Implant Complications: Prevention and Management.

This two-day lecture and one-day hands-on workshop is designed to help dentists deal with common implant complications: soft tissue deficiencies, aesthetic nightmares, biologic and bio-mechanical, in particular to avoid these complications before they occur. It will provide the basics of treatment planning concepts and the mechanism of bone loss and implant failure and how to deal with and prevent these problems. The treatment for implant diseases/complications include: chemotherapeutic agents, apically positioned flap with or without implantoplasty, implant surface detoxification, guided bone regeneration, soft tissue grafts, prosthetic contouring, implant removal as well as re-implantation. A decision tree of how to select and manage the peri-implantitis will also be presented.