5 Module Master Implant Program | Melbourne

Place your first dental implant with confidence, under guided supervision. Learn how to plan, place and restore dental implants to the highest standard.

90 CPD Hours

• LIVE SURGERY with mentored guidance.
• ON GOING MENTORSHIP during the program
• SPECIALIST DRIVEN education.

Optional Benefits: 50% off your start-up Astra Implant kit (including 30 Implants, motor and implant driver). ONE YEAR FREE Implant Planning License and much more. 

Module 1: Introduction to Implant Dentistry

This module will provide a foundation in understanding implants as a restorative treatment. From patient assessment to learning implant armaterium and finally detailed implant planning would build the basis of this first section of the course.

Specialist prosthodontist Dr Praveen Nathaniel will predominately cover this module. Dr Matthew Youssef will also add on general practitioner material. Topics covered will include:

• Implant treatment options and the scope for general practitioners
• Case selection in terms of restorative, surgical and patient factors
• Prosthodontic pre-surgical assessment for restoratively driven implant placement
• Implant componentry
• Implant impressions with a hands-on workshop 
• Use of surgical guides
• Digital impression taking; its role, accuracy, devices and techniques, and an introduction to Digital Smile Design

Module 2: Implant Surgery Principles

This module will run through pre-surgery patient assessments, extraction, implant placement procedure and further into hands-on workshops for first hand training on implant surgery. It aims to enhance the pre-surgery planning required for implant placement including important soft tissue considerations. 

Lecturers include Prosthodontist Dr Praveen Nathaniel and Periodontist Dr Luan Ngo. Topics include:

• Initial examination and patient risk assessment – primarily focussing on identifying risk factors for early and/or late surgical complications
• Tooth extraction – understanding the atrophy post- extraction and methods to preserving bone ridge
• Rules for restoratively driven implant placement and appropriate site preparation
• Familiarisation with surgical armamentarium, flap design techniques and drilling protocols
• Flap design and wound closures techniques to enhance soft tissue healing
• Hands-on flap design surgery experience on pig jaws

Module 3: Advanced restorative implant dentistry

The previous module outlined the base of implant dentistry while this module will dive deeper into clinical  considerations of implant components, implant bone adaptation  as well as the restorative prosthodontic phases.

These topics will be provided by: Dr Praveen Nathaniel (Prosthodontist), Dr Luan Ngo (Periodontist) and Dr Matthew Youssef. Topics will include:

• Informed consent, important record keeping, and surgical setup
• Restorative considerations including; methods of crown attachment and abutment selection
• Assessing and planning for an edentulous patient
• Occlusion principles – process of examining and identifying key red-flags
• Multi-unit restorative principles including; overdentures and implant bridges – practical component on capturing multi-unit abutments during impression taking
• Restorative complications and management
• Surgical considerations for anterior and posterior implants
• Importance of osseointegration – testing for its success

Module 4: Grafting Principles and Anterior Implant Placement

This final module prior to the live surgery will elaborate on previous modules; improving knowledge on  implant placement and refining the clinician’s skill level. Lectures will be provided by Dr Praveen Nathaniel (Prosthodontist), Dr Luan Ngo (Periodontist) and Dr Matthew Youssef. Topics to be covered are:

• Restorative and surgical crown considerations;  including the importance of bone and soft tissue to frame the implant crown
• Implant surgical kit familiarisation and protocols
• Biological complications: peri-implantitis and peri-mucositis, its aetiology and management
• Principles of grafting including; techniques and protocols
• Hands-on practice of flap design, ridge preservation, grafting, implant placement and suturing on pig jaws

Module 5: Live surgery under 1:1 specialist supervision

This final module will revolve around the live surgery, in which has been acknowledged by all practitioners to be the best hands-on clinical experience. 

Four hours will be dedicated for each student to surgically place an implant in their own patient under supervision. Students are also encouraged to provide and discuss case presentations at this stage in preparation for the live surgery module. Surgical guidance will be given by Dr Luan Ngo and Dr Cindy Nguyen  (Periodontists), Dr Praveen Nathaniel  (Prosthodontist), and Dr Devika Iyer (Masters in Oral Implantology and Periodontology). 

Dates 2022: Melbourne

Module 1: Online

Module 2: May 14th and 15th (online)

Module 3: June 25th and 26th

Module 4: August 27th and 28th

Module 5: October 8th and 9th