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Course Curriculum
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The next offering of Silicone Prosthetic Institute's six-day prosthetic course will be held
June 1 through 6, 2009, at Custom Prosthetic Designs, Inc., in Ashburn, Virginia. The classroom setting is the actual working prosthetic laboratory
of Robert R. Barron where patients receive the highest acclaimed prostheses available today. The four-to-one student-to-instructor ratio immerses you into a learning environment that combines art and science, and that illustrates the opportunity to make
significant changes to a person's life. Learn from and work beside:
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Robert Barron, former CIA Master of Disguise as seen on Oprah, Montel, Discovery Health and many other national televised programs.
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Robert Erb, Ph.D., renowned scientific consultant and past president of a professional prosthetic association, and
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Robert Pivetta a materials expert and product developer/designer in the prosthetic and prosthetic related industries.
The SPI course is presented in English. SPI will make every effort to
arrange for a personal interpreter per your request. The interpreters
fees will be the student's responsibility. All language assistance
request must be submitted no later than one month prior to the course start
date.
The curriculum of the intensive six-day course includes the following:
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- Introduction and overview of the course. Personal insights from Robert Barron.
- Clinical overviews in making realistic silicone prostheses.
- Materials overview, including silicones, polyurethanes, epoxies, and gypsum plasters.
- Laboratory hands-on session including life cast impressions, mother molds, wax cast, and polyurethane final molds.
- Approaches to the design and fabrication of facial and somatic prostheses.
- Demonstration of life-cast full-face impression, using silicone impression material and plaster bandage support mold.
- Factors in realism and the science of color.
- Ear impressions and castings.
- Ear mirror-image sculpting and molding.
- Theories and applications of intrinsic and extrinsic color.
- Hands-on multilayer intrinsic coloration.
- Color matching flesh-tones.
- Hands-on extrinsic coloration.
- Hair implanting.
- Silicone repairs.
- Wrap-up discussions and student direction towards future studies.
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The total cost for the course is $5200.00 (including laboratory and materials
fees). Payment is to be made by certified check to Silicone Prosthetic Institute, LLC, at the time of registration.
Wire transfers are NOT accepted. Please register early, as the
class size is limited.
Please contact SPI regarding reduced rates for lodging accommodations.
The purpose of the course is
to provide the student with practical knowledge in areas important to
making realistic silicone prostheses. Those who can be benefited by
this intensive course include:
- Those who are not yet in the
field of anaplastology, but who want to learn what is involved in the
fabrication of silicone prostheses, and
- Those already in the field
who wish to learn the techniques of the instructors and to build new skills.
We must emphasize that taking this course will not turn someone into a clinical anaplastologist. This can be accomplished by an extended period of working with those in the field, including formal educational programs and apprenticeships.
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