Training and Knowledge for Dental Implants

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The most significant problem facing dentists who place and restore implants is obtaining adequate training and knowledge and continued development of skills.

We need more continuing education courses with increased access. We also need more hands-on training courses in supervised settings. In this post, we explore some of these educational issues. Please feel free to add your comments.

Acquiring your
knowledge and skills in the course of completing a post-graduate program
or residency is undoubtedly effective. To assert that this is the only
means to acquiring the needed skills and training is short-sighted. The
purpose of continuing education is to refine your previously acquired
skills and to learn new techniques. Continuing education supplements
what we learn in structured programs of study in institutions. If we
only practiced what we learned in those programs and did not avail ourselves
of the many opportunities of continuing education, we would be practicing
only what we learned up until our graduation.

There is a
great deal of valuable information available in peer-reviewed dental
journals. Everybody who places and restores implants relies on the
same common body of peer-reviewed information. The simplest means of
acquiring the knowledge necessary for implants is to study this information.
There are also many excellent textbooks on the subject.

G. V. Black
said that if you become a dentist, you commit to being a perpetual student.
The questions may stay the same but the answers may change over time.
The key is continuous improvement through continuous training. Implants
are just another mode of dental treatment.

Source: Dr. Gary Kaplowitz, Special to OsseoNews.com

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4 Responses to “ Training and Knowledge for Dental Implants ”

• OsseoNews June 22nd, 2005

  
  

  Please do not place advertisements for courses or study clubs here. If you would like to list a course or study club on osseonews.com, please contact us by clicking contact us link above. Thanks for your understanding.

• Anonymous June 22nd, 2005

  
  

  As an oral surgeon, I recently started
  a small mentor group to assist general
  dentists in learning to place dental
  implants. I feel I owe it to the public
  to offer specialty expertise to interested
  practitioners - i.e. not just ‘turf’-
  protection for specialists. Many of my
  colleagues disagree with me for
  offering to do this mentorship.

• Anonymous June 23rd, 2005

  
  

  The more implants your study club members place, the more treatment planning they will do for implants. They will also know when to send the difficult cases to you so you actually should get more referrals in the future.

• TT January 26th, 2008

  
  

  Classes teaching implant placement are full of general dentists. Whether your colleagues like it or not the days are quickly approaching in which general dentists place many of their own implants. I think your approach is intelligent, when they have questions or more difficult cases they will come to someone they feel comfortable with.

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