2-Day Zirconia Arch Masterclass: Stain & Glaze with Micro layering
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Join Sylwia Arizpe on her new 2-day masterclass, working on a 6-unit anterior IPS e.max ZirCAD Prime Zirconia bridge on implant bar.
For ALS Staff
Date: 2nd-3rd July 2025
Time: 9:00am-5:00pm
Location: Ivoclar Academy Leicester, Feldspar Close, LE19 4SD Leicester, United Kingdom
To request a place: please email vicki.macpherson@als-dental.com
Educational Aims
This new 2-day hands-on masterclass aims to provide dental technicians with an increased understanding of how to achieve outstanding aesthetics. This course focuses on recreating natural aesthetics, optimising functionality, and developing your skillset when crafting highly detailed, lifelike restorations.
With a strong focus on scientific information, material preparation, anatomical contouring and advanced stain and glaze/micro layering techniques, this masterclass is designed to equip participants with the advanced knowledge and skills required to implement several new critical techniques to produce truly world class full arch restorations.
This course will provide key information on material selection to help master the art of selecting ideal shades of dentins, enamels, and modifiers to achieve natural translucency and seamless colour matching.
Delegates will work on pre-milled 6-unit ZirCAD Prime zirconia restorations which you will take with you to use as demonstration pieces.
Development Outcome
This CPD Course meets the criteria for the GDC’s development outcome C, Maintenance and development of knowledge and skill within your field of practice.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the scientific properties, handling characteristics and recommended application of IPS e.max materials.
- Explain the Gradient Technology (GT) incorporated into IPS e.max ZirCAD Prime
- Demonstrate how to prepare restorations by refining both shape, contour, and surface texture, to improve the overall surface treatment of all ceramics with a view to recreating the natural surface texture more predictably and efficiently.
- Explain and demonstrate how to use the IPS e.max Ceram and IPS e.max Ceram Selection to add advanced anatomical characteristics and aesthetics to the restorations.
- Explain and demonstrate how to use the Ivocolor stain and glaze system to add natural translucency, character, and depth to the restorations.
- Develop skills in layering and shading to replicate realistic gingival tissue, ideal for implant and aesthetic restorations using IPS e.max Ceram, IPS e.max Ceram selection and Ivocolor.
- Develop silks in the precision application of micro layering, adding ultra-thin ceramic layers to enhance depth, light dynamics, and smooth natural transitions.
- Understand how to achieve natural light refraction and texture through precise micro-layering.
- How to correctly apply glaze pastes, to improve control gloss level.
Instructors Bio- Sylwia Arizpe
Sylwia Arizpe is a master ceramist with a passion for creating not only functional but natural looking and exceptionally beautiful fixed restorations. Originally from Masuria in Poland, Sylwia graduated from the Eugeniusz Nagadowski college in 1996, qualifying as a Dental Technician. The early part of her career saw her focus on removable prosthetics, however Sylwia turned her attention to ceramics in 2002. From then on, she has worked, taught and lectured on the topic of ceramics in several countries around the world including Germany, USA, UK and Kenya. Today she works and is an integral part of the team at the world famous Beever dental laboratory in Leeds, England, and as part of that team, her daily work involves creating everything from single units, right up to the most complicated of full mouth implant restorations using the latest CAD/CAM technology. Sylwia has a genuine passion for teaching as well as sharing her knowledge with others. Her favourite things to do as a ceramist are layering, stain & glaze and trying to develop new techniques and effects. She describes her approach to teaching as one of trying to simplify the complicated methods & techniques which are often needed in order for you to create world class restorations. In her spare time, Sylwia loves to spend time with her family, she also likes to read, travel and socialise with friends.