DS Academy

Implant Course Series

Mastery Courses

These advanced courses will introduce experienced clinicians to bone grafting materials, techniques and procedures, including socket preservation, horizontal ridges, and sinuses internally and externally. As participants progress through the learning journey, special attention will be given to immediate placement/loading, the esthetic zone, and surgical and restorative complications prevention and management.

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 course series 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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Level 8: Management of Dental Implant Complications

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

  • Recognize and evaluate potential risk factors for common implant related complications
  • Identify techniques to manage common implant related surgical and prosthetic complications
  • Discuss prevention of and treatment options for peri-impantitis 

 

The implant course series 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.

4 Courses
Implants

Diagnosis and Management of Restorative Complications for Single-tooth and Multi-unit Implant Restorations

This presentation describes the common complications with single and multi-unit implant restorations and addresses why they occur and offers practical solutions to prevent their occurrence. The discussion offers emphasis on planning before beginning treatment, designing abutments for optimal tissue health and dependable performance, and learning to easily handle contrary issues that may eventually arise.

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

  • Understand the value of planning based on the desired results
  • Identify the solutions available with patient-specific restorations and how they ultimately save chair time
  • Appreciate that most complications are avoidable when planning, design, and delivery are all coordinated
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Diagnosis and Management of Implant-Related Surgical Complications

Implant surgery is fun, exciting, and rewarding…most of the time. Sometimes, however, issues arise. Surgical complications can come in many different stages of the procedure. This course will cover the different potential complications and how to identify them. Upon identification, we’ll also discuss how to correct (or even possibly avoid) them.

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

  • Understand the different stages of potential implant-related surgical complications
  • Evaluate potential risk factors prior to starting implant surgery 
  • Identify and diagnose surgical complications
  • Recognize different techniques to manage those complications
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Peri-implant Disease: Prevention and Treatment

Peri-implantitis is a major challenge for dental professionals. This course will discuss the current understanding on etiology, prevalence, and risk factors. We will also evaluate data from recent studies demonstrating the efficacy of therapeutic approaches for the management of peri-implantitis. Treatment strategies will be illustrated by clinical cases.

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

  • Recognize different disease entities related to implants
  • Evaluate risk factors for peri-implantitis
  • Discuss treatment options for peri-implantitis
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Diagnosis & Management of Restorative Complications for Full-arch Restorations

In this eLearning course, we discuss common complications with full-arch implant restorations, address why they arise, and offer practical solutions to prevent their occurrence. The discussion offers comparison of removable and fixed restorations, the benefits and limitations of each and contrary issues unique to their design.

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

  • Identify the value and limitations of full-arch removable implant restorations.
  • Recognize the limitations of restorative materials and identify how best to maximize their potential.
  • Coordinate the planning, design, and delivery of full-arch implant restorations to achieve predictable results and avoid complications
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