CDE1824 - 2025 Abrams Lecture
Course Description
Advanced Esthetic Rehabilitation: Clinical Solutions with Adhesive and Digital Technologies
With a conservative approach in mind, clinicians should be able to provide patients with minimally-invasive, functional, highly-esthetic, and long-lasting solutions. These solutions should take into consideration patient needs and desires, functional issues, available materials, and clinical approaches. Novel conservative restorative techniques are able to combine a variety of treatment modalities for a large range of clinical situations including some that until recently were not considered possible. Through ultra-structural microscopically interaction between biomaterials and dental structure, esthetic and long-lasting clinical solutions can be attained while simultaneously preserving the integrity of the enamel and dentin. This presentation provides a systematic and scientific approach for selecting esthetic treatment modalities based on original research data with special emphasis on technology and new materials design and selection. As predictable and advanced as these solutions are, they are not risk free; thus, failures and complications are still a clinical reality. Key risk factors will be discussed with the understanding that complex clinical rehabilitations have a much higher likelihood of complications and failures that have to be factored in prior to initiation of treatment.
Learner Outcomes
Upon course completion, you will:
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Understand challenges related establishing a stable adhesive interface to ceramic, composite, and dental structures.
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Choose adhesive strategies for different clinical situations.
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Understand the advantages and limitation of adhesive procedures for ceramic vs 3D printed materials and contemporary resin composite CAD/C.
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Presenter
Dr. Sillas Duarte
Prof. Dr. Sillas Duarte is Associate Dean of Comprehensive Care and Rex Ingraham Chair in Restorative Dentistry, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, University of Southern California. Dr. Duarte is Director of the Advanced Program in Operative & Adhesive Dentistry and the Master of Science in Biomaterials and Digital Dentistry at USC. He is the former editor-in-chief of Quintessence of Dental Technology (QDT). Also, Dr. Duarte is Section Editor in Adhesive Dentistry of the Journal of Esthetic and Restorative Dentistry and the International Journal of Esthetic Dentistry, and has served on the editorial boards of several journals. Dr. Duarte has lectured and performed hands-on courses nationally and internationally on esthetic dentistry, biomaterials, minimally invasive dentistry, and adhesion. He has been involved in teaching cutting-edge clinical techniques and technologies related to esthetic and adhesive dentistry. His research and clinical work focus on bonding to dental structures, composites, ceramics, and CAD/CAM technologies.