General Membership Meeting: Full Coronal Monobloc Composites Made Easy

After attending the course, the dentist will be able to deliver full coronal restorations efficiently by utilizing new materials and accoutrements. This will enable the practice to serve the older generation that no longer have insurance and are on fixed incomes.

Injectable bulk fill composites, revolutionary matrices, rapid sculpting/polishing composite burs (RAPTOR successor), and all-media polish compound.

You will learn:

• To judge whether sufficient tooth structure remains to facilitate this technique
• Proper prep design
• Injectable composite needle diameter to meet the need
• Proper technique for needle bending to accommodate difficult access for filling
• Placement of the Quick Connect band and carrier removal
• Tacking of the adjacent tooth matrix tabs to assure great contacts
• Filling patterns to assure no “knit lines” or voids
• Auto-cure set time and its importance with dual-cured bulk fills
• Systematic hardened composite sculpting of planes, ridges, and cusps for basic anatomy
• Finish planar anatomy and pre-polish with burs
• Final single media polish with contra angle bristle brush (think rogue technique for gold), simply run bristles into pellet until coated with NANO DIAMOND
• Final polish with cotton buff
• After developed proficiency technique should take 20 minutes (anesthetic not included).

Biography:

Dr. Patrick Roetzer is a 1974 graduate of Marquette University. Dr. Roetzer is an associate professor, operative course content director, as well as co-director of the International Dental student program at the University of the Pacific/Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry. Dr. Roetzer holds multiple patents on restorative dental devices and materials. After building a prosthodontics group practice, he served four years as director of professional relations at Danville Materials while teaching one day per week at Pacific Dugoni. He accepted a full-time academic position at Pacific Dugoni in 2012 as director of Operatory Dentistry where he has introduced several novel techniques and materials that increase the efficiency and quality of restorative dentistry.