AGD Dentures Webinar Series Presented by Mark Lin, DDS Thursday, April 19 - Conventional Complete Dentures Tuesday, April 24 - Digital Complete Dentures Tuesday, May 15 - Implant Retained Overdentures

*Price for the series:  Members  $100      Members' Staff  $100

                                                 Student Members  $50      Non-Members  $200

Consequences associated with complete edentulism have been well documented and researched. Replacing natural dentition with conventional complete dentures represents a compromised tooth replacement therapy. The mandibular complete denture can be challenging for patients to adapt to due to a lack of retention, stability and support. The maxillary complete denture also can impede phonetics, taste and be especially problematic for the sensitive gagging patients who cannot tolerate a full palatal acrylic coverage.

Using digital dentures can improve clinical accuracies while decreasing the number of chairside appointments. Once complete dentures are fabricated accurately with application of retention, stability and support, clinical challenges can be managed by applying dental implant-retained overdentures. The predictability and high success rates of implant overdenture modalities have been well documented in scientific literature for the past 40 years. However, given the long history of dental implants as a viable treatment modality to edentulism, certain concepts in treatment planning can be confusing and conflicting.

This webinar series was designed for the general practitioner to address and clarify the essential concepts in digital dentures and removable implant overdenture prosthetics in treatment planning for fully edentulous cases.

Please be advised each webinar begins at 8:30 p.m. (ET), 7:30 p.m. (CT), 6:30 p.m.  (MT), and 5:30 p.m. (PT) and will last approximately 60 minutes.

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Conventional Complete Dentures

Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. CDT
Credits: 1
Subject: 670 - Removable Prosthodontics

Price:     Member $50      Members' Staff $50      Student Members  $25      Non-member $100

Description: This course will provide an overview of conventional complete dentures and how they impact retention, stability and support. Attendees will be equipped with an understanding of potential clinical indications and contraindications to conventional complete dentures. Solutions for conventional complete dentures will be discussed. 

Objectives:

• Evaluate complete denture concepts regarding retention, stability and support
• Identify clinical indications and contraindications to conventional complete dentures
• Set patient selection criteria and address solutions regarding conventional complete dentures

 

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 Digital Complete Dentures

Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. CDT
Credits: 1
Subject: 670 - Removable Prosthodontics

Price:     Member $50      Members' Staff $50      Student Members  $25      Non-member $100

Description: This course will provide an overview of digital complete dentures. An explanation of the advantages compared to conventional complete dentures will be provided. Fabrication of digital dentures will also be discussed.

Objectives: 

• Compare conventional complete dentures to digital compete dentures
• Identify advantages of digital dentures
• Understand procedure steps to fabrication of the three appointment digital dentures

 

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Implant Retained Overdentures

Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. CDT
Credits: 1
Subject: 690 - Implants

Price:     Member $50      Members' Staff $50      Student Members  $25      Non-member $100

Description: This course will address implant retained overdentures as a treatment modality to edentulism. Treatment planning for implant retained overdentures will be discussed along with the process for identifying the specifications for implants required for maxillary and mandibular overdentures.