Worn Dentition: Direct & Indirect Adhesive Management Through a Non-Invasive Approach 2025

Worn Dentition: Direct & Indirect Adhesive Management Through a Non-Invasive Approach 2025 is organized by The Pankey Institute and will be held from Oct 24 - 25, 2025 at The Pankey Institute, Key Biscayne, Florida, United States of America.

Description:
The main goal of this course is to provide, indications and protocols to diagnose and treat severe worn dentition through a new no prep approach increasing the VDO: “The Index technique”. The course will also focus on when and how to bond on worn dentition, additive partial indirect restorations (onlays/overlays) in composite and/or ceramic, depending on the indication.

All the step by step protocols will be addressed through step by step images and videos on patients, in order to have a clear over view of this hybrid (direct-indirect) technique through an analog and digital workflow.

Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this course, participants will be able to:
• How to diagnose worn dentition (corrosion; attrition; abrasion; abfraction).
• Opening the VDO and planning the treatment plan
• The indications and protocols for a no prep direct adhesive approach: “The Index Technique”.
• The indications & protocols for a minimal invasive indirect adhesive approach through composite and/or ceramic onlays/overlays.

Course Program:
• How to diagnose worn dentition (erosion, attrition abrasion and abfraction)
• Esthetic and functional analysis
• How to increase the VDO and perform the “restorative” wax-up (with video projection on patients)
• How to perform the transparent index on the “restorative” wax-up (with video projection on patients)
• Anterior and posterior mock-ups (temporary phase), for esthetics phonetics and function (with video projection on patients
• Adhesion strategies on worn dentition (with video projection on patients)
• The indications and protocols, on posterior teeth, for a no prep direct adhesive copy-paste approach: “The Index Technique” (with video projection on patients)
•  The indications and protocols, on anterior teeth, for a no prep direct adhesive copy-paste approach: “The Index Technique” (with video projection on patients)
• The indications and protocols for indirect adhesive approach through composite and ceramic onlays (with video projection on patients)
•  All the possible errors that may arise (with video projection on patients)
• Hands-on: 1) how to perform the transparent index on the restorative wax-up. How to perform a mock-up 2) How to perform a composite copy-paste restorative approach on worn dentition