Ultimate Esthetics with Composite: The Basics of Layering to Advanced Techniques 2025

Ultimate Esthetics with Composite: The Basics of Layering to Advanced Techniques is organized by Cosmedent, Inc. and will be held from May 15 - 16, 2025 at Center For Esthetic Excellence, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.

Course Overview:
Every patient can’t afford porcelain, and most people don’t want their teeth “drilled down.” Composite provides fully functional restorations, whether a Class IV, diastema closure, shade change, adding length, full veneers, or many other changes. This course focuses on a practical and predictable layering technique to make your composite restorations look natural and beautiful. With proper technique, the function and longevity of composite rivals porcelain while providing benefits other materials can’t match. This comprehensive course — half of which is hands-on — will help you become a master of composite.

Make your composite restorations look as beautiful as porcelain veneers

Course Objectives:
Learning Objectives Include

• Learn a technique requiring minimal prep and how to layer materials for life-like effects
• Step-by-step procedure for individual tooth changes (color change, Class IV’s, and more)
• Layering—understand when and why to use each material, including tints and opaquers
• Dramatic Smile Makeovers — why porcelain is not always the best option
• Verbal skills that will gain patient interest and increase patient acceptance
• Practical occlusal principles for maximizing longevity
• Understand tooth topography—specific key contours for anterior teeth that are critical for
  success
• Contouring and polishing technique for an incredibly natural finish
• How to evolve your practice to be “insurance independent”
• Maintenance for many years of happy smiles!

Two Days of Workshops:
This hands-on course will cover basic layer to advanced composite techniques!

DAY 1

• Introduction, restorative materials review, determinants of longevity
• Hands-on #1 (3 Preps-3 Materials)
• Sequential steps of the layering technique, how to utilize a template to save time and increase accuracy, creating an ideal proximal surface and contact using the Mylar pull technique
• Shade matching, color blending, creating natural incisal translucency, how to achieve an invisible margin, how to apply this layering technique to Class III, IV, and V restorations
• Hands-on #2 (large Class IV)
• OPTIONAL CASE REVIEWS—BRING CASES YOU’D LIKE TO REVIEW WITH DR WILLHITE
• Social hour

DAY 2

• Tooth topography, contouring
• Polishing , composite repairs
• Shade change on a dark tooth
• Hands-on #3 (full composite veneer to make a dark tooth bright)
• Advanced special effects (includes demonstration)