Comprehensive Guided Surgery Course

Two-day hands-on software-based course covers all aspects of guided surgery. This course requires no previous experience.

About this event

After completion of course, you may pick one of the three special offers below:

1. $500 discount on any starter package
2. 12 free STL exports
3. Spend $400 get a $300 discount

What you will learn:

• Master the open architecture Blue Sky Bio software
• Learn to quickly design your own guided surgery cases from single tooth up to full arches for any brand of implants
• Learn the treatment planning requirements for predictable surgical and prosthetic success
• Learn how to export and 3d print your own surgical guides or how to outsource it to affordable services
• Hands-on exercises that teach you the drill sequence of placing implants with using guided kits
• How to manage cases with high scatter
• How to design provisional and final prosthetics
• much more....

Pre-requisites: This course assumes a base level knowledge of computer use and software. You do not need previous experience with Blue Sky Plan or implant placement.

COURSE AGENDA: 

DAY 1

Morning Session: Tooth-Borne Cases

• Introduction and the case for guided surgery
• Blue Sky Bio implants and products review
• Blue Sky Bio drill kits protocols and comparison with other lines
• Integration of Cone Beam data and STL data
• Understanding the limitation of Cone Beam and STL integration
• Integration and limitation of multiple Cone Beam data sets
• Learn to do crestal sinus lifts with the BSB fully guided crestal sinus kit

Afternoon Session: Tooth-Borne Cases

• Multiple ways to design a surgical stent and how to choose appropriate design type
• Proper case presentation techniques for patients
• Where and how to easily obtain Cone Beam scans and STL models and how to manage the data
• Hands on Exercises planning toothborn guides on the software
• Single implant placement designs
• Multiple parallel implant designs
• Mock surgery on models using the BlueSkyBio Fully Guided Keyless Kit
• Learn to 3d print and post process surgical guides
• Learn the pros and cons of various printer types

COURSE AGENDA: 

DAY 2

Morning Session: Edentulous and Full Mouth Cases

• Learn to make scan appliances
• Learn to manage heavy scatter cases
• Treatment planning large cases
• Learn the appropriate space requirements and implant positions for various full arch restorations
• Learn the pros and cons of different full arch restorations and when to use them
• The multiple uses for chairside or digital denture duplication
• Immediate extractions and bone guides.
• How to keep track of the vertical dimension once the pt is edentulous
• Accurate transfers of fixtures to models
• Digital impressions for edentulous cases
• Hybrid designs for frameworks
• Digital designs and bar fabrication
• Hygienic full arch restorative options
• Learn to do bone segmentation
• Learn basic functions in Meshmixer software

Afternoon Session: Edentulous and Full Mouth Cases

• Fixing lab costs where there are no costly surprises
• Afternoon Session: Hands on Exercises planning full arch bone and soft tissue supported guides
• Edentulous case design in Blue Sky Bio with digital dentures
• Mock surgery on edentulous models
• Chairside denture duplications and scan appliance fabrication
• Impression techniques for multiple fixtures
• Impression techniques for multi-abutments
• Restorative designs of abutments on CAD software
• Learn to make your own high strength, low cost provisionals and how to expedite full arch conversions

This program half live lecture and half self-participation, designated for 16 hours of CE credit by BlueSkyBio . AGD Codes: 670

Presenter:

Dr. Cory Glenn

Dr. Cory Glenn graduated from Arkansas State University in 2004 and from the University of Tennessee College of Dentistry in 2008. Following graduation, he went on to complete the Lutheran Medical Center’s advanced education in general dentistry residency at UT Memphis. He is a continuing education “junkie” and a graduate of the Georgia MaxiCourse in Implant Dentistry, the American Orthodontic Society Comprehensive Ortho Program, and is credentialed as an Associate Fellow in the American Academy of Implant Dentistry. He has served as the CE director for the TN AGD and as president and CE director of the Middle TN Dental Study Club. For several years, Dr. Glenn ran a private practice in Winchester, TN where he performed all disciplines of dentistry with a particular focus on utilizing technology and innovative techniques to make comprehensive treatment more accessible to his patients. In late 2015, he was diagnosed with APL leukemia and spent 8 months doing chemotherapy achieving complete remission. However, due to ongoing back problems following treatment, he has since retired from clinical practice and now focuses entirely on dental technology and teaching.