Courses

Predictable White and Bright Smiles Part II

Aims and Objectives:

Full day lecture with live demonstration (7 hours):

• Learn how to assess texture of the enamel
• Predict results before the treatment
• How to carry out step by step painless teeth whitening treatment (home and power bleaching)
• Marketing

Evening lecture (1.5 hours):

• Overview of the causes of teeth stains
• Indications for teeth whitening treatment
• Contraindications
• Shade taking
• Photographic record taking
• Different methods of teeth whitening

Speaker Profile:

Dr. Wyman Chan, BDS (Lond.), LDS, RCS (eng.), IADFE., PhD is a board certified clinical and research dentist with special expertise in the field of tooth whitening.

Over the last 20 years, he has worked with all major home and power whitening systems. His PhD research led to seven UK and US patents. Wyman won the prestigious Procter and Gamble Investigator Award at the 2008 International Association for Dental Research (IADR) meeting in Toronto, Canada and was selected as a chairperson for a poster discussion at IADR meeting in Barcelona in July 2010. He presented a clinical paper on a new home whitening system using a spectrophotometer to measure the shade of each tooth in three areas, the cervical, the body and the incisal area.

He wrote a chapter entitled ‘Scientific Advance in Tooth-whitening Processes’ within the book, ‘The Art of Treatment Planning’ Dental and Medical Approaches to the Face and Smile, by Quintessence Publishing October 2009.