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VITA Booth
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VITA Discovery Room
Grand Hall K, Gold Level, East Tower

Chicago Dental Society Midwinter Meeting

McCormick Place West, Level 3, Hall F

VITA Booth #2234

VITA YZ Premium Zirconia

VITA YZ Solutions includes zirconia discs in four degrees of transparency, available in White, Color and Multicolor for the fabrication of precise and true-to-shade partially / fully veneered and monolithic restorations. VITA YZ discs are highly accurate due to edge stability, homogeneous microstructure and tested sintering properties.

Dental Direkt MidLine Zirconia

Dental Direkt offers eight zirconia offerings are available in a range of sizes in white, color, multicolor and multilayer, as well as all 16 VITA classical® A1-D4 shades and VITA Bleached Shades. The non-shaded zirconia is accompanied by the corresponding shade liquids for individual characterization. The newest addition to the Dental Direkt Zirconia line is the industry leading Nacera® Pearl, a multilayer, multicolor disc with different translucencies and colors in one zirconia disc. In addition to a large offering of zirconia, a complete product line of high-impact thermoplastic polymers will also be available.

Friday, February 24, 2023

Time

8:00-9:15am

KOL

Marc Wagenseil, DD

Event

An Easy Centric Concept for Quick and Reliable Occlusion: Setting Within the Chew Cycle

Denture teeth mould selection and occlusal set-ups can often be routine but let us face it, this often forces us into a “cookie-cutter” denture rut. Discover a patient’s functional needs by using an “easy centric” concept using specialized denture teeth that helps reduce set-up time. Customized posterior cusp tips that help prevent locking of the upper/lower anatomy during the patients’ chewing cycle but also help reduce your set-up time will provide you with the flexibility you need as a technician.

9:30-10:45am

Dr. Michael Tholey, PhD

Speaking Framework Science, Understanding Materials

Your technical skill does not stop at your artistic door. As a flood of machinables, pressables, and porcelains enter the market your expertise must extend into material selection for long-term success and to minimize issues. Discover how you can evaluate a material to meet strength, translucency, and esthetics using VITA. Get a step ahead of your customer by understanding restorative materials better so that you can become part of the treatment plan team. Understand material solutions available to meet patient indications, fracture resistance, clinically relevant strength, esthetics, and predictability.

11:30am-12:15pm

Peter Pizzi, CDT, MDT, F.N.G.S

Teeth and Gingiva: Harmonizing the Total Patient Smile with Ceramics

The shape, form, and color of both soft-tissue and tooth shade is critical for many high-smile or implant driven prosthetics. The workflow to re-create the esthetic zone for any smile is often misunderstood on “where to start”, “what to do”, or “pink or white. Discover how to manipulate the “wall of white translucency” when using various material frameworks as the canvas when replacing both pink and white tissues. Take a walk through the treatment planning and execution of the desired esthetic result to re-build a patient’s smile using easy-to-handle VITA ceramic materials.

12:30-1:45pm

Marc Wagenseil, DD

We Do Not Slap Digital Dentures Together, Come See Why

Patient dentures deserves premium denture teeth and there is no better than VITA ‘s traditional or digital designs and materials. Discover how a unique digital tooth line dedicated for a digital denture workflow is your answer in providing functional and esthetic dentures for a patient. We will explore side by side patient cases of a class III, bilateral crossbite; along with a class I case, both fabricated traditionally and digitally. Technical differences along with esthetics will be discussed which will highlight an advanced Digital Denture Tooth. You can amp up your denture skills and be a superhero to the patient who places their trust in you and their dentist using unique VITA denture teeth.

2:00-3:15pm

Urban Christen, DD, RCS Dipl. Denturist

Digital Dentures; Embracing Next Generation Workflows

The world of Digital Dentures is now here on your doorstep – ready or not!  With so many choices on systems to use or invest in, the opportunities seem endless. Using proven VITA products and workflows, traditional or digital denture fabrication is produced easily through design and production. Characterization is also key to making your digital dentures shine. VITA composites and colors will help your digital denture go from functionally fabulous – to functionally fabulous AND esthetically exceptional.

3:30-4:45pm

Jenelle Tabaković and Nina Frketin

Signature Full Arch Artistry for Digital and Analog Dentistry

Denture fabrication can become a cookie-cutter routine without passion! This program will highlight setting VITA Denture Teeth with the patient’s expectations in mind in creating not a denture, but a genuine natural smile. The need to blend into the surrounding facial smile and tissue tone can also be elusive but using AKZENT LC (light-cured) characterization colors to simulate neck blanching, pinkish-reddish tissue can be achieved quickly and efficiently. If you require removable materials of beauty to transform the ordinary to the extraordinary, join us for a program that will highlight application and “best practices” of denture set-up and waxing in fabricating an elegant, functional, and esthetic dentures. 

5:00-6:00pm

Peter Pizzi, CDT, MDT, F.N.G.S

Interpretation of Tooth Color; Evaluating Shade Beyond the External Visual Surface

Communication between the dentist, patient and technician is one of the most critical aspects for a successful smile outcome. This is true for shade taking, ceramic layering and for removable and fixed prosthetics, digitally or traditionally fabricated. With varying degrees of treatment planning, the goal is to create life-like restorations that blend into the patient’s surrounding dentition without a hint of an artificial replacement. Discover how VITA materials can help to “decipher” the shade code from cervical to incisal and be applied to your daily workflow and restorative deliverable using ceramics and / or external coloring techniques.

Saturday, February 25, 2023

8:00-9:15am

Peter Pizzi, CDT, MDT, F.N.G.S

Changing The Canvas Color for Esthetic Considerations and Outcome

With so many framework materials available, consistency of finished shade can be elusive. This program will help you discover and understand how to manage the underlying framework translucency, opacity, value, and chroma. Selecting the right VITA material for the correct application strategy to neutralize and/or optimize framework light dynamics in creating consistent, natural-like teeth provides the foundation for the final outcome and patient smile.

9:30-10:45am

Urban Christen, DD, RCS Dipl. Denturist

Harmonized Denture Teeth and Gingiva Sculpturing for Natural Esthetics

VITA denture teeth are designed for traditional and digital prosthetics. Patient acceptance includes having a happy smile that reflects both tooth and gingiva harmonization. Using premium or economy teeth to create the smile and using light-cured gingiva indirect composites and color stains to replicate soft and hard tissues will give you the edge when competing in a traditional or digital focused market.

11:30am-12:15pm

Marc Wagenseil, DD

Analysis, Set-Up Principles, and Patient Satisfaction Using A Freedom of Movement Concept

Understanding denture integration into the body, the central nervous system and how it accommodates, accepts, and learns to function with a denture provides the “blue-print” for successful patient rehabilitation. This denture set-up program will guide you through the model analysis and set-up methodology for using a specialized tooth form that can be used in traditional balanced and lingualized occlusal schemes. To help maintain function and patient health, these teeth also provide a “Freedom of Movement” design to help make set-up easier and quicker, as well as provide better stability of the denture and patient comfort.

12:30-1:45pm

Dr. Michael Tholey, PhD

Digital and Traditional Materials: From Science to Patient, Esthetics Simplified

Discover the newest range of VITA millable or press materials that can extend your services to address esthetics and smile dynamics for single and multiple anterior to posterior cases. With many material choices, you need to understand the latest science of restorative materials that will help guide you through your selection process. By understanding material indications and process workflows you can minimize downstream complications, provide patient satisfaction, and tissue health. Shade results will also be addressed when selecting the right material for better cosmetics.

2:00-3:15pm

Jenelle Tabaković and Nina Frketin

Signature Full Arch Artistry for Digital and Analog Dentistry

Denture fabrication can become a cookie-cutter routine without passion! This program will highlight setting VITA Denture Teeth with the patient’s expectations in mind in creating not a denture, but a genuine natural smile. The need to blend into the surrounding facial smile and tissue tone can also be elusive but using AKZENT LC (light-cured) characterization colors to simulate neck blanching, pinkish-reddish tissue can be achieved quickly and efficiently. If you require removable materials of beauty to transform the ordinary to the extraordinary, join us for a program that will highlight application and “best practices” of denture set-up and waxing in fabricating an elegant, functional, and esthetic dentures. 

3:30-4:45pm

Urban Christen, DD, RCS Dipl. Denturist

Landmark Analysis for Functional Digital and Traditional Dentures

Dentures are becoming more cosmetic as more patients are demanding natural teeth replacement and not an aged denture look. Regardless of denture fabrication from a traditional or digital perspective, it is essential that the right landmark and registration information is provided. Contoured as nature intended, with tooth-like properties comparable to ceramics, VITA denture teeth can be seamlessly integrated into any denture workflow. Take time to discover how and why these dynamic denture teeth can set your dentures apart from the everyday cookie-cutter denture result.

5:00-6:00pm

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