Implant-Retained Dentures: Innovative Approach to Full-Arch Prosthetics

Implant-Retained Dentures: Innovative Approach to Full-Arch Prosthetics

Category: Prosthodontics

Instructor(s): John Hodges, Regina Fragoso, Cristian Coraini, Conrad Rensburg, M.K. (Bobby) Baig

Course structure: Lessons: 8 lessons | Duration: 11 h 37 min

Course overview

Implant-retained denture treatment protocols by world-renowned prosthodontists from Italy, Portugal, and the USA! Join a course where you will learn the most updated implant-retained denture protocols to treat edentulous patients.
During the course, you will learn about:
– Comprehensive assessment and treatment planning for edentulous patients
– Surgical protocols for implant placement for implant-retained dentures
– Prosthetic design considerations and material selection for implant-retained dentures
– Techniques for achieving optimal fit, function, and esthetics with implant-retained dentures.
Enhance your skills and elevate your practice with the latest techniques in implant-retained denture treatment!

Curriculum

1. Lower Overdentures: 2 Implants, 2 Equator Abutments Protocols

• Lesson program:
• – Scientific foundations and clinical evidence
• – Surgical phase of implant and abutment placement: position and size
• – Placement of the retaining pieces on the prosthesis: step-by-step protocol
• – OT Equator concept
• – Maintenance: implant and overdenture
• – Сomplications that may arise during treatment with overdentures
• – How to maintain overdentures over the years
• – Maintenance of peri-implant tissues: the need to change retention caps and the degree of satisfaction of overdenture users.
• Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Implantologists.

2. Fundamentals and Managing Forces: Introduction to Different Implant Systems

• Lesson program:
• – The downside vs fixed Full-Arch
• – Removable options:
• free standing implants
• bar supported dentures.
• – Techniques for adjusting for gag reflex
• – Light body trick
• – Varying vertical requirements
• – Vertical reduction guide application
• – Choosing the number of implants and implant positioning
• – Ideal position in the mandible
• – Ideal position in the maxilla
• – Uniformity of abutment height
• – Managing off-axis forces
• – Mini-implants: pros and cons
• – Implant size and torque
• – Cross-arch stability
• – Immediate placement vs grafting
• – Attachment systems: Ball attachments, ERA attachments, 3rd gen locator, Equator, RTX locator.
• Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Implantologists.

3. Implant-Retained Dentures: Prosthetic Steps, Angled Implants, Abutments, and Partial Dentures

• Lesson program:
• – Number of implants and analyzing attachment systems
• – The varying vertical requirements from soft tissues
• – Implant position: divergence and retention variations
• – Step-by-step video demonstration of equator attachment fixation
• – Clinical application of angled abutments
• – Effect of torque on implants and bone
• – Clinical cases of partial implant-retained dentures.
• Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Implantologists.

4. Long-term Maintenance of Implant-Retained Dentures: Troubleshooting and Hygiene Protocols

• Lesson program:
• – Abutment wear
• – Biofilm removal on implants
• – Protocols for laser bacterial reduction
• – Overdenture relining process
• – Management of abutment wear
• – Clinical application of mandibular metal frame and cast maxillary frame
• – Attaching milled and printed overdentures
• – Treatment of peri-implant mucositis
• – Analysis of clinical cases.
• Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Implantologists.

5. Single Tooth, Sextant, Full arch: Fixed and Removable Implant Prosthetic Solutions

• Lesson program:
• – Introduction to removable and fixed implant dentures:
• Diagnostic elements and treatment planning
• Strategies, rationale, and operational planning
• Integration of implants in the treatment plan.
• – Implant-prosthetic components
• – Historical overview of osseointegration
• – Treatment objectives: From osseointegration to aesthetic-functional integration
• – Trophism of hard and soft tissues in prosthetic cases involving implants
• – Comparison between one-stage and two-stage implants
• – The biologic width and its significance
• – Rules and protocols for proper implant positioning
• – Relationship between implant platform position and restoration emergence
• – Protocols for prosthetically guided 3D positioning
• – Differences between luted and screw-retained fixed implant restorations
• – Considerations on platform switching and fixture analysis
• – Provisional restorations: Types and preferences
• – Analysis of clinical cases.
• Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Implantologists.

6. Implant Prosthetic Element in Simple, Medium Difficulty and Complex Cases

• Lesson program:
• – Implants in the treatment plan in fixed prosthetics and in periodontal patients
• – Implant prosthetic: individual impression tray, impression techniques
• – Protocols on how to transfer the implant position and the shape of the trans-mucosal path in the impression phase
• – Custom-made implant abutments: what are the advantages
• – Implant overdentures: edentulous patient treatment planning protocols
• – Tooth try-ins before manufacturing the arch bar
• – How to reduce tension in the impression: personal experience
• – The first working model in the event of immediate loading, and how to use it in the to finalize the case
• – Clinical application of toronto bridges: notions and clinical cases
• – Common implant anchorages in fixed or removable implant prostheses:
• Ball attachments
• Locators and telescopic crowns
• Natural tooth/implant fixture connections.
• – Muco-gingival treatment in implant prosthetics: From simple cases to 3D reconstructions
• – Protocols of the re-entry technique in cases with submerged healing and their clinical implications
• – Analysis of clinical cases.
• Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Implantologists.

7. Digital and Friction Fit Dentures: Fixed Function in a Removable Option

• Lesson program:
• – Implant-supported, friction-fit retention concept for edentulous patients
• – Custom-designed retention system for overdentures
• – Advantages over fixed hybrid solutions and upgrade options for clip-dentures
• – The friction-fit concept and evolution into digitally designed solution
• – Benefits of a fully digital workflow and printable polymers
• – Resolving retention issues through digital workflow
• – Patient selection and case management
• – Protocols for soft tissue management for long-term retention
• – Digital dentures: workflows, advantages, and modern materials
• – Occlusal analysis in overdenture cases
• – Analysis of clinical cases.
• Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Implantologists.

8. Removable Cast Partial Dentures Design Principles and Patient Management Strategies

• Lesson program:
• – Challenges of designing partial dentures and the focus of the lecture
• – Key concepts regarding design principles, aesthetic challenges, and patient satisfaction
• – Analysis of the prognosis of clinical cases including free end saddles, tooth-borne attachments, and tooth-supported prostheses
• – Clinical steps and design principles involved in the fabrication of removable partial dentures (RPDs)
• – Methods for impression taking for RPD frame fabrication
• – Methods for connecting and improving saddle adaptation
• – Different types of RPDs, removable partial overdentures (RPODs), and clasp designs;
• – Components and materials used in fabricating RPDs and RPODs
• – Do's and Don'ts guidelines for RPD and RPODs fabrication and clinical practice
• – Analysis of clinical cases.
• Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Implantologists.