20 Years of Composite Excellence Part 1 – PDP119

A Restorative Dentist once told me, "Composites are like being married to a supermodel....sometimes you forget how good looking they can be!" - I had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Javier Quirós who shares his vast experience with composite veneers and restorative rehabilitation with composite resin. https://youtu.be/D_ahHFXosqA Check out this full episode on YouTube Ready to learn the management of Bruxism and TMD online? Click here to enrol to SplintCourse The Protrusive Dental Pearl: Check out this Casi 3C instrument distributed in the UK by Enlighten who are the sole distributors of Cosmedent Products. This is a non-stick instrument that provides a perfect curved shape that beautifully forms the palatal contours of your incisors. Watch this video below: https://youtu.be/QDoD182j-DU “It doesn't matter what material you choose, porcelain or composite. What matters are your beliefs, your morals, and your principles of treatment planning” Dr. Javier Quirós Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Highlights of this episode: 7:32 The start of Composite Veneers11:23 Which Type of Composite is Best?14:07 Composite Veneers of Lower Incisors17:39 Ceramic Rehab vs Composite Rehab23:35 Composite Prep in terms of Occlusion33:31 Minimum Thickness for Composites38:26 Injection Moulding43:44 Treating Toothwear with Composite Stay tuned for Part Two! Check out the upcoming courses with Dr. Javier Quirós! If you enjoyed this episode, you'll surely love this Composite vs Ceramic with Dr. Chris Orr  Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: Because lower veneers, you need a lot of space if you want to do porcelain. I only do porcelain veneers on lower incisors whenever I'm raising the vertical dimension of occlusion. Because then, I can have a lot of space, Jaz. But if I don't have that space which we never do have that space, then we can do a very thin layer of composite. Jaz's Introduction:Hello Protruserati! I'm Jaz Gulati and welcome back to another episode of Protrusive Dental Podcast. Today we're joined by Dr. Javier Queiroz, from Costa Rica, who is one of the best dentists I know when it comes to composite resin artistry. This guy has been doing it for so long to such a high caliber. I look at his work and I think, WOW! And I want to basically piece apart his thinking process. How he uses composite? What are the best ways to get the maximum results using composite resin? And what are the sort of limits? When should you consider ceramic? Which is a theme we've covered before in the podcast. But it's always great to have new perspectives. And what I gathered after recording with Dr. Queiroz is that he's very pro composite. But he's also someone who's placed, thousands of units of ceramic as well. So, he can give us the lowdown on them both. Some of the main themes we cover in this part one episode, because again, it's one of those amazing episodes, that it's full of so much value that I had to split it into two and you guys voted for it on the Protrusive Dental Community and on App protrusive dental Instagram page. I gave you a couple of options. I gave you composite additive equilibrations, and I gave you high end cosmetic rehabilitations. So, one was like more occlusion base, one was more actually composite as the material itself, and you guys selected COMPOSITE for this round. So, after the part two, then I'll release the one about additive equilibration with the composite. So, that'd be a really good one as well. But for this one, the kind of themes we cover in today's episode is HOW MUCH CAN YOU LENGTHEN TEETH SAFELY WITH COMPOSITE. Which is kind of an occlusion question as well. But it gives us some guidelines to follow in terms of what substrate, what kind of composite, and planning your occlusal design and smile aesthetics. I asked Dr. Queiroz his experience on how long composite veneers are lasting.