Inaugural Dental Implant and Digital Dentistry Symposium: Innovations in Prevention and Rehabilitation
About This Event
The University of Kentucky College of Dentistry presents the Inaugural Dental Implant and Digital Dentistry Symposium on February 13, 2026. The symposium focuses on using technology and data to improve implant treatment outcomes through early intervention, personalized care, and efficient rehabilitation. World-renowned experts will present on prosthetic connection and design, peri-implant disease prevention and management, advances in implant dentistry, expanding chairside digital workflows into comprehensive care, digital denture fabrication communication and optimization, and minimizing implant impact on surrounding teeth. Meeting time: Registration/continental breakfast 8:00 AM–8:30 AM; Program 8:30 AM–3:30 PM. A detailed agenda will be provided in a reminder email on February 11, 2026. Includes continental breakfast, lunch, refreshments, and parking. University of Kentucky College of Dentistry designates this activity for 5.75 hours of continuing education credit.
Learning Objectives
- Explain how prosthetic design contributes to biological complications and peri-implantitis around dental implants
- List the differences between foreign-body induced mucosal inflammation and peri-implantitis
- Discuss methods to prevent and manage peri-implant disease
- Discuss the ever-evolving nature of implant dentistry
- Explain how to establish an implant team
- Explain how potential errors can negatively affect implant treatment outcomes
- Identify current clinical applications and limitations of chairside digital dentistry
- Explain how design software can support appliance fabrication, surgical guide design, and complex treatment planning
- Demonstrate strategies for keeping restorative, surgical, and appliance workflows in-house to improve efficiency, quality control, and profitability
- Evaluate benefits of integrating in-house digital fabrication with laboratory and interdisciplinary collaboration
- Identify common issues and communication breakdowns between providers and lab technicians during digital denture fabrication
- Explain how providers can optimize case submissions to streamline the digital denture workflow
- Implement collaborative strategies to improve digital denture quality and reduce remakes
- Review factors to avoid complications after dental implant restorations
- Indicate factors associated with dental decay and tooth condition changes after implant restorations
- Learn how innovative technology can minimize impact of implants on surrounding teeth