Esthetic Rehabilitation By: Mauro Fradeani

Category: Prosthodontics

Instructor(s): Mauro Fradeani

Course structure: Lessons: 10 lessons | Duration: 8 h 10 min

Course overview

The course is designed to give clinicians the skills and assurance they need to manage prosthetic cases of any complexity on natural teeth and implants—whether you are restoring a single tooth with a crown, veneer, onlay or bridge, or rebuilding an entire arch with comprehensive prosthetic rehabilitation.

By following the lessons, you will:

– Deepen your understanding of the step-by-step, evidence-based protocol developed by Dr. Mauro Fradeani and applied for over 30 years at Studio Fradeani, an internationally recognized center for esthetic and prosthetic rehabilitation dentistry.
– Develop the capacity to harmonize esthetic, biological and functional demands in cases involving natural teeth and implants, and to clearly recognize each phase required to formulate a treatment plan, including the evaluation of facial profile, dentolabial dynamics, speech, dental morphology and gingival architecture.

The videos walk you through the minimally invasive prosthetic strategies used by Dr. Fradeani, emphasizing conservative preparation designs that preserve as much enamel as possible. This approach supports reliable adhesive cementation procedures and provides patients with an exceptionally comfortable experience throughout the entire course of treatment.

Curriculum

Lesson 1. Structuring a step-by-step roadmap for prosthetic rehabilitation

• Program:
• 1. Exploring digital and traditional approaches to treatment planning
• 2. Practical step‑by‑step guidance for facebow registration and transfer
• 3. Creating and applying diagnostic wax‑ups and mock‑ups in clinical workflows

Lesson 2. Facial evaluation for esthetic planning in prosthetic rehabilitation

• Program:
• 1. Establishing the patient’s natural, relaxed head posture
• 2. Recognizing balanced vs. unbalanced horizontal and vertical relationships
• 3. Assessment of facial structures from the front
• 4. Assessment of facial structures from the side

Lesson 3. Smile design foundations: dentolabial evaluation for prosthetic treatment

• Program:
• 1. Incisal edge position and tooth exposure at rest
• 2. Dentolabial asymmetry
• 3. Smile line
• 4. Labial corridor

Lesson 4. Achieving anterior smile harmony with natural teeth and implant restorations

• Program:
• 1. Principles of harmonious tooth proportions
• 2. Balanced and coordinated gum contours
• 3. Enhancing esthetics in cases involving natural dentition
• 4. Refining esthetic outcomes in implant-based restorations

Lesson 5. Evaluating function to guide esthetic and prosthetic treatment planning

• Program:
• 1. Understanding how the bite influences function and long-term stability
• 2. Centric relation: practical steps, indications, and underlying rationale
• 3. Maximum intercuspation, adapted occlusion, centric occlusal position, and the principles of anterior guidance
• 4. Vertical dimension: clinical methods, timing, and justification for increasing it

Lesson 6. Managing tooth surface loss from dental erosion

• Program:
• 1. Internal sources of wear: damage linked to reflux and eating disorders such as bulimia
• 2. External chemical wear: acids from everyday foods and beverages
• 3. Protective and buffering functions of saliva in erosive processes
• 4. Strategies for assessing and treating patients with significant erosive tooth loss, with a focus on complex full-mouth rehabilitations

Lesson 7. Tooth surface loss: the role of friction

• Program:
• 1. Normal versus harmful tooth wear caused by friction
• 2. How occlusal relationships influence bruxism
• 3. Interactions between bruxism and obstructive sleep apnea
• 4. Practical strategies for treating patients with significant frictional wear during complex full-mouth rehabilitation

Lesson 8. Merging biology with smile design: achieving harmony in appearance and function

• Program:
• 1. Choosing between conventional and modern approaches to tooth reduction: appropriate indications, step-by-step execution, and clinical rationale.
• 2. Finishing margins at the gumline and within the sulcus: techniques for provisional crowns and bridgework.
• 3. Shaping teeth for veneers with a focus on gingival harmony and preservation of biological structures.
• 4. Impression strategies using orthodontic wire to accurately reveal and record cervical margins.

Lesson 9. A complete guide to rebuilding the entire dentition with prosthetic treatment

• Program:
• 1. Evaluating smile appearance, bite efficiency, and speech characteristics
• 2. Creating a diagnostic wax design and clinical mock-up
• 3. Contemporary approaches to tooth preparation, definitive impression techniques, and coordination with the laboratory
• 4. Designing individualized anterior guidance and performing cross-mounting procedures
• 5. Clinical try-in, fine-tuning the fit and aesthetics, and luting the definitive restorations

Lesson 10. Advanced Techniques in Full-Ceramic Tooth Restorations

• Program:
• 1. When zirconia is the material of choice and where its clinical performance reaches its boundaries
• 2. Situations ideally suited to lithium disilicate and the cases in which its use should be reconsidered
• 3. Comparison of veneers, extended veneer restorations, table‑top restorations, and buccal–occlusal veneer designs
• 4. Principles and protocols of the Minimally Invasive Prosthetic Procedure (MIPP)