Biological and physiological rationale to immediate loading of

  implant restorations

Risks of immediate load

Indications and complications of cement vs. screw in prostheses

Removable prosthetic options

Terminology of implant components and overdentures

Maxillary implant overdentures

Maxillary denture occlusal modifications against lower implant

  retained implant prostheses

Mandibular implant overdentures

Factors of stress

Dental photography intraoral, perioral & extraoral photography

 

Demonstrate and conduct complete dental history and clinical evaluation for the full arch immediate load patient

 

Fixed treatment planning options for implant retained prostheses in

the completely edentulous jaw

 

CT / CBCT diagnosis and planning implant overdentures or fixed prostheses using radiographic imaging, with diagnostic casts and

dual scanning techniques

 

Plan prostheses per the available bone, crown height, aesthetic and vertical dimension requirements

 

Understand the advantages and disadvantages of full arch fixed screw retained vs. cement retained prostheses

 

Appreciate the implant protective occlusal schemes for use in full arch fixed restorations

 

Appreciate the indications, advantages and disadvantages of implant retained overdentures compared to implant retained fixed prostheses

 

Understand the attachments and different components for implant overdentures

 

Understand the biomechanics of the maxilla in relation to planning maxillary implant overdentures

 

Plan the necessary clinical and laboratory sequencing to provide immediately loaded mandibular overdentures in a completely

edentulous patients

 

Understand the effect of bone morphology on the prosthetic design

for implant overdentures in completely edentulous patients

 

Appreciate the selection of implant overdenture attachments and bar designs used in implant dentistry

 

Understand the importance of attachment selection and positioning

on prosthesis movement in implant overdentures

 

Understand the principles of mucostatic and mucocompressive

principals for construction of maxillary dentures

 

Appreciate the differences between maxillary denture occlusion fabrication opposing a denture vs. an implant prosthesis

 

Learn and perform photographic techniques required for medicolegal implant prosthetics

 

Screw retained versus cement retained full arch prosthodontics

Verification of casts and accurate Maxillo-mandibular

  relation records

Planning of aesthetics and phonetics with full arch implant

  prosthodontics

Millers classification of gingival defects

Autologous blood draw and production of Advanced Platelet

  Rich Fibrin membranes

The use of autologous stem cells, growth factor concentration

  and slow release in soft tissue grafting for predictable

  fibro-promotion

Surgical tunnelling technique

Biotensegrity - the theory that helps to guide force transmission

  and orchestrate multi-molecular responses to stress

Physiological displacement of the flap

Passive flap closure without tension

Novel advanced suturing techniques to stabilise the grafts and

  apically position recession defects

The use of AlloDerm – an acellular dermal matrix (freeze-dried

  skin) for this technique

Instrumentation requirements

 

Understanding the FASTP treatment of Millers Class 1 and Class 2 recession defects

 

Correction of Millers Class 1 and Class 2 defects

 

 

The use of autologous blood draw to manufacture Advanced Platelet Rich Fibrin and Injectable Platelet Rich fibrin to improve the Biotype of soft tissue

 

 

Learn the necessary surgical tunnelling, tissue release, graft placement, graft stabilization and novel suturing techniques

 

Appreciate Patient medical history and the effect of LDL Cholesterol, blood vitamin C titre, diabetes and tobacco use on the long-term results of soft and hard tissue surgery