HANDS-ON REMOVEABLE PROSTHETICS:A DAY ON PARTIAL AND COMPLETE DENTURES - SATURDAY 14th JUNE 2025

Venue:   School of Dentistry, Education Wing

Dates:    Saturday 14th June 2025

Time:    8.45am to 9:00am Arrival and Registration for 9am start - Close at 5:00pm

Course Speakers:

Rahat Ali: Consultant in Restorative Dentistry / Specialist in Restorative Dentistry, Prosthodontics and Endodontics, Liverpool Dental Hospital.

Stephanie King:  Consultant in Restorative Dentistry, Liverpool Dental Hospital

Who Should Attend?

The course is aimed at qualified General Dental Practitioners (GDP’S)

Course Description

Aim: To help practitioners improve their knowledge and application of partial and complete removable dentures. It is an interactive session of seminars and hand’s on practice. Seminars will cover partial denture theory with emphasis on: principles of denture design to include acrylic & chrome dentures, clasp selection, connector selection, management of free end saddles and alternative materials available on the market like PEEK and Valplast. Also, complete denture theory will be discussed with emphasis on: principles of complete denture design, impression techniques, occlusal registration techniques, management of flabby ridges, and basic implant retained overdentures. The hand’s on sessions will cover surveying casts and design partial dentures on models. Models will be provided but delegates can bring their own models/cases in on the day and are encouraged to do so. Also preparing a premolar for a metal ceramic crown with milled features to accept a bespoke cobalt chrome denture framework.

Learning Outcomes: by the end of the event delegates will be able to:

-  Summarise the principles of partial and complete denture design

-  Describe which impression and occlusal registration techniques may be appropriate when managing a removable prosthodontic patient.

-  Describe the principles of duplicate and immediate denture prosthodontics.

-  Describe the attachment systems of basic implant retained overdentures.

-  Design a partial denture in acrylic or chrome-based metal alloy.

 

*This programme qualifies for 6.5 hours of verifiable CPD*

*This course links to Enhanced CPD development outcome: C*