Understanding Dental Implants for Dental Hygienists and OHTs

Understanding Dental Implants for Dental Hygienists and OHTs

As our population increases in age along with social and oral health expectations, the amount of single tooth, full arch and complex full mouth rehabilitations using implants increases. As Clinicians we need to understand these to provide care

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10 CPD Hours

Learn the important roles Dental Hygienists and OHTs play in dental implant planning, maintenance, patient motivation and long term care

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Through a combination of on demand videos and reading this course is equivalent to 10 CPD Hours
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Success of an implant requires many factors to be favorable: Host response, surgical planning and skill, prosthetic design and post placement care both at home and professional maintenance. This course will go over implant options and maintenance protocols for single implants, implant bridges, full arch fixed appliances and zygomatic implants.

Course curriculum

1. Introduction
1. Global Implant market
1. History of Dental Implants
2. Quiz History of Dental Implants
1. Anatomical differences between teeth and dental implants
2. Anatomical Quiz
1. Why do people want dental implant?
1. Success Vs Survival
2. Failure of dental implants
1. Different Types of Dental Implants
1. Planning dental implants
2. Setting Expectations
3. Digital Planning
4. Understanding CBCT
5. Planning Quiz
1. Surgical Techniques
1. Post-op Instruction's for Dental Implants
1. Osteointegration
1. Restoring Dental Implants
1. Medical History Risk assessment
1. Implant diagnosis
2. Peri-Implant Health
3. Peri-Implant Mucositis
4. Classification Update for Periodontal Health and Dental Implants
5. The Oral Exam- soft tissues
6. Oral Exam- Probing
7. What is health of a dental implant?
8. What is peri-implant mucositis
9. What is peri-implantitis
10. Cases
11. Hard and Soft Tissue Deficiencies
12. We have a diagnosis, what next?
13. Oral Cancer around Dental Implants
1. Changing Behaviour
2. Bias and Evidence Based Practice
3. Motivational Interviewing
4. Principals In Preventative Dentistry
5. Biofilm Disclosing- Why?
6. Guided Biofilm Therapy
7. Biofilm Disclosing
8. Biofilm Disclosing and Professionally Delivered Care
9. GBT Review
10. Efficacy of three-tone disclosing agent as an adjunct in caries risk assessment
11. Prevention and control of dental caries and periodontal diseases
12. Principles in prevention of periodontal diseases
13. Biofilm Disclosing Quiz
14. Touch to teach
15. Delivering OHI- Touch to Teach
16. How to Brush
17. Oral irrigators
18. Interdental Aids
19. Interdental Cleaning Part 1
20. Interdental Cleaning Part 2
21. Dr Mark's HyGenie Scores 97% rating in US Dental Products Report_October 2021
22. Denture care storage
23. Denture care
24. Denture Care
25. Home care for Dental Implants
26. Home Care
27. Patient compliance
28. mobile apps and motivation
29. Motivating with Technology
30. CPS_IAP_Probe_EN
31. Receiving information
1. IMPORTANT STUDIES ON GBT
2. SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCES 2021 Vol 2
3. Air-abrasive decontamination of different titaniumsurfaces and bioﬁlm removal
4. Claims and studies
5. Biofilm removal and antimicrobial activity of two different air-polishing powders
6. Effects of air abrasive decontamination on titanium surfaces- A systematic review
7. PERIOFLOW on implants
8. The effects of mechanical instruments on contaminated titanium dental implant surfaces
9. Influence of different instrumentation modalities on the surface characteristics and biofilm formation
10. Erythritol-Enriched Air-Polishing Powder for the Surgical Treatment of Peri-Implantitis
11. How to maintain healthy dental implants
12. What if there is calculus?
13. Maintaining probing depths over 5mm
14. Should the appliance come out?
15. Biofilm on Dental Implant Surfaces
16. Tips and Tricks for existing users of AIRFLOW
1. -Non-Surgical Therapy for Peri-Implantitis
2. dietary and Perio
3. Dietary_Carbohydrates_and_Dental-Systemic_Diseases
4. The effects of mechanical instruments on contaminated titanium dental implant surfaces
5. Osteoblast growth, after cleaning of biofilm-covered titanium discs
6. Non Surgical Implant Treatment
7. Treating dental implant disease
8. Immune repsonse dental implants
9. Bacterial Testing
10. Lasers in Periodontics A Review of the Literature
11. Microscopes with Dr Larkin
12. Peri-implantitis treatment
1. Setting Dental Implant Recalls
2. What I learned from my first bi-max implant case
3. Recall Setting Exercise
1. What happens when a patients goes missing?
2. Travelling with Dental Implants and the patient with existing dental implants
1. Quiz
2. Summary
1. S3 guideline update

About this course

$495.00
100 lessons
11 hours of video content