Implant Failures:
Prevention, Identification and Treatment

Learning Objectives

• Create predictable and optimal patient outcomes for implant and regenerative therapies
• Understand how to identify, treat and prevent dental implant failures and complications, including peri-implantitis
• Learn techniques to achieve predictable dental implant outcomes in your practice for your patients
• Realize the importance of pre-treatment planning and indications for regenerative and implant therapies


Description

In a physically healthy patient, regeneration of 6 mm of bone buccally and 3 mm of bone vertically is highly predictable. Implant failure rates, including "failing" immobile implants, should be less than 1 percent after 10 years in function. Achieving such results requires expansion of diagnostic protocols, incorporation of more comprehensive treatment modalities, stricter definitions of regenerative and implant success, an evolved understanding of the impact of implant dimensions, composition and configuration on treatment outcomes, and the utilization of only the finest regenerative, implant and restorative materials. The net result is the creation of a more comprehensive patient - treatment dialectic, the maximization of treatment outcomes and the minimization of patient trauma.

This interactive course will focus on dental implant complications - how to identify them, treat them, and ultimately, prevent them in your practice. The course will be customized to participants. After registering, participants will receive a questionnaire to complete and return prior to the course.

Attendees are encouraged to send us implant cases prior to the course, for group review and discussion. Please contact Michelle at mcollins@theicite.com for details regarding case submission. Help make this a truly memorable experience!.

Dr. Paul Fugazzotto received his D.D.S. from New York University in 1979 and a certificate in advanced graduate studies in periodontology from Boston University in 1981. Since that time Dr. Fugazzotto has maintained a private practice in periodontics and implant therapy in Milton, Massachusetts. Dr. Fugazzotto has authored or co-authored over 90 articles in refereed scientific journals, as well as authoring a monograph entitled "Guided Tissue Regeneration: Maximizing Clinical Results" and three textbooks including "Decision Making in Regenerative and Implant Therapies" and "Periodontal Restorative Interrelationships: Maximizing Treatment Outcomes". Dr. Fugazzotto is an active member of many organizations and is a Fellow of the International Team of Implantology. Dr. Fugazzotto is a Senior Editor of "Implant Realities" and the past US ITI Study Club Coordinator. Dr. Fugazzotto is a visiting lecturer at Harvard University and Tufts University Schools of Dentistry. Dr. Fugazzotto lectures nationally and internationally on a multitude of topics.