Implant Overdentures: The Standard of Care for Totally Edentulous Patients

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The implant overdenture has been accepted as the standard of care for the fully edentulous patient and is one of the most cost effective types of treatment among all implant-supported prostheses. This treatment modality can enhance quality of life and add a source of new income to dental practices

In this course, dentists will learn surgical and prosthetic aspects and how to make the implant-supported overdenture without generating a lot of expense for their patients or their practice.

This course will:

• Give a guideline for patient selection, indications, and contraindications for implant-supported overdentures

• Teach flap and non-flap surgical techniques for both traditional overdenture implants and mini-implants

• Explain the biomechanical analysis of implant-supported overdentures

• Give an attachment selection guideline

• Describe various occlusial schemes

• Maximize communication between dentist and lab tech

• Teach marketing and practice management

• Teach how to minimize the overhead and maximize the profitability with this treatment modality

In this course, participants will learn:

• Surgical techniques for placement of traditional implants as well as overdenture implants and mini-implants

• To fabricate an implant-supported overdenture over two individual attachments, a single bar attachment, or mul - tiple bar attachments

• To execute clinical and laboratory steps required in fabri- cating an implant-supported overdenture

• How to set appropriate fees for treatment

Speaker
Hamid Shafie, DDS, CAGS
Founder, Center for Oral Implantology, Johns Hopkins University; President,American Institute of Esthetic and Implant Dentistry; Faculty Member, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Washington Hospital Center

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