Classic to Contemporary Restorative Options for Edentulous Patients:
Clinical Decision Making and Modern Workflows
Treating the Terminal Dentition and the Fully Edentulous Patient
This lecture and hands-on program offers a comprehensive exploration of restorative options for patients with terminal dentition and complete edentulism. With an emphasis on evidence-based decision making, the course provides a framework to guide clinicians through diagnostic considerations, indications, contraindications, and risk–benefit analysis when selecting between conventional, implant-retained removable overdentures and implant-retained fixed treatment approaches.
Through interactive lectures and restorative-focused exercises, participants will gain practical experience with intraoral scanning, denture conversions, verification jigs, and digital versus analog protocols. Special attention will be given to fixed versus removable workflows, material and component selection, and strategies for clear laboratory communication. By combining clinical reasoning with hands-on exercises, this program equips clinicians to confidently navigate both traditional and contemporary restorative pathways, ensuring predictable outcomes for their edentulous patients.
Learning Objectives:
1. Apply diagnostic algorithms to evaluate treatment options for edentulous and terminal dentition patients.
2. Compare and contrast classic analog techniques with contemporary digital workflows for removable and fixed prostheses.
3. Perform restorative procedures in hands-on settings, including intraoral scanning, denture conversions, and verification protocols.
4. Critically assess material and component choices to improve predictability and laboratory collaboration.
What you will learn at this In-Person Seminar:
• How to transition a patient with a terminal dentition into a definitive implant-supported prosthesis.
• How to stage multiple treatment phases while providing the patient with a comfortable transitional prosthesis.
• How to utilize a novel classification for edentulous arches that will allow the participant to better comprehend treatment indications and patient risk assessment for the edentulous maxilla.
• How to treat fully edentulous patients with a combination of either removable prosthetics, implant-supported overdentures, fixed implant-supported prosthesis, All-on-4/Pro-Arch concept, as well as the full-arch ceramo-metal or zirconium-based implant-supported reconstruction.
• How to optimize communication between the restorative dentist and the laboratory.
• How to safely implement immediate loading protocols in the practice.
• Different techniques and procedures to provide the patient with an immediately loaded prosthesis.
Diagnostic, Fixed and Removable Prosthodontic skills, and earn a total of 20 CE credits in Prosthodontics & Implants (10 hours in hands-on participation workshops)
Click here to download the brochure for this event, which includes information on how to sign up.