Tradition Meets Innovation: Advancing Full-Arch Implant Rehabilitation in the Digital Era

As digital technology has shown to provide more efficient treatment protocols, fundamental knowledge of analog implant principles is imperative for successful treatment outcome. This seminar will highlight the restorative aspects of full-arch implant dentistry, with a systematic approach to facially-generated treatment planning aesthetic principles, while focusing on using various digital technologies for digitally acquiring the implant positions for full arch implant therapy. Multiple cases will be reviewed, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of digital dentistry today, while stimulating the attendee’s minds that perhaps it is not the end of traditional techniques in some parts of the restorative workflow. 

Learning objectives:

1. Optimizing the philosophy of facially-generated treatment planning: the starting point for any rehabilitation.
2. Reviewing the various methods to immediate loading full arch prosthesis: from diagnosing «terminal dentition» to analog-to-digital workflows for interim prosthesis fabrication.
3. Implement a step-by-step, evidence-based digital workflow for the planning, conversion, and restoration for full arch implants.