Speakers and Topics
8.30am - 9.50am
Kaveh Shams, DT
Lecture:
Redefining Digital Dentures: A Hybrid Digital Workflow with Friction Sleeves
Description:
This webinar introduces a hybrid approach to digital denture production, leveraging the friction sleeve workflow to create semi-removable prostheses. This technique ensures enhanced patient comfort and provide stability, while offering superior hygiene benefits compared to fixed restorations, as patients can easily remove and clean their prosthesis. Join us to explore how this workflow combines digital precision with practical functionality, delivering high-quality results that prioritize patient satisfaction and long-term oral health.
About the Instructor:
Kaveh Shams graduated from Lambeth College – London in Dental Technology in 2010. Since then, he worked in multiple dental labs and milling centers in Europe and Canada. He also offered his service to the dental community of Canada as a CAD CAM specialist for numerous dental companies.
His passion for digital dentistry made him join Zirkonzahn, and now he works as a CAD CAM expert and the branch manager for Zirkonzahn Canada.
Sponsors:
Kaveh Shams, DT
9.50am - 11.10am
Mark Chan, DD
Lecture:
Locator FIXED : Real world cases from a Denturist Perspective
Description:
This presentation explores Locator FIXED through real-world cases from a denturist’s perspective, highlighting its impact on implant-retained prosthetics. It will cover key benefits such as enhanced stability, patient comfort, and ease of use, along with case studies demonstrating its effectiveness in various clinical scenarios. Attendees will gain insights into treatment planning, prosthetic design, and long-term maintenance, learning how Locator FIXED improves both functional and esthetic outcomes in modern denture therapy.
About the Instructor:
Mark Chan received his diploma from Denturism in Toronto at George Brown College with honours. Currently Mark is practicing in Ontario with a main focus on high-end removable and implant prosthetics. With a passion for both technical and clinical techniques he is certified in Bio-logic, BPS and SDC denture concepts and is a ZunstZhanWerk “Art of Denture” award winning Denturist, he is a sought after consultant and opinion leader in the Denturist and Lab community.
Andriy Khomyn
Practiced dental technology and denturism for over 13 years
Founding denturist of Smile Care Denture Centre - focus on Implantology
Bio-functional Prosthetic System certified clinic and denture laboratory
Specializes in the conversion and restoration of immediate load, hybrid and fixed arch restorations
Proven success and have restored over 3000 smiles in the past five years
Sponsors:
Andriy Khomyn, RDT, DD
Mark Chan, DD
Andriy Khomyn, RDT, DD
11.10am - 12.30pm
Dillon Gupta, DD
Lecture:
The Affordable Overdenture to Improve your Patient’s Quality of Life
Description:
Imagine a workflow that allowed the clinician to offer an overdenture treatment option without the hassle of impression copings, laboratory analogs, processing kits, or even chairside acrylics… It doesn’t sound real, does it?
Join us for a discussion regarding an affordable, and simple treatment option available in Canada. Topics discussed will revolve around retention.sil material for overdenture fixation and a virtual demonstration to the audience to gauge how simple the retrofit procedure is! An overview of TiSi.snap attachment will also be provided, as a competitively priced treatment option.
Learning Objectives:
Understand how to retrofit a denture chairside using retention.sil (hands on virtual viewing)
Strengthen your consultation skills by competitively positioning this treatment option in
your clinical offerings
Learn about the TiSi.snap abutment which is now available for use in Canada!
Enhance your clinical offerings with this simple, and economically friendly treatment
option
Observe clinical highlights from around the world utilizing this technology
About the Instructor:
Dillon has quite an extensive background within the dental industry as an intern through his schooling days at Central Dental Ltd where he gained insight on the supply/business side of the dental industry. Once licensed as a DD, Dillon simultaneously held a role as a business development manager for a boutique commercial dental lab while also associating clinically around SW ON. In addition to this Dillon has held multiple clinical associations in both the public and private sector, with extensive knowledge of high volume/DSO level patient management and case turnaround. His experience working with 40 offices under one umbrella coupled with his experience with Toronto Public Health (Dental Division), and multiple private associations has allowed him to gauge valuable insight into the industry. He has a strong interest in digital dentistry - specifically in simplifying workflows. By staying up to date with the latest technologies and courses, the options he is able to present to each patient is tailored specifically to their unique needs. He is currently setting out on his latest venture: seeking to provide care to the underserved indigenous populations in Northern, ON through the power of efficient clinical workflows, coupled with digital manufacturing.
Sponsors:
Dillon Gupta, DD
