This two-day workshop has been designed for clinicians who have basic training and clinical experience in implant restorative dentistry. This course will improve their knowledge and practical expertise before taking on more complex cases.

Upon completion of this course the clinician will have enhanced knowledge in the principles and practicalities of the prosthodontic management of a variety of cases, in addition to a deeper understanding of how to achieve more predictable results.

The program is an intensive, small group experience with numerous practical sessions to familiarise participants with a range of treatment options and componentry choices. The full range of current restorative options available for single tooth and partially edentulous cases will be discussed in detail during the hands-on abutment selection workshop.

There will be discussions on management of complications during treatment and appropriate protocols for implant maintenance at the completion of a case. Participants are encouraged to bring relevant patient records from their own practices for use in case assessment and treatment planning sessions. These records can be potential, current or completed implant cases. Surgical management topics will be discussed on request.

Topics:

• Pre-operative clinical assessment
• Treatment planning protocol and documentation
• Coordinating surgical and prosthetic stage
• Radiographic assessment
• Fixture impression at Stage I surgery
• Reconstituted cast for temporary crown at Stage II
• Update on current single tooth and multiunit componentry
• Platform concept: narrow, regular, wide
• Abutment selection workshop
• Impression procedures
• Provisional restorations
• Master cast with soft tissue section
• Torque controller
• Communication with laboratory
• Occlusion
• Cementation - intraoral and extraoral
• Maintenance
• Combining teeth and implants as bridge abutments
• Complications
• Practice management