Perth ITI Study Club

Provisional Implant Restorations: Managing Soft Tissues Around Dental Implants

Presented by Dr Adam Hamilton

Date: Wednesday 4th August 2021

Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm

Venue: Quest, South Perth Foreshore

CPD: 2 hours

The ability to recreate an ideal peri-implant mucosal architecture to replicate the gingivae of a natural tooth is critical for attaining an aesthetic outcome in implant dentistry. This largely involves correct surgical planning and techniques to compensate for soft and hard tissue loss following tooth extraction. However, soft tissue aesthetics in implant dentistry can also be largely influenced through prosthodontic techniques during the fabrication and design of provisional and definitive implant restorations. This lecture will review the literature and clinical realities on how the restorative dentist can modify soft tissue aesthetics.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the peri-implant soft tissue anatomy
• Recognize the ideal shape of the restorative emergence profile and its impact on the soft tissue
• Be familiar with the techniques for fabrication of provisional implant restorations
• Understand the concepts of prosthetically guided soft tissue healing

Dr Adam Hamilton ( BDSc, DCD, FRACDS) is the Discipline lead in Prosthodontics at the University of Western Australia. He is the former director of the Division of Regenerative Sciences and Implant Dentistry at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine where he is still a lecturer for the advanced graduate implant dentistry program. He completed his general dental education at the University of Western Australia and has a Doctorate in Clinical Dentistry in the specialty of Prosthodontics from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons and the International Team for Implantology (ITI). He was the recipient of an ITI scholarship through which he completed a Fellowship in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at University of Florida’s Center for Implant Dentistry. His research focuses are on implant placement and loading protocols, the impact of digital technology in prosthodontics and implant dentistry, as well as digital workflows for implant rehabilitation of the edentulous patient. He maintains a clinical practice focusing on prosthodontic and surgical implant treatment.

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