The Dental Implants intensive three-day evidence-based foundation course will introduce you to surgical and prosthodontic aspects of implant therapy through lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on workshops, with a focus on surgical and prosthodontic management of healed single tooth sites. With the guidance by experienced implant surgeons and restorative clinicians/ prosthodontists, you will place and restore implants in soft tissue bone models in a simulated clinical environment with manikins using the full range of implant equipment and instrumentation.

 

This short course will give you insights into the surgical and restorative requirements and difficulties in each field, to help to promote improved coordination and respect between the various team members leading to a more predictable clinical outcome.

The course has been convened by Professor Richard Chan since 1994 and he is joined by three specialists, Oral and Maxillofacial surgeon Dr Lydia Lim and Prosthodontists, Dr Michael Chang and Dr David Sykes, and ceramist Mr Chris

The implant equipment and materials support by Nobel Biocare is gratefully acknowledged.

You may wish to consider bringing a clinical staff with you. The staff members attend all 3 days, so they understand what happens at every stage of the treatment (except they only observe the hands-on sessions. They would be seated next to their dentists, so they learn the whole process together as a team). If you wish to consider this, please contact the Sydney Health Executive Education team via [email protected].

History and biologic basis of osseointegration

Pruritus - understanding pathophysiology will affect your approach and treatments

Treatment planning - risk assessment, medical history, indications and contraindications

Timing of implant placement

Loading protocols

Radiographic templates and conversion to surgical guides

Surgical treatment planning - How to evaluate an implant patient for surgery

Cone Beam CT analysis

Surgical protocols - Exodontia, flap design, socket preservation

Suturing techniques

Prosthodontic protocols

Abutment selection, impression techniques

Occlusion, try-in and issue/cementation

Implant maintenance

Demonstration - sterile surgical set-up and patient draping, implant site preparation

Hands- on surgical workshop - preparation and placement of implants in single tooth healed sites on bone models with soft tissue mounted in manikins to simulate the clinical environment.

Full implant surgery equipment and instrumentation

Prosthodontic workshop - single tooth replacement

Angulation correction, mucosal height, aesthetics, emergence profile, cemented v screw retained, inter-occlusal space, occlusion, torque control

Prosthesis design, laboratory procedure, material selection

Try-in/issue protocol

The Aesthetic Zone - management principles and how to avoid complications

Identification, management and prevention of prosthodontic complications

Risk management - Medico-legal Aspects of Implant Dentistry

Taking care of implant business - practice management, marketing and continuing education

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