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What This Course Is
A two-day, hands-on programme covering the complete preparation workflow for all-ceramic veneers, anterior crowns, and ceramic onlays — from case planning and core build-up through to scanning, temporisation, and cementation.
Delivered at the Dentsply Sirona Academy in Weybridge, in conjunction with Dentsply Sirona, NSK, and Crown Dental.
Blended learning format. Six hours of online lectures, reading material, and procedure walkthroughs are delivered through the DENTER portal before you arrive. The two days in Weybridge are spent preparing, scanning, and refining — not sitting through slides.
Maximum 8 delegates. You will scan your own preparations.
What you'll learn
Ceramic Veneer Preparation
Including the APR/APT technique for multiple veneer preparations — the systematic approach that makes consistent, repeatable margins achievable rather than occasional.
Anterior All-Ceramic Crown Preparation
Emax and Zirconia-specific recommendations. What changes, what doesn't, and why most failures start at the preparation stage.
Material & Shade Selection
Tips and techniques including the VITA 3D Linearguide and the use of stump shades. How to give your technician the information they actually need.
The Ceramic Onlay
The complete workflow: core build-up, preparation design considerations, temporisation, scanning/impressioning, and cementation.
Bur Selection
Grit, geometry, sequence, and speed recommendations — in detail. Not a brand pitch. A clinical rationale.
Speed-Increasing Electric Handpieces
How to use red-band 1:5 electric handpieces effectively and why they change the quality of what's possible.
Sonic Instrumentation for Margin Refinement
An underused technique. By the end of day one, it will make sense.
Soft Tissue Management
Cord techniques versus paste systems — when each is appropriate, and how to execute both confidently.
GDC eCPD Outcomes A, B, C, D.
Hands-on experience
Practical sessions on realistic clinical scenarios, guided by Ian and Gordon, applying every technique covered in the pre-course material.
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 private, aesthetic| restorative focused patient list
International Key Opinion Leader for Dentsplysirona,
National and International educator with a reputation for clarity, warmth and pragmatism
Expert in helping NHS dentists make a confident, profitable transition to private practice
Advisor/ KOL to a number of companies
Believer in Small-group teaching, with high tutor to participant ratios
Creator of the Excellence Through Simplicity teaching method
FAQs
Do I need prior experience with ceramic prep to attend?
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Some experience is helpful but not essential. If you have placed crowns or onlays — even occasionally, even with results you weren't entirely happy with — you are the right delegate for this course. The blended learning format means you arrive with the theory already covered, so the two days are spent refining technique rather than starting from scratch. If you have never prepared a tooth for a ceramic restoration, we would suggest completing a DENTER composites course first to build your restorative foundation.
I still work predominantly in the NHS. Is this course relevant to me?
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Yes — and arguably more so. The techniques taught on this course are precisely what separates NHS restorative dentistry from the private aesthetic work that commands the fees worth charging. If ceramic onlays, veneers, and all-ceramic crowns are where you want to take your practice, the preparation is where it starts. Many of our delegates book this course as a deliberate first step in their transition to private.
What scanner is used on the day?
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The course is delivered at the Dentsply Sirona Academy in Weybridge, and delegates will scan their own preparations using Dentsply Sirona equipment on site. No prior experience with intraoral scanning is required — the scanning component is introduced and supervised as part of the workflow.
Do I need to bring anything?
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No. All instruments, burs, handpieces, phantom head models, and materials are provided. Your course manual, refreshments, and lunch are included in the fee. Simply arrive having completed the pre-course online material — that's the only preparation required of you.
VENUE
Dentsply Sirona Academy, The Heights, Building 3, Weybridge KT13 0NY
TIMINGS for both Days
Arrive from 9.00am for Coffee & Pastries
Prompt Start 9.30am
Lunch 1-2pm
Finish approx. 5.00pm
DIRECTIONS TO DS ACADEMY
By road
A few minutes from the M25 and both the A318 and A245, and approximately 21 miles from Central London, road communications to The Heights Brooklands office space are excellent. On arrival at The Heights, please park in Bays marked with a Yellow Circle.
By train
Weybridge Railway Station (approximately 1 mile away from The Heights Brooklands) provides a 35 minute service into London Waterloo with four to five trains per hour. A courtesy bus runs from Weybridge station to The Heights every 8 minutes during peak times.
By air
The Heights is situated 13 miles from Heathrow Airport and 25 miles from Gatwick Airport.