Entry Point™: Live Patient Treatment 2024

Entry Point™: Live Patient Treatment 2024 is organized by Koerner Center for Surgical Instruction (KCSI) and will be held from Apr 26 - 27, 2024 at Roseman University of Health Sciences - Utah Campus, South Jordan, Utah, United States of America.

Course Overview:
Discover the power of implant placement upon live patients, in a highly mentored environment! This is the single most effective step you can take in integrating dental implants into your own practice. This course is book-ended with treatment planning and debrief sessions that offer tremendous additional value; in addition to learning more from your own cases, you will learn a wide variety of information from your colleagues. 

The cases presented differ according to the patient’s needs. Focused topics include:
• Implant placement in preparation for anticipated restorative.
• Diagnosis, treatment planning, placement, and postoperative critique and debriefing
• CBCT analysis
• Manual and guided placement
• Real time instruction as patient treatment is in progress
• May include regenerative procedures, intra-crestal sinus grafts, ridge expansion immediate placement, custom emergence, provisionalization, etc.
• Corrective counsel and re-direction as needed to stay on the right path
• Case presentations pre and post operatively of patients treated during this session

Course Objectives:
• Understand the importance of patient agreement and signing-off on the treatment plan and consent to proceed.
• Place implants on patients according to correct treatment planning concepts.
• Be able to use aseptic principles in all aspects of implant surgery including regenerative procedures.
• Actually place guided and/or non-guided implants in agreement with the treatment plan.
• Know how to read the CBCT to interpret vital structures and know how to avoid complications based on modern imaging technology.
• Be familiar with methods of creating custom emergence and guided tissue healing.
• Be knowledgeable about the implant surgical kit and instrumentation.