OUR COURSES
Australasian Restorative and Implant Academy (ARIA) is an Australian based institution focussing on providing up-to-date Implant, Surgical and Restorative education from leading Australian specialists in the industry.
We provide hands-on courses in a collaborative environment with guided mentorship, live surgeries and case studies to instill confidence for practitioners to apply new techniques into their practice. These courses are open to both general practitioners and dental nurses to enhance clinical knowledge and procedure workflow.
Innovative and Practical Education
Our philosophy is centralised on educating dental practitioners in a collaborative environment that harmonises clinical theory and practical together with leading specialists in dentistry.
Our courses provides:
- Direct training from leading dental specialists providing research based and predictable clinical outcomes
- Hands-on clinically driven training for application into your practice
- Dynamic mentorship from clinical mentors that provides opportunities for case discussions
- One-to-One live surgery training
- Training for dental staff; designed to help your team’s clinical skills and practice structure

Specialist Driven Education
World leading lectures in Prosthodontics, Periodontics, Oral Surgery, Implantology and Restorative dentistry.
Providing an ideal environment for further education, providing clinicians with sound principles which are predictable and heavily researched.
Students receive a one-to-one learning experience from leading specialists and clinicians.
We pride ourselves on excellence in hands-on training, live surgery and didactic material.
Faculty
Leaders in the field of Dentistry and with over 100 years combined dental experience. Providing evidence based, hands–on training, on-going mentorship and live surgical mentorship.

DR PRAVEEN NATHANIEL
(Prosthodontist)
Dr. Nathaniel is a specialist prosthodontist in full time private practice in Glen Waverley, Moonee Ponds and Berwick. He is the principal dentist at the Melbourne Prosthodontic Centre. Praveen has worked as a specialist since 1994 and was in the first few clinicians in Australia to begin placing Implants and working with CADCAM.

DR LUAN NGO
(Periodontist)
Graduating with honours from the University of Melbourne in 1999, Luan worked in both public and private practice until 2003 when he commenced a Ph.D. in the field of periodontics looking at biomarkers for periodontal disease. Current Course Convenor for postgraduate periodontics at Melbourne University.

DR. REBECCA WONG
(Prosthodontist)
Rebecca Wong obtained her Bachelor of Dental Science degree and Prosthodontic specialist training at the University of Melbourne. She has worked as specialist at the Royal Dental Hospital for the last 12 years and is currently the Director of teaching and education at Melbourne University Dental School.

DR PRAVEEN NATHANIEL
(Prosthodontist)

DR LUAN NGO
(Periodontist)

DR. STEVEN SOUKOULIS
(Periodontist)

DR CINDY NGUYEN
(Periodontist)

DR. DEVIKA IYER
(Masters in Oral Implantology, Masters in Periodontology)
Dr. Devika Iyer has a continued passion for surgery and periodontics. She graduated from the Univeristy of Melbourne in 1992 and commenced her practice Grandstand Dental Care in 1998 with a strong surgical and periodontal focus.

DR MATTHEW YOUSSEF
(PG Dip Implantology)
Dr. Matt graduated with both a Masters of Clinical Dentistry from La Trobe University and a Bachelor of Health Science.
He has learnt from World Leaders in Oral Implantology, has completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Implantology and spent years abroad learning under his mentors, through Loma Linda University.
Why Choose ARIA?
Delivering Excellence in Dental Implant and Surgical Education.
- Predictable research driven Education provided by Specialists in their fields.
- Designed to help you integrate your learnings in to your clinical practice with live surgery and hands on components in every course.
- Small class sizes ensuring every student is receiving the appropriate attention to achieve the best educational outcome.
Testimonials












Testimonials

- Very friendly, very knowledgeable
- I feel comfortable taking these things that I’ve learnt and implementing them in my practice because I’ve done it before now, and with the guidance of a specialist
- I feel very comfortable asking questions and making sure that I fully understand the content being taught… that is massive… you can’t put a price on that


- The fact that there’s university teachers who are involved with postgraduate programs teaching other specialists is highly appealing

- This course is undertaken primarily by specialists in prosthodontics and periodontics
- I felt that it gave us the foundations to move on from here and start practising implant dentistry in our clinics

- This course in comparison with other ones is very complete mainly because of different modules, and you can have time from one module to the other one to research, to do all the readings that the trainers want you to do
- For me as a practitioner after finishing the course, I feel the support that I can get from them. They have been very clear that after finishing this course I can contact them, I can send my cases, we can have a chat about that… here you really have a companion

Why Choose ARIA?
Delivering Excellence in Dental Implant and Surgical Education.
- Predictable research driven Education provided by Specialists in their fields.
- Designed to help you integrate your learnings in to your clinical practice with live surgery and hands on components in every course.
- Small class sizes ensuring every student is receiving the appropriate attention to achieve the best educational outcome.
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