The BAARD Overlay, Onlay, & Advanced Adhesion

📍 Exclusive Benefits for In-Person Students at Our Gilbert, AZ Location

When you attend the core curriculum at our Gilbert, AZ headquarters (not the World Tour), you’ll receive enhanced access and support:

👥 Small Group Instruction: Limited to just 6–10 students for more personal attention
📘 Course Manual: Take-home reference with step-by-step techniques
🛠️ BAARD Bur Block: Yours to keep for practice and patient care
💬 1-Month Follow-Up Zoom Session: Optional group meeting to review implementation, troubleshoot, and share cases
🎥 2 Weeks Access to Recorded Technique Demos: Rewatch key techniques and demos at your own pace after the course

FEE: $3999

DATES: October 3rd-4th 2025, February 6th-7th 2026

Location: Dr. Schiffenhaus DMD 1496 N. Higley Rd. STE 104 Gilbert, AZ 85234

CE Credits: 16

In the last 40 years, dentistry has advanced significantly with improvements in adhesives, composites, and ceramics, shifting from mechanical restorative goals to biologic ones. These advancements allow for minimally invasive restorations that closely align with the tooth's original biomechanical function. However, these materials are often underutilized, with many clinicians opting for only slight modifications to traditional, more invasive preparation designs.

Why Choose Non-Retentive Partial Coverage Ceramics? Non-retentive partial coverage ceramics conserve more tooth structure, work harmoniously with natural tooth biomechanics, extend the restorative life cycle of the tooth, and enhance the fracture resistance of ceramic materials. This course, led by Dr. Schiffenhaus, will cover advanced adhesive techniques, material science, biomechanics, diagnosis, and preparation design related to Biomimetic and Advanced Adhesive Restorative Dentistry.

BAARD Overlay, Onlay & Advanced Adhesion

Now Available with a Virtual Hands-On Option

This immersive course—led by Dr. Steve Schiffenhaus—takes a comprehensive look at non-retentive partial coverage ceramic restorations and the advanced adhesive techniques that bring them to life. You'll explore modern preparation design, fracture resistance principles, material selection, and the adhesive strategies needed to maximize clinical outcomes.

Whether you're attending in person or virtually, you'll gain deep clinical insight into the biomechanics, science, and protocols of advanced adhesion-based dentistry.

💻 Virtual Hands-On Experience: Learn, Demo, Interact — From Anywhere

Live-streamed lectures and demos via Zoom
Real-time Q&A and feedback opportunities
Full interactive participation throughout the course

A complete loaner hands-on kit will be shipped to you ahead of time so you can follow along with every step of the hands-on training in real time.

📦 What’s Included in Your Virtual Kit:

BAARD Composite Instrument Kit
Typodont with Bilayer Premium Practice Teeth
Sample Composites & Adhesives
BAARD Bur Block (yours to keep)

🔧 What You’ll Need to Provide:

Cure light
Handpiece
Microbrushes & gauze
Alcohol wipes

💡 Pro Tip: We recommend attending from your dental office to ensure you have access to all the tools and space needed for hands-on exercises.

Course Objectives

Understand the BAARD Approach to Restorative Dentistry.

Learn advantages of the Biomimetic Approach to Material Science & Restorative Design.

Grasp important principles of Engineering, Biomechanics, Tooth Structure, and Restorative Materials.

Understand why teeth crack and how to treat them with adhesive partial coverage ceramics.

Gain insight into diagnosis and treatment planning for BAARD partial coverage ceramics.

Learn ceramic preparation fundamentals and the BAARD Overlay & Onlay Preparation Protocol (Hands-On Training).

Understand the benefits of non-retentive partial coverage ceramics regarding fracture resistance, bondability, and pulp health following restorative treatment.

Execute various ideal BAARD Overlay & Onlay preparations (Hands-On Training).

Learn to treat Deep Carious Lesions and minimize post-operative pulp death and sensitivity.

Understand the fundamentals and advantages of Immediate Dentin Sealing with Resin Coating (Hands-On Training).

Learn how to make temporaries for non-retentive partial coverage restorations.

Learn how to adhesively lute to IDS-treated teeth using both Resin Cement and Warm Composite Cementation (Hands-On Training).

Understand factors affecting post-operative Pulp Health, and how to diagnose and treat post-operative sensitivity, pain to cold, and pain from biting.

Techniques Learned in This Course

Overlay & Onlay Design

Diagnose and treatment plan for Onlays and Overlays, and understand the advantages of non-retentive partial coverage ceramics in terms of fracture resistance, bondability, and pulp health.

Hands-On Tooth Preparation Training

Learn preparation protocols including bur selection, speeds, and step-by-step workflow using high-speed electric handpieces and specialized bi-layered typodont teeth to simulate enamel and dentin cutting.

Immediate Dentin Sealing

Address the “fundamental problem in adhesive dentistry” with Immediate Dentin Sealing and Resin Coating, including hands-on practice.

Advanced Adhesive Delivery

Temporize non-retentive preparation designs and adhesively lute partial coverage ceramics using advanced procedures such as Warm Composite, with demos and hands-on practice.

Cracked Tooth Diagnosis & Treatment Strategies

Understand why teeth crack and how to treat them with adhesive partial coverage ceramics utilizing the Compression Dome Theory.

Questions Answered in this Course:

What is the BAARD Approach? What are the Pro’s & Con’s vs other types of Dentistry? What is Biomimetic Dentistry?
What are important features of Biomechanics & Eningeering that can help us in our restorative design, material selection, and diagnosis of restorative failures?
What are the properties of tooth structure, ceramics, composites, and adhesives that are important for long term clinical success?
What are the advantages of non-retentive ceramics? Why are such ceramics more fracture resistant & better for bonding? Why is bonding so important for ceramic success? What is the impact on pulp survival following restorative treatment in regards to prep design?
What is appropriate minimum thickness of modern ceramics? What are the best margin designs for partial coverage ceramics?
Why do teeth fracture? What are the six different fracture modes of teeth? What is the compression dome concept? How to diagnose & treat cracked teeth?
What are the factors involved in determining when to onlay a cusp? What are the advantages & disadvantages of Overlay vs Onlay Preparation Design?

What are the specific Onlay preparation fundamentals for adhesive dentistry?
What handpieces and burs are recommended to the BAARD Prep design and Workflow? What is the BAARD Prep Protocol – order of steps/phases, bur types & speeds, tips & tricks
What is the importance of Advanced Adhesion? What is the fundamental problem in adhesive dentistry & how do we solve it? What is C-Factor & how does it impact our bonding strategies?
Why do dentin bonds fail? How do we develop a durable & strong dentin bond? What is Immediate Dentin Sealing? What are the advantages of IDS & how does it work?
What are the pro’s and cons of total etch & self etch for dentin bonding? What is resin coating and how does it work? What are the disadvantages of single bottle adhesives? Why use Gold Standard Adhesives & What are they?
How to temporize non-retentive posterior restorations? How to adhesively lute non-retentive ceramics with resin cement or Warm Restorative Composite?
What causes post-operative pain & sensitivity? How to we diagnose & eliminate this inflammation? What impacts pulp survival following restorative treatment & how do we best help pulps heal?

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Course Dates:

o October 3rd-4th 2025
o February 6th-7th 2026

Location

Dr. Schiffenhaus DMD, 1496 N Higley Rd. STE 104, Gilbert, AZ 85234

Fee:

$3999

(Cancellation Accepted Up to 90 days before course date otherwise tuition is held and can be credited towards future course)

CE Units:

About the Speaker

Dr. Schiffenhaus holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Molecular & Cellular Biology from Arizona State University, where he researched biomarkers for a cancer vaccine. He completed a Master’s Degree in Biomedical Sciences and a Doctor of Medical Dentistry Degree at Midwestern University. Dr. Schiffenhaus owns a private practice in Gilbert, Arizona, focusing on Adhesive Dentistry with a Biomimetic Philosophy. He founded the Biomimetic Advanced Adhesive Restorative Dentistry (BAARD) Institute in 2020 and is a key opinion leader and speaker for various companies including Kurrary Noritake, Bien Air, Meisinger, Ivoclar, GC, Garrison, Hu-Friedy, and others. He is married to Sara Schiffenhaus and has two children, James and Margot, and resides in Gilbert, AZ.

The BAARD Institute Nationally Approved PACE Program Provider for FAGD/MAGD credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by any regulatory authority or AGD endorsement. 10/1/2023 to 9/30/2027. Provider ID# 402344