The BAARD Institute

Raleigh — Let’s Go 💪🏻
I wanted to share a course that represents a fundamentally different approach to continuing education — one built around clinical reasoning, documentation, and repeatable systems, not just techniques or slides.
BAARD Overlay, Onlay & Advanced Adhesion is a 2-day lecture + hands-on course (16 CE) focused on conservative, biomimetic restorative dentistry.
📍 Raleigh, NC
📅 June 5–6
⏰ 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
This is a true hands-on course (typodont-based), where you’ll learn how to:
• Diagnose cracks, caries, and pulpal status
• Make clear decisions: direct vs indirect
• Execute predictable overlay/onlay preparations
• Apply IDS and adhesive build-ups
• Cement restorations using repeatable protocols
But what makes this course different is the manual.
Every concept is documented — step-by-step — so you leave with a clinical system, not just notes.

🔑 Raleigh is a slightly different format
This course will be run in a more limited, small-group setting.
That means:
* More direct feedback
* More hands-on reps
* More one-on-one interaction
For the right clinician, this is actually a better learning environment than a larger course.

Limited seats remaining at current pricing
Once these spots are filled, registration will close.

Toronto — this is your window.

I wanted to share a course that represents a fundamentally different approach to continuing education - one built around clinical reasoning, documentation, and repeatable systems, not just techniques or slides.

BAARD Overlay, Onlay & Advanced Adhesion is a 2-day lecture + hands-on course (16 CE) focused on conservative, biomimetic restorative dentistry.

📍 Toronto, ON
📅 June 12–13
⏰ 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
This is a true hands-on course (typodont-based), where you’ll learn how to:
• Diagnose cracks, caries, and pulpal status
• Make clear decisions: direct vs indirect
• Execute predictable overlay/onlay preparations
• Apply IDS and adhesive build-ups
• Cement restorations to IDS treated preps using repeatable protocols

But what makes this course different is the manual.
Every concept is documented — step-by-step — so you leave with a clinical system, not just notes.

Early Bird Pricing: $3,099 (ends Sunday at midnight)
Only ~8 spots remaining
Once this fills, that’s it.
If you’ve been looking to move beyond aggressive crown dentistry and toward predictable, adhesive outcomes - this is the course.

Register now - link in bio

Blast from the past - this case is coming up on 5 years old & still function- learn how to do this type of rescue and more in the new BAARD Online Course: Advanced Adhesion for Highly Compromised Teeth 20CE

Patient presented with open margin on endo treated molar with zirconia crown. Patient was advised to replace crown but due to unforeseen circumstances had to delay over a year - by the time the patient presented for replacement she had developed a dull ache - CBCT revealed large PARL & retreatment was indicated - crown was removed to reveal gross decay and heavy damage - after excavation little tooth structure remaining - prep was flush to gumline except for 1mm of ferrule on lingual….

Air abrasion followed by Immediate Dentin Sealing & Resin Coating with Clearfil SE Protect & Majesty Flow - Hollow Crown Prep Shell created with Clearfil AP-X & laminated with Ribbond - Teflon placed in center of build up and temp crown placed - patient saw endodontist for re-treat - patient came back and build up completed with Clearfil AP-X & e. Max crown fabricated & delivered with Panavia V5 - value was a little high but patient has been happy….

This protocol and rationale and more taught in the new course….
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Blast from the past - this case is coming up on 5 years old & still function- learn how to do this type of rescue and more in the new BAARD Online Course: Advanced Adhesion for Highly Compromised Teeth 20CE

Patient presented with open margin on endo treated molar with zirconia crown. Patient was advised to replace crown but due to unforeseen circumstances had to delay over a year - by the time the patient presented for replacement she had developed a dull ache - CBCT revealed large PARL & retreatment was indicated - crown was removed to reveal gross decay and heavy damage - after excavation little tooth structure remaining - prep was flush to gumline except for 1mm of ferrule on lingual….

Air abrasion followed by Immediate Dentin Sealing & Resin Coating with Clearfil SE Protect & Majesty Flow - Hollow Crown Prep Shell created with Clearfil AP-X & laminated with Ribbond - Teflon placed in center of build up and temp crown placed - patient saw endodontist for re-treat - patient came back and build up completed with Clearfil AP-X & e. Max crown fabricated & delivered with Panavia V5 - value was a little high but patient has been happy….

This protocol and rationale and more taught in the new course…. Follow link in profile



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Happy when I can deliver for friends and family as well as colleagues and mentors…..

Patient presented with biting pain and sensitivity on UL 1st molar…. Visual exam confirmed cracked distal marginal ridge - pan on release with bite stick as well….. Meisal composite looked like it had better days….

Treatment plan overlay (gave a Veneerlay/ 3/4 crown as option to match veneers) - patient preferred tooth matched contralateral side…..

Prepped for overlay - vertical mesial-distal crack(s) noted - cracks were greatly reduced and/or removed

Immediate Dentin Sealing & Resin Coating with Clearfil SE Protect & Majesty Flow

E. Max D3 HT bonded with Warm Clearfil AP-X

Patients biting symptoms immediately resolved

Sorry I haven’t posted cases in a while - need to get back to it - been living on the story feed 😅 I have a back log I will work through

Thankful & Grateful for my family, my friends, my patients, my local & global community…… and most importantly to God 🙏✝️

It’s been a crazy two years - we’ve been through a lot & with such trials, through God’s grace, we’ve for sanctity in our sufferings & strength through ordeals….

As St Paul said, “And to keep me from being too elated by the abundance of revelations, a thorn* was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too elated.…. My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong. - 2 Corinthians 12:7-10

As someone that fights with consequentialism daily I am reminded that not only what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger but it is our defects - how we mend them, how we rise above them, but also how they GROUND us - that makes us who we are and to deliver those fruits to those around us….. For the harshest seasons - that don’t kill the tree - reap the sweetest fruit & the heartiest oak…..

Cherish your scars, ask forgiveness to those you wound, forgive those that have wounded you, enjoy the day and give thanks….

God bless you all

The Overlay - also known as the partial coverage crown, “crown-lay”, just “onlay” to some prosthodontists, occlusal veneer etc….

It is the “minimally invasive” and/or “conservative” adhesive alternative to the friction fit “Full Coverage Crown” when there is enough health tooth structure to support it….

I previously made a video discussing the Overlay vs the “Crown” & these photos should serve as good illustrations as to the amount of tissue preserved and/or removed…..

That said - this isn’t the “only” way to prep for an Overlay NOR is it the most conservative Overlay - but I would say this is my go to, one of the most common non-retentive designs, and the one I teach at The BAARD Institute (in addition to other variations)…..

Visually it is easily observed that “less” of the sensitive & more challenging to bond inner tooth “dentin” is exposed vs crown preparation - this results in much less chance for post-operative sensitivity, pupal complications, & easier adhesive management from Prep Design alone…..

While the time to “Prep” both the crown and overlay can be comparable - there is added time for isolation & bonding for the Overlay that is not required of the “friction fit” crown… this and other choices weigh on the operators decision making process as highlighted in my previous video….

What shouldn’t be disputed is the evidence based longevity of the bonded Overlay in systematic reviews & meta-analysis- while we all marvel at the 50 year old gold crown let’s not forget the insurance data that posits 5-6 years as the average survival of “Crowns” in the field….. this isn’t an attack on Crowns but an attack on the false dichotomies & presuppositions smuggled into a lot of our dental discourse especially “Survivor Bias” vs Failures - from a long term therapeutic standpoint it is always more important to look at the average failure vs the lone long term survivor