Amazing Dentures - Two days with Finlay in Portland, Maine, USA 5 - 6 Aug 2023

If you want to come along please email: idadenturelove@gmail.com

Cost - $4,000, Bring assistant for $750

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Maximum delegates 30

Two days with Finlay Sutton – "Amazing dentures. A step-by-step guide to providing our patients with dentures which look real and have fantastic function"

Designed for all experiences of denturists, clinical dental technicians, dental technicians, dentists, prosthodontists, dental nurses and other interested members of the dental team. This day is aimed at igniting your enthusiasm and love for removable prosthodontics, showing how we can change our patients’ lives with beautifully made dentures. Finlay will help delegates understand the process for achieving natural dentures with superb function, including step-by-step clinical techniques packed full of practical advice ready to put straight into action on Monday morning. Finlay will cover complete dentures, removable partial dentures, and implant retained dentures. It will be a thoroughly practical and clinically useful day; illustrated with photographs and videos showing how Finlay and his dental technician, Rowan Garstang, produce the following types of removable dentures exhibiting superb form and function;

1.     Complete dentures

2.     Implant supported dentures

3.     Immediate dentures

4.     Removable partial dentures

Finlay says, “I used worry when providing dentures for my patients as success was so unpredictable. After dedicating the last 25 years to this discipline, although I still find them challenging, I now love making them and it is all I do in my clinical practice. Additionally, I love teaching dental professionals exactly how we do it. I am fortunate in having one the world’s finest dental technicians working in the next room, Rowan Garstang. Since 2007 we have made over 700 dentures in our practice and none of our patient (to our knowledge) have had dental implants to support our dentures afterwards.”

This day will be totally interactive – nothing will be left of the table.

Learning outcomes:

·       State-of-the-art complete denture, immediate denture, RPD and implant supported denture construction

·       To learn superb impression techniques

·       To see perfectly accurate recording of centric relation with gothic arch tracing

·       Learn how to maximize complete denture retention and stability

·       The 6 steps to carving a wax rim to make dentures look like beautiful natural teeth

·       To understand that well designed and well-made removable dentures are a valid alternative to implant supported restorations

·       Making immediate complete and partial dentures as stable, comfortable and secure as possible

·       Taking excellent impressions even with mobile teeth and bridges for immediates

·       Planning cases carefully to achieve optimum aesthetics and function of immediate dentures

·       To learn the biologically healthy Scandinavian design system for RPDs

·       To see the construction methods and function of RPDs which work like “removable bridges”, protecting the periodontium of compromised abutment teeth

·       To learn a system of RPD design which anticipates future abutment failure allowing artificial tooth additions onto cobalt chromium minor connectors of the denture later

·       Learn how to use implant attachments such as Locators® and bars in the best way

·       Learn how to make dentures fit implants and the supporting soft tissues properly

·       Have improved communication amongst the whole dental team

·       Have improved patient outcomes when providing dentures

·       Have improved understanding of metal reinforcement to strengthen the dentures.

Programme day 1

8.30 – 9.00 Registration & Refreshments

9.00 – 11.00 Complete dentures Part 1

11.00 – 11.30 Refreshment break

11.30 – 1.00pm Complete dentures Part 2

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.15 Complete dentures Part 3

15.15 – 15.30 Refreshment break

15.30 – 17.00 Immediate Dentures Part 1

Programme day 2

8.30 – 9.00 Registration & Refreshments

9.00 – 11.00 Immediate dentures Part 2

11.00 – 11.30 Refreshment break

11.30 – 1.00pm Implant supported dentures Part 1

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.15 Implant supported dentures Part 2

15.15 – 15.30 Refreshment break

15.30 – 17.00 RPDs – Scandinavian hygienic design

17.00 Course Reflection/Feedback questionnaires