Master's Degree in Oral Implantology and Implantoprosthesis Madrid and Valencia

• History of implantology.
• Anatomical bases in implantology and oral surgery:
  • Classification according to bone quality/density
  • Types of maxillary bone resorption
  • Leckholm and Zarb classification
• Basic principles in implant dentistry:
  • Nomenclature in implantology and implantoprosthesis.
  • Ossification and bone types.
  • Concept of osseointegration.
  • Concept of primary and secondary implant stability.
  • Concept of fibrointegration.
  • Classification according to bone quality/density.
  • Types of maxillary bone resorption.
  • Criteria for success in implant dentistry.
  • Prosthetically guided implant treatment.
• Characteristics and nomenclature of surgical instruments.
• Importance of patient preparation and surgical set-up.

• Legal aspects in implant dentistry.
• Ethics and deontology.
• Professional legal liability.
• Data Protection Act.
• Informed consent.

• Local and general risk factors in implant dentistry.
• Pre and postoperative medication in implant dentistry.
• Local anesthetics of choice in implant dentistry.
• Locoregional techniques in oral surgery.
• Conscious sedation in dentistry
• Patient monitoring.
• General anesthesia in oral and implant surgery.
• Emergency situations in the dental clinic.

• What happens after a tooth extraction?
• Classification according to the time of implant placement after tooth extraction.
• Atraumatic tooth extraction: key to implant treatment.
• Odontosection techniques.
• Considerations and factors to be taken into account for immediate post-extraction implants.
• Salama-Garber classification.
• Keys to post-extraction implant success:
  • Treatment of the alveolus.
  • Bone slab thickness.
  • Periodontal biotype.
  • Three-dimensional implant sizing and placement.
  • Primary implant stability.
  • Size and management of GAPs.
  • Flap-less techniques.
  • Immediate loading:
    • Immediate loading in the esthetic zone.
    • Indications/contraindications for immediate loading.
    • Advantages of immediate loading.

• Maxillary sinus lift:
  • Anatomy and histology of the maxillary sinus.
  • Surgical techniques for sinus lift: traumatic and atraumatic.
  • Complications of maxillary sinus lift.
  • Alternatives to the maxillary sinus:
    • Tilted implants.
    • Pterygoid implants.
    • Short implants.
    • Zygomatic implants.
  • All on four:
    • • Concept: indications and contraindications.
      • Advantages of all on four.
      • Surgical challenge.

• Biomechanics in dental implantology: static and dynamic loads, preload concept.
• Passive adjustment: clinical methods for assessing passive adjustment.
• Definitive fixed prosthesis on implants.
• Impression materials and techniques in implantology: splinting of copings.
• Types of prosthetic structures.
• Immediate loading provisional prosthesis: materials, emergence profile, direct, indirect and mixed technique in its elaboration.
• Occlusion and considerations in immediately loaded provisionals.
• Recommendations for patients with immediate loading.
• Overdentures: concept, types of anchorage.
• Differences between implant-supported and implant-retained prostheses.

• Bone biology and its activity.
• Biology of peri-implant bone healing.
• Bone regeneration / repair.
• Osteogenesis, osteoinduction and osteoconduction concepts.
• Biomaterials for guided bone regeneration and guided tissue regeneration.
• Xenografts
• Bone membranes and barriers.
• ROG requirements and precautions.
• Horizontal, vertical and tent-pole regeneration techniques.

• Periodontal and peri-implant anatomy.
• Types of gingival recession and predictability.
• Guided tissue regeneration.
• Free gingival grafts.
• Connective tissue grafts.
• Pedicled grafts.
• Design of flaps and sutures in the receptive area.

• Peri-implant pathology: Mucositis and Periimplantitis.
• Peri-implant pathology Vs Periodontal.
• Peri-implant pathology: prevalence, etiology, diagnosis, classifications, prevention and treatment.
• Maintenance of dental implant treatment.

• Cordals included.
• Canines included.
• Apical pathology.
• Orthognathic surgery.
• Cystectomies
• Frenectomies
• Odontogenic infections.
• Buccal-cervical carcinoma.

• Minimally invasive guided surgery.
• Indications and contraindications for guided surgery.
• Surgical procedure in guided surgery.
• Marketing and economic considerations in guided surgery.
• Dental marketing, management and coaching.

Master class given by Dr. Alberto Vericat

WORKSHOP FIRST VISITS:

• Diagnosis
• Explanation of the surgical treatment phases.
• Considerations of provisionals and definitive prostheses.
• Role play.

SURGICAL FIELD WORKSHOP:

• Importance of patient preparation and surgical field set-up.
• Role of the operator, instrumentalist, assistant and field assistant.
• Practice in the operating room.

MILLING WORKSHOP:

• Implant surgery “step by step”.
• Characteristics of the ADVAN implant system.
• Adaptation of the milling sequence.
• Practice of implant placement on animal head.

ATTACHMENT WORKSHOP:

• Nomenclature in implantology and implantoprosthesis.
• Transepithelial pillars.
• Impression techniques in implant prosthesis.
• Practice on phantoms.

RADIOLOGICAL STUDY WORKSHOP:

• Radiological study of the oral-facial region.
• Recognition of anatomical structures.
• CT management.
• Diagnosis and guided planning.
• Practice with the computer program.

INCISION AND SUTURE WORKSHOP:

• Selection of instruments and materials according to the surgical procedure.
• Principles and techniques of suturing in oral surgery.
• Types of incisions, design and management of flaps.
• Types of knots and stitches.

SOFT TISSUE MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP:

• Graft extraction techniques. Locations.
• Suture of the graft.
• Clinical sequence
• Practical workshop on animal head.

DENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP:

• Basic parameters in photography and file management.
• Equipment for dental photography.
• Pre-production and production.
• Photography practice with camera and smartphone.

SINUS LIFT WORKSHOP (I AND II):

• Anatomical considerations of the maxillary sinus. Lifting techniques.
• Instruments, surgical material and biomaterial.
• Step-by-step protocol of the open sinus lift technique.
• Preclinical practice with piezoelectric instruments.
• Practice on corpse head.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SEARCH WORKSHOP:

• Advanced search.
• Definition of terms and search strategy.
• Bibliographic managers.

HYALURONIC ACID WORKSHOP:

• Theory of facial aging. Implementation in dentistry.
• Filling materials. Types of hyaluronic acid.
• Indications and contraindications.
• Preclinical practice.
• Practice on patients.