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IMPLANT EXTERNSHIP FORMAT
1.
Didactic/Surgical Session I
May 8 & 9
2.
Didactic/Surgical Session II
August 7 & 8, 2009
4.
Didactic/Surgical Session I
December 4 & 5, 2009
Professional Liability and Fee Information is listed at the bottom of
this page. Please contact us at 901-448-5386 to register.
Externship Title:
Comprehensive Implant Dentistry
Course Director:
Dr. Steven Cloyd, Professor, Department of Pediatric and Community Oral
Health Dentistry and Department of Dental Science, College of Graduate Health
Sciences, College of Dentistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center;
Assistant Director, Advanced Education in General Dentistry Program, Lutheran
Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York; Graduate, Midwest Implant Institute,
Honorary Fellow
Externship Objective:
To
present an externship in implant dentistry.
The externship is designed to provide general dentists and specialists
who possess little or no formal implant dentistry experience, the skills to
surgically place and restore implants in many surgical and restorative
situations. Participants have the
opportunity of using a variety of implant systems.
The
Comprehensive Implant Course manual is presented to attending dentists before
their first session. The manual
contains diagnostic, treatment planning and step-by-step surgical procedures for
placement of various implant systems and restorative procedures.
Also contained in the manual are a series of articles concerning
research, basic information, and surgical and restorative techniques of many
implant systems. Other articles in
the manual deal with aspects of implant dentistry that are important for a
dentist implementing implant dentistry into his/her practice.
The
implant externship contains four one and one/half day sessions per calendar year
plus individual surgery sessions for individual participants.
The one and one/half day sessions will consist of two morning didactic
seminars and an afternoon surgery. In
the afternoon surgery, dentists will observe the course director and/or a
resident surgically place implants on a live patient.
Dentists will also have hands-on experience in placing implants in
artificial mandibles.
Externship Program
The externship is designed to prepare participating dentists the skills
to diagnose, treatment plan, surgically place and restore implants in
“mainstream” cases. Mainstream
cases include single tooth implants in non-esthetic areas and implants to retain
a mandibular denture using Locator abutments.
Dentists begin the externship with Session I and then II, or begin
with III and then IV. The
externship requires participating dentists to attend two didactic/surgery
sessions in succession. Class
size will be limited to six participants. After
attending sessions I and II or III and IV, dentists take a written examination
covering didactic material. Dentists
who score an 85 or better on the examination begin hands-on surgical training on
patients. Dentists have the option
of placing implants in their own patients or patients can be provided.
All didactic and surgical sessions will be done at the University Dental
Practice (UDP), 910 Madison,
Suite
608
.
The
externship training allows dentists the opportunity to place implants on
patients under supervision at the UDP, a part of the
College
of
Dentistry
, University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Dentists
who provide their own patients are treatment planned by the dentists with input
from the course director. Current
models and peri-apical radiographs must be mailed or brought to the externship
director for treatment planning. Patients
approved by the director are then brought to the UDP for dentists to perform
implant surgery under the director’s supervision.
A total of four implants must be placed by each dentist to
complete requirements, one of which must be placed in the maxillary arch. Surgery
requirements cannot be attained on only one patient. Dentists are encouraged to
place implants for a mandibular overdenture case as one of their required cases.
Digital pictures will be made of attending dentists’ surgery cases to
be placed on a disc and sent to the dentist for reference and study.
Dentists who successfully complete the Implant Externship receive a
certificate from the Department of Continuing Dental Education from the
College
of
Dentistry
, University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
Session I
SESSION OBJECTIVE:
After completion of the first session, attending dentists will
have a basic knowledge of the diagnosis, treatment planning, patient selection
and pre-surgical planning of multiple implant systems.
Dentists are able to identify anatomical landmarks pertinent to implant
surgery. The didactic parts of the first session are two morning seminars
presented on Friday and Saturday mornings. Implant surgery and restorative cases
will be presented in a Powerpoint presentation.
On Friday afternoon, attending dentists observe the director or resident
perform a live surgery and may also observe the restoration of previously placed
implants on live patients. Dentists
will have the opportunity to place implants in artificial mandibles as a
component of their training either on Friday or Saturday.
Session II
SESSION OBJECTIVE:
Implant surgery and restorative implant cases will be presented in
Powerpoint presentations on Friday and Saturday mornings.
The Friday afternoon session includes a live surgery performed by the
course director and/or residents. Attending
dentists should be prepared to take the written examination at the end their
second session. Dentists must score
85 or better in order to begin their individual surgery sessions. The
surgery sessions are scheduled by the director and individual participating
dentists. Dentists are encouraged to
choose Fridays for their surgical sessions.
Cases provided for participants will be selected by the
Director. Patients who are
brought for surgery by participants are approved on a case-by-case basis.
Cases must be approved by the director at least two weeks prior to the
surgical procedure. The director
will not approve cases that he feels are too difficult for participants in the
externship.
In treatment planning all
cases, patient records must include a current medical and dental history.
Mandibular implant supported overdenture cases must include maxillary and
mandibular casts and a recent panographic radiograph of good quality.
Implant cases requiring implant supported crowns or FPD’s must include
maxillary and mandibular casts and recent individual peri-apical radiographs of
edentulous areas for implant placement. These
radiographs must show adjacent teeth and vital structures of importance.
A recent panographic radiograph of good quality must also be included.
Surgical stents must be made and approved by the director for all cases.
Dentists,
who are performing surgery, as part of externship requirements, must finalize
treatment plans at least two weeks prior to setting a surgery date with the
course director. Treatment plans must include completion of the surgical stent,
a signed implant consent form, and medications prior to surgery and fees that
are to be paid to the Department of Continuing Dental Education,
College
of
Dentistry
, University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
Session
III and IV
SESSION OBJECTIVE:
Session I and III are the same and Session II is the same as session IV.
Dentists who participate in the externship must either attend Sessions I
and II or III and IV in succession. Participating
dentists will receive approximately twenty-four hours of didactics including
observation of two surgeries. Dentists
will also have the opportunity to place implants in artificial mandibles in a
laboratory setting. Attending
dentists who have completed two successive didactic sessions should take the
examination. Participants receive
twelve hours C.E. credit for each didactic session and four hours for each
surgical session. Dentists who
complete the externship will receive approximately forty hours of advanced
dental education.
Surgical Sessions
Session Objective:
The objective is to allow a participating dentist who has successfully
completed the didactic part of the implant externship the opportunity to place
implants in live patients. Dentists
may either request surgical patients or supply their own patients that must be
approved by the externship director. Current
models and appropriate radiographs must be brought or sent at least two weeks
prior to the surgical procedure by dentists supplying their own patients.
A copy of professional liability insurance and state licensure must be
sent two weeks prior to the surgical procedure.
All fees must be paid by the participating dentist on the day of the
surgical procedure. Fees are
the same regardless whether the patient is brought by the attending dentists or
supplied to course participants. Participating
dentists are encouraged to bring his/hers own surgical assistant for each
surgical procedure. Surgery sessions
are scheduled with the director at the UDP.
Surgeries are to be performed by participating dentists with instruction
from the director. If the
director is forced to intervene and perform a majority of the surgery in order
to ensure success, the participating dentist does not get credit for the
procedure. Strict protocol is used
for grading surgical procedures and each participant must attain a minimum of 85
to receive credit.
Professional Liability and Fees
1.
Attending dentists from the State of
Tennessee
or from other states, who perform implant surgeries for their patients at the
College
of
Dentistry
as part of the externship, must present proof of professional liability
insurance and a copy of their state dental license. These documents must be
presented to the course director as part of the treatment planning procedure at
least two weeks prior to surgery. Dentists
who have not presented these documents to the course director prior to patient
treatment will not be allowed to perform surgical procedures.
2.
Fees for surgical procedures as part of the course must be paid the day
of the surgical procedure by the participant.
Fees cannot be paid by patients. Fees are to be paid to the Department of
Continuing Education of the
College
of
Dentistry
.
3.
Fees cannot be refunded to attending dentists for implants placed that
fail on their patients while participating in the externship.
Externship Fees
1.
Didactic/Surgical Session I
$499.00
May 8 & 9
2.
Didactic/Surgical Session II
$499.00
August 7 & 8
3.
Didactic/Surgical Session I $499.00
December 4 & 5, 2009
3.
Individual surgery sessions
$1,200.00
[This fee is based on the placement of
one implant without augmentation materials]
4.
Each additional implant per surgery session
$850.00
with the same patient
5.
Augmentation material per surgery session
$250.00
To
register for each session, please call the Department of Continuing Dental
Education,
901-448-5386
For
additional information call
901-448-7196
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