Comprehensive Restorative and Esthetic Dentistry

74 credit hours (39 hours lecture, 33 hours laboratory)

College of Dentistry, University of the Philippines Manila, Pedro Gil cor Taft Ave ♦ Wednesdays and Sundays 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

About the course: The participants of this course will benefit from the in-depth academic and vast clinical experience of a team of several
This 10-day intensive, limited attendance course is carefully designed by academicians, university-approved and endorsed, carefully selected lecturers who have over 100 years of university teaching experience among themselves and who have
to prepare participants select and use appropriate materials and techniques based on sound clinical judgement, ethical undergone long term, full time postgraduate clinical and research training in the best dental universities in the Philippines,
principles and scientific evidence. Participants will be exposed to various and diverse treatment philosophies, contemporary Japan, USA and Europe. They have served as faculty members, visiting scholars, researchers and visiting professors in
materials, innovative and most up to date as well as accepted clinical techniques and thus prepare them for an esthetic dental universities abroad. The diversity of post-graduate training of the lecturers, together with their vast clinical postgradu-
oriented clinical practice. This course includes in-depth lectures, intensive laboratory exercises, case presentations and ate training and clinical experience in their private practice, and cases seen in the University on a day to day basis will
discussions that foster critical thinking that only a University-based program can provide. Participants of this course will be provide the participants valuable inputs that are based on facts, scientific evidence and clinical experience, rather than on
exposed to a learning atmosphere that will further develop them in to biologically sound, technically competent and socially anecdotal and clinical experience alone. The lecturers of this course constantly update themselves of the most current
responsible dentists. All of these will help in making proper clinical decisions and in delivering the highest quality of restora- developments in dentistry in national and international academic meetings and fellowship grants and are also actively
tive and esthetic dental care. involved in research and publication, being bonafide academicians and faculty members of the premier University in the
Philippines.
Course Outline: Course Director
Foundations of Esthetic Dentistry
Dental Adhesives* (Dr. Vicente O. Medina III) Armin G. Segarra, DMD obtained his degree from the Univ. of the Philippines in 1986. He has been in the academe since 1988. He
earned two certificates in Advanced Education in General Dentistry from the University of Minnesota (1995-1996, 1996-1997), a full time
Current Concepts on the Use of Liners and Bases* (Dr. Vicente O. Medina III) clinical residency program, under full scholarship. He is a Fellow of dental honor societies e.g. Academy of Dentistry International, Pierre
Fauchard Academy and International College of Dentists and has authored several clinical articles on clinical restorative dentistry in local peer
Isolation Techniques* (Dr. Vicente O. Medina III) -reviewed journals. He maintains a private practice which focuses on complex restorations, crowns and bridges, veneers and other reconstruc-
Updates on Curing Lights* (Dr. Michelle Segarra) tive and rehabilitative procedures . Dr. Segarra is one of the most sought after lecturers in Esthetic and Restorative Dentistry in the country.
He is currently an Assistant Professor in Operative Dentistry and Fixed Partial Prosthodontics at the UP College of Dentistry. He also serves
Treatment Planning for Esthetics* (Dr. Heherson M. Tumang) as consultant for dentistry in Men’s Health Magazine. He is a member of the Academy of Operative Dentistry.
Smile Design and Perception Aesthetics* (Dr. Heherson M. Tumang)
Diagnostic Preview* (Dr. Heherson M. Tumang) About the Instructors
Intraoral Digital Photography* (Dr. X. Velmonte) Vicente O. Medina III, DMD, PhD is currently the Dean of the Univ. of the Phil. College of Dentistry. He obtained his DMD degree from
the same University in 1986. He earned his PhD (Research in Operative Dentistry), a full time 5 year program, from the Nippon Dental Univer-
Analysis of Occlusion & Occlusal Interferences* (Dr. Jonathan Fandialan) sity, School of Dentistry in Niigata Japan, under the Monbusho (Japanese Ministry of Education) Scholarship. He is also currently the faculty-in
-charge of Restorative Dentistry at the UP College of Dentistry. He has authored several research papers in international peer-reviewed
TMJ Analysis and Diagnosis of TMD’s Prior to Esthetic Treatment Procedures* (Dr. Jonathan Fandialan) journals and is a recipient of the International Publication Award from the UP System. Dean Medina is also a Visiting Professor at the Nippon
Clinical Esthetic Procedures Dental University, Niigata Japan.

Direct Anterior Composite Restorations* (Dr. Michelle S. Segarra)

Heherson M. Tumang, DMD, MHPEd is the faculty-in-charge of Fixed Partial Prosthodontics at the Univ. of the Phil College of Dentistry.
Direct Posterior Composite Restorations* (Dr. Michelle S. Segarra) He was Clinical Chairman from 1994-1996 and was also the College Secretary from 1997-2000. Dr. Tumang graduated from the same universi-
Laboratory Services & Materials Available in the Philippines (Dr. Arnon L. Rivera) ty in 1980. He earned his Masters in Health Profession Education from the National Teachers Training Center, University of the Philippines
Manila. He is an Associate Professor and faculty-in-charge of Fixed Partial Prosthodontics at the UP College of Dentistry. He is a sought after
Rationale and Tooth Preparation Criteria and Guidelines for Indirect Restorations: resource person and has created several modules on the topic of fixed partial prostheses and didactic and clinical instruction.
Crowns* (Dr. Heherson M. Tumang)
Veneers* (Dr. Michelle S. Segarra) Michelle Sunico-Segarra, DMD, MOH graduated from the Univ. of the Philippines College of Dentistry in 1991. She has been a faculty
member of the same university since 1992 and is at present a Professor in Oral Anatomy, Clinical Restorative Dentistry and Clinical Pediatric
Metal Inlays and Onlays* (Dr. Vicente O. Medina III) Dentistry. She was a full time research fellow in Operative Dentistry under Monbusho (Japanese Ministry of Education) scholarship at the
Nippon Dental University, School of Dentistry, Niigata Japan. She has been invited several times as a Visiting Researcher at the Cariology and
Tooth Colored Inlays and Onlays* (Dr. Armin G. Segarra) Operative Dentistry , Department of Restorative Sciences, Graduate School, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (in 2004 and 2006). She has
Impressioning* (Dr. Armin G. Segarra) authored several research and clinical articles in international and local peer reviewed journals. Dr. Sunico-Segarra has been awarded Out-
standing Dentist in Dental Literature by the PDA in 2004. She is also the current Chairman of the Dept. of Basic Dental Health Sciences. She is
Temporization & Cementation* (Dr. Armin G. Segarra) also a member of the Academy of Operative Dentistry, an international organization of Restorative Dentists which has only 1200 members all
over the world.
Additional Esthetic Procedures
Vital Tooth Bleaching (Dr. Armin G. Segarra) Regina Isabel Santos-Morales, DMD obtained her Certificate in Periodontics from the Univ. of Pennsylvania in 1995. She was a clinical
instructor and full-time lecturer at the Dept. of Periodontics of the same University from 1994-1996. She is the only Filipino diplomate of the
Periodontal Care and Maintenance of Esthetic Restorations (Dr. Melanie Ruth K. Frange) American Academy of Periodontology who chose to practice in the Philippines. Dr. Morales is the author of several research and clinical
Diagnosis and Treatment Planning for Periodontal Esthetics (Dr. Regina Santos-Morales) articles in international peer-reviewed journals. She obtained her Doctor or Dental Medicine degree from the University of the Philippines Manila
in 1992. Her practice focuses on Periodontics and Implants.
Periodontal Esthetic Procedures* (Dr. Vivian C. Virata & Dr. Melanie Ruth K. Frange)
Fiber-Reinforced Restorations* (Dr. Armin G. Segarra)
Treatment Planning, Biomechanical and Esthetic Requirements for Restoring Endodontically Treated Teeth (Dr. Isabel
Campos-Bustos, Dr. Catherine Anne Chia & Dr. Armin G. Segarra)

* includes laboratory exercises/ workshops

 Jonathan F. Fandialan, DMD graduated from the University of the Philippines Manila in 1997. He finished his Residency in Tem-
poromandibular Disorders and Orofacial Pain under Michael Gelb and Dr. Gary Heir at the New York University. He also finished a mini-
residency in Temporomandibular Disorders and Orofacial Pain under Dr. Jeffrey Okeson at the University of Kentucky, USA. He has University of the Philippines Manila
given several well-attended lectures on Oro-facial Pain, Temporomandibular Disorders and Occlusion and maintains a busy private
practice. He is a founding member of The Orofacial Pain Academy of the Philippines. The Health Sciences Center
Office of Continuing Education
Vivian C. Virata, DMD, MS finished her Masters of Science in Periodontics at Columbia University, USA. She is currently a Profes-
sorial Lecturer at the Graduate School, UP College of Dentistry. She obtained her DMD degree from the University of the Philippines in
1995. She has delivered numerous lectures in Periodontics all over the country and has authored several clinical and review of literature
articles in local journals.

Xenia Velmonte, DMD is a practicing Oral and Maxillofacial surgeon at the Asian Hospital, Makati Medical Center and Our Lady of
Peace Hospital in Las Pinas. She received postgraduate training at various local and international training institutions including the
Philippine General Hospital and University of Wisconsin, USA. She continued her Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery training at the St. Martin
University of the Philippines Manila
de Porres Charity Hospital. She is an amateur photographer and one of her main interests is intraoral digital photography. Her photo-
graphic work has been seen and used in numerous presentations and publications. Dr. Velmonte graduated from the UP College of
Dentistry in 1992.
College of Dentistry
Arnon L. Rivera, DMD is the Founding President of the National Association of Dental Prosthetic Laboratories Inc (NADLI) and is
a consultant to the TESDA for the development of training regulations and education for dental technicians. He is a consultant on dental
materials and equipment of Shofu, Philippines and Sterngold Philippines. He is also a teaching consultant of the St. Jude Medical Center.
Dr. Rivera obtained his DMD degree from the University of the Philippines Manila in 1989 and finished his Post-Graduate Training on
Implant Dentistry at the St. Jude Medical Center. Announces the First Ever
Melanie Ruth Karganilla-Frange, DMD is currently the Head of the Oral Medicine Section of the Univer- University-Based
sity of the Phil College of Dentistry. She attended the International Summer School in Clinical Periodontology and Continuing Education Course
Implantology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. She has attended and presented in several national and
international conventions in Periodontology. Dr. Frange graduated from the UP College of Dentistry in 1994 and on
maintains a private practice at St. Luke’s Medical Center.
Isabel Campos-Bustos, DMD is formerly a Professorial Lecturer in Endodontics at the UP College of Den-
tistry. She obtained her Certificate of Proficiency at the prestigious University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry in
1995. Afterwards, she became a faculty member at the New York University before coming home to teach at the
University of the Philippines where she graduated in 1991. Dr. Bustos maintains a busy practice limited to Endodon-
tics at The Rockwell Center, Makati and is one of the most sough-after resource speakers in Endodontics. Dr. Bustos
is the Immediate Past President of the Endodontic Society of the Philippines.

Catherine Anne T. Chia, DMD, MDS is currently a faculty member in Endodontics at the UP College of Dentistry. She
obtained her Masters of Dental Surgery degree in Endodontics from the Prince Phillip Hospital, University of Hongkong in 2010. She
graduated from the University of the Philippines in 2006.

Karla P. Domingo, DMD, MSD graduated from the UP College of Dentistry in 2007. She finished her Oral Surgery externship
at the UP-PGH in 2008. She obtained her Masters of Science in Clinical Dentistry (Prosthodontics & Implants) from the University of
Alabama in 2010. Dr. Domingo is a lecturer for the Basic Implant Course at UPCD since 2012. She is a consultant of Dentium Philippines
and is the Head Lecturer of the Dentium Implant Training Course. She maintains a private practice at the Medical Plaza Ortigas.

Joseph Raoul Buizon, DMD is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor in Operative Dentistry at the UP College of Dentistry and
teaches Basic Photography at the College of St. Benilde - De La Salle University, Taft Ave. Manila. He graduated from the UP College of
Dentistry and maintains a private practice at the St. Luke’s Medical Center, Quezon City.
A 10-day Lecture and Hands-on Course

REGISTRATION DETAILS College of Dentistry

This course is open to ALL DENTISTS. University of the Philippines Manila, Pedro Gil cor Taft Ave
Course Fee: PhP 39, 500.00
Downpayment of PhP 15,000.00 before classes start. Wednesdays and Sundays 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Balance can be paid before end of the course.
Fee inclusive of ALL materials , kits, handouts, lunch and snacks and use of articulator and typodonts.
Participants have to bring their high speed handpiece, low speed handpiece and hand instruments. This is a University-based Continuing Education Course and the Certificate of Completion at the end of the course
bears the University Seal and is issued by the University of the Philippines.
For admissions, payment details and info updates, please call or write to the Course Director:
Dr. Armin Segarra at 0917-5305861 or 09228827646  Board of Dentistry Resolution No. 16 Series of 2008 “Guidelines on Preceptorship Programs Offered and Operat-
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by Dentists” states that:
To maintain the high standards of this course, we are limiting attendance to 20 participants
only.  A Preceptorship Program or any Training Program in specialties or integration of skills in a Post-graduate Training
Center shall be hospital-based or school-based where the dentistry course is offered;
 The proposed instructor(s) shall possess the following credentials: 2.1. A holder of a minimum of two (2) years
academic and clinical training on the concerned specialty in a recognized school/college/University 2.2….
 Faculty members shall be included in the Roster of Faculty/Consultant of duly accredited dental schools/colleges/
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