Dental Practitioner Profile
Shane Chambers
With over thirty years’ experience in the field of Dental Prosthetics, Mr Shane Chambers is passionate about prosthetic solutions for tooth loss and extremely knowledgeable in his field. His artistic eye and clinical and technical skills serve his reputation for producing great results with natural-looking and functional removable dental prosthetics.
Qualifications
BAppHSc Oral Health (UQ)
AdvDip Dental Prosthetics (Syd)
Dip Dental Technology (Bris)
Certified Denturist Instructor: BPS (Switzerland)
Certified Clinical SEMCD Instructor (Japan)
Biography
Shane Chambers initially trained as a Dental Technician and worked at a Dental Laboratory on the Sunshine Coast before studying Dental Hygiene, Therapy and Public Health at the University of Queensland in 2000. He worked as a Dental Hygienist and Orthodontic Technican in a large Sydney orthodontic practice before joining the Brener Clinic, one of Sydney’s leading specialist prosthodontic practices.
In 2003, he qualified as a Dental Prosthetist, having trained at Sydney United Dental Hospital and then had the opportunity to train under Dr Dan Brener completing the Brener Institute Implant Prosthodontics course.
Shane established his private Dental Prosthetic practice in North Queensland in 2010 and holds the position of Senior Dental Prosthetist for Townsville Hospital and Health Service. In this role Shane has been a clinical tutor for over 10 years for final year dental students in removable prosthodontics.
He received additional qualifications of Ivoclar BPS (Biofunctional Prosthetics System) Master Instructor and Clinical Instructor for the SEMCD technique developed by Dr Jiro Abe (Suction Effective Mandibular Complete Dentures) having undertaken rigorous trainings in Liechtenstein and Tokyo. These systems are trusted by dental professionals worldwide as a base for some of the most successful, accurate, aesthetic and functional techniques for producing both analogue and digital dentures in removable and implant prosthodontics. Shane is driven to share his passion for teaching predictable outcomes in removable dental prosthetics through his training seminars for dental practitioners.
Teachings
Lecturer/Clinical Trainer
Shane is experienced in delivering presentations in the formal learning environment as well as the workplace setting. Some of the presentation topics he has given include:
Centric relation recordings for predictable outcomes in removable dental prosthetics.
Lingualised occlusion for successful denture outcomes.
Closed mouth primary impression technique of oral mucosa for mandibular suction.
Analogue denture technique for new dental practitioners.
Achieving complete denture stability.
Predictable prosthetic outcomes with BPS and SEMCD in clinical and laboratory processes.
PVS based secondary impression technique for relines.
BPS Clinician qualifying course
SEMCD Clinician qualifying course
CT Stent design and construction in implant dentistry.
Mouthguard construction for the dental team.
Thermoforming appliances for the dental team.
Caring for the oral health of people with Parkinson’s disease.
Effective articulation approaches on posterior occlusal angle.
Managing the flat ridge edentulous patient in the design and construction of complete dentures.
Gnathosonic guidance in complete dental prosthetic therapy
Awards
Ivoclar BPS Clinical Instructor Training (Ivoclar Headquarters – Schaan, Liechtenstein)
Dr Jiro Abe SEMCD Clinician Instructor Training (Dr Abe – Tokyo, Japan)
Implant Retained Over-denture Training (RMIT - Melbourne)
Dr Jiro Abe SEMCD Clinical and Laboratory Training (Dr Abe – Tokyo, Japan)
Ivoclar BPS Clinical and Technical Training (Ivoclar Brisbane)
Brener Institute Surgical Implant Course (Sydney)
Phil Harris Award - Best Student Dental Prosthetics (Sydney)
Yeshua Hamashiach
