ITI Education Week Melbourne Current Perspectives in Implant Dentistry

Learning Objectives

• Understand both restorative and surgical implant assessment and treatment planning
  
• Understand straightforward and advanced implant prosthodontics and surgery
  
• Be exposed to complex implant prosthetics and surgery
  
• Understand the current concepts in implant dentistry
  

Lectures

Topics

• Biological principles of implant dentistry
  
• Case assessment
  
• Radiography for implant dentistry
  
• SAC classification
  
• Timing of implant placement
  
• Augmentation materials
  
• Implants in aesthetic zone
  
• Approaches for implants in the posterior maxilla & mandible
  
• Immediate loading
  
• Bone versus tissue level
  
• Loading protocols
  
• Management of biological complications
  
• Implant complications
  
• Case discussions
  

Live procedures include:

• Single implant placement
  
• Multiple implant placement for fixed bridge work
  
• Lower implant retained full dentures
  
• Simultaneous grafting
  
• Impression techniques and provisionalisation for single and multiple implants
  

Hands-on sessions include:

• Placement of bone level implants
  
• Impression techniques for dental implants
  
• Provisionalisation of dental implants
  
• Managing complications
  

Case discussions cover:

• Assessment
  
• Treatment Planning
  
• Tips for improving outcomes