The Fellowship in Restorative Dentistry 

We expect an average time commitment of approximately 4 hours per week, which can be roughly thought of as 1 “event” per week - whether that is a lecture, a Q&A session, a piece of theory work or a hands-on

The hands-on days are designed to be highly intensive instructor-led practice sessions. You’ll be connected via a video platform with all of your fellow students and educators - either from home or from your clinic - working on a manikin head as we guide you through a series of tasks and activities, offering 1 to 1 feedback as we go.

To use the Posterior Quadrant course as an example, we may begin the session by asking you to do a crown prep on a particular tooth and give you 20 minutes to do the best job you can. Once you’ve done the prep we will get you to take some pictures of the work that you’ve done and upload it to the digital space, where the educator will take a look at it with you in detail and offer feedback on what looks good, what could be improved, and what techniques to work on going forward.

From there, we’ll get you to move on to another tooth and repeat the exercise, and we’ll do it again and again and again, to the point where in a 6-7 hour session you may find yourself doing 12, 15 or even more crown preps back to back.

It’s no secret that one of the goals we have in these sessions is for you to be tired by the end of it - part of the goal that we have in trying to create a realistic simulated work environment is that sometimes you won’t be working at your most fresh!

While we don’t have a hard limit on the number of students who can enrol per se, we do work on ratios of no more than 1:16 educators to students when we are doing instructor-led practice, so no matter how many students we end up with when the Fellowship kicks off you can be sure that you are getting the proper amount of interaction and feedback when it matters.

We have educators from all over the world contributing to this Fellowship, all master dentists in their own right, bringing a great diversity of knowledge and experience with them.

We have Dr Lincoln Harris and Dr Michael Frazis from Australia, Dr Michael Melkers, Dr Lane Ochi and Dr Karyn Halpern from the USA, Dr Vishal Gupta from India, Dr Alina Ruzanova and Dr Mindaugas Kudelis from Europe, among others.

View the full list of educators and assistant educators here.

The hands-on components for the courses will all be run using a typodont in a manikin head, which will be provided by RipeGlobal. You can use all of your own standard equipment from your clinic to do the actual work, or if you are wanting to set up from home we can also provide the air/water unit with hand-pieces.

The equipment costs are not covered in the tuition and will need to be arranged after enrolment - we have options available to either rent or purchase the kits, and if purchasing we also have payment plans available.

You’ll also need access to a DSLR clinical camera, as this will be crucial for presenting your work.

The Fellowship in Restorative Dentistry is a comprehensive cloud-based training program which is brought to you entirely in your own home and clinic - no travel necessary.

The course delivery consists of a series of lectures of Q&A sessions which are delivered live via video platform, but which are also recorded and can be watched and rewatched later at your own convenience.

We will also be enrolling you into our community chat space, called CELXP™ Collaboration, where you’ll be connected with your fellow students, educators and support staff in a 24/7 live-chat environment. You can use this space to ask questions and get advice and feedback at any time, not just for Fellowship work but also with anything you might be dealing with in your practice that you’d like a second opinion on. CELXP™ Collaboration is also used as a general social community space for you all to get to know each other outside of being purely Fellowship focused, as it’s a long program and you’ll be seeing a lot of the same faces!

We will also be giving you some theory work and reading to do, as well as asking you to complete some quizzes and case presentations.

Finally, the linchpin that really brings it all together are the high-intensity instructor-led hands-on practice sessions in which all of the other learning will come together in that live practice environment.

We have a few payment options available, either to pay in full upfront, split pay 50% now and again in 12 months, or a monthly payment plan over 24 months. 

We also offer discounts on the cost of tuition for RipeGlobal members - 5% for standard members and 15% for premium!

Download the full course pack for pricing and tuition costs.