What, Where and How to Start?

Start with full gold crown preparation. First you have to established how to do a good chamfer before starting on making shoulders. Developing the skill to make a good shoulder is very difficult if you haven’t mastered doing a good chamfer yet.

Making full gold crowns will be your starting ground to develop the hand skills needed for crown preparation. After you have done it so well, until then we could expand it further into practicing a nice good shoulder margin on PFM crown preparation.

Full gold crown preps are only made on molar teeth.

For PFM crown preps, the recommended sequence of teeth to practice is: (1) Upper and Lower Molars, (2) Upper Centrals (3) Upper Premolars, (4) Upper Canines, (5) Lower Crowns

Regarding of which surface to be tackled first: (1) Occlusal, (2) Buccal-Lingual, (3) Proximal

Overview of the Course

The course is divided into sections according to type of teeth that are usually asked in the bench test. On the first section, you will be taught about how to make full gold crowns, porcelain fused to metal crowns, and all ceramic.

Basically the principles of those three are applicable to the the rest of the teeth as well, so it is impractical to repeat it again and again. The only thing that are to be discussed on each tooth is the modification of the prep depending on their unique anatomies.