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Excellent for entry level or experienced doctors.
Surgery techniques using pig jaw to simulate clinical conditions. Ridge preservation, Bone Grafting and Implant Osteotomies. Primary closure and suturing techniques.
Incisions: the key to all surgical success! Flap Closure: more important than Incisions! How to use the scalpel effectively, how to elevate flap without tearing.
Full vs Partial Thickness flaps. Vertical releases, Burrough’s triangles. Primary Closure: everyone hears about it but HOW IS IT DONE? Periosteal scoring and flap advancement and more……………
Particulate grafts: what and when? Are you confused by all the options? Particulate vs block grafts. Mineralized vs Demineralized; Xenograft vs Allograft; Large Particle vs Small Particle vs Nano Particle; Alloplasts; Antibiotics? PRP vs PRF; Why do grafts fail?
Membranes: What, When and Why? Find out when to use PTFE when to use Collogen. How to cut/how to tuck. Understand Alloderm and more……Simple rules that you will understand!
Suturing: needle size, thread size and types will be discussed for specific closure needs. Vicryl/Chromic Gut/PGA; Find out why the Sling Suture is the most important you will use. Vertical mattress, Horizontal mattress, Sling, Running, X, Interrupted, Suturing Technique. How to manage the Post-op: what looks good, what doesn’t.
Atraumatic tooth extractions using periotomes and Piezo-Surgery. Immediate Implant placement pros and cons. Osteotomies and bone quality to determine use of cover screw, healing abutment or temporary abutment. Learn to judge bone densities; Interpret torquing levels and predict implant healing time.
There will be an extensive list of instruments you will need to bring to this course to assure you the best learning experience to take back to your office.
You will be a better surgeon on Monday morning……OR YOUR MONEY BACK!!!!!
Scalpel and #15 blades, 3-0, 4-0, 5-0 polyglycolic acid sutures (silk, chromic or vicryl), 2/4 molt curette, periosteal elevator, meissner hemostat, addson forceps, cotton forceps, lower bicuspid forceps, periotome, small straight elevator, perio probe, 3/4 scaler, implant depth gauge, stainless surgical mm ruler, surgical scissors, needle holder, Minnesota cheek retractor, mask, gown, gloves, loops and light.
Provided: membrane, grafting material, implants and implant motors and handpieces, pig jaw.
This course will lead you through prosthetic complications and surgical complications. There is never a problem with success, but complications and failures create issues that will need experience and expertise to solve. We will discuss minor issues to major implant failure and how to keep the patient and the case moving forward.
This course is for restorative dentists, GP’s placing implants and for specialists who work with restorative dentists. This is a must attend course for all who wish to gain insight from listening to an implantologist with 25 years of implant experience having placed over 7,000 implants and restored those implants.
The last hour of the course will lead you through an esthetic zone anterior implant failure with major dental and legal issues and show step by step how to bring the patient whole and deliver Health, Function and Beauty! If fear of a day in court is holding you back from placing dental implants, this course will give you the confidence and peace of mind to move forward in your surgical career.
I designed this course from experience and issues that I have had to deal with in a very busy implant surgical and restorative practice. I am giving this course because it is absolutely vital information we, as dentists, need to know!
About Dr. Smith
Dr. Smith has a busy general practice in San Jose, California and limits his practice to Implant and Advanced Restorative Treatment for Adults. Dr. Smith is a member of the American Dental Association, California Dental Association, Associate Fellow of the Academy of Implant Dentistry, Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, and Academy of Laser Dentistry and the Dental Organization for Conscious Sedation. He lectures to dental groups on implant, prosthetic, cosmetic and laser dental techniques.
Dr. Smith designed DREAM Seminars to provide vital clinical information to dentists and elevate the standard of care in dentistry and inform the dental community of issues that are not often talked about in seminars. DREAM Seminars is his way of giving back to dentistry so that others following in these paths have a smoother road to travel. Dr. Smith is past Chair, Appeals, CDA Council on Peer Review. |
