Implant-supported restorations: course from A to Z for prosthodontists

Implant-supported restorations: course from A to Z for prosthodontists

Category: Prosthodontics

Instructor(s): Carl Drago

Course structure: Lessons: 8 lessons | Duration: 4 h 30 min

Course overview

Сomprehensive course on implant-supported restorations for prosthodontists!

Dive into a wealth of knowledge covering:

Course lessons

Lesson 1: Implant loading protocols

• Unloading healing, early loading, immediate loading for single and two-unit implant restorations
• Problems caused by disability of edentulism:
• fracture
• facial contours
• social activities.
• Implant treatment: advantages
• Traditional loading protocols:
• extra and intraoral examination
• treatment planning.
• Single-stage implant treatment protocol.

Lesson 2: Immediate non-occlusal and occlusal loading

• Immediate non-occlusal loading (INOL):
• benefits
• INOL restorations
• inclusion/exclusion criteria.
• Angled implants: indications
• Screw-retained provisional crowns
• Immediate occlusal loading (IOL)
• Treatment planning for patients with periodontal diseases
• Fixed solutions for edentulous patients
• All-on-4 protocol: literature review
• Laboratory and surgical collaboration, appointment sequencing, and identifying the required implant components to have on hand for each protocol and procedure
• Specific diets, oral hygiene and maintenance procedures for each loading protocol.

Lesson 3: Immediate full-arch occlusal loading

• Identify patients who warrant this type of treatment including long-term edentulous patients, patients with chronic moderate/severe periodontitis and patients with severe caries
• Advantages of immediate occlusal loading including function, aesthetics, improved self-image and self-confidence
• Anatomic and radiographic findings that clinicians need to know prior to treatment planning full-arch treatments
• Treatment options for severe periodontitis
• Full-arch immediate occlusal loading concept overwiev
• Fixed solutions for edentulous patients
• Indications and contraindications for immediate occlusal loading
• All-on-4 protocol.

Lesson 4: Immediate full-arch occlusal loading: prosthodontic and surgical procedures

• Consideration for choosing an immediate occlusal loading protocol
• Requirements for immediate implant prosthesis
• Prosthodontic procedures needed in order to fabricate the immediate full-arch prostheses
• Surgical parameters required in order to successfully treat patients with full-arch immediate restorations
• Abutment selection
• Post-operative diet and follow-up appointments.

Lesson 5: Implant prosthetic: сlinical and laboratory guidelines

• Troubleshoot problems associated with long-term, full-arch, implant prostheses
• Implant prosthetic complications:
• stripped screws
• denture base
• fractured frameworks.
• Requirements for optimal implant framework design
• Generic prosthetiс options: fixed, removable (rigin), removable (non-rigin)
• Bar design considerations
• Fixed milled titanium frameworks
• I Beam design, L Beam design.

Lesson 6: Clinical and laboratory guidelines for hybrid CAD/CAM framework designs

• Design full-arch frameworks using evidenced-based parameters:
• metal design
• retentive elements
• prosthesis type
• cantilever length.
• Design considerations for fixed hybrid prostheses
• Clinical case analysis:
• abutment level impressions
• wax dentures for scanning
• 3D design
• framework try-in.
• Definitive prostheses
• Bar-supported overdentures
• Common prosthodontic complications and how to problem-solve them.

Lesson 7: Definitive full-arch prostheses: clinical decision-making and treatment

• Diagnosis and treatment planning for full-arch, immediate occlusal loading
• Osseointegration
• Fixed or removable dentures: decision making algorithm
• Two basic pre-operative requirements
• Fixed hybrid prosthesis: indications
• Implant-supported fixed protheses: clinical case analysis.

Lesson 8: Definitive full-arch prostheses: clinical and lab steps

• Full-arch immediate occlusal loading concept overwiev
• Fixed solutions for edentulous patients
• Clinical presentation: maxillary and mandibulary All-on-4 protocol:
• treatment plan
• impression and casts
• smile line and VDO
• arbitrary set up.
• Communicating with implant surgeons and dental laboratory technicians regarding full-arch treatment
• Smart denture conversion: benefits and limitations
• Accelerated treatment protocol to fabricate definitive prostheses in as few as 3 appointments
• Digital workflows for fabrication of definitive full-arch prostheses.

Who is this course for?

This online course is designed for dentists and dental professionals interested in prosthodontics, clinical decision-making and evidence-informed dental practice.