Spear Education: Treating the Terminal Dentition & Fully Edentulous Patient
Thursday, January 29, 2026 – Friday, January 30, 2026
8:30 am – 12:30 pm; 1:30 – 4:30 pm 2 DAY
Course Code:
460TL
Cost:
$999
Credits:
14
CE Hours
Two Full Days:
Thursday, January 29, 2026: 8:30 am – 12:30 pm; 1:30 – 4:30 pm
AND
Friday, January 30, 2026: 8:30 am – 12:30 pm; 1:30 – 4:30 pm
The patient with terminal dentition or with an edentulous state unquestionably faces a disfiguring condition. Over the past decades, osseointegrated implants have provided extraordinary solutions, either supporting or retaining prosthetic devices aimed at restoring both form and function. This two-day course will explore the essentials of treatment planning and implant restorative design for the patient with terminal dentition and/or a fully edentulous condition. It will provide guidelines that can be easily implemented in practice in order to help interdisciplinary communication between the restorative dentist, the surgeon and the laboratory.
Speakers
After this course attendees will be able to:
- Transition a patient with a terminal dentition into a definitive implant-supported prosthesis
- Stage multiple treatment phases while providing the patient with a comfortable transitional prosthesis
- Utilize a novel classification for edentulous arches that will allow the participant to better comprehend treatment indications and patient risk assessment for the edentulous maxilla
- Treat fully edentulous patients with a combination of either removable prosthetics, implant-supported overdentures, fixed implant-supported prosthesis, All-on-4/Pro-Arch concept, as well as the full-arch ceramo-metal or zirconium-based implant-supported reconstruction
- Optimize communication between the restorative dentist and the laboratory
- Implement immediate loading protocols in the practice
- Identify different techniques and procedures to provide the patient with an immediately loaded prosthesis
The Massachusetts Dental Society is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider
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ADA.org/CERP