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Implant Curriculum

Mastery Courses: Level 7

Level 7: Advanced Bone Grafting

This mastery-level course discusses both the prevention and management of surgical and restorative complications. Within the surgical realm, the presentation focuses on early implant failure and later peri-implant disease. Prosthetic concepts will involve preventative prosthesis design, screw/abutment removal, and sequencing that acknowledges the importance of patient experience.

 

Key Benefits

  • Identify key considerations for various bone augmentation procedures
  • Discuss key aspects of bone grafting with immediate implant placement
  • Review new techniques and materials for improving soft and hard tissue quality

 

The implant curriculum is an interactive, procedure-based series of courses that use individual cases to teach current implant treatment. This approach is in contrast to conventional dental education that focuses more on didactic topics and theory. The purpose of using this educational approach is to highlight the patients and procedures found in everyday clinical practice, where the most important concepts are observed and discussed in multiple clinical scenarios.

3 Courses
Implants

Form with Function: Current Standards in Hard and Soft Tissue Development

Historically, alveolar ridge preservation and development have focused on volumetric changes with little consideration for tissue quality. The aim of this presentation is to discuss possible advantages, disadvantages, and realistic short- and long-term expectations of traditional methods of alveolar ridge development for implant therapy and to discuss potential advantages and limitations of new techniques and materials designed to maximize tissue quality.

At the completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the rationale for leveraging new materials and techniques
  • Recognize the advantages and disadvantages of different methods of alveolar ridge development
  • Distinguish between different tissue regenerative materials based on their properties and features to support proper material selection
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Socket Augmentation Advances Using the Latest Techniques and Materials

Dental implants are a successful and predictable treatment option for missing teeth, as most patients and clinicians seek this treatment to replace missing teeth. Favorable implant outcomes depend greatly on adequate bone and soft tissue for restoratively driven implant placement, long-term function, and optimal esthetics. For the practicing clinician, predictability of graft materials is extremely important as they must be biocompatible, easy to use, and provide structure and function to support dental implants. This presentation will update the practicing clinician on advances in socket augmentation techniques and materials, as adjuncts to our implant surgical techniques.

At the completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Understand criteria for increasing ideal implant placement with site development
  • Understand techniques to regenerate deficient alveolar bone sites in preparation for implant placement
  • Identify regenerative materials for socket augmentation
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Grafting With Immediate Implant Placement

Different tissue types and architecture often require different approaches when creating healthy, durable, and esthetic results. This course reviews options when choosing materials for hard and soft tissue regeneration around implants in fresh extraction sites. Each material has both benefits and limitations; we look at different scenarios to understand some treatment options as well as the limits of regeneration around immediate implants.

At the completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Recognize the differences and relative benefits when using different grafting materials
  • Identify tips for performing flapless immediate implant placement in the esthetic zone
  • Understand limitations of regeneration when placing immediate implants in sites with significant defects
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