ESTHETICS

Implant Esthetics Course Series:

These courses will include some or all of the following teaching methodologies: didactic presentations/discussions, video surgery, live surgery observation, case planning workshops that allow you to assess what you have learned, training of your surgical assistant and hands-on surgical and/or prosthetic exercises performed on cadaveric specimens and/or simulated anatomic models.

Advanced Esthetic Implant Site Development:

This course is appropriate for clinicians with advanced experience in implant dentistry who desire to sharpen their diagnostic acumen, perfect their treatment planning ability and improve their surgical skills in the area of esthetic implant site development.

• The didactic and clinical presentations will underscore the importance that patient evaluation, esthetic risk assessment, and strategic selection and sequencing of hard and soft tissue implant site development have on achieving and maintaining natural esthetics in implant therapy.

• Case planning exercises will help participants develop suitable esthetic implant site development treatment plans according to the type of ridge defect present and other individual case factors known to influence esthetic outcomes.

• Video surgery footage and live surgery observations will clearly illustrate the details of individual site development procedures and identify and contrast the case scenarios that are amenable to simultaneous hard and/or soft tissue site development at the time of implant placement from those that require a series of soft and hard tissue procedures prior to implant placement.

• Hands-on exercises will allow participants to sharpen their surgical skills for soft and hard tissue esthetic implant site development procedures. 

Interdisciplinary Team Esthetic Immersion Course:

This course is designed for restorative and surgical implant team members with intermediate experience in esthetic implant dentistry, who desire to improve their clinical knowledge and expand their prosthetic and surgical repertoire in terms of procedures and treatment protocols they can offer their patients.

• Interdisciplinary didactic and clinical presentations will bring to light the essential role that patient evaluation, esthetic risk assessment, pre-treatment diagnostics, and strategic sequencing of precise biologically compatible surgical and prosthetic treatment protocols have on achieving and maintaining natural esthetics in implant therapy. 

• Straight forward to complex case scenarios will be used to demonstrate the factors required to predictably achieve and maintain pleasing esthetic outcomes in implant therapy, as well as key concepts involved in avoiding and interdisciplinary management of esthetic complications.

• Hands-on exercises will help surgical team members gain skill in placing multiple adjacent implants.