Practical Minimally Invasive Restorative Techniques

Learn how to incorporate minimally invasive restorative dentistry techniques into your practice for maximum success.  

This comprehensive, evidence-based, hands-on workshop offers clear, easily understood protocols for adopting a minimally invasive approach to restorative treatments. It has been designed for dentists to develop and enhance their clinical skills to a minimum intervention, preventive patient-centred approach.

Understand the latest minimally invasive remineralising and tooth-preserving technologies, adhesive restorative materials and techniques to clean, protect, restore and maintain dental disease aesthetically, long-term and effectively. Hands-on experience includes exercises such as surface sealing and posterior restorative techniques, using a range of restorative materials.  

You will explore -

Minimally invasive techniques/procedures, including:

• AIRFLOW prior to surface protection and surface sealing and prior to fissure protection and fissure sealing
• Tooth surface cleaning and preparation prior to restorative management
• Enhancing adhesive bonding and cementation
• Minimal invasive management of root surface lesions
• Occlusal anatomy replication techniques

Types of dental problems to manage, including:

• Plaque identification and assessment in relation to examination and patient risk assessment
• patient risk groups and minimal invasive approaches for the very young, the elderly, special-needs and special-care patients, including tooth protection during orthodontics
• the oral environments and addressing demineralisation/remineralisation issues
• management of exposed root surfaces
• atraumatic and minimally invasive restorative management of paediatric and geriatric patients
• improving bonding and adhesion on compromised tooth surfaces

Minimally invasive dentistry techniques, including:

• selection and use of fluorides in patient management, glass-ionomer cements in restorative management
• implications and use of injectable composite resins in minimally invasive dentistry
• tooth anatomy replication using translucent silicone templates (ExaClear)
• maintenance and minimally invasive repair of restorations

Professor Ian  Meyers is currently in general dental practice and is an honorary professor at  The University of Queensland School of Dentistry. As a general dental practitioner, Professor Meyers has extensive experience in comprehensive  patient care, and has a special interest in diagnosis and management of worn  and broken down dentition, geriatric and aged care dentistry, adhesive  restorative dental materials, fibre-reinforced composites and the management  of patients through minimum intervention dentistry.