Achieving highly individual Zirconia Bridges with GC Painting Solutions

Course Aims & Objectives: ​

Aims:

To teach participants a step-by-step process for creating a highly individualised zirconia framework with hints and tips from design to finish, using GC's Initial Zirconia and Painting Solutions.

This course will enable technicians to learn new skills and confidently introduce them into their labs to improve efficiency and outcomes.

Objectives:

• Gain an understanding of the philosophy behind GC's Initial Zirconia and Painting Solutions - the material properties, indications and technical handling (firing temperatures etc)
• Learn the CAD parameters for a micro-layered bridge
• Get hands-on experience of characterisation at every step of bridge preparation: green state - carving and colouring liquids; post-sintering - internal characterisation using Initial Lustre Paste One, micro-layering with Initial IQ ONE SQIN
• Access hints and tips to help avoid common pitfalls and consistently achieve outstanding results.
• Complete a demonstration model of a 4-unit zirconia bridge with gingiva (2 units completed to post-sintered stage and 2 units to micro-layered finish)

10 CPD hours, GDC learning outcome level C

Course Ticket £399 Sale ends 13 November 2026

Your course price includes 1.5 days of training at GC Europe’s Campus in Leuven, Belgium, all refreshments and meals, and transfers between GC Campus to central Leuven and back to campus.

Accommodation and travel to GC Europe Training Campus, Belgium is NOT included in your ticket price. You will be responsible for making your own travel arrangements. Confirmation of course timings as well as recommended hotels will be sent to you in due course so that you can make your own travel arrangements. Please also consider that depending on your choice of accommodation, you may need to organise transport to the restaurant for the evening meal.

IMPORTANT: Valid passport required plus visa dependant on nationality. You must also provide your own personal travel insurance.

Dirk Galle is Technical Training Manager at GC Europe, and owner of private dental lab, Oral Dental Concept BVBA, in Brussels.
After graduating from the Dental Institute Annessens, Brussels in 1995, Dirk specialised in fixed prosthesis and veneered superstructures on implants and aesthetic restoration, before working as a ceramic trainer for a large ceramic production company in Belgium/Luxembourg for 4 years.
With over 1,000 ceramic courses to his name, he is a much sought-after speaker worldwide, specialising in various fields including:

• Polychromatic build-up technique for ceramics and micro-ceramic composites.
• Individual layering and aesthetic rehabilitation especially on zirconium and lithium disilicate structures.
• Large superstructures on implants with a focus on zirconium in combination with natural pink gingival ceramic.

The ideal location

GC’s state-of-the-art Training & Education Centre is just on the outskirts of Leuven, Belgium, and was built to enable us and our worldwide network of dental professionals to deliver hands-on courses, presentations and demonstrations of all our major technologies and products. Our custom-made training laboratories are the ideal place to access this expertise and put newly learnt skills to practice in hands-on sessions.

Your course coincides with the beginning of Leuven’s annual Christmas Market, one of Belgium’s oldest and cosiest Christmas markets that takes over the city centre, offering twinkling lights, crackling fires, warming mulled wine and original Christmas gifts. Why not tack a weekend city break to the end of your course to make the most of your visit and explore more of the Christmas Market and what Leuven has to offer?

Terms and Conditions:

Cancellations must be made at least 28 days before course date.

Refunds will be made at the discretion of GC UK Ltd. All external expenses incurred by GC UK will be deducted from any course fee refund together with a 10% cancellation charge. Refunds for bookings made less than 28 days prior to the scheduled course date are entirely at GC UK management discretion. Alternative attendance on a future course may also be offered.

Cancellation of a course directly by GC UK due to foreseen/unforeseen circumstances will be refundable at 100% of cost.

GC UK are unable to compensate out of pocket expenses incurred in the unlikely event a course is cancelled.