7 December 2019 | Athens
5 Days Masterclass in Aesthetic Dentistry
Professors: Dr. Mardas Nikos

Aims and Objectives
This course aims to provide:
• Knowledge and skills of clinical procedures in adhesive and aesthetic dentistry
• Knowledge and understanding of contemporary aesthetic biomaterials
• Improvement of the standards of delivered aesthetic clinical dental procedures
• Broadening of the options for treatment planning of complex aesthetic problems

Topics reviewed
• Aesthetic smile evaluation, aesthetic concepts and pre-treatment case documentation, treatment planning
• Occlusal records for the aesthetic case (casts, face-bows, interocclusal registration, semi-adjustable articulators)
• Dental photography
• Anterior and posterior composite restorations/adhesive dentistry
• Ceramic Restorations: veneers and crowns
• Aesthetic metal-ceramic crowns and bridges
• Tissue management, impressions for indirect restorations
• Aesthetic Periodontics: Anterior crown lengthening, extraction site preservation, recession coverage, augmentation
• Aesthetic cements and cementation techniques for ceramic restorations
• Interdisciplinary treatment planning for complex aesthetic problems

Teaching and Learning
• Lectures
• Step by step patient case presentations
• Interactive patient treatment planning exercises
• Ample hands-on training (in skills laboratory and clinic)
• Video demonstrations of clinical procedures
• Current literature compilation
• Evidence-based dentistry
• Interdisciplinary case approach
• Interactive review sessions with the turning point system
• Small instructors/student ratio

Dr. Nikos Mardas
Dr Nikos Mardas qualified in Dentistry from Athens University in 1992; He completed his 3-year training as a specialist and the MS degree in Periodontology in 1997 and his PhD degree in 2005 at the Royal Dental College, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
During the period 2005-2015 was a Senior Lecturer / Honorary Specialist and M.Clin.Dent program co-ordinator in Periodontology Unit, at UCL, Eastman Dental Institute. In July 2015, he was appointed Senior Clinical Lecturer & Honorary Consultant (Associate Professor level) in the Centre for Adult Oral Health, Institute of Dentistry, within Barts & The London School of Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London and Honorary Senior Lecturer in UCL, Eastman Dental Institute. At the same time, he is a consultant Periodontist & Implant Surgeon in 4 private practices.
Dr Mardas has published many papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals in the field of periodontal, bone regeneration and implant dentistry, he is editorial board member in Clinical oral Implant Research and reviewer for all the main international journals of his field. He has participated in consensus meetings of EAO, EFP and EADE. Dr Mardas has extensively lectured nationally and internationally and in 2011 was awarded the Basic Research Prize, of the European Association for Osseointegration. In March 2015 was appointed Education Delegate for the UK & Ireland ITI section.
Dr. Mardas has more than 18 years of private practice and university / hospital based clinical experience in treatment of periodontal diseases including conventional and regenerative periodontal surgery, periodontal plastic surgery, alveolar bone augmentation procedures and dental implants alone or in combination with bone grafting procedures.