Online course
Vertical Preparation Protocols: The Complete Guide in 24 Lessons from Tomorrow Tooth
by Dr. Marco Maiolino, Pasquale Venuti
  • Dr. Marco Maiolino
    Dr. Pasquale Venuti
  • 24 lessons
  • Duration:
    15 h 29 min
  • Access to the course is not limited in time
You can buy the entire course now at the new price - $29, instead of the old one - $885
Course program
Vertical Preparation Protocols: The Complete Guide in 24 Lessons from Tomorrow Tooth
24 online lessons

Big course on vertical preparation for prosthodontists and dental technicians.

24 online lessons are:

– 16 hours of intensive training with detailed protocols of all stages of working with VertiPrep
– Lecturers who are proficient in the vertical preparation technique from A to Z - Pasquale Venuti and Marco Maiolino
– Ideal training for the "prosthodontist - dental technician" team.

Lecturers will consider in detail:

– features of vertical preparation (biomechanics, indications and contraindications for use, used burs and handpieces
– detailed protocol of impressions: analog and digital methods
– protocol for manufacturing and cementing temporary restorations
– protocol for manufacturing and cementing final restorations.
Why Verti-prep?
32 min
Definition and development of vertical preparation
23 min
Review of preparation methods
12 min
Preparation with flame-shaped and butt bur
38 min
The difference between edgeless and shoulderless approaches
34 min
Tooth preparation techniques
20 min
Design of a shoulder
19 min
Restoration of teeth with deep subgingival and endodontic lesions
1 h 4 min
Biomechanics of restorations. Part 1
1 h 32 min
Biomechanics of restorations. Part 2
1 h 32 min
Provisional restoration
50 min
Provisional prosthetics
1 h 3 min
A free space management in the vertical preparation technology
43 min
Indirect restoration thickness and material
27 min
Edge and edgeless preparation. Impressions
22 min
Die preparation. Analog and digital methods
12 min
Die spacer setting
30 min
Indirect restoration cementation
52 min
Managing contact areas
22 min
Vertical preparation
44 min
Your first Vertiprep. The most common mistakes for those who start
23 min
Impression: analog method
34 min
Impressions: digital approach
34 min
Keeping Informations (in 3 parts)
1 h 42 min
  • 24
    lessons
  • -96%
    discount
  • $856
    savings
You can buy the entire course now at the new price - $29, instead of the old one - $885
The full course program
Why Verti-prep?
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– Vertical approach: working with hard and soft tissues
– 9 benefits of vertical preparation
– Indications for vertical preparation
– Long-term results of vertical preparation
– Clinical and laboratory prosthetic workflows. Tips.

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 32 min
Definition and development of vertical preparation
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– Why Vertical Preparation is underused? Prejudices about Vertiprep
– How to define a vertical preparation
– Difference beetween feather and and knife edge
– Edgeless and shoulderless preparation
– Conceptional differencies between margin and non- margin preparation
– What is Batt bur in prosthodontics used for?
– Why is vertical preparation friendly for periodontally compromised patients?

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 23 min
Review of preparation methods
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– Comparison of soft tissue condition with provisional restorations and without
– Toe-Heel approach that solves many issues
– BOPT and Vertiprep: edgeless strategy
– Geometry of Batt bur
– Establishment of undesired ridges, shoulders and irregularities
– How does the bur move while preparing vertically. Possible side effects.

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 12 min
Preparation with flame-shaped and butt bur
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– What is the Batt bur used for in the prosthetic dentistry?
– The Toe-Heel Concept
– Mechanics of flame-shaped bur tooth preparation
– Problems related to the preparation of the tooth and soft tissues around it
– Preparation technique of hard tissues under the crown using the Batt bur
– Advantages of the Batt bur usage
– Analysis of clinical cases and long-term results».

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 38 min
The difference between edgeless and shoulderless approaches
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– Analysis of a clinical case of prosthetic restoration of a severely destroyed molar using vertical preparation:
- The creation of the crown insertion path
- Filling of subgingival undercuts
- Preparation of the tooth and soft tissues
- Permanent prosthetic restoration.
– X-ray folllow-up of the tooth condition and periodontal tissues when deciding on the use of vertical preparation
– Features of endodontic preparation of the tooth before vertical preparation
– Analysis of a clinical case involving the preparation of a frontal teeth with a shoulder and taking an impression
– Preparation of the tooth for digital impression after vertical preparation.

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 34 min
Tooth preparation techniques
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– The technique of maximum enamel saving
– The selective preparation technique
– Indications and contraindications for each of the techniques
– Rules of vertical and horizontal rationality.

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 20 min
Design of a shoulder
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– Critical biomechanical zones of the tooth
– What is a shoulder and what is it used for?
– Features of preparation, finishing the abutment and impression taking
– Analysis of the clinical case.

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 19 min
Restoration of teeth with deep subgingival and endodontic lesions
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– The biological width of the tooth, and how it is affected by various factors?
– X-ray assessment of the condition of periodontal tissues. When should I reject performing of the restoration?
– Risks of furcation lesions during surgical extension of the tooth crown
– Gingival margin expansion and deepening technology (DME and DLE)
– Analysis of clinical cases of dental restorations with extensive subgingival defects
– Analysis of clinical cases of restoration of teeth with odontogenic cutaneous sinus tract (OCST)
– Non-standard and extra-complicated clinical cases.

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 1 h 4 min
Biomechanics of restorations. Part 1
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– Structure of the complex "tooth-cement-restoration"
– "Crackology" - the science of broken restoration. Why is this happening?
– Physical properties of substances that affect the durability of restorations
– The forces that affect the restoration in the oral cavity
– Save or remove the dentin overhanging edges? How to increase the strength of the tooth after restoration?
– Internal and external strength of tooth tissues. "Invisible" fractures
– A strategic approach to the prevention and treatment of tooth fractures and chipped restorations
– The importance of preserving the edge ridges to achieve long-term restorations
– Crash tests of removed teeth
– Is it true that adhesive restorations strengthen the tooth? Breaking the Myths of composite and amalgam
– Structural analysis of the tooth. Optimal depth and width of preparation
– The importance of the anterior guidance in biomechanics and gnathology
– Why is it important to correctly reproduce tooth cusps?

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 1 h 32 min
Biomechanics of restorations. Part 2
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– Advantages and disadvantages of the adhesive protocol. Analysis of the clinical case
– Stress factors of adhesive restoration
– Borders of the adhesion. When is possible to carry out an adhesion?
– Features of adhesion to enamel and dentin
– Features of enamel and dentin preparation for the adhesive protocol
– Which adhesive should I choose?
– The thickness of the tooth walls for the choice of treatment method
– Analysis of errors in the implementation of the adhesive protocol in various clinical cases
– Adhesion of various materials to tooth tissues
– The importance of ferrule preservation in adhesive restoration
– Ferrule as the most important factor of tooth strengthening after endodontic treatment
– Creating a ferrule effect
– Increasing the clinical height of the tooth crown
– Overview and step-by-step analysis of clinical cases.

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 1 h 32 min
Provisional restoration
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– Provisional restorations are a necessary stage for successful prosthetics
– Margins of provisional restorations. Working with soft tissues
– Interproximal contacts of provisional restorations
– Occlusal contacts of provisional restorations
– Relining of provisional restorations
– Materials for provisional restorations
– Detailed protocol for creating provisional restorations in the oral cavity.

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 50 min
Provisional prosthetics
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– How to avoid interference between the provisional crown and the tooth?
– The main errors that occur at the clinical and laboratory stages in the manufacture of temporary crowns
– A confirmed and recognized approach to provisional prosthetics. Clinical cases
– Stages of manufacturing of analog (classic) provisional restorations
– Manufacturing provisional restorations for posterior teeth
– Manufacturing provisional restorations for anterior teeth
– Stages of manufacturing digital temporary crowns using Exocad
– Tricks and lifehacks of provisional prosthetics
– Analysis of clinical cases.

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 1 h 3 min
A free space management in the vertical preparation technology
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– Pros and cons of having a free tooth/abutment height
– The optimum thickness of the restoration
– The relationship between reliability, aesthetics and long-term restoration
– Reasons of chipping of restorations at the stages of fitting and chewing
– Geometry and biomechanics of dental preparation for indirect restorations.

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 43 min
Indirect restoration thickness and material
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– Mechanical principles for the selection of the thickness and material of the restoration
– Occlusal principles for the selection of thickness and material of restorations
– Comparative characteristics of various materials
– Comparative characteristics of different thicknesses
– The choice of material depending on the type of preparation
– Thickness of restoration: digital planning.

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 27 min
Edge and edgeless preparation. Impressions
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– Edge and edgeless preparation: indications and contraindications, pros and cons
– Detailed comparative characteristics of edge and edgeless preparation
– Edge location
– Clinical case: restoration of a severely damaged tooth. Choice of preparation method
– Ideal time to take impressions.

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 22 min
Die preparation. Analog and digital methods
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– Die preparation: tools and techniques
– Errors in the die preparation
– Features of the die preparation with digital and analog methods
– Features of the die preparation depending on the edge type.

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 12 min
Die spacer setting
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– Pre-cementation retention (frictional fit)
– Post-cementation retention (cement fit)
– Die spacing improves post cementation retention
– Setting for inverted spacing
– Using digital technologies to calculate the spacing
– Processing of the gingival margin of the crown.

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 30 min
Indirect restoration cementation
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– Materials for cementation of indirect restorations
– Comparative characteristics of fixing materials
– How to succeed in indirect restoration cementation
– Selection of the cement according to the material of the indirect restoration
– Clinical cases. Decision making strategy.

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 52 min
Managing contact areas
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– Causes of crown fit problems
– Methods for troubleshooting the crown fitting process
– Tools for troubleshooting the crown fitting process
– Planning the ideal contact point using digital technology.

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 22 min
Vertical preparation. Provisional and final restorations
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– Vertical preparation features
– Control of the preparation depth
– Using a silicone key
– Fabrication and fixation of provisional restorations
– Taking impressions: analog method
– Fabrication and fixation of final restorations
– Orthodontic treatment prior to prosthetics: indications
– Fixation of final restorations.

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 44 min
Your first Vertiprep. The most common mistakes for those who start
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– Discussing common mistakes

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 23 min
Impression: analog method
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– When to take impressions: perfect timing
– Analog VS digital impression: indications
– 2-stage impression (analog method)
– Working with soft tissues when taking an impression
– Impression materials: characteristics, pros and cons
– Putty impressions
– Impression preparation.

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 34 min
Impressions: digital approach
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– Indications for digital impressions
– Analog VS digital impression
– Scanners. Short review
– Perfect scanning. Criteria for excellent scan result
– Undercuts analysis
– Features of taking impressions depending on the clinical case
– Soft tissue informations
– Clinical case: restoration of a severely damaged tooth with milled crown
– Features of taking impressions depending on the preparation.

Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 34 min
Keeping Informations
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Lesson program:
– Prosthetic and surgical treatment of malocclusion: digital planning
– Use of surgical templates for implantation
– JIG in composite for increasing vertical dimension
– Impressions and bite registration using the facial bow
– Working with models in the articulator. WAX-UP
– Design and fabrication of provisional restorations, taking into account the VDO increase
– Intraoral scanning with provisional restorations
– Digital design and production of final restoration
– Аn interdisciplinary approach in the class 3 treatment
– Silicone key
– Milled provisional in PMMA
– Using Bis-Acrylic and a silicone key to obtain a provisional restorations
– Tips in using teflon when taking digital impressions.

In 3 parts.
Recommended for: Prosthetist, Dental Technician, General Dentist.
Duration: 1 h 42 min
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Marco Maiolino
Pasquale Venuti
Vertical Preparation Protocols: The Complete Guide in 24 Lessons from Tomorrow Tooth
24 lessons • 15 h 29 min
Access to the course is unlimited in time!
Marco Maiolino
Dr.
Bioclear diplomate in Europe.
The founder, together with Dr. Pasquale Venuti, of a group labeled “Tomorrow Tooth“.
Active member of SIDOC

(Italian Society of Restorative Dentistry).
Private practice in Syracuse, Italy.
Pasquale Venuti
Dr.
Dr. Pasquale Venuti received his DDS from the University of Naples “Federico II” cum laude in 1999. He is in full time practice in Mirabella Eclano, Italy, as a general dentist. In cooperation with Dr. David Clark, Dr. John Khademi and Dr. Marco Maiolino he has founded a group labeled “Tomorrow Tooth”, whose goal is to share Outcome-Based and Patient-Centered Dentistry. He lectures internationally on a variety of topics related to restorative dentistry, endodontics and prosthodontics.