As a dentist who practices within the largest lab in the U.S., Dr. DiTolla has access to tens of thousands of doctor’s preps and impressions on a monthly basis. As a result, he has an intimate knowledge of the common habits of the dentists getting the best restorative results. As a self-proclaimed “average dentist”, he has developed techniques that provide exceptional restorative results with a very average set of hands. His mission is to share these techniques with dentists to help them improve their preps, impressions and restorations. When dentists perform better restorative dentistry they are happier, more profitable, and most importantly, the patient receives excellent restorative dentistry.

Game changer topics include:

• Learn 8 steps to ensure that your C & B preparations are so outstanding that the lab owner comes to you for dentistry.
• See the last 5 million crowns Glidewell lab did : learn which ones broke the least : which broke the most : and which two products had the highest satisfaction from the 64,300 dentists we worked with!
• Learn the seven most common C & B mistakes American dentists make and the best ways to correct & prevent them. These 7 deadly sins lead to poor crowns and busy Endodontists.
• See the state-of-the-art in porcelain veneers and the only time to use no-prep veneers. Make sure that your dental lab is using the strongest – aesthetic material to fabricate your patient’s veneers – most labs are not.
• Learn when porcelain veneers are a poor restorative choice, and how to satisfy patients looking for improvement.
• When to use lab fabricated provisionals, and how to ensure they don’t cause you more frustration than joy.
• Local Anaesthesia Tricks: Why, I haven’t missed a lower block in 4 years (it’s not skill) and why the AMSA injection will become your favourite for your aesthetic cases.
• Recognise the shift from PFM’s to monolithic materials that allow the clinician to use high strength materials while satisfying patient’s aesthetic desires.
• The state of the digital impression systems and whether they can save you time, money and/or remakes.
• Understanding the best systems for your office - digital impressions and their use in digital restorative dentistry.
• Be familiar with full contour Zirconia and the pros & cons of using this structural ceramic material as a C & B material.
• Be familiar with the new class of cementable allceramic restorations such as lithium discilate, and understanding how the CAD/CAM milling process can improve consistency & quality.
• Cementation do’s & don’ts for the new monolithic restorations
• The best strategies for cutting off zirconia and lithium discilate crowns without damaging the underlying teeth.
• Learn a crown technique designed to ensure aesthetic and functional success that doesn’t require hands of gold.
• How to decrease crown & bridge remakes with your laboratory, and decrease the amount of occlusal adjustments you make on their restorations.
• A periodontal surgical technique to correct multiple areas of recession with no palatal donor site.
• The best way to repair intraoral fractures
• Plus much,much more.

Dr Michael DiTolla has developed techniques that provide exceptional results with a very average set of hands, his mission is to share these techniques with clinicians to help them improve their preps, impressions & restorations.