Intermediate to Advanced Live Patient Surgical Externship

Intermediate to Advanced Live Patient Surgical Externship is organized by California Implant Institute (CII) and will be held from Feb 23 - 28, 2026 at California Implant Institute (Rosarito, Mexico campus), Playas De Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico.

Program Overview:
In this 6-day comprehensive live patient program, doctors will learn CBCT planning & surgical anatomy, prosthetic-driven surgical planning, flap design, suturing, atraumatic extraction techniques, socket grafting & simple ridge augmentation, crestal sinus lift techniques, and post-operative management.
Doctors will also engage in 4 hours of treatment planning each morning. Participants will operate and assist across multiple cases per day, rotating roles to maximize their surgical exposure and learning under the guidance of world-class faculty.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn treatment planning during the 3-4 hours of daily treatment planning sessions.
• Learn proper surgical techniques (flap design, drilling principles, biomechanics, and more).
• Place multiple implants (on average, each attendee places 10-15 implants).
• Assist with multiple implants (as doctors are divided into groups of two, each doctor, in addition to placing 10-15 implants, will assist their partner in placing their 10-15 implants).
• Learn how to avoid and manage complications.
• Experience implant placement techniques in both edentulous areas and immediate extraction sockets.
• Learn how to perform alveoloplasty.
• Learn various suturing techniques and experience different suturing materials.