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100+ CPD HOURS – 2024 Places now available.
ARIA Master Implant Program:
100+ CPD HOURS – 2023 Places now available.
ARIA Master Implant Program:
- Learn how to plan, place and restore dental implants from leading Melbourne Specialists
- Live Surgery included in the program, with extensive hands-on components preparing you for private practice.
- Predictable outcomes are at the forefront of our education philosophy
- 10+ days of face to face education spread over 12 months- plus more
- More than 90% of students would recommend the course to their friends
- Limited seats remaining!
- Payment options allow access to all students.
- Learn how to plan, place and restore dental implants from leading Melbourne Specialists
- Live Surgery included in the program, with extensive hands-on components preparing you for private practice.
- Predictable outcomes are at the forefront of our education philosophy
- 10+ days of face to face education spread over 12 months- plus more
- More than 90% of students would recommend the course to their friends
- Limited seats remaining!
- Payment options allow access to all students.
Lecturers
Dr. Praveen Nathaniel
Prosthodontist
Dr Luan Ngo
Periodontist
Dr. Devika Iyer
Masters of Periodontology, Masters of Implantology
Dr Cindy Nguyen
Periodontist
Dr. Matthew Youssef
PG DIP Implantology
Module Master Implant Program | Melbourne
Place your first dental implant with confidence, under guided supervision. Learn how to plan, place and restore dental implants to the highest standard.
100 CPD Hours
- LIVE SURGERY with mentored guidance.
- ON GOING MENTORSHIP during the program
- SPECIALIST DRIVEN education.
- FACE to FACE Education
- SMALL CLASS sizes
Optional Benefits: 50% off your start-up Astra Implant kit (including 30 Implants, motor and implant driver). ONE YEAR FREE Implant Planning License and much more.
Module 1: Introduction to Implant Dentistry - Online
This module will provide a foundation in understanding implants as a restorative treatment. From patient assessment to learning implant armaterium and finally detailed implant planning would build the basis of this first section of the course.
Specialist prosthodontist Dr Praveen Nathaniel will predominately cover this module. Dr Matthew Youssef will also add on general practitioner material. Topics covered will include:
- Implant treatment options and the scope for general practitioners
- Case selection in terms of restorative, surgical and patient factors
- Prosthodontic pre-surgical assessment for restoratively driven implant placement
- Implant componentry
- Implant impressions with a hands-on workshop
- Use of surgical guides
- Digital impression taking; its role, accuracy, devices and techniques, and an introduction to Digital Smile Design
Module 2: Implant Surgery Principles
This module will run through pre-surgery patient assessments, extraction, implant placement procedure and further into hands-on workshops for first hand training on implant surgery. It aims to enhance the pre-surgery planning required for implant placement including important soft tissue considerations.
Lecturers include Prosthodontist Dr Praveen Nathaniel and Periodontist Dr Luan Ngo. Topics include:
- Initial examination and patient risk assessment – primarily focussing on identifying risk factors for early and/or late surgical complications
- Tooth extraction – understanding the atrophy post- extraction and methods to preserving bone ridge
- Rules for restoratively driven implant placement and appropriate site preparation
- Familiarisation with surgical armamentarium, flap design techniques and drilling protocols
- Flap design and wound closures techniques to enhance soft tissue healing
- Hands-on flap design surgery experience on pig jaws
Module 3: Advanced restorative implant dentistry
The previous module outlined the base of implant dentistry while this module will dive deeper into clinical considerations of implant components, implant bone adaptation as well as the restorative prosthodontic phases.
These topics will be provided by: Dr Praveen Nathaniel (Prosthodontist), Dr Luan Ngo (Periodontist) and Dr Matthew Youssef. Topics will include:
- Informed consent, important record keeping, and surgical setup
- Restorative considerations including; methods of crown attachment and abutment selection
- Assessing and planning for an edentulous patient
- Occlusion principles – process of examining and identifying key red-flags
- Multi-unit restorative principles including; overdentures and implant bridges – practical component on capturing multi-unit abutments during impression taking
- Restorative complications and management
- Surgical considerations for anterior and posterior implants
- Importance of osseointegration – testing for its success
Module 4: Grafting Principles and Anterior Implant Placement
This final module prior to the live surgery will elaborate on previous modules; improving knowledge on implant placement and refining the clinician’s skill level. Lectures will be provided by Dr Praveen Nathaniel (Prosthodontist), Dr Luan Ngo (Periodontist) and Dr Matthew Youssef. Topics to be covered are:
- Restorative and surgical crown considerations; including the importance of bone and soft tissue to frame the implant crown
- Implant surgical kit familiarisation and protocols
- Biological complications: peri-implantitis and peri-mucositis, its aetiology and management
- Principles of grafting including; techniques and protocols
- Hands-on practice of flap design, ridge preservation, grafting, implant placement and suturing on pig jaws
Module 5: Live surgery under 1:1 specialist supervision
This final module will revolve around the live surgery, in which has been acknowledged by all practitioners to be the best hands-on clinical experience.
Four hours will be dedicated for each student to surgically place an implant in their own patient under supervision. Students are also encouraged to provide and discuss case presentations at this stage in preparation for the live surgery module. Surgical guidance will be given by Dr Luan Ngo and Dr Cindy Nguyen (Periodontists), Dr Praveen Nathaniel (Prosthodontist), and Dr Devika Iyer (Masters in Oral Implantology and Periodontology).
Online Module
Begin your learning journey with lectures on case classification, anatomy, local anaesthesia and record collection.
Dr. Praveen Nathaniel
Dr. Praveen 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.
Dr. Praveen Nathaniel graduated as a dentist in 1986 and worked in general practice for 4 years then finished his Masters in 1992 at the University of Melbourne.
Dr. Luan Ngo
Graduating with honours from the University of Melbourne in 1999, Dr. Luan Ngo 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. Dr. Luan Ngo completed the didactic component of his specialist training in periodontics in 2009 and since then has been working in both private practice and as an academic at the University of Melbourne.
Dr. Cindy Nguyen
Dr. Cindy Nguyen graduated with her dental degree from the University of Melbourne in 2004.
Having finished as dux of her year, Dr. Cindy Nguyen received a number of awards from The University, The Melbourne Dental School and also from The Australian Dental Association. Dr. Cindy Nguyen is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons in the specialist field of Periodontics.
Dr. Devika Iyer
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. Devika Iyer has been surgically placing and restoring implants for many years after receiving formal training in Implant Dentistry with the Australian Society of Implant Dentistry in 2005, and has expanded her practice since completing her Masters in Oral Implantology from Frankfurt University and a Masters in Periodontics from the International Medical College Germany
Dr. Matthew Youssef
Dr. Matthew Youssef 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 is also a GIDE Master Clinician in Implantology.
He has learnt from World Leaders in Oral Implantology, has completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Implantology and is also a GIDE Master Clinician in Implantology.
Testimonial
The best thing about this course is the hands-on components where you get to do suturing on pigs heads and extractions on a real patient. Because the student cohorts are small, it really enables you to get more one-on-one attention with the tutors, pick up tips and tricks, and identify small errors that you might be making and correct them straight away
Theory component was very comprehensive, and now the practical component is so good because it is a small group of people. It’s such a supportive, nice tight-knit learning environment. 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
Dr Wynton Perrot from Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, shares his experience with our 2022 Master Implant Program. Great to see our student thoroughly enjoyed the Implant program!
Place your first dental implant with confidence, under guided supervision. Learn how to plan, place and restore dental implants to the highest standard from leading Melbourne specialists.
Live Surgery included in the program, with extensive hands-on components preparing you for private practice.
