10/12/2025 – Simulation Session Week 3 – Crown Prep Course – Scheme 1

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Course Information

Date: 10/12/2025

Start Time: 10:00-13:00

Completion Time: 3 Hours

Venue: NIMDTA, 42 Beechill Road,Belfast, BT8 7RL

Speakers: David McCaughey, Specialist Practitioner, Belfast

Course Aims

  • To introduce Dentists attending this course to the NIMDTA 3D Virtual Reality Simodont system and to use this system to practice full coverage crown preparations on molar and incisor teeth.
  • To review specific areas of crown preparations for use in clinical dental practice and to identify possible ways to improve outcomes in these areas.
  • To introduce and make use of Videos in teaching and demonstrating these optimal crown preparation principles and techniques.
  • To challenge some orthodox thinking about crown preparation techniques.The aims for the course

Course Objectives

On completing this course the participants will:

  • Have a better understanding of how to overcome common problems in full coverage crown preparation treatment.
  • Learn with a new Video teaching and demonstration technique, clinically proven crown preparation techniques to make dental practicing life easier by solving an existing problem when providing future restorative full coverage crown treatment.
  • Be aware of some techniques which they may not be familiar with, but the using a new Virtual Reality Simodont system to practice these crown preparations on molar and incisor teeth.Objective 1

Course Learning Content

At the end of this presentation Foundation Dentists will be able to:

Identify how to implement these tips into their practice.

Identify and improve areas of their clinical crown preparation practice.

Identify methods to improve their everyday crown preparation treatments for molars and incisors.

GDC Development Outcome C

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