Dinu & Associates Implant Academy was pleased to host the exceptional course Digital Implantology from Micro to Macro—Planning and Execution of Single to Full Arch Immediate Loading Restoration. The learning process included lectures, hands-on sessions and live surgery, and was presented by three top experts, Dr. Sam Omar, dental technician Cristian Butnărașu, and Prof. Cristian Dinu.
The course was a three-day event that took place in Cluj-Napoca from July 13th to 15th, 2023. Participants learned about partial and full mouth implant rehabilitation workflows, from Digital Data Acquisition and Digital Planning Protocols using the R2Gate system to prosthetic planning and Immediate Load criteria, surgery execution and final prosthetics.
The guest of honor was Dr. Sam Omar, an internationally awarded lecturer and a dentist with major contributions to developing Stackable Guides Protocols and also R2GATE and Digital Oral Design (DOD) software. He is continuously sharing his knowledge as a senior lecturer at OneDay International Academy for Digital Dentistry. Sam practices Implantology and Oral surgery in his clinic in Giza, Egypt.
“Here, at Dinu & Associates Implant Academy, we had three days of full intense hands-on and live surgery education!” said Dr. Sam Omar. “We had a lot of lectures where we discussed the clinical aspects of planning the complex cases, as well as hands-on sessions, so on the first day, all participants learned how to use the R2Gate Software in order to plan full mouth cases. On the second day, we talked mainly about stackable guides, and all participants practiced on models and had the full experience of implant placement and immediate load using the stackable guide. The last day was dedicated to a live surgery session, and all participants could see up close how Dr. Cristian Dinu and I applied what we discussed on previous days”.
The Digital Implantology workflows available today allow dentists to do the best treatments in the shortest possible time. For this reason, researchers have been working for years on developing a predictable digital protocol for One-Day implant rehabilitation. This is a teamwork that also involves dental technicians, and their role has changed over time.
“With the guided surgery, the role of dental technicians becomes very important in implant placement. In time, this role got to be very refined, and right now I think we can call them bio-technicians, because it also involves biology knowledge and other information which, in the classic approach, is not common knowledge”, declared DT Cristian Butnărașu.
“This is one of the most complete courses we have given in the last few years. Usually, we organize only two-day events, but Dr. Cristian Dinu came up with the idea of a third day of live surgery so that participants would have the complete picture and see how the rehabilitation is finalized”, added Dr. Sam Omar.
Professor Cristian Dinu emphasized the major role of live surgery sessions in the educational process: “In our programs here, at Dinu & Associates Implant Academy, live surgery is a very important part of the educational process. Thus, in our yearly course, we have five to six live surgical procedures per module so that participants benefit from the theoretical and the hands-on part and see every step of the plan being executed with the actual patient.
Putting together Sam’s experience as an educator with ours, we have the opportunity to adjust and improve the way we share information. I am certain we will continue to nurture this friendship and professional connection!”, added Professor Dinu.
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