This 4-day evidence-based foundation course is designed for clinicians with an interest in the field of implant dentistry. This course presents evidence-based treatment concepts for the rehabilitation of fully and partially edentulous patients. Besides lectures, the participants will see several live surgeries observing how dental implants are placed, bone augmentation performed and biologic complications or soft tissue defects are treated. In addition, the course offers the opportunity of workshops in treatment planning, digital workflows, surgical periodontal and prosthetic treatment concepts. The course involves lectures presenting the underlying principles for treatment solutions and fully documented clinical cases. Several live surgeries demonstrate the placement of dental implants, bone augmentations and the treatment of biologic complications or soft tissue defects. In addition, small-group training in treatment planning, digital workflows, surgical, periodontal and prosthetic is provided in hands-on workshops.

Learning objectives

• Comprehensive treatment planning in implant dentistry
• Advantages and challenges of digital workflows in implant dentistry
• Planning, prosthetically driven implant placement
• Alveolar ridge preservation
• Distinguish the indications for immediate, early, and late implant placement
• Biology and indication of bone regeneration in sinus floor elevation and guided bone regeneration vs. the use of narrow-diameter or short implants
• Biology of peri-implant wound healing and regeneration
• Implants in periodontally compromised patients
• Etiology, diagnosis and treatment of biologic complications at implants
• Etiology, prevention and treatment of soft tissue defects at implants
• Risk assessment and maintenance care
• Discuss biological and implant prosthodontics complications, their prevention and treatment

Course details

• Factors for long-term success in implant surgery
• Treatment planning/risk assessment: The prosthetic view
• Treatment planning/risk assessment: The periodontal view
• Oral-facial anatomy related to implant dentistry
• Medical risk factors for implant therapy
• Bone and soft tissue integration of dental implants
• Prosthetic concepts in the edentulous patient
• Fundamentals in Guided Bone Regeneration
• Prosthetic concepts in the partially edentulous patient
• Prosthetic materials and Ti-base abutments
• Cellular and molecular aspects of bone healing
• Hard and soft tissue alterations post-extraction
• Guided Bone regeneration: Timing in implant placement post extraction: When immediate, early or late?
• Sinus floor elevation: When simultaneous, staged, window or osteotome?
• CAIS: Does the virtual become reality?
• Implants in periodontally compromised patients
• Prevention and treatment of biological complications around implant
• Treatment of soft tissue defects at implants
• Use of lasers and antibiotics in the treatment of periimplant infections
• Update biomaterials for the treatment of peri-implant infections (Emdogain, PRF, Hyaluronic acid)
• Case presentations

Live Surgeries

• Soft tissue augmentation – Recession coverage
• Peri-implantitis
• Chairside implant provisionals with the CEREC System
• GBR in esthetic sites
• SFE lateral window
• GBR in posterior sites
• Standard implant placement
• Standard CAIS

Workshops

• Digital Planning/Cases
• Implant placement in esthetic sites with GBR and sinus floor elevation
• Standard TL implant placement in non esthetic sites
• Conventional impression taking and direct provisional implant restoration
• Periimplantitis
• Soft tissue augmentation, Recession Coverage