Course Description:
This course consists of 4 modules. You’ll earn 7 CE credits upon completion.
Learn to identify the different clinical complications that can occur with dental implants in this comprehensive four-part course. Dr Charles Goodacre provides invaluable knowledge including surgical and mechanical complications, soft tissue and esthetic issues, as well as the factors affecting implant loss. Understand how to prevent, manage or minimize implant complications for more successful outcomes in restorative dentistry.
Surgical Complications with Dental Implants
In the first module, Dr. Goodacre identifies the most common surgical complications as well as the rare ones with potentially serious effects. Included is a discussion of pain related to implants, infection, hemorrhage-related complications, neurosensory disturbance, adjacent tooth devitalization, implant failure due to adjacent teeth. Understand how to prevent or minimize each complication.
Factors Affecting Implant Loss
This presentation will focus on the factors that are most likely to cause and affect implant loss. They include the type of prosthesis and arch, time at which loss is most likely to occur, the effect of implant length and bone quality, and systemic factors. You’ll learn to identify means by which these factors can be reduced or eliminated.
Soft Tissue and Esthetic Complications with Dental Implants
Soft tissue complications present biologic problems that can lead to bone and implant loss. This module will discuss the factors that cause such problems to occur and how they could have been minimized or avoided. Learning objectives include:
- Discuss the space required for appropriate implant placement
- Predict interproximal and midfacial soft tissue esthetics prior to implant placement
- Understand facial growth changes that occur during adolescence and continue throughout life
Mechanical Complications with Dental Implants
A large number of mechanical complications have been reported in the dental literature that could have been prevented through proper planning and design. This module will review the complications and discuss how to avoid unfavorable loading.
- Identify the factors that create overloading of implants and prostheses
- Understand the importance of implant placement in minimizing complications
- Learn how to design single crowns and fixed partial dentures that resist adverse leverage when the implant positions are not ideal
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Purchase of this course grants access for one year and requires an internet connection, a computer with video and audio capabilities, and in some cases, Adobe Reader to view handouts and articles.
You can download this course and watch it anywhere using the DOCS APP. Get it on Google Play or the Apple Store .
Watch the video and complete the quiz to earn 7 CE credits.
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NOTE: Many dental boards require that a specified portion of your CE credits be via in-person attendance at live courses. Check your state's rules!
690 Implants (Implant supported restorations, Implant complications — surgical or restorative) – 7.00 hour
Charles J. Goodacre
Dr. Goodacre received his DDS degree from Loma Linda University School of Dentistry
in 1971. He completed a three year combined program in Prosthodontics and Dental
Materials at Indiana University School of Dentistry and in 1974 earned his MSD degree.
He served as Chair of the Department of Prosthodontics at Indiana University and from
1994 to 2013 served as Dean of the Loma Linda University School of Dentistry. He
currently teaches in the Advanced Education Program in Prosthodontics at Loma Linda
University School of Dentistry and is a Distinguished Professor at that institution.
He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics, Past-President of the
American Board of Prosthodontics, Past-President of the American College of
Prosthodontists, and Past President of the Academy of Prosthodontics. He currently
serves on the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Oral Rehabilitation (FOR) and is
Chair of the FOR Education Council.
He has made over 500 invited presentations and published over 200 articles, research
abstracts, textbooks, and textbook chapters. In addition, he has developed or helped to
develop 17 online CE courses, 11 electronic education programs, and 3 eBooks related to
a range of topics that includes implant dentistry, complete dentures, clinical
complications in prosthodontics, occlusion, tooth preparation, head and neck anatomy,
temporomandibular joint anatomy, oral cancer screening, and color and shade selection.
He has received several awards such as Educator of the Year, Distinguished Lecturer,
Distinguished Service Award, and Dan Gordon Lifetime Achievement Award from the
American College of Prosthodontists; the George Moulton Award from the American
Academy of Fixed Prosthodontics, the William J. Gies Award from the American Dental
Education Association; Honorary Fellowship in the Faculty of Dentistry of the Royal
College of Surgeons in Ireland; the Golden Medallion Award from the American
Prosthodontic Society; the Distinguished Service Award from the Academy of
Prosthodontics; the Jerome and Dorothy Schweitzer Research Award and also the
Distinguished Lecturer Award from the Greater New York Academy of Prosthodontics.
He received the Stephen H. Leeper Award for Teaching Excellence in 2015 from the
Supreme Chapter of Omicron Kappa Upsilon. Also in 2015, he was awarded a
Distinguished Professorship at Loma Linda University School of Dentistry.
DOCS online courses are available to the purchaser for one year from date of purchase.
No refund of course tuition is available.
