Prosthetic Curriculum
1. Pre-surgical prosthodontic planning
- Concept of prosthetically driven treatment
- Overview of digital implant planning (digital records and smart fusion)
- Implant positioning parameters and impact of restorative outcomes
- Brief overview of guided surgery technique
- Case examples
2. Pre-restorative assessment
- Parameters of implant health
- Considerations for provisional implant restorations
- Provisional implant restoration fabrication (step-by-step)
- Impression component selection
3. Final impressions for single-unit implant restorations
- Analog impression techniques:
- Open tray impression technique (step by step)
- Closed tray impression technique (step by step)
- Customized impression coping (step-by-step)
- Digital impression technique
- Understanding scan bodies
- Common errors and other considerations
- Additional records and shade selection
4. Design considerations for implant restorations
- Emergence profile and biological response
- Components and material selection for:
- Translucency and aesthetics
- Biologic stability
- Versatility and retrievability
- Strength and longevity
- Morphology and occlusion
- Clinical examples
5. Manufacturing for implant restorations
- Lab communication and prescriptions
- Analog workflow
- Digital workflow
6. Insertion of single-unit implant restorations
- Managing interproximal contacts
- Modifying emergence profiles
- Adjusting occlusion
- Access hole closure (step by step)
7. Considerations for multiple-unit implant restorations
- Prosthesis Design
- Screw-retained vs. cement-retained restorations
- Implant level vs abutment level restorations
- Component selection
- Synthetic gingiva with pink
- Impression taking
- Analog
- Digital
- Prosthesis insertion
