Modern Dentistry, taught properly.
All Courses are taught Blended Learning, Online & Hands-On
Private dentistry rewards one thing above all others: clinical confidence built on genuine skill.
DENTER delivers the techniques your training never quite covered — composites, ceramics, veneers, onlays, crowns, occlusion, splint therapy, rubber dam, dental photography — taught hands-on in small groups, by practising clinicians, without the filler that fills most CPD calendars.
Developed for dentists leaving the NHS treadmill behind, and for those already in private practice who know their ceiling is higher than where they currently sit.
Every course is backed by the DENTER Portal, a purpose-built online training platform designed to support your development between and beyond the course room.
Upcoming Courses
One-day, Two-day, or the Flagship Nine-day Year Course.
This dental photography course gives you a single, repeatable system for capturing consistently excellent clinical images, and using them to transform your treatment planning, lab communication and marketing. Over one hands-on day in London, limited to twelve dentists, you will lock in reproducible camera settings, capture a full standardised AACD/BACD series in under ten minutes, and master cross-polarisation for accurate shade communication. Most dentists know they should take better photographs, yet few do, because nobody showed them the system. Consistently excellent clinical photography is a system, not a talent. This day is built to give you that system, on any camera you own.
This rubber dam course gives you a single, repeatable isolation protocol you can use on Monday morning, for any tooth and any patient. Over one hands-on day in London, limited to sixteen dentists, you will place a dam in under five minutes for routine restorative work, choose the right clamp every time, and isolate the awkward cases that usually defeat people. Modern dentistry is adhesive dentistry, and adhesive dentistry needs a clean, dry, contamination-free field. Fast, predictable isolation is a system, not a talent. This day is built to give you that system and the medicolegal protection that comes with it.
The Art of the Prep
This preparation course gives you a complete, repeatable workflow for all-ceramic veneers, anterior crowns and ceramic onlays, from case planning and core build-up through to scanning, temporisation and cementation. Over two hands-on days at the Dentsply Sirona Academy in Weybridge, limited to eight delegates, you will prepare and scan your own work under the guidance of Dr Ian Cline. Most ceramic failures start at the preparation stage, so this is where confident private aesthetic dentistry begins. Predictable margins are a system, not a talent, and these two days are built to give you that system.
This posterior composite course takes the mystery out of direct posterior restorations, from cavity preparation to finishing and polishing. Over one hands-on day in London, in a small group, you will work through sectional matrix systems, bulk-fill technique, contact point management and occlusal assessment on realistic scenarios. Led by Dr Ian Cline, author of the Dentsply guide on simplifying posterior composite restorations, the course gives you a fast, predictable protocol that holds up clinically. Done well, posterior composite is one of the most reliable everyday earners in restorative practice, and this course is built to make it routine.
One-day hands-on course
Blended learning with online pre-course training
10 verifiable ECPD hours
Limited to 12 dentists
COMPOSITES DONE RIGHT
This two-day composite course in Dundee refines your anterior and posterior technique so you walk away with predictable, beautiful results you can deliver on Monday morning. Over two hands-on days in Scotland, limited to sixteen dentists with two educators, Dr Gordon Penman and Dr Ian Cline, you will master layering, shade selection, Class IV management, diastema closure, finishing and polishing on realistic clinical scenarios. Most composite courses are a one-day demo or a single manufacturer's sales pitch. This is different. Predictable composite is a system, not a talent, and these two days, with an excellent instructor to delegate ratio, are built to give you that system.
Blended learning with online pre-course training
20 verifiable ECPD hours
Limited to 16 dentists
Wrights Education Hub, Dunsinane Avenue, Kingsway West, Dundee DD2 3QD
This anterior composite course gives you a repeatable, predictable system for layered anterior restorations you can deliver on Monday morning. Over one hands-on day in London, limited to twelve dentists, you will refine shade selection, layering, characterisation and finishing on realistic clinical scenarios. Led by Dr Ian Cline, who has taught anterior composite technique for over twenty years across the UK and internationally, the course strips away the trial and error. The skills you build here pay for the course back in the first handful of anterior cases you confidently treat at private fees.
Blended Learning, you’ll arrive prepared.
These aren’t courses where you spend the morning catching up. Around two to three hours of pre-course online training per hands-on day (theory, fundamentals, procedure walkthroughs) is delivered through DENTER's dedicated online learning portal, so the hands-on day is spent doing — not listening.
You'll keep portal access, including all PDFs, manuals and references, for three years after the course.
Dr Ian Cline, Course Director
Ian has a rare ability to take the complex and make it genuinely simple — without diluting the standard. He founded DENTER on a single principle: that excellence in aesthetic dentistry shouldn't require years of painful trial and error.
Practising clinician in Central London with a predominantly private, aesthetic| restorative focused patient list
International Key Opinion Leader for Dentsplysirona, Advisor/ KOL to a number of other companies
National and international educator with a reputation for clarity, warmth and pragmatism
Creator of the Excellence Through Simplicity teaching method
Expert in helping NHS dentists make a confident, profitable transition to private practice
Believer in Small-group teaching, with high tutor to participant ratios
What others say about Denter Courses…
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“Excellent…….. pays for itself both financially and in terms of professional esteem. Invaluable in my conversion to private practice. Anyone thinking of doing one of these courses, stop thinking, do it, don't think about it. Career changing.”
Dr Kazimierz Szulist, Dental Surgeon
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“Ian is world class in his teaching. He simplifies difficult concepts and makes sure that you understand how to implement the new techniques. Excellent course and highly recommended for updating your skills to a new level.”
Dr Naazi Marouf-Key, Dental Surgeon, BUPA Dental
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"COURSE OF THE YEAR! I would like to highly recommend the Denter year course as it will give you absolutely everything you need to be able to create, run, and manage the Aesthetic Restorative side of your practice. Whether you want to concentrate on cosmetic dentistry or just do a few cases a year then it is really worthwhile learning from Ian. He knows what he is talking about and he teaches in a relaxed and friendly style. Course materials and the hands-on are excellent. Highly recommended!"
Dr. Golnar Hassirian D.M.D Dentist, London