Montana AGD Implant Symposium
About This Event
Learn new skills or enhance your surgical and restorative skills over three days with six lectures to choose from. All lectures include hands-on training using models, pig jaws, digital platforms, and clinical exercises. Topics and sessions include: Dr. Josh Muir — predictable digital implant workflow and hands-on guide and crown design using TruSuite and URIS implants; Dr. Roberto Macedo — practical solutions for challenging cosmetic situations with dentoform work and implant provisionals; Dr. Leroy Horton — strategies for extraction and ridge preservation using PRF with hands-on model exercises and a separate session on soft tissue grafting techniques with pig jaw practice; Dr. Brian Goodacre — immediate implant placement and chairside provisionalization in the esthetic zone with hands-on provisional fabrication; Dr. John Hodges — overdenture protocols, attachment systems, and hands-on attachment work and maintenance. Attendees choose between two lectures each day and gain practical skills to apply in restorative and implant-focused practice.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the overall landscape of implant dentistry
- Achieve predictable results with a straightforward workflow
- Learn effective case selection and treatment planning
- Utilize the TruSuite platform for free digital design
- Get hands-on experience designing and making surgical guides and crowns
- Confidently plan and restore anterior implant cases
- Understand and apply techniques for optimal esthetics and functionality
- Manage prosthetic aspects of anterior implants
- Discuss common systemic conditions and risk assessment for ridge preservation
- Plan extraction cases and ridge preservation strategies
- Learn basic ridge preservation techniques and PRF processing
- Practice connective tissue harvesting and soft tissue grafting techniques
- Prepare recipient sites using pouching and tunneling techniques
- Learn overdenture attachment systems and maintenance
- Create custom chairside provisionals and develop proper crown contours to promote implant and tissue health