Dr Andrea Shepperson's Upcoming Events & Lectures - 2025
Tooth Wear Masterclass 2025
Shepperson Education, Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand.
Develop the necessary design and diagnostic skills to diagnose and treat cases of Tooth Wear with greater confidence and predictability.
Lecture & Hands-On: Experience live step-by-step guidance, demonstration and practice from tooth wear diagnosis to delivery. Intensive hands-on week at Shepperson Education Training Centre, October 6-10, 2025.
Monthly Mentoring: Personalised mentoring with Dr Andrea Shepperson. Work through your own tooth wear case step by step with follow-up discussions and reviews at each critical stage of your treatment plan and lab communication.
Live Webinars & Access to Our Online Learning Platform: Receive support material for your team and clinical resources in your office. Explore 12-month complimentary access to an online learning platform and content library on all aspects of diagnosis and aetiology of tooth wear with all pre-course content and in-course resources.
Seattle Study Club - Symposium 2025
22-25 January, 2025
Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne, Miami, Florida
Our Silent Epidemic: Advanced Strategies for Assessment and Management of Tooth Wear
Tooth wear is often overlooked in both undergraduate education and clinical practice. Yet it is the 3rd most common pathology after caries and periodontal disease. Dr Andrea Shepperson will review current science and clinical practice for assessing tooth wear, including both simple and complex etiologies and new diagnostic criteria.
Using a simple decision tree to evaluate physiologic from pathologic wear, she will review the application of digital monitoring and tools to assess active or historical wear.
Upon completion of this session, the attendees should be able to::
Understand tooth wear, and its differentiation.
Understand medical comorbidities in tooth wear diagnosis.
Utilize digital evaluation and monitoring tools.
The Future of Intraoral Scanning (IOS) In Tooth Wear Cases
28 May, 2025
Online Webinar
Digital dentistry is a powerful tool for diagnosing, monitoring and mapping wear in our patients. Dr Andrea Shepperson shares the variety of uses of her Trios scanner in her tooth wear cases, and discusses new diagnostic developments with the release of Trios 6.
Learn how to:
Use your scanner to evaluate different patterns of wear.
Record bite registrations accurately for the construction of splints and diagnostic designs.
Use the scanner as a communication tool for patients.
Compare wear activity over time, using monitoring algorithms.
Record functional adjustments in provisionals to minimise adjustments at the cementation stage.
King’s College London - Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences
30 May, 2025 / Online Webinar
5 Common Mistakes In Managing a Tooth Wear Case.
Learning Objectives:
Learn which photos are the most important in designing a smile.
Understand why ignoring tooth wear is an issue.
Learn when and how to lengthen teeth without failures, fractures and lost temporaries.
Learn how to critically appraise a digital waxup.
Understand why orthodontics can be your best friend.
19 June, 2025 / Online Webinar
Tooth Wear, Reflux and Sleep Disordered Breathing - the Links
Learning Objectives:
Incorporate a clinical assessment for SDB and reflux in your examination.
What is LPR?
Examine current trends in reflux worldwide.
Expanding your dental history to include questions about silent reflux and GORD.
2-Day Modular Courses
Module 1: Occlusion
27-28 June, 2025: (9:00 am-4:30 pm)
Level 1, 60 Archer Street, Chatswood NSW 2067
Whether you're managing a veneer case or rebuilding worn teeth, a knowledge of occlusal principles is fundamental to restoration success. This course allows you to reclaim your confidence in occlusion. Discover the missing link to stable, long-term results.
Expect to walk away with a stepwise understanding of occlusal principles, tools like the Leaf Gauge and Lucia Jig, approaches to TMD, vertical dimension changes, digital workflows, splints, implants, and so much more.
Manage more cases, meet patient needs, add predictability and improve clinical outcomes. A step-by-step approach to stabilising the worn dentition.
ADA NSW
13-14 August, 2025
Sydney, Australia
Porcelain Veneers – A Comprehensive Guide
Develop confidence in designing and delivering a conservative aesthetic option for patients. Dr Shepperson will walk through every aspect of veneer delivery, from initial risk assessment, material selection and treatment steps.
NZACD: Graduate Workshop Series 2025
Friday 29th August 2025
Auckland, New Zealand
Develop systematic protocols using simple digital tools to plan aesthetic changes, ranging from single teeth to several veneers or crowns.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Case Planning in Aesthetic Dentistry, using digital tools.
Smile Design parameters - key elements of an attractive smile.
Utilising the DSD App for 2D Planning - demonstration of the DSD app.
Communicate with specialists and the lab in a digital workflow.
Hands-On design exercise with the DSD App.
Silicone Index for the mock-up - make your own.
DSD Natural Restorations - using monolithic beauty with Empress & IPS e.max that copies nature.
Communication expectations and limitations
Veneers with Dr Shepperson
11-12 September, 2025
Auckland, New Zealand
Porcelain Veneers – A Comprehensive Guide
Develop confidence in designing and delivering a conservative aesthetic option for patients. Dr Shepperson will walk through every aspect of veneer delivery, from initial risk assessment, material selection and treatment steps.
Dr Pruden's Oral Surgery Wisdom Study Club
Friday 19th September 2025 // Online
Our Silent Epidemic: Advanced Strategies for Assessment and Management of Tooth Wear
Tooth wear is often overlooked in both undergraduate education and clinical practice. Yet it is the 3rd most common pathology after caries and periodontal disease. Dr Andrea Shepperson will review current science and clinical practice for assessing tooth wear, including both simple and complex etiologies and new diagnostic criteria.
Using a simple decision tree to evaluate physiologic from pathologic wear, she will review the application of digital monitoring and tools to assess active or historical wear.
Upon completion of this session, the attendees should be able to::
Understand tooth wear, and its differentiation.
Understand medical comorbidities in tooth wear diagnosis.
Utilize digital evaluation and monitoring tools.
2-Day Modular Courses
Module 1: Occlusion
27-28 June, 2025: (9:00 am-4:30 pm)
Shepperson Education, Auckland.
Whether you're managing a veneer case or rebuilding worn teeth, a knowledge of occlusal principles is fundamental to restoration success. This course allows you to reclaim your confidence in occlusion. Discover the missing link to stable, long-term results.
Expect to walk away with a stepwise understanding of occlusal principles, tools like the Leaf Gauge and Lucia Jig, approaches to TMD, vertical dimension changes, digital workflows, splints, implants, and so much more.
Manage more cases, meet patient needs, add predictability and improve clinical outcomes. A step-by-step approach to stabilising the worn dentition.
New Zealand Society of Endodontics
Endodontic Symposia 2025
20 October, 7:30 – 9:15 pm // Online
Role of Occlusion in Endodontics
This webinar examines the critical interplay between occlusion and endodontics, highlighting how occlusal issues can both mimic and contribute to endodontic pain. Often misunderstood or overlooked, occlusal problems can present as toothache or persistent discomfort, leading to misdiagnosis or unnecessary endodontic treatment. The session will cover how excessive or imbalanced occlusal forces can affect pulp health, contribute to post-treatment symptoms, or compromise healing in endodontically treated teeth. Through clinical examples and diagnostic guidance, participants will gain practical tools to differentiate true endodontic pathology from occlusion-related pain.
Learning Objectives:
Recognise how occlusal problems can mimic endodontic symptoms and contribute to diagnostic challenges.
Understand the role of occlusion in the development and persistence of endodontic pain.
Learn how to assess and manage occlusal factors during and after endodontic treatment.
Explore clinical cases where occlusion played a key role in either causing or resolving endodontic-like symptoms.
