Clinical Implant Continuum 2009

Faculty
John A. Sorensen, DMD, PhD
Dennis Perala, DMD
Kyle Kuhns, MDC
Kenji Mizuno, CDT
Mike Wilson, BS
                          
Prosthodontist
Periodontist & Implant Surgeon
Master Dental Ceramist
Certified Dental Technician
Technical Consultant, Photography & Digital Imaging
Small class size makes for extensive one on-one-training!
2009 CIC Course Schedule
March 13       April 17       May 29       Oct 9       Nov 13       Dec 11
Course Goals:  Learn to treat implant patients in your office with confidence! 
This continuum is aimed at making the participant comfortable and confident in most aspects of implant prosthodontics.
  • Master site assessment, treatment planning & treatment sequencing skills
  • Achieve predictable clinical results
  • Optimize surgeon- restorative dentist communication
  • Create natural esthetics
  • Get the entire office staff on board with implant dentistry
Course Objectives
  • Establish a protocol & treatment planning sequence to consistently achieve predictable implant placement, prosthodontic restoration & life-like esthetic results.
  • Be comfortable with the full gamut of implant dentistry from single tooth to partially edentulous situations to completely edentulous patients.
  • Successfully communicate with the implant surgeon to achieve optimal implant placement
  • Have research documented, evidence-based systematic practical approach to all phases of implant dentistry.
  • Be comfortable with appropriate component selection, abutment & prosthesis design, materials selection & laboratory communication
  • Techniques & technology for case photo documentation, before & after photos, patient presentation of treatment plans and internal marketing
*Participants can have their referring surgeon place the implants or have the PDI surgeon perform implant surgery

Session 1  March 13, 2009 8:00am – 6:00pm
Implant Treatment Planning For Single Tooth & Fixed Partially Edentulous Treatment 
Instructor:
John A. Sorensen, DMD, PhD 
A. Lecture - Prosthetically Driven Implant Placement
  • Understand the osseous & soft-tissues healing process post extraction
  • Radiographic evaluation, including CT
  • Site assessment
  • Understand the indications, contraindications, risks and benefits of both soft- and hard-tissue grafting procedures
  • Dimensions and anatomic landmarks for fixture placement
  • Predictable Peri-Implant Esthetics
  • Diagnostic aids for esthetic soft tissue results
  • Assess biologic, biomechanical, prosthodontic and esthetic risk factors
  • Contraindications to implant placement and high risk of failure situations
  • Clinical selection criteria for choice of implant design, shape, length, surface treatment and number of stages needed for a given clinical situation
  • Treatment planning & sequencing implant treatment
  • Diagnostic workup
  • Dentist – Surgeon communication
    • Getting the surgeon to place the implants where you need them
  • Surgical guide fabrication 
  • Understand & implement selection of single stage vs two-stage vs immediate loading of fixtures
B. Hands-On  - Make radiographic stents and surgical stents to achieve predictable
       implant placement
  • Model Mapping for Planning Implant Placement
  • Surgical Guide Fabrication Workshop
  • Digital Photography & Image Management (Bring your camera & computer)
    • Clinical Photography
    • Digital Image and  File Management   
    • Powerpoint Presentations 
C. Group Treatment Planning Session on Participants' Patients
  • Bring patients' diagnostic casts, radiographs, charting & photographs
Includes: Course manual, continental breakfast, lunch     
Course Tuition -$495

Session 2  April 17, 2009 8:00am – 6:00pm
Implant Provisional Restorations: Lecture & Hands-on Course and Implant Surgery Session
Instructors:
John A. Sorensen, DMD, PhD
Dennis G. Perala, DMD, MS  Periodontist- Implant Surgeon
A. Lecture - Dr. Sorensen - Implant Provisional Restorations
  • Biologic dimensions for optimized osseous & soft-tissue levels
  • Ovate pontic concepts
  • Provisional restoration design concepts
  • From top of implant
  • Socket form
  • Emergence profile
  • Soft-tissue site development with provisional restorations
  • Materials selection criteria
  • Screw-retained vs. cemented
  • Systematic methodologies for direct & indirect provisional fabrication
  • Using the provisional restoration as a prototype for the definitive restoration
  • Cast of provisionals provides 3D model for communicating final restoration design to technician
  • Immediate provisionalization concepts and techniques
  • Non-functional single tooth provisional
  • Functional full arch fixed provisional prosthesis
  • Technique for fabrication of custom impression coping from provisional restoration to record soft-tissue contours 
Lecture- Dr. Perala - Implant Treatment Planning & Grafting From a Surgeon's Perspective
 
B. Dr. Perala Surgery - Implant placement & grafting on participants' patients
 
C. Hands-On Implant Provisional Workshop
  • Fabricate single central screw-retained implant crown
  • Fabricate custom abutment & cemented crown
  • Fabricate abutment supported 6-unit fixed partial denture   
D. Group Treatment Planning Session on Participants' Patients
Includes: Course manual, components, materials, instruments, continental breakfast, lunch - Brasseler Temporary Adjustment & Polishing Kit included.    
Course Tuition -$565

Session 3 May 29, 2009 8:00am – 5:00pm
Implant Treatment Planning, Principles & Treatment of Completely Edentulous Patients. Lecture & Implant Surgery Session
Instructors:
John A. Sorensen, DMD, PhD
Dennis G. Perala, DMD
Placement of only two implants can significantly improve the denture wearing patient's quality of life. A large variety of treatment options are available with 2 to 6 implants.  This session will consider treatment planning and treatment options for the implant supported completely edentulous patient.  Although current CAD/CAM generated surgical guides allow predictable implant placement & delivery of immediate full arch fixed prosthesis in a few hours, current systems require healed ridges in edentulous patients.  In the instructors' practice they frequently extract multiple teeth, place multiple immediate implants and deliver an immediate fixed provisional prosthesis.
            
A. Lecture - Dr. Sorensen – Implant Treatment Planning, Principles & Treatment of Completely Edentulous & Partially Edentulous Removable Patients
  • Complete denture concepts – You can't place the implants if you don't know where the teeth are supposed to be
  • Principles of determining vertical dimension of occlusion, jaw position, interocclusal records, tooth position
  • Occlusion for edentulous & dentate patients
  • Cone beam CT assisted treatment planning
  • Treatment options for the edentulous patient
  • Ostectomy- The often overlooked key to success with full arch implant supported prostheses
  • Treatment planning with implant surgeon
  • Sequencing treatment- From extractions to temporary denture to definitive prosthesis
  • Process & design principles for conversion of complete denture to provisional fixed prosthesis
B. Video of Patient Treatment
  • Surgery - Extractions and Immediate Implant Placement
  • Prosthodontics – Conversion & delivery of Immediate Provisional Full-arch Fixed Prosthesis
C. Dr. Perala   Surgery- Implant placement & grafting on participants' patients
      
D. Group Treatment Planning Session on Participants' Patients
  • Bring patients' diagnostic casts, radiographs, charting & photographs
Includes: Extensive course manual, continental breakfast, lunch    
Course Tuition -$495

Session 4 October 9, 2009 8:30am – 5:00pm
Laboratory – Dentist Synergy Day
Instructors:
John A. Sorensen, DMD, PhD
Kyle Kuhns, MDC
Kenji Mizuno, CDT
Technicians bring your doctor!
 
Doctors bring your technician!
Dentist – Technician Dialogue
 
A.  Lecture
  • Cemented vs. screw-retained implant prostheses
  • Stock vs. custom abutments -Titanium, cast gold, PFM, zirconia
  • Abutment & prosthesis design
  • Single crown, fixed partial denture, hybrid FPD, tissue bar overdenture
  • Abutment & prosthesis materials selection
  • CAD/CAM abutments & frameworks
  • Ceramic crown material selection criteria
  • Shade selection & communication
    • Anterior vs. posterior
    • Opacity-translucency
    • Metal-ceramic vs. all-ceramic
    • Veneering porcelain: Powdered porcelain buildup, Press-on ceramics
  • Multi-prosthodontic media cases
    • Often have full crown &/or veneer on teeth adjacent to implant
    • Design, materials & systems selection
  • Design of occlusal surfaces, width of occlusal table
  • Delivery, adjustment & cementation procedures
  • Cement selection criteriaHow to make money doing sophisticated implant prosthodontics
    Dentist – technician communication
  • Fixture level impressions allowing maximum flexibility & simplification of design
  • Rapid & efficient implant model work
  • The Prosthodontic Design Process
    Abutment selection, abutment design, cemented or screw-retained prosthesis?
  • Tissue emergence design considerations – esthetics, tissue support & biologically compatible & sustainable
B. Dental Implant Dialogue Session

C. Patient Procedure Videos

D. Group Treatment Planning Session on Participants' Patients

This will be an open meeting at George Fox University, Tigard Campus. Located across street from Pacific Dental Institute.  Session will have commercial exhibits from implant manufacturers, digital imaging companies, & dental laboratories.
Includes: Extensive detailed clinical & laboratory technique manual  text book: Sorensen JA. Contemporary Implant Prosthodontics Clinical & Laboratory Manual. Continental breakfast, lunch.   
Course Tuition $285

Session 5 November 13, 2009 8:00am – 5:30pm
Implant Uncovering Surgery, Soft Tissue Management, Temporization, Impressions. Lecture, Live-Patient & Participant Treatment Course
 
Dental Assistants Training Afternoon
Instructors:
John A. Sorensen, DMD, PhD
Dennis G. Perala, DMD, MS
Kyle Kuhns, MDC
Kenji Mizuno, CDT
Mike Wilson, BS
A. Lecture
  • Uncovering surgery principles & techniques
    • Simple biopsy punch technique
    • Second chance to build up soft tissue
  • Small flap design
  • Large flap design
  • Decision tree for "abutment & crown" or "screw-retained crown?"
  • Selection criteria for prefabricated abutment or custom abutment
  • Abutment design
  • Fabrication of temporary restorations
    • Materials & system selection criteria
    • Design criteria
    • Direct fabrication techniques
    • Indirect fabrication techniques
  • Fixture level impression techniques
    • Jaw relations and occlusion
    • Shade selection & communication
  • Principles of occlusion for dentate patients
    • Principles of stable occlusion
    • What reference position to use? – Repeatability & Accuracy
    • Character of the intercuspal position & design
    • Anterior guidance
    • Jaw relations & interocclusal records
    • Occlusion for implant restorations
  • Design of occlusal surfaces, width of occlusal table
B. Live Patient Treatment Live video from operatory to Teaching Theater
  • Uncovering Surgery, Abutment Placement, Fabrication of Provisional Restorations, fixture level impressions
C. Clinical SessionParticipants Treating Their Own Patients
  • Abutment placement
  • Fixture level impressions
  • Fabrication of temporary abutments or temporary crowns
  • Soft tissue site development
D. Group Treatment Planning Session on Participants' Patients
  • Bring patients' diagnostic casts, radiographs, charting & photographs
E.  Team Training Afternoon 2:00 – 4:30
  • Doctors; Dental Assistant training on implants
  • Implant components
  • Terminology
  • Talking to patients about dental implants
  • Dental assisting for implants
Includes: Course manual, components, materials, instruments, continental breakfast, lunch
Course Tuition $425  Observing doctors/technicians
TBD Treating doctors
Session 6 December 11, 2009 8:00am – 5:30pm
Impressions & Delivery of Definitive Prostheses
Lecture, Live-Patient & Participant Treatment Course
Instructors:   
John A. Sorensen, DMD, PhD
Kyle Kuhns, MDC
Kenji Mizuno, CDT
Mike Wilson, BS
A. Lecture - Steps in the delivery of fixed implant prostheses
  • Adjustment of proximal contacts
    • Shim stock marking material
    • Securing prosthesis with abutment screw
  • The "feel" of the abutment screw as tightening
  • Soft tissue- prosthesis adaptation
  • How much pressure on soft tissues?
    • Tissue blanching
  • Esthetic contours
    • Adjustment & polishing
  • Adjustment & refining of occlusion
    • Which articulating paper?
    • Relative degree of contact on implant prosthesis vs. adjacent natural teeth
    • Spheroiding of occlusal contact marks to refine occlusion
    • Lateral eccentric contacts
    • Steps in polishing
  • Confirming seating with radiographs
    • Trouble shooting
  • Torquing of abutment screws
  • Filling of screw access holes with gutta percha
  • Placement of composite occlusal filling
    • Shade/opacity selection of composite filling material
  • Cementation of crowns & bridges
    • Understanding seating complications from the cementation phenomena
    • Cement selection
    • Techniques to minimize leaving subgingival cement
    • Post-cementation radiographs
  • Maintenance
    • Trouble shooting & Solutions
    • Repair & modification
    • Failures
    • Surgical revisions
  • Marketing with doctor's own patient treatment
    • Building a portfolio
B. Live Patient Treatment- Live video from operatory to Teaching Theater
  • Delivery of definitive prosthesis 
C. Clinical Session- Participants Treating Their Own Patients
  • Delivery of definitive prosthesis
D. Group Post-Treatment Review Session of Participants''Patients
  • Post-operative photographs & radiographs
Includes: Course manual, components, materials, instruments, continental breakfast, lunch.
Course Tuition -$425  Observing doctors/technicians
TBD Treating doctors
 
6:00 Cocktail party
 
7:30 Graduation dinner

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