JOIN US ON A FREE ZOOM WEBINAR:
Mastering Direct Restorations: Structural Management, Cracks, and Fiber Reinforcement
Join Us: Saturday, April 26th, 12:00 pm Eastern Time / 9:00 am Pacific Los Angeles Time
What You Will Learn
For individual teeth, restorative choices are driven by many factors, but more than anything else, it is by the presence or absence of cracks and/or endodontic treatment, and the amount of remaining tooth structure. By carefully managing tooth structure, and with the use of composite resin, strategically laminated continuous UHMWPE fiber and discontinuous short fiber composite, we can create a new class of direct restoration that better manage tensile forces, resists and deflects cracks and lessens the effects of polymerization shrinkage on remaining tooth structure. These techniques have changed the way I see teeth.
Join me on Saturday, April 26th. I am looking forward to sharing these concepts with you.
- 👉 Strategies for managing and preserving the structural integrity of teeth we treat.
- 👉 Science-based evidence and techniques for crack dissection.
- 👉 The importance of peripheral tooth structure in restorative success.
- 👉 How and Why Ribbond studies are not all in agreement and the technique that will maximize success with continuous fiber-reinforcement.
- 👉 Continuous and Short Fiber materials are not interchangeable: Learn the differences and the best indications for each material.
April 26th
12:00 pm ET
Duration 120 minutes
About Dr. Grant Chyz
Affiliate Instructor, Department of Restorative Dentistry
Collaborator in B4T Research Lab
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Dr. Chyz earned his D.D.S. degree in 1983 from the University of Michigan and established a clinical practice in Seattle, Washington. This spring, after 41 years, Dr. Chyz decided to transition from his downtown Seattle private practice to spend more time at University of Washington, doing research related to optimizing structural restorative dental techniques in Dr. Alireza Sadr’s B4T research lab. Dr. Chyz has been involved in various study clubs over the years. He gained valuable insight into global dental products when working with 3M-ESPE on Filtek Supreme (Z350).
Most importantly, Grant first laminated Ribbond to internal tooth structure, using a technique that has recently been named the “Dr. Chyz Technique” by Ribbond, in 1999 – giving him a unique, long-term perspective on the value of fiber lamination to augment direct restorations. He is a passionate advocate for structurally sound, tooth-preserving dentistry.