Functional Anterior Aesthetics Program
with Dr. David Hornbrook
Cosmetic Dentistry · Intermediate, Advanced · Lecture · Date 2026-09-11 · Roseman University, Utah · 36 CE credits · $5,995
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Functional Anterior Aesthetics Program is a six day live patient course built around planning function and esthetics together on a real anterior case. Dr. David Hornbrook guides participants as they bring their own patient and carry the case from planning through cementation, across a preparation weekend and a seat weekend held about four weeks apart at Roseman University in Utah.
What makes the experience different:
- Learn from Dr. David Hornbrook, a 1986 UCLA dental graduate who has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry since 1995 and a Diplomate of the American Board of Aesthetic Dentistry since 2018.
- Draw on decades of live patient teaching: he founded the Hornbrook Group, cofounded the Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies, and has served as adjunct or guest faculty at several dental schools.
- Prepare and cement about 8 to 10 anterior all ceramic restorations on your own patient, with a clinical mentor guiding you through the case.
- Follow the case the way it unfolds in practice, with preparation on the first weekend and final seating on the second.
- Cover the business side as well, including marketing to attract aesthetic patients and case acceptance.
Best practical takeaways:
- Anterior smile design with function planned in from the start
- Systematic preparation steps for veneers and all ceramic restorations
- How posterior occlusion affects long term anterior success
- Adhesive protocols that help avoid sensitivity and microleakage
- Provisionalization of veneers
- Clear laboratory communication for cosmetic cases
- Cementation of multiple units
- Marketing and case acceptance for aesthetic dentistry
Clinical distinction: Functional Anterior Aesthetics is not a typodont veneer prep workshop or a cosmetic lecture series. Its value is completing one real case where smile design, occlusion, adhesion, provisionals, lab communication, and cementation are planned and carried out together. Verified attendee feedback highlights understanding why some anterior cases succeed while others do not, and planning every step with the end result in mind.
Best for: restorative dentists who have already completed a handful of anterior cosmetic cases and want to take on larger veneer and all ceramic cases with mentorship on a live patient. You will need a suitable patient for the program, and it helps to arrive with real cases in mind and photos of your own work to compare before and after.
What dentists said (1)
The biggest takeaway for me was learning how function and esthetics really have to be planned together from the very beginning. The course wasn't just about making pretty veneers. It focused on smile design, preparation design, occlusion, and the little details that make restorations both beautiful and long lasting. Seeing the entire workflow from planning through final delivery made everything click.
This course gave me a much better understanding of why some anterior cases succeed while others don't. It made me more confident with treatment planning because every step was explained with the end result in mind. I also picked up a lot of practical tips that I can use immediately, especially when it comes to preparation design, provisionals, communicating with the lab, and delivering more predictable esthetic outcomes.
I would recommend taking this course after you've already done a handful of anterior cosmetic cases. You'll get a lot more out of it if you have real cases in mind that you can relate the concepts back to. It's also worth taking plenty of photos of your own cases before and after the course because you'll start looking at smile design and anterior esthetics very differently. The more you can apply the concepts right away, the more valuable the course becomes.