Tuition: $295
Lecture: 7CE credits
Course Objectives:
Dr Cooper will present a workflow for predictable success with digital dentures based on a combination of proven techniques from both analogue and digital protocols. Topics to be discussed include impressions versus scans, the use of photographs and videos, bite rims versus digital set-up to establish tooth position, establishing the proper vertical dimension, centric relation bite records, relining an old denture, lab communication and much more. Participants will learn which steps are really necessary, and why, and how they can done digitally. A review of the options for both milled and printed dentures and the many options for materials. These concepts apply to full denture fabrication as well as try-in dentures to establish tooth position for All-on-X casework. Dr Cooper has been passionate about this project, working tirelessly with students for years to determine which steps are essential for success.
Lyndon F. Cooper, D.D.S., Ph.D., is dean of VCU School of Dentistry and an internationally renowned and innovative patient-oriented researcher and clinician. He has established a reputation for leading innovative teams in translational research and advancing a research-oriented approach to evaluating clinical devices and other patient-care solutions.
Prior to joining VCU, Cooper served as associate dean for research and head of the Department of Oral Biology at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) School of Dentistry. Here, he expanded research in regenerative sciences, innovative biomedical devices and translational studies evaluating the roles of a variety of biomarkers linked to cancer. Under Cooper’s leadership, the Department of Oral Biology at UIC served as a foundation for many of the basic science topics taught to the school’s D.M.D., M.S., and Ph.D. students. He continued his clinical activities as a prosthodontist by leading clinical studies and establishing the school’s Clinical Research Center.
Prior to UIC, Cooper served as program director of Advanced Prosthodontics and Stallings Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina Adams School of Dentistry. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics (ACP) and a former ACP President, who received the ACP’s 2004 Clinician/Researcher Award. He was also named the recipient of the 2009 International Association for Dental Research Distinguished Scientist Award for Prosthodontics and Implantology.
After earning his D.D.S. from New York University, Cooper went on to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester, New York, and a Certificate in Prosthodontics from the Eastman Dental Center in Rochester. Later, he completed a two-year research fellowship at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research in Bethesda, Maryland.
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