Dental implant courses, digital dentistry training, and more

This 3-day program (30 CE) delivers a comprehensive understanding of the principles of atraumatic extraction, bone grafting, and immediate dental implant placement. We discuss the different bone grafting and membrane materials and techniques. You will leave this program with the ability to comfortably select cases for immediate extraction, grafting, and implant placement. Our program is evidence based, with a focus on shedding practical tips and tricks, and hands-on training, to allow you to provide effective and efficient implant therapy to your patients.

Learning Objectives

• Atraumatic extraction principles
• Proper instruments for treatment
• Bone biology & socket healing principles
• Mechanical extraction systems 
• Bone grafting materials & principles
• Membrane materials & principles 
• Understanding which techniques to use when
• Implant Placement (Hands-on)
• Immediate implant placement (Hands-on)
• Basic suturing techniques & flap design (Hands-on)

Socket Grafting & Ridge augmentation (Hands-on)

This course highlights the critical role of peri-implant tissue management in achieving successful outcomes for implant treatments. Participants will learn to identify key indicators of bone and soft tissue health and explore advanced surgical techniques. The course covers detailed training on soft and hard tissue management, insights into the "Buccal Pedicle Flap" procedure, how to ensure mucosa integration, soft tissue sealing, and deep dive on complication management.

By the end, participants will have the skills to perform guided bone regeneration, soft tissue grafts as well as to manage peri-implant soft tissue issues effectively.

Learning outcomes

• Understanding the importance of peri implant tissues

• Detecting critical numbers for bone and mucosa health

• Evaluating surgical alternatives to boost peri implant tissues

• Detailed presentation of critical steps in performing «Buccal Pedicle Flap»

• Understanding mucosa integration and soft tissue sealing concepts

• Understanding how to prevent or treat complications and failures in dental medicine

• Long term stability of achieved results: When, why, how?

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

This 2-day program will show case all the steps involved in the diagnosis, treatment planning, and execution of immediate provisionalization for the full-arch hands-on training, you will understand this remarkable same day solution for completely edentulous patients and those with a terminal dentition.

• Case selection and treatment planning.
• Pre-operative, surgical and prosthodontic workflows. 
• Hands-on experience for the conversion of a removable complete denture into a fixed immediately inserted transitional prosthesis.

Implant Surgery & Restoratively Driven Treatment

• Treatment planning & Nobel Clinician
• Anatomical considerations & biology
• Proper implant placement in 4 dimensions
• Single tooth implant surgery (Hands-on)
• Multiple tooth implant surgery
• Edentulous implant surgery 
• Implant placement (Hands-on) 
• Basic suturing techniques & flap design (Hands-on)
• Bone physiology & healing • Implant pharmacology 
• Stage 2 implant surgery & soft tissue considerations (Hands-on)

Advanced Soft Tissue Management around Teeth and Implants

This course is designed for general practitioners and interested clinicians to provide them with the essential knowledge and hands-on experience needed to improve patient outcomes in soft tissue management around teeth and implants.

Learning objectives:

• Accurately diagnose mucogingival defects, understand their etiologies, and explore the science behind soft tissue management.
• Development of a decision-making framework for soft tissue management around teeth and implants.
• Learning flap design and management of recipient sites for single or multiple tooth recessions.
• Learning harvesting techniques of donor sites including free gingival grafts and various techniques for connective tissue grafts.
• Compare autogenous tissues with biomaterials used as alternatives in soft tissue management.
• Refine advanced suturing techniques to improve clinical outcomes in soft tissue surgeries.
• Understand strategies for preventing and managing complications following soft tissue procedures.
• Hands-On Training: A two-day hands-on workshop utilizing pig jaws to practice:
  • Free gingival graft and connective tissue graft techniques
  • Advanced suturing techniques

This small group comprehensive 2-Day program focuses on the merits of embracing Immediacy as a patient centered implant prosthodontic treatment solution. Through a series of live and previously recorded surgeries, formal presentations, group discussions and hands-on training, dental teams will become familiar with the merits of Immediacy Protocols for both the single tooth and full arch solutions. Particular emphasis will be placed on how best to have the entire team embrace and advocate for Immediacy Protocols to be adopted in dental practices.

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

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!