Thursday at Hannover Dental School

Today the group where once more on clinic and in the clinical skills lab. We got to meet the acting Head of School, Professor Guertsen. We had a talk from Dr Pott from the Department of Conservative Dentistry, Periodontology and Preventative Dentistry. Dr Pott showed us varied approaches and the importance of clinical decision-making taking … Read more

Wednesday on the Hannover Exchange

On Wednesday morning the group visited Xental dental laboratories near Celle.  There we met one of the directors Axel Quint.  We saw computer aided design of a zirconia crown and computer aided manufacture of crowns and bridges. There is a video on the CADSPEED website showing one of the machines that we saw in action. … Read more

Hannover exchange on Tuesday

Today the group attended a special lecture. Interestingly, this involved an in-patient attending at the front of the lecture theatre and sitting in the dental chair. It was interesting to see a medical patient who also had dental problems. A third year student would take the patient history and then fifth year student would do … Read more

First year’s gain CAD-CAM experience

Recently our first year dental students spent the day learning how to design and manufacture CAD-CAM dental restorations using the latest scanning and milling software. Thanks to Sirona, the students had a chance to learn the theory behind this technology as well as practice the technical aspects of this advanced system. CAD-CAM is quickly infiltrating … Read more