Description:

The primary goal of this program is to help general dentists find their 'dental implant comfort zone.' We live in a day and age where dental implants have essentially become the standard of care for missing teeth and the more involved and knowledgeable a well-trained general dentist is, the more comprehensive the care they can provide for their patients.

Having the skill set that allows a dentist to treatment plan, surgically place, and prosthetically restore dental implants, puts him/her in a position to truly deliver comprehensive implant care, hence improving the quality of their patients' lives, while elevating the level of their dental practice.

Implant dentistry is, and must always be, treated as a prosthetically driven discipline, so doesn't it make sense the dentist who will be restoring the implants is the best suited to place the implants in the most optimal locations for their future restorations? Remember, dental implants are not placed because our patients have titanium deficiencies, they are placed with the intention to restore our patients to proper form and function.

Objectives:

At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to:

1. Know how to transition your practice into an implant practice.
2. Know how to select appropriate implant cases.
3. Know how to properly design implant treatment plans.
4. Proper site development: conservative extraction and predictable bone grafting techniques.
5. Surgical techniques for the placement of endosteal implants.
6. Utilizing implant restorations.

Audience: Dentists

 Herbert M. Mendelson, DDS, FAGD, DICOI, DABOI/ID has extensive experience in implantology both as a practitioner and instructor. A George Washington University graduate, he earned his DDS from the Medical College of Virginia, completed an AEGD residency at the University of Pennsylvania, and has been in private practice in Owings Mills, MD for the past 27 years. Now a clinical instructor in the Department of General Dentistry at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Dr. Mendelson is the director of the Dental Implant Continuum. In addition, he has taught both Surgical and Prosthetic Implant Dentistry at the New York University College of Dentistry since 2000 as well as lectured internationally on Prosthodontics – Fixed and Removable, Practice Management, and Advanced Surgical Techniques. Dr. Mendelson is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral Implantology/ Implant Dentistry as well as the International Congress of Oral Implantologists.

Conflict of Interest: In accordance with ADA CERP Standard V, everyone involved in planning or presenting this educational activity will be required to disclose any relevant financial relationships with commercial interests. This information will be made available to participants at the start of the course.

Association for Continuing Dental Education (ACDE)

The ACDE, of which the University of Louisville School of Dentistry's Office of Continuing Education (ULSD CE) is a member, brings together individuals who represent university-based continuing dental education programs associated with accredited dental schools in Canada and the United States.

The ACDE and 35 of its member schools are jointly providing this series of live webinars featuring university-based key opinion leaders.

Each lecture will be presented by a different member school's faculty member. By registering through this page, ULSD CE will provide your verification of attendance document. Similar to our other CE offerings, we will maintain a record of your attendance in our database, which you may always access through your personal ULSD CE account.

CE staff of participating schools declare that neither they nor any member of their family have a financial arrangement or affiliation with any corporate organization offering financial support or grant monies for this continuing dental education program, nor do they have a financial interest in any commercial product(s) or service(s) the speaker will discuss in the presentation, within the last 12 months that are relevant to this educational activity.