Master Class in Principles of Surgical and Restorative Implant Dentistry
An intensive course in the theory and practice of surgical and restorative implant treatment. Under the guidance of specialist practitioners, this program will teach you the skills necessary to safely
What you will learn
Online and Hands-on session. Online web lectures Hands-on Pre-clinical lab session Hands-on Clinic sessions – placement of implants in 4 patients 90 minute online examination
The course covers treatment planning for implants and restorations using the participants own patients and supervised placement of implants at the Melbourne Dental Clinic and the subsequent restorations in these patients completed at your own practice.
Course Outcomes
On completion of the program participants will have learned the skills to be able to place and restore straightforward dental implants.
- An in-depth understanding of the biological processes of osseointegration in general.
- An in-depth understanding of surgical diagnosis, treatment planning and surgical management of simple surgical cases.
- Through a series of practical exercises and hands-on surgical training, participants should be familiar with the surgical implant placement in simple clinical situations.
- Participants will be familiar with Straumann implant componentry and the reasons why implant treatments may be useful in their practices. Participants should feel able to begin placing implants in uncomplicated clinical situations.
For further information about enrolment, please contact: mds-cpd@unimelb.edu.au
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Course details
- Managing the implant patient: Patient assessment / Documentation / Informed consent / Patient expectations / Effective communication / Treatment proposal
- Site Assessment: Planning the restorative space / Surgical and radiographic (including 3D anatomy) / Requirements for obtaining diagnostic CBCT
- Surgical Planning: Timing of implant placement / Principles of GBR / Principles of Implant Surgery / Principles of flap design / Periosteal releasing incisions / Post-operative management and second stage surgery
- Virtual Implant Prosthodontic Planning: Date acqusition, file merging, file segmentation / Planning implant placement for 3 virtual cases / Design of the surgical guide
- Selection criteria for live cases: Proper documentation including photographs, models (virtual and analogue), radiographs / Case presentation examples and template / Assigning mentors
- Hands-on: flap and drilling exercises on fully edentulous and partially edentulous models to understand the drilling sequence.
- Implant placement: in 3 cases using custom 3D printed guides fabricated.
- Virtual Implant Prosthdontic Planning and Data acqusition, file merging, file segmentation.
- Participant case presentations to be scheduled throughout the day.
- Mentor/Mentee case presentation allocated times will be confirmed once program enrolments confirmed.
- Live surgery: Candidates are paired to surgically assist each other with surgery. Each candidate treats two patients, one in the morning and one in the afternoon under the supervision of a mentor.
- Live surgery: Candidates are paired to surgically assist each other with surgery. Each candidate treats two patients, one in the morning and one in the afternoon under the supervision of a mentor.
- Participants final case presentations.
- ITI on-line assessment.