Successful Soft Tissue Grafting with AlloDerm^®: A Hands-on Workshop

This course presents detailed techniques for successful soft tissue grafting with acellular dermal matrix using the Tunnel Technique. The lecture will include indications for application of this technique to both teeth and implant sites for successfully treating gingival recession with a minimally invasive method. The surgical technique will be performed by attendees on life-like models that accurately simulate gingival recession defects seen in patients on a daily basis.

Dr. Edward P. Allen, Periodontist

Successful Bone Grafting Techniques: A Hands-on Workshop

This bone graft course will discuss techniques and materials for the most common bone grafting procedures including Type 2 and 3 extraction sites, lateral ridge augmentation and sinus grafting. This course is designed for the clinician that has prior implant experience and would like to broaden his/her knowledge and scope of practice while improving surgical skills.

Dr. Bach Le, Oral Surgeon

Incorporating Digital Dentistry into Implant Practice: From Surgical Planning to Final Prosthesis

This course is intended to remove the mystery behind digital dentistry and to demonstrate how to successfully incorporate digital technology into your practice. Dr. Moody will provide instruction on: initial diagnosis using CBCT, surgical planning using intra-oral scanning and restorative execution using custom-milled prosthetics. Attendees will learn how to create and use a surgical guide for precise implant placement followed by hands-on guided surgery and digital impressions.

Dr. Justin Moody

TeethXpress^® Workflow: Traditional vs. Digital Technology Integration

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The use of digital technology is becoming more common for treating full arch cases. However, treating a full arch patient is significantly more complex than a single tooth implant. This means efficiency and accuracy play a significant role in success, profitability, and patient satisfaction. Even though both traditional and digital protocols related to TeethXpress work successfully, direct treatment costs and treatment time can be lower using a digital workflow. This lecture will detail the TeethXpress workflow and novel ways of integrating patient data into a digital workflow.

Dr. Hamid Shafie, Prosthodontist

Diagnosis & Management of Dental Implant Complications

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This presentation incorporates a step-by-step guide to the daily practice of implant therapy and related treatment complications caused by poor diagnosis, regenerative risk factors, implant placement errors and potential complications from immediate implant therapy in the esthetic zone. This course will focus on how to identify, avoid, and treat potential complications while offering a new philosophy on the long term predictability of bone grafting. Insight into new treatment modalities to repair a defective labial plate in conjunction with immediate implant placement will also be presented.

Dr. Abdelsalam Elaskary

Prosthetic Pathways: Restorative Protocols & Responsibilities for Implant Esthetics

Dental implants have a highly successful track record, but long-term maintenance of esthetics can be unpredictable due to changes in the surrounding tissue. This discussion will cover ways to optimize esthetics for long-term success. Topics will include provisionalization and tissue sculpting, immediate vs. delayed placement and loading, platform switching, techniques to capture soft tissue profiles, digital impressions, minimizing cement retention and sequencing advanced cases. Hands-on with screw-retained provisionals, custom healing abutments and transfer copings is included.

Dr. Jeffrey Babushkin

Realities of Digital Workflow for Implant Restorations: Hands-on Workshop

This lecture and hands-on workshop will feature insightful tips for the clinician who wishes to incorporate and optimize the use of intra-oral scanners and restorative planning software into clinical practice. Dr. Vafiadis will demonstrate an integrated hardware and software solution for simple, straightforward restorative implant dentistry. Planning, esthetics and occlusion are among the many aspects that will be reviewed. This course is limited to 35 attendees.

Dr. Dean Vafiadis, Prosthodontist

Dr. Richard Martin, Oral Surgeon

Crestal Sinus Elevation Techniques: Hands-on Workshop

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Crestal sinus elevation offers a minimally invasive approach for implant placement in immediate or healed sites. Utilizing osteotomes, crestal drill stop systems and other advanced techniques, this procedure can provide patients with faster healing times and minimal discomfort. Using case studies and a video library, Dr. Cullum will present straightforward, advanced and complex scenarios for treatment options, skill development and referral assessment. Attendees will have the opportunity to use the instruments, grafting materials and implants in a hands-on setting.

Dr. Dan Cullum, Oral Surgeon

Leveraging Technology, Materials & Workflow to Grow Your Full Arch Practice

The last few years have seen exponential growth in the number of practices performing full arch restorations. Even long-time full arch providers find themselves competing for these high-value cases while average patient prices continue to fall. This lecture will explore ways to: create practice differentiation, increase new patients, utilize digital imaging and treatment planning to deliver definitive prostheses in as little as three weeks, and lower case costs by using less hardware and chair time. *This course is designed for U.S. based clinicians

Dr. Frank LaMar, Prosthodontist & Co-Founder of Hybridge

TeethTomorrow™ Full Arch Treatment Protocol Utilizing the Prettau Zirconia Prosthesis

This course will serve as an introduction to the TeethTomorrow full arch protocol utilizing the Prettau zirconia bridge. Topics covered will include treatment planning, surgical and prosthetic considerations for providing the patient with a zirconia prosthesis on the day after surgical implant placement, thereby eliminating the need for a transitional prosthesis. Methods to implement and market this protocol will also be covered, in addition to laboratory considerations for the Prettau prosthesis. This session is for clinicians practicing in the USA.

Dr. Michael Tischler

3D Imaging & CT-Guided Implant Surgery

The integration of cone beam technology and 3D imaging has advanced the practice of digital dentistry. CT-guided implant planning combined with guided surgery leads to increased accuracy and efficiency of implant treatment. To realize these advantages, it is important to have a thorough understanding of the software and the workflow, as well as each component of the guided surgery kit. This session will demonstrate how the merging of implant planning software, CAD/CAM technology and guided surgery systems can enable surgeons and restorative dentists to leverage the benefits of digital dentistry. Guided surgery hands-on included.

Dr. Jay Reznick, Oral Surgeon

You're invited to a Cocktail & Dinner Gala

Let's Celebrate!

Saturday, May 6, 2017
7:00pm-10:00pm
Fontainebleau Miami Beach

Registrant & one guest admitted free of charge. Additional guests $95 each