Subject:  Restorative/Adhesive  |  Audience: All Attendees   |  CE Credits: 3 hours Lecture

Course Description:

Part II — Restore
Additive Composite Restorations: Conservative Aesthetic Rehabilitation and Tooth Replacement

Advances in adhesive dentistry allow clinicians to manage patients along a continuum—from early disease interception to conservative reconstruction. This two-part educational program explores how modern adhesive techniques enable dentists to preserve natural tooth structure while delivering aesthetic and predictable outcomes.

Each course is designed to stand independently while also forming part of a larger philosophy of care that prioritizes prevention, conservation, and long-term patient health.

When restorative treatment becomes necessary, adhesive dentistry allows clinicians to rebuild teeth with highly conservative and additive techniques. This course focuses on restorative solutions that preserve remaining tooth structure while achieving exceptional aesthetic outcomes.

Through carefully curated clinical cases with long-term documentation, participants will explore predictable approaches to aesthetic composite bonding, simplified composite layering techniques for natural optical effects, and bonded resin fixed partial prostheses for conservative replacement of missing anterior teeth.

This session demonstrates how adhesive techniques allow clinicians to restore and replace teeth while preserving as much natural structure as possible.

Learning Objectives:

• Utilize additive composite techniques to restore teeth conservatively
• Apply simplified composite layering protocols that reproduce natural optical effects
• Use bonded resin fixed partial prostheses as conservative options for anterior tooth replacement
• Combine adhesive restorative strategies to achieve optimal aesthetic integration and long-term biologic success
• Communicate the value of conservative adhesive treatment solutions beyond traditional insurance limitations

About the Speaker:

Dr. Abdi Sameni is a 1991 graduate of the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry at the University of Southern California (USC). He lectures nationally and internationally on interdisciplinary dentistry, digital photography in clinical practice, and various aspects of biomimetic and esthetic dentistry.

Dr. Sameni is the founder of the Los Angeles Dental Symposium (est. 2019) and was the developer and inaugural chairman of the USC International Restorative Dentistry Symposium. In 2024, he became a member of the Bio-Emulation group, a global collective focused on biologically inspired dentistry.

He is a member of numerous distinguished organizations, including the American College of Dentists, the American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry, and the Omicron Kappa Upsilon (OKU) National Dental Honor Society.

Dr. Sameni formerly served as Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Dentistry at USC, where he also taught in the “Esthetic Selective,” a program emphasizing a biomimetic approach to restorative and esthetic care. He was the original director of the USC Advanced Esthetic Dentistry Continuum, specifically overseeing the curriculum on indirect porcelain veneers.

He maintains a private practice focused on comprehensive restorative and esthetic dentistry in West Los Angeles, California.

Financial Relationship – Honorarium: GC America, Bien Air, vVardis