Lectures and live demonstration on a patient by Finlay Sutton
I run the Immediate Denture Masterclass on Friday 27th June 2025.
Immediate dentures are often some of the most difficult and least well-tolerated dentures that we give our patients. I will share with you the techniques and methods Rowan Garstang (my dental technician) and I use to achieve predictable results with immediate dentures. I will show how I make superb impressions – even with mobile teeth in the way. The process from diagnosis, treatment planning, and treatment provision will be shown in detail. This will be full of tips, techniques, and practical advice which can be implemented straight away into practice.
This course is designed for dentists, clinical dental technicians, and dental technicians, with a live impression demonstration and lectures abundantly illustrated with step-by-step photographs and videos of all procedures.
Aims, objectives and anticipated outcomes:
- Increase professional satisfaction when providing immediate dentures
- Make immediate dentures as stable, comfortable, and secure as possible
- Provide useful insights for implant dentists in the process of producing fixed restorations with the teeth positioned aesthetically in the 'right place'
- Correctly prepare the models
- Take superb impressions even with mobile teeth and bridges
- Plan cases carefully to achieve optimum aesthetics and function of immediate dentures
- Know the best time to reline or remake the dentures
- Ensure happier patients with improved outcomes
- Enhance communication with your dental technician
Programme:
Morning Session:
| 9.00 - 11.15 | Examination/diagnosis, impression making, occlusal registration using rims and gothic arch tracing |
| 11.15 – 11.30 | Coffee Break |
| 11.30 – 13.00 | Tooth selection and positioning, trial insertion of prototype denture |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch Break |
Afternoon Session:
| 14:00 - 15.00 | Extraction and fitting of the dentures, reviewing and relining/remaking |
| 15:00 – 15.15 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 – 17.00 | Finlay’s case presentations including psychological factors, problem cases |
