Implant Placement: "The Starter Course" - (November 12th-14th 2026)

$7,999.99

Learn from board certified oral and maxillofacial surgeons and enhance your skills with our comprehensive starter course on posterior implant placement.

Course Highlights:

  • 3 day course showcasing the most recent advances in implant surgery

  • Understand case selection, treatment planning, pre-operative evaluation, radiography review, guided surgery design, surgical placement, post-operative care, complications

  • Hands-on model sessions for understanding implant workflows

  • Hands-on live animal jaws for flap design, anatomical feel for implantology, and suturing

  • Live hands on surgery for participants with active unrestricted licenses (out-of-state as well)

  • Edentulous ridges, overdentures, simple immediate placements, etc.

  • 22 CE credits

Learn from board certified oral and maxillofacial surgeons and enhance your skills with our comprehensive starter course on posterior implant placement.

Course Highlights:

  • 3 day course showcasing the most recent advances in implant surgery

  • Understand case selection, treatment planning, pre-operative evaluation, radiography review, guided surgery design, surgical placement, post-operative care, complications

  • Hands-on model sessions for understanding implant workflows

  • Hands-on live animal jaws for flap design, anatomical feel for implantology, and suturing

  • Live hands on surgery for participants with active unrestricted licenses (out-of-state as well)

  • Edentulous ridges, overdentures, simple immediate placements, etc.

  • 22 CE credits

Short Course Outline: Day 1

I. Introduction/Review on Implant Technology

  • Importance of implants in patient care

  • Increasing implant acceptance in your office

  • Introduction to the IEXCEL system and Straumann technology

II. Preoperative Evaluation and Treatment Planning

  • Patient assessment (medical and dental history, etc.)

  • Risk factors discussion

  • Diagnostic imaging and interpretation

  • Case work-ups

  • Consents

 IV. Surgical Case Selection

  • ITI SAC classification review

  • Understanding adequate ridges and what requires augmentation (both soft/hard)

  • When should we consider referring patient to a specialist?

  • Concept of surgically designed, prosthetically driven

 V. Guided Implant Surgery

  • Principles of guided implant surgery

  • Straumann Digital Workflow for guide fabrication

VI. Surgical Procedure Walk Through on Printed and Live animal Tissue Models

  • Anesthetic techniques

  • Flap Design

  • Implant Site Preparation

  • Utilizing guide pins and intraoperative imaging

  • Implant placement, understanding torque and depth, and bone quality

  • Considerations for achieving optimal gingival architecture around implants

  • Chair-side tissue formers vs abutments

  • Suturing

VIII. Complications and Management

  • Intraoperative complications

  • Postoperative complications

  • Strategies for prevention and management of complications

IX. Postoperative Care and Follow-Up

  • Postoperative instructions for patients, follow-ups

  • Pharmacological management

X. Case Presentations and Discussion

  • Review of case studies illustrating different surgical techniques and outcomes

  • Interactive discussion on treatment planning and decision-making

Short Course Outline: Day 2

XII. Live Patient Surgery Demonstrations

  • Instructor guided live patient surgeries

  • Follow through a full patient work up:

    • Consult -> imaging interpretation -> guide design/fabrication -> surgical placement

  • Opportunities for live interactions and Q&As

Short Course Outline: Day 3

XIII. Live Patient Surgery By Participants

  • Participants perform live surgeries under oral ourgeon guidance

  • Opportunities for live interactions and Q&As