Continuing Education Special Event
Multidisciplinary Single-Tooth Implant Therapy
Leveraging Digital Technology & Implant Provisionalization to Personalize Therapy and Maximize Outcomes
Presented by Dr. Chris Barwacz
Hosted by GSLDS
Date: Thursday, March 12, 2026
Location: CityPlace 3 Training Room
3 CityPlace Drive, St. Louis, MO 63141
Schedule:
5:00PM - Buffet Dinner, Beer, and Wine
6:00PM to 8:00PM - Lecture
ADA CERP CE Hours: 2
Pricing:
ADA/GSLDS Members - $95
Non-ADA Members - $195
Dental/Graduate Students and Residents - $65
OPTIONAL: Apply your registration fee paid towards your first or next case with Summit-Horizon Dental Lab.
Course Description:
Optimizing peri-implant mucosal and esthetic outcomes for long-term health and stability requires careful multidisciplinary digital planning, implant provisionalization, and ultimately patient and site-specific abutment design. Digital workflows now enable the clinician the opportunity to optimize the implant’s surrounding soft tissues in a multitude of different workflows, depending on the requirements of the specific patient and clinical scenario. This course will provide a didactic overview of significant developments that have occurred related to digital implant planning, patient-specific abutment selection and fabrication to optimize biological and esthetic outcomes of single-tooth implant restorations, and how the general dentist can leverage such technologies and workflows to optimize patient-centered care.
Objectives:
- Understand how digital implant planning can be used to optimize designs of patient-specific CAD/CAM abutments and custom healing abutments.
- Review current evidence-based rationale for implant-abutment designs that optimize peri-implant bone and soft-tissue outcomes, while reducing short and long-term biological complications.
- Identify the influence that implant provisionalization plays in optimizing peri-implant mucosal outcomes following surgery, and how soft-tissue contours can be reliably duplicated digitally to facilitate patient-specific CAD/CAM abutment designs.
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