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Mastering Implant Dentistry Fundamentals

Comprehensive Core Curriculum for Beginners

Feb 6-8, 2025

or

Tampa, FL

108

credit hours

Module 1: Feb 6-8, 2025

Module 2: May 15-17, 2025

Module 3: Aug 7-9, 2025

Module 4: Oct 23-25, 2025

Mastering Implant Dentistry Fundamentals

About the Course

Course Overview

Master the Fundamentals of Implant Dentistry with the Pioneer of Implantology, Dr. Michael A. Pikos

"Mastering Implant Dentistry Fundamentals: A Comprehensive Core Curriculum for Beginners" is a comprehensive course designed to equip dental professionals with the skills and knowledge necessary to excel in the dynamic field of implantology. This course offers an invaluable opportunity to:

  • Expand your practice by delving into the intricacies of implant dentistry, attracting new patients seeking specialized care.
  • Master core concepts and techniques to enhance your surgical and prosthetic skills while ensuring continuity of care for current patients.
  • Improve patient acceptance rates and achieve better clinical outcomes.
  • Build long-term relationships with implant patients, who often return for maintenance, ensuring ongoing satisfaction and revenue.
  • Gain confidence through a blend of theoretical knowledge and hands-on practice, allowing you to navigate the complexities of implant dentistry with ease.
  • Join the Pikos Alumni network, connecting with peers, faculty, and other growth-minded practitioners for professional growth and enriched understanding.

Join us in demystifying foundational implant dentistry and unlocking new avenues for professional success.

Course Objectives

The Implant Core Curriculum serves a diverse range of skill levels.

Never placed an implant, but want to learn?
Acquire the fundamental skills and confidence to embark on your implant dentistry journey.

Placed a few, but want more confidence?
Enhance your expertise and bolster your confidence with the latest scientific insights and immersive hands-on workshops.

Placing implants often and want the latest techniques?
Stay abreast of cutting-edge protocols, digital workflows, and deepen your understanding of potential complications.

With dental implant demand soaring – it’s time to master world-class implant dentistry skills.

At the Pikos Institute, you’ll have the unique opportunity to learn from Dr. Michael A. Pikos, a trailblazer, a master, in implantology with 35 years of clinical experience.

Dr. Pikos has placed over 35,000 implants and has spent 30 years teaching, training 6,800 general and specialty dentists. His pioneering work has shaped the widely accepted implantology protocols used globally today. By mastering the latest techniques under Dr. Pikos’ expert guidance, you can provide your patients with top-notch implant dentistry and keep your practice at the forefront of this rapidly expanding marketplace. Embrace this opportunity to grow professionally and offer the best care possible to your patients.

Course Topics

Module 1: February 6-8, 2025

  • Master patient evaluation, surgical techniques, and hands-on implant placement.

Module 2: May 15-17, 2025

  • Explore prosthetic planning, advanced extraction techniques, guided bone regeneration and multi-implant placement.

Module 3: August 7-9, 2025

  • Dive into immediate implant placement, soft tissue grafting, and provisionalization.

Module 4: October 23-25, 2025

Learn prosthetic restoration, peri-implant problem management, and hygiene maintenance.

  • Master foundational principles of implant dentistry
  • Evaluate patients for implant candidacy
  • Understand clinical anatomy and treatment planning
  • Learn surgical and restorative techniques
  • Address complications like peri-implantitis

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Course Speakers

Course Agenda

Featuring 12 of the World's Master Clinicians!

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Featuring 12 of the World's Master Clinicians!

Dr. Sofia Aroca

Multiple Coronally Advanced Flap vs Modified Coronally Advanced Tunnel Technique: A Decision Making Process for Treatment of Multiple Recession Type Defects

Dr. Alberto Fernandez

Zygomatic Implants and Innovative Bone Regeneration Techniques: A New Approach to Prevent Complications

Dr. Joseph Kan

Dr. Joseph Kan - Anterior Immediate Tooth Replacement: Lessons learned over 27 Years

Dr. Ricardo Kern

Aesthetic and Biology Behind Immediacy

Dr. George Kotsakis

An Evidence-based Roadmap to Successful Peri-implantitis Management

Dr. Henriette Lerner

Innovative Digital Technologies in 3 D Bone and Soft Tissue Grafting. A Scientific and Clinical Update

Dr. Ramon Gomez Meda

The use of digital technologies and new biomaterials for bone augmentation: When, where and how to use them

Dr. Richard Miron

PRF and Exosomes: A Perfect Marriage in Regenerative Medicine

Dr. Michael A. Pikos

Sinus Grafting 34 Years: Clinical Myths and Realities

Dr. Massimo de Sanctis

The Selective Use of Connective Tissue Graft in Treating Multiple Gingival Recession

Dr. Hussein S. Basma

Unlocking Success in Guided Bone Regeneration: Strategies for Optimal Results

Dr. Istvan Urban

My Perspectives on Vertical and Horizontal Augmentation

What Our Trained Clinicians Are Saying About This Course

Mastering Implant Dentistry Fundamentals

Hands-on Workshops

Optional Workshops – Wednesday, October 2, 2024:

(requires separate registration, not included in main session registration price)

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Financing Available

Quick decision financing available to cover all Pikos Institute courses, fees, travel expenses, incidentals and surgical equipment is offered by Live Oak Bank, specialists in dental practice lending.

Learn More ABout Financing

Flexible Payment Options

If you would like to pay up front in full or in installments over time, we have you covered with two convenient payment options.

A. Pay in Installments
Register and get billed for the 1st module and save your spot for all four modules. Subsequent billing for modules 2-4 will be billed 75 days before each module.

Simply select "Installments (4)" on the registration form below.

B. Pay All at Once
Register/get billed for all four modules at once, paying up front.

To pay in full, select "Full" on the registration form below.

Package Add-ons (Optional)

BioHorizons Package One: $8,580

MSRP $15,910

20 Tapered Pro Conical Laser-Lok
1 Pro Surgical Kit (PRO5000) OR Pro Freehand Surgical Kit (FSK5000)
1 Prosthetic Kit (PROS3000)
1 BioHorizons Adjustable Torque Wrench (BIOTORQ)
10 Conical Healing Caps
6 Conical Titanium Scan Bodies
3 Striate+, 15x20mm
3 Genate Blend, 0.5cc

BioHorizons Package Two: $10,700

MSRP $19,400

20 Tapered Pro Conical Laser-Lok
1 Pro Surgical Kit (PRO5000)
1 Pro Freehand Surgical Kit (FSK5000)
1 Prosthetic Kit (PROS3000)
1 BioHorizons Adjustable Torque Wrench (BIOTORQ)
10 Conical Healing Caps
6 Conical Titanium Scan Bodies
3 Striate+, 15x20mm
3 Genate Blend, 0.5cc

Salvin Extraction Kit: $1,610.10

MSRP $2,005.80

Salvin Titanium Graft Packer/Placement Site Depth Gauge (GRAFT-PACKER-TI)
Salvin Straight Periotome With Fixed Straight Tip (PERIOTOME-STR)
Salvin DGA-35 Deep Grip Extended Tip Length Serrated Extraction Forcep (DGA-35)
Salvin DGA-36 Deep Grip Extended Tip Length Serrated Extraction Forcep (DGA-36)
Salvin DGA-37 Deep Grip Extended Tip Length Serrated Extraction Forcep (DGA-37)
Salvin Pikos Scoring Bur (PIKOS-SCORINGBUR)
Salvin Elevator DEL 34 (DEL 34)
Salvin Elevator DEL 301 (DEL 301)
Salvin DEF 23 German Stainless Steel Extraction Forcep (DEF 23)
Salvin Kelly Hemostat-Curved-14cm (KELLY-CURV-HEMO)
Salvin Iris SuperCut Serrated Scissors-11cm Curved (SC IRIS CU)
Salvin PDL-Evator Luxating Elevator-Straight-2.5mm Tip (PDL-STRAIGHT)
Salvin Heidbrink H1 Root Tip Pick (HEID 1)
Salvin Heidbrink H2 Root Tip Pick (HEID 2)
Salvin Heidbrink H3 Root Tip Pick (HEID 3)

Salvin Implant Placement Kit: $1,972.98

MSRP $2,343.00

Salvin Siegle Round Scalpel Handle (SIEGEL)
#15 Sterile, Carbon Blade, 100/BX (BLAD 15)
Salvin Quinn Type Elevator (Q-ELEV)
Salvin Stainless Steel UNC Probe (PROBE-UNC)
Salvin Weider Tongue Retractor-Small-31mm (WEIDER-SMALL)
Salvin Modified Frazier Surgical Aspirator-3mm Tip (FR3A)
Salvin Crile Wood Tungsten Carbide Tipped Needle Holder-For 3-0 to 5-0 Sutures (CRILE)
Salvin Dean Scissors-6 ¾” (17.2cm) (DEAN)
Salvin Minnesota Retractor (MINN)
Aspirating Syringe CW Type (Syringe CW)
Salvin Pikos Block Contouring Bur Straight HP (PIKOS-BLOCK-CONTOUR)
Salvin Serrated Lucas 84 Bone Curette (LUCAS-SERR-84)
Salvin Serrated Lucas 86 Bone Curette (LUCAS-SERR-86)
Salvin Beyer Double Action Rongeur 3.5mm Bite 17.8cm Long (BEYER)
Salvin Adson Forceps TC 4 ¾” (12cm) (ADSON TC)
Salvin Adson 1x2 Tissue Forceps-4 ¾” (12cm) (ADSON 1x2)
Featherlite Snagless Needle Holder For 5-0 to 10-0 Sutures-Thumb Lock (NH-ROUND-7-TCL-R)
Salvin Seldin 23 (SELDIN)

Mastering Implant Dentistry Fundamentals