Dental CE Course: Digital Implant Dentistry

This highly interactive course on digital implant dentistry will give an overview on digital diagnosis and treatment planning, conventional versus guided implant surgery, digital impressions as well as CAD/CAM design and manufacture of implant supported prostheses. Today's technologies allow the clinician to treatment plan implant cases virtually by incorporating a patient's CBTC scan images into planning software. Implants are then placed virtually taking into consideration the anatomical conditions of possible implant sites (bone height, width, density, critical structures such as nerves and sinuses, pathology) as well as prosthodontic ramifications of implant positioning. Once a plan is created it can be communicated with all members of the dental implant team. The plan then serves as a blueprint for the fabrication of surgical guides that allow exact implant placement according to plan in a number of indications. The course will include the use of digital impressions as well as CAD/CAM manufacturing of implant abutments and restorations.
The hands-on portion of this program will incorporate sample patient CBTC scans to allow each participant to experience the process of designing a treatment plan, practice implant placement in a customized model using the resulting surgical guides and practice digital impressions to for conventionally and CAD/CAM manufactured implant restorations.