Dental Implant Courses

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Course I: Basic Dental Implant Mini Residency

Participants will learn implant dentistry on a consistent weekly basis with academic and clinical course experience. Many implant courses "cram" too much information into a short weekend course. In this mini-residency, participants will view or perform live prosthetics and/or live implant surgery on patients. This gives dentists clinical time to review instruction and bring practical experience to and from their own offices each week. Plus attendance is limited to ensure individual attention. The course is hands-on and will include working on your own patient case! You will follow the development of over 20 patient cases.

Receive 100 Continuing Education Credits.

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Course II: Advanced Dental Implant Mini Residency

This advanced course is designed for clinicians with some implant dentistry experience, wishing to hone their diagnostic treatment planning and expand their surgical and prosthetic knowledge and skills. Topics covered include: bone spreading, bone grafting, sinus grafting, intra oral onlay block grafting, soft tissue surgery including subepithelial grafting, free gingival grafting and flap manipulation, immediate load implant surgery and immediate extraction and implant placement

Requirements involve the completion of one of the following:

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Course III: 3 Day Surgical “Hands on Training Course"

As Real as it Gets

Course Learning Objective

By the end of the course the participant should be able to: Perform Patient evaluations, Prescribe and Interpret Radiographs and CT Diagnostics, and Treatment Plan patients for Dental Implants. Know the Zimmer Surgical protocol, Restorative Procedures and options. Place Zimmer Dental Implants on Simulated Patient Mannequins, Place Immediate Implants, perform Socket Extraction and Bone Grafting, Restore Dental Implants with Zimmer Prosthetics, Computer Milled Abutments, Restore Lower Overdentures, and Construct Esthetic Restorations.

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Course IV: Weekend Course in Implant Surgery

The Dental Implant Learning Center is a state-of-the-art facility fully equipped to offer continuing education in clinical implant dentistry. The two-day course offered at the Center will consist of didactic lectures, live over-the-shoulder implant surgery observation and hands-on implant and prosthetic training. The course teaches implant surgery and restoration in a number of clinical situations. The restorative component of this training includes lectures and hands-on clinical demonstrations emphasizing treatment planning and techniques. The rationale for implant therapy and marketing will be addressed.

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Course V: Three-Day Hands on Bone Grafting Course

A New Live Patient Implant Tissue Regenerative Course

This grafting course will focus on bone grafting extraction sockets, ridge augmentation with membrane, block grafting, sinus grafting techniques, osteotoming and immediate implant placement. Participants will have the opportunity to view live implant surgery in each course and participate in hands-on demonstrations on lifelike mannequins.

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Course VI: Las Vegas AAID Maxicourse

The Las Vegas Maxicourse is a 300 hour AAID course. The program is designed to give a thorough understanding of diagnostic and treatment modalities necessary to properly treat patients with dental implants. The Maxicourse utilizes case-based learning methods that will include lectures, demonstrations, interactive seminars, cadaver dissection laboratories, and hands on sessions, patient treatment, and relevant reviews of literature emphasizing evidence-based learning.

Dates: Eight Friday to Sunday Modules. Beginning September 28, 2012 and ending June 9, 2013 Fridays: 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturdays: 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sundays: 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Location: University of Nevada - Las Vegas, School of Dental Medicine

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Course VII: Implant Cadaver Course - "Cadaver Techniques"

This course is designed for the moderate to advanced implant dentist. Lectures will include suturing, soft tissue grafts, bone grafting, socket preservation, ridge augmentation with membrane, CurV techniques, autogenous block grafting, allograft block grafting, sinus grafting techniques, osteotoming and immediate implant placement. Participants will have the opportunity to perform implant surgery, bone grafting, soft tissue grafting and perform anatomic dissection on Cadavers.

Over the two day course you will be able to perform the following procedures and learn:

1. Learn detailed discussion to evaluate procedural techniques
2. Learn step-by-step sinus grafting
3. Learn bone grafting techniques
4. Learn how to use various membranes, including pre shaped collagen membranes
5. Practice soft tissue, bone grafting and implant placement on Cadavers
6. Learn the location and protection of vital structures during implant surgery and bone grafting on the Cadaver

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