlay design and preparation

Webinar Topics

• Indications / contraindications when to use full crowns and when to use partial restorations
• Material choices
• Case studies

Program Delivery

• Online lectures completed via the University of Melbourne's Learning Management System - Canvas
• Two days of face-to-face preclinical hands-on sessions held at the Melbourne Dental School, Ground Floor Preclinical Laboratory, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton Vic 3053.

Dates

Upcoming dates for this course are yet to be announced.

Course Structure

There is an online lecture component which participants must attend before undertaking the face-to-face hands-on sessions at the Melbourne Dental School.