Basic implant mini residency in-person modules

Module 1: Comprehensive implant treatment planning

Date: Oct 25-26, 2024

Module 2: Implant surgical principles: models, pig jaws & cadavers

Date: Jan 17-19, 2025

Module 3: Live patient surgery
Date: April 4-6, 2025


Module 4: Live patient prosthetics
Date: Sept 12-14. 2025

Online webinar (8 pre-recorded sessions)

Session 1 - Contemporary Implant Dentistry : The Essentials November 28-30, 2024

Session 2 - Cutting Edge Implant Therapy - Posterior Zone February 6-8, 2025

Session 3 - Advanced Hard Tissue Defect Reconstruction June 19-21, 2025

Session 4 - Implants in the Aesthetic Zone September 18-20, 2025

Session 5 - The Totally Edentulous Patient November 5-7, 2026

MASTERING IMPLANTOLOGY

COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING

For decades, we have dreamed of sharing our knowledge and clinical experience with ambitious dentists. Driven by the idea of pursuing new and forward-looking paths in dental education, we have developed five advanced sessions in implantology that offer participants a new learning experience. This experience will become a defining moment in your continuing professional development, allowing you to take your practice to the next level. Through this specialized training, we offer our participants a new vision of contemporary implantology. Training based on scientific literature and techniques clinically applied in our practice for the past 30 years and that allows you to offer your patients optimal and predictable results.
Our goal is to offer advanced refresher courses that challenge participants, improve their manual dexterity, and their surgical and prosthetic skills so that they are able to apply the techniques learned in their own practice as soon as the course is over.
No matter your level of training in implantology, this course is designed to leave you with increased confidence, new skills and renewed practice. A training combining clinically applicable scientific evidence, practical exercises and live surgeries on the patient.
Our modern training facilities in Quebec City await you with a unique spirit and a very special atmosphere. The friends and colleagues you will meet here may come from very different national and professional backgrounds, but they have one thing in common that unites them all: they are very passionate about their profession!

The hands-on MIT course is designed to familiarize you with implant components both surgically and prosthetically. In addition, the goal is for you to gain comfort with the procedures as outlined below. For those of you with experience in dental implants, you will gain tips and tricks from our experienced clinicians. Given the synergy between surgery and prosthetics, it’s important to understand both, regardless of your area of interest.

Learning Objectives:

The following model-based procedures will be included in the hands-on instruction:

1) Review anatomy and surgical protocol

2) Place 2 implants for mandibular overdenture

3) Place single implants

4) Suturing procedures on a soft tissue model

5) Temporary crown fabrication

6) Place, pick up, and size locators for mandibular overdentures

The hands-on MIT course is designed to familiarize you with implant components both surgically and prosthetically. In addition, the goal is for you to gain comfort with the procedures as outlined below. For those of you with experience in dental implants, you will gain tips and tricks from our experienced clinicians. Given the synergy between surgery and prosthetics, it’s important to understand both, regardless of your area of interest.

Learning Objectives:

The following model-based procedures will be included in the hands-on instruction:

1) Review anatomy and surgical protocol

2) Place 2 implants for mandibular overdenture

3) Place single implants

4) Suturing procedures on a soft tissue model

5) Temporary crown fabrication

6) Place, pick up, and size locators for mandibular overdentures

This 2 day didactic and hands-on program is for the GP who wants to improve their fundamental surgical skill set. Participants will be able to experience a wide variety of
surgical procedures typically seen in a GP office, but the emphasis will be on developing effective clinical skills in flaps, suturing and extractions.

This course is limited attendance with a low instructor to student ratio and will take place in our simulation lab where you will learn on phantom heads, special dental models, and pig mandibles.

Learning Objectives

• Effectively assess patient and procedural risks
• Develop proficiency in the selection and use of surgical instruments
• Learn and apply surgical approaches to minimize tissue traumaManage
• Recognize and manage complications

Simulation lab experience will include:

• Flap design
• Suturing (interrupted, continuous locking, figure of 8)
• Biopsy techniques
• Simple extractions (forceps and elevators)
•  Surgical extractions (bone and soft tissue sparing)
• Impactions (lower mesio-angular and horizontal)
• Root removal
• Incision and Drainage (drain placement)
• Oral-antral penetration repair (sliding flaps)
• Tongue and lip tie revision
• Socket preservation and basic GB
• Sinus bump (Summers procedure)
• Connective tissue grafting
• Introduction to implant placement (guided and freehand)

Durante il corso verranno trattati i seguenti argomenti:

Il modello della comunicazione: apprendere il processo comunicativo, i suoi elementi chiave (emittente, messaggio, canale, ricevente, feedback, rumore) e come le distorsioni possono influenzare la comprensione

La comunicazione non verbale: analizzare il linguaggio del corpo, le espressioni facciali, la prossemica e il tono della voce, sottolineando come questi elementi possano influenzare la percezione del messaggio

Gli stili comunicativi: esplorare i diversi stili comunicativi (assertivo, aggressivo, passivo) e le loro implicazioni nelle relazioni interpersonali

Il pubblico (e/o interlocutore): adattare i contenuti e le attività al livello di conoscenza e agli interessi del tuo pubblico o del tuo interlocutore

L’obiettivo: imparare ad avere sempre ben chiaro l’obiettivo (o gli obiettivi) della propria comunicazione

L’ascolto attivo: applicare consapevolmente le tecniche di ascolto attivo, come parafrasare, fare domande chiarificatrici e mostrare empatia

La comunicazione persuasiva: esplorare le tecniche di comunicazione persuasiva, come l’uso dello storytelling, l’appello ai valori e la creazione di un rapporto di fiducia

Il potere delle parole: essere consapevoli di quanto le parole possano influenzare le emozioni e i comportamenti degli altri

La comunicazione positiva: incoraggiare l’uso di un linguaggio positivo e costruttivo per creare relazioni positive e motivare gli altri

I principi di Dale Carnegie in ottica di miglioramento delle relazioni interpersonali

The predictable management of the Maxillary Sinus requires an understanding of treatment options including direct and indirect site preparation for placement of dental implants.  Having confidence in treating the posterior maxilla is essential for being able to manage full mouth oral rehabilitation.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the role of posterior dentition in dentition stability
• Identify the pathology related related to Maxillary Sinus and appropriate treatment options
• Learn the surgical approaches to managing the Maxillary Sinus (direct and indirect techniques)
• Understand essential management of Soft and Hard Tissue
• Extrusions of the Posterior Maxilla
• Review case studies including 30 year follow-up
• Review Essential criteria for successful bone grafting
• Learn Soft Tissue Management for Bone Grafting (appropriate incisions, site exposure, closing and suturing for advanced bone grafts)
• Learn about Advanced Particulate Bone Grafts
• Know the use of Biologics in Bone Grafting (PRF, PRP)
• Review of case studies of Advanced Bone Grafts in both Simple and Advanced Prosthetic Cases
• Learn the basics of Ridge Expansion Grafts
• Learn the basics of Block Bone Grafts (donor sites, allograft blocks)
• Understand the mechanics of Lateral Positioning of the IAN
• Understand Complication Management Strategies

Implant Retained Overdentures for the GP: The removeable, implant prosthodontic standard of care for over 20 years

The 2002 McGill consensus statement, recommending mandibular two-implant overdentures as the first-choice standard of care for edentulous patients, ushered in a new era of care for patients who had struggled for many years with conventional prostheses. For the first time in its history, the world of removable prosthodontics gained a significant body of clinical outcome data to support recommending this treatment modality. This one-day program will provide general dentists with a profound understanding of what it means to be completely edentulous as well as how patients with a terminal dentition can benefit from the transition to an implant retained overdenture. A series of case histories will highlight the diagnostic criteria, treatment planning sequence of care and the associated maintenance involved in providing this treatment modality. A hands-on training exercise will help familiarize general dentists with the implant prosthodontic components involved.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the reality of the Completely Edentulous Predicament
• Work through the steps involved in Overdenture Treatment Planning
• Gain a better understanding of the required implant overdenture maintenance as well as the management of common complications
• Become familiar with the implant prosthodontic components required for the prescription of implant retained overdentures

This 2 day didactic and hands-on program is for the GP who wants to improve their fundamental surgical skill set. Participants will be able to experience a wide variety of
surgical procedures typically seen in a GP office, but the emphasis will be on developing effective clinical skills in flaps, suturing and extractions.

This course is limited attendance with a low instructor to student ratio and will take place in our simulation lab where you will learn on phantom heads, special dental models, and pig mandibles.

Learning Objectives

• Effectively assess patient and procedural risks
• Develop proficiency in the selection and use of surgical instruments
• Learn and apply surgical approaches to minimize tissue traumaManage
• Recognize and manage complications

Simulation lab experience will include:

• Flap design
• Suturing (interrupted, continuous locking, figure of 8)
• Biopsy techniques
• Simple extractions (forceps and elevators)
•  Surgical extractions (bone and soft tissue sparing)
• Impactions (lower mesio-angular and horizontal)
• Root removal
• Incision and Drainage (drain placement)
• Oral-antral penetration repair (sliding flaps)
• Tongue and lip tie revision
• Socket preservation and basic GB
• Sinus bump (Summers procedure)
• Connective tissue grafting
• Introduction to implant placement (guided and freehand)

The hands-on MIT course is designed to familiarize you with implant components both surgically and prosthetically. In addition, the goal is for you to gain comfort with the procedures as outlined below. For those of you with experience in dental implants, you will gain tips and tricks from our experienced clinicians. Given the synergy between surgery and prosthetics, it’s important to understand both, regardless of your area of interest.

Learning Objectives:

The following model-based procedures will be included in the hands-on instruction:

1) Review anatomy and surgical protocol

2) Place 2 implants for mandibular overdenture

3) Place single implants

4) Suturing procedures on a soft tissue model

5) Temporary crown fabrication

6) Place, pick up, and size locators for mandibular overdentures

The hands-on MIT course is designed to familiarize you with implant components both surgically and prosthetically. In addition, the goal is for you to gain comfort with the procedures as outlined below. For those of you with experience in dental implants, you will gain tips and tricks from our experienced clinicians. Given the synergy between surgery and prosthetics, it’s important to understand both, regardless of your area of interest.

Learning Objectives:

The following model-based procedures will be included in the hands-on instruction:

1) Review anatomy and surgical protocol

2) Place 2 implants for mandibular overdenture

3) Place single implants

4) Suturing procedures on a soft tissue model

5) Temporary crown fabrication

6) Place, pick up, and size locators for mandibular overdentures