Course Curriculum

Module 1: Feb 17-21, 2025

Diagnosis, Treatment planning, Radiology and Medical Conditions

• Scope and evolution of implant dentistry.
• Basic principles of diagnosis and treatment planning.
• Treatment options – Fixed and Removable implant supported restorations.
• When to choose conventional dentistry and when Implants are beneficial.
• Case studies that demonstrate the growing relevance of implantology.
• Fundamentals of Radiology - Case Presentation and Documentation.
• Photographic documentation and PowerPoint® presentations.

Beginning with the end in mindprosthetically driven implant dentistry.

• Choosing an implant system – how to choose what type of implant to select.
• Clinical Examination of the implant patient-Evaluation of Dentition.
• Evaluation of the medically compromised patient.
• Live surgical demonstration-Review of Implant Placement Protocol.
• Hands-on:
  - Digital Scanning on Models
  - Implant Placement on Typodont
  - Flap & Suturing Techniques

Module 2: APR 17–21, 2025

Diagnosis, Treatment planning, Radiology and Medical Conditions

• Bone biology, basic Implantology and pharmacology.
• Imaging and advanced treatment planning.
• Introduction to immunology and wound healing.
• Pharmacology: Review of basic pharmacokinetics & pharmacodynamics. Review of current implant systems.
• Intra oral scanners and scanning strategies.
• Developing treatment plans.
• Introduction to implant planning software and guide designing software.
• Detailed walkthrough on Di-COM & STL files and their integration.
• Applied anatomy in implant dentistrysimulation and lecture.
• Principles of Asepsis.
• Clinical Session-1: Patient exam, diagnostic records, surgical smile fabrication, pre-surgical planning.
• CBCT, digital intra oral scans and planning for computer guided surgeries.

Clinical session-I:

• Presurgical work up and obtaining patient records.
• Intra oral scans and photographs.
• Analog work flow: prosthetic planning, Diagnostic Casts, Mounting, and Wax-ups.
• Digital work flow: Patient intra oral scanning, Digital wax up , Digital implant planning, guide designing.
• Suturing exercises and tissue management.
• Review of implant placement protocols on technique jaws.
• Diagnostic radiographs: periapical, CT Scans, tomograms.

Clinical session-II:

• Surgical placement of implants.
• Free hand vs guided surgeries.
• Basics of bone grafts & membranes.
• Atraumatic extractions.
• Suturing and primary closure.

Module 3: Aug 26–30, 2025

Advanced Surgical Implantology and Prosthetic session

• Advanced surgical implantology
• Immediate placement techniques
• Sinus grafts and ridge augmentation.
• Live surgical demonstration-Sinus grafts.
• Sedation and local anesthesia in Implantology.
• Treatment area and patient sterilization protocols.
• Bone enhancement: Expansion of alveolar ridges : Live surgical demonstration.

Clinical session-III:

• Guided surgical placement of implants
• Impression techniques - analogue and scan bodies.
• Immediate impression techniques, Immediate conversion and loading.
• Crestal lifts and ridge expansion with various drilling protocol including bone condensation
• PRF/PRP blood collection and harvesting platelets with handson.
• Osteotomes, low speed drilling and condensing drills.

Module 4: TBD, Nov 2025

Advance Implant Prosthodontics

• Advanced implant prosthodontics.
• Occlusion and occlusal principles in implantology.
• Biomaterials, biomechanics, advanced research.
• Prosthodontic components: Standard and custom.
• Prosthodontic Protocols: Presurgical, provisional and definitive.
• Reversible and Irreversible complications: recognition and treatment.
• Strategies to develop predictable prosthetic outcomes.
• Computerized Navigation in Surgical Implantology
• Prosthodontic protocols: immediate function.
• Simplified clinical protocols: alternative components and armamentarium.
• Laboratory procedures for advanced implant prosthodontics.
• Configuring periodontal-prosthodontic relationships to enhance prognosis.
• Periodontal procedures to improve esthetic results.

Clinical session-IV:

• Prosthetic clinical session stage II impression techniques.
• Insertion of restorations from Session III.
• All on X review and demonstration.
• Provisional fabrication and abutment selection.
• Overdenture hands on.

Module 5: TBD, Jan/Feb 2026

Advance Implant Considerations

• Advanced implant considerations. State of the art – interdisciplinary approach to implant dentistry.
• Utilization of lasers in implant dentistry.
• Computerized navigation in surgical implantology.
• Current advances in implant dentistry.
• Failures and complications in implant dentistry.
• Advanced implantology: Immediate loading principles and techniques.
• Advanced Restorative and esthetic strategies in implant dentistry.
• Long term validation of principles and techniques: Predictable implant sequencing.
• How to analyze literature for evidence based implant dentistry.
• Postoperative reviews of root form cases. Comprehensive review.
• Preparation for the AAID Associate Fellow examination.
• Clinical session V- insertion of prosthesis.