Dental Core & Advanced Implant Programs

This 3-day program (30 CE) delivers a comprehensive understanding of the principles of oral implantology, treatment planning, and restoring implants. You will leave this program with the ability to comfortably select the proper implant components, make provisional implant restorations, take implant impressions, and restore implants with definitive prostheses. Our program is evidence based, with a focus on shedding practical tips and tricks, and hands-on training, to allow you to provide implant therapy in your office.

This 3-day program (30 CE) delivers a comprehensive understanding of the principles of atraumatic extraction, bone grafting, and immediate dental implant placement. We discuss the different bone grafting and membrane materials and techniques. You will leave this program with the ability to comfortably select cases for immediate extraction, grafting, and implant placement. Our program is evidence based, with a focus on shedding practical tips and tricks, and hands-on training, to allow you to provide effective and efficient implant therapy to your patients.

This 3-day program (30 CE) delivers a comprehensive understanding of the principles of oral implantology surgical placement, flap design, suturing, and soft tissue management. You will leave this program with the ability to comfortably treatment plan cases and surgically place implants. Our program is evidence based, with a focus on shedding practical tips and tricks, and hands-on training, to allow you to provide effective implant therapy to your patients.

The first day of this 3-day (30 CE) program focuses on the science and protocols of utilizing PRF and PRP in different clinical applications. Venipuncture is taught by a highly-experience phlebotomy instructor. The remaining two days will be spent treating patients under the supervision of an experience DDI faculty member. Participants will apply their previous didactic and hands-on training, such as atraumatic extractions, implant placement, bone grafting, suturing, and much more. Our participants all agree that there is so no better way to start placing implants routinely, than to complete the first few cases done the supervision of an expert.

The Core Implant Bootcamp delivers a comprehensive understanding of the principles of Oral Implantology in both the restorative and surgical phases of implant dentistry. This 4 day bootcamp covers everything you need to know to get started at a basic level. Topics include surgical and prosthetic treatment planning, virtual implant planning utilizing DTX, prosthetic component selection guidelines, screw retained vs cement retained principles, immediate provisional protocols, occlusion overview, anatomy considerations, indications and contra-indications for implant surgery, principles of single tooth and multiple tooth implant placement, flap design and suturing, pharmacology related to implant dentistry, atraumatic extraction techniques and systems and bone grafting principles. Hands-on exercises include implant impressions, fabrication of an immediate provisional, implant placement, flap design and suturing, second stage implant surgery, immediate implant placement, socket grafting and ridge augmentation.

The predictable management of the Maxillary Sinus requires an understanding of the treatment options including direct and indirect site preparation for placement of dental implants. It is also imperative to understand the possible pathologies of the Maxillary Sinus and, therefore, the treatment differences accordingly.

This course is designed for general practitioners and interested clinicians to provide them with the essential knowledge and hands-on experience needed to improve patient outcomes in soft tissue management around teeth and implants.