Introducing ClearCare implant Study Club and mentorship program

Did you know that dental implantology is one of the hardest disciplines taught at dental schools across the board?

Most graduates receive a great didactic and fair clinical training on posterior implant restoration. However, due to shortage of time and steps involved, most programs do not even include anterior implants or multi-implant restoration as part of their training.

This is ironic since in private practice, the patients most motivated to have a dental implant are the ones missing front teeth or several teeth! Additionally, what is often missed, and arguably the most important, is to treatment plan a case and follow it from start to finish.

As a result, most new grads are left on their own device to further their training. They are often at the mercy of short weekend courses with little to no clinical component or very expensive “mini residencies” that often involve traveling and significant time off work. Yet all this still does not provide the mentorship component on meaningful and continuous bases.

This causes many new grads to either shy away from taking on more challenging and complex implant cases or to learn by trial and error from anecdotal information gathered from other colleagues, implant reps and their lab.

At ClearCare we believe there has to be a much better solution! And so we are introducing ClearCare implant study club that is to help teach and consolidate concepts in implantology and to help mentor you through your implant cases, simple or complex as long as you need it.

To do this, the study club will meet once a month to:

• Treatment plan cases and formulate an implant patient initial assessment checklist.
• Understand the rationale, indication and contraindications in implant dentistry.
• Formulate a site assessment checklist.
• Learn key points of patient education to gain case acceptance.
• Learn digital workflow- how to utilize it for better, more predictable and efficient outcomes.
• Understand the main points to hit when communicating with your surgical and laboratory partner.
• Master the treatment plan consideration for posterior, anterior and multi-implant cases.
• Learn the algorithm of restorative decision-tree.
• Understand implant occlusion.
• Gain working knowledge of the restorative options and materials available.
• Learn how to manage and avoid complications- the dos and the don’ts of implant dentistry.
• Gain mentorship for your implant cases.
• Dinner will be provided at 5:30pm with lecture starting at 6:00pm sharp.

If this is something you like to take part in, you are required to:

• To attend and committee to every session (please see below for scheduled dates).
• To find and treat minimum one but ideally two implant cases with ClearCare from start to finish. To help reduce the burden of cost and gain case acceptance, ClearCare will provide you with the following:
  • Free prosthetic kit and impression coping.
  • Free final Atlantis restoration.
  • 25% discount on implant surgery fee.
• In doing so, you will be invited and are highly encouraged to attend the following appointments with your patients:
  • Initial implant consultation, CBCT and digital diagnostic impression.
  • Zoom digital planning meeting between you, your surgeon and your lab partner.
  • Implant surgery and any site development surgeries needed.
  • Implant test appointment and final digital impression.
• Present your implant case to your classmates at one of the study club sessions.
• $400 registration fee that will be returned in exchange for a perfect attendance record.