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AllonX & Full-Arch Implantology

Step-by-Step AllonX and Fixed Complete Arch Prosthetics

Our AllonX course covers the basics all the way to advanced level treatment planning, pre-surgical workup, surgical and clinical techniques!

$895.00

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Interested in knowing how to diagnosis and treatment plan patients for AllonX and fixed complete arch prosthetics? Do you want to learn the step-by-step techniques of clinical and laboratory procedures for cases before, during and after implants have been placed? Want to become familiar with the surgical applications of implant placement for AllonX?

This comprehensive course covers everything you, your assistants, and your laboratory needs to know about AllonX and similar fixed full-arch cases! We cover the basics all the way up to the advanced level methods diagnosis and treatment planning skills, pre-surgical workup, surgical and clinical techniques to do an immediate load bridge, definitive/final AllonX step-by-step protocols, and DIGITAL workflows for AllonX cases. Emphasis is placed on highlighting clinical step-by-step techniques including recorded videos of procedures!!

Also included is up to 30 continuing education credits provided with a certificate. Once fully completed, the course provides hours of video-based learning credits and independent study CE credits for your dental boards and AGD credits!

Fast Track Dental
National Approved PACE Program Provider for FAGD/MAGD credit.
Approval does not imply acceptance by
any regulatory authority or AGD endorsement.
9/1/2020 to 8/31/2022.
Provider ID# 392479

Syllabus

Section I – Introduction & Essential Patient Factors for Fixed Full-Arch Dentistry

Covering the fundamentals and basics of fixed full-arch implantology, proper patient assessment skills, communication skills and getting patients to say “yes” more often!!

Topics include:

  • Background, History, and Impact of Complete Tooth Loss
  • Patient Examination Skills
  • Diagnosis & Treatment Planning Concepts
  • Chairside Communication Skills & Treatment Acceptance

Section II – Fundamentals of AllonX & Fixed Complete Arch

This section covers the fundamentals of the AllonX treatment philosophy, background of the Branemark method, scientific rationale for treatment, treatment planning implant number, position, location of dental implants. In this comprehensive section, we lay the groundwork for a deeper understanding of AllonX as a treatment philosophy and how they work clinically!

Topics include:

  • Fundamentals of AllonX Treatment Protocol
  • The Scientific Basis & Rationale for AllonX
  • The Role of Restorative Space Within AllonX Prosthetics
  • Choosing the Number of Implants for Maxillary and Mandibular Cases
  • Where Do We Place Implants for Fixed Full-Arch?
  • AllonX Biomechanics
  • Dental Implant Design, Osseointegration
  • Evaluating Options Regarding Implant Diameter & Length Options
  • Immediate Loading: Does it Really Work?
  • Understanding Passive Fit and Clinical Approaches to Ensuring Prosthetics Work Long-Term

Section III: Radiographic Planning: Traditional & Contemporary Concepts

An in-depth discussion regarding various radiographic options available for clinicians to best determine bone volume for AllonX therapy including contemporary cone-beam CT scanning techniques!

Topics include:

  • Traditional Radiographic Options: PA, Panoramic, CBCT
  • Making Radiographic Guides
  • CBCT Scanning Workflows
  • Patient Preparation for CBCT Scans
  • Making CBCT Scans & Options on Machines to Ensure Success
  • “Denture-Down” Treatment Planning Concepts
  • Relining Dentures with Radiopaque PVS Material & CBCT Scanning Techniques
  • Step-by-Step Case Planning Examples for AllonX Cases

Section IV: Step-by-Step AllonX Patient Preparation & Surgical Procedures

This section includes reviewing pre-surgical protocols and workup of patients for restorative procedures during surgery. Additionally, we cover how to best plan for AllonX surgery including instrument tray setups, equipment, and surgical techniques!

Topics include:

  • Pre-Surgical Protocols for AllonX
  • Impression Procedures for Immediate Load
  • Fabricating “In-House” Analog Classic Surgical Guides
  • Fabricating “In-House” Digital 3D Printed Surgical Guides
  • Anatomy Review
  • Instrument Choice for Surgical Procedures
  • Equipment Options
  • Surgical Techniques for Implants
  • Assessing Implant Stability
  • Choosing Prosthetic Components During Surgical Procedures

Section V: Restorative Procedures for AllonX –Immediate Load Interim/Temporary Surgical Conversion Prosthesis

From start-to-finish, we cover the nuts & bolts parts and steps associated with how to fabricate an immediate load / conversion prosthesis during surgery! We discuss, immediate loading protocols and how we clinically fabricate a prosthesis that will work for the patient and how to work in a surgeon’s office, however, alternative options including collaborating a delayed prosthesis is discussed. Additionally, we demonstrate stackable AllonX cases and how to work up, treat, and perform immediate load prosthetics with stackable arch guides!!

Topics include:

  • Strategies for Immediate Loading
  • Preparing an Immediate Denture and Pick-up Temp Cylinders
  • Laboratory Steps to Trim and Polish the Immediate Load Prosthesis
  • Fabricating Soft-Tissue Analog Casts During Surgery
  • Patient Instructions & Post-Op Protocols
  • Stackable Surgical Guides – Workup & Introduction
  • Stackable AllonX Prosthetics, Step-by-Step

Section VI: Restorative Procedures – Definitive/Final Restoration After Implant Integration

Have you taken an AllonX course before and feel like instruction only really focuses on the surgical conversion prosthesis and find yourself asking… well what about the final teeth? In this this exciting section we cover in detail various approaches on how to choose your final restorative options. We cover many different approaches on how to make the definitive/final AllonX prosthesis and review for occlusion design, clinical impression procedures, laboratory techniques, and step-by-step clinical video-based techniques.

Topics include:

  • AllonX Prosthetic Workflow
  • Choosing The Type of AllonX Materials, PMMA vs. Zirconia vs. Titanium
  • Occlusion Concepts for AllonX Cases
  • PVS Impression Techniques
  • Fabricating Impression Jig & Splinted vs. Unsplinted Impression Techniques
  • Simple In-Office Laboratory Techniques
  • Confirming Impression Accuracy with the “One-Screw Test” and “Sheffield Test”
  • Clinical Try-In Procedures Before the Bar
  • Bar Design & Working with Laboratories to Design Bars Correctly
  • Clinical Try-in Procedures with the Bar – Final Check Before Prosthetic Fabrication
  • Clinical Delivery Procedures
  • Fabricating Occlusal Guards

Section VII: Digital AllonX Workflows – Intraoral Scanning, 3D Printing, and Thimble Based Restorations

Have you ever wondered… how does that clinician do those cases digitally? In this incredible section, we go through the SECRETS and step-by-step in-depth protocols of how to do AllonX cases start to finish the digital way! We cover how we make digital full-arch cases work using intraoral/optical scanning, 3D printing, digital design software, milling, and more!!

Topics include:

  • AllonX Digital Workflows
  • Step-by-Step Intraoral Scanning AllonX Cases
  • Understanding Full Digital vs. Hybrid Digital/Analog Workflows
  • Digital Design of Prototype Prosthetics for AllonX using exocad
  • Designing & 3D Printing Digital AllonX Models
  • Designing & 3D Printing Verification Jigs
  • 3D Printing the Prototype Prosthesis
  • Fitting Ti-Bases and Adding Pink Gingiva to the Prototype
  • Clinical Try-in of the Prototype 3D Printed Prosthesis
  • Designing Thimble Bar AllonX using exocad
  • Milling Options for the Thimble Bar AllonX
  • Laboratory Techniques to Adjust the Bar, Opaque Application, and Fabricating Crowns for the Thimble Bar AllonX
  • Clinical Delivery of the Digital AllonX Prosthesis
  • Digital Occlusal Guard Techniques

Course Curriculum

Section I – Introduction & Essential Patient Factors for Fixed Full-Arch Dentistry

  • Chapter 1: Background, History, and Impact of Edentulism
  • Chapter 2: Essential Patient Examination and Assessment Skills
  • Chapter 3: Treatment Planning for Full-Arch Dentistry
  • Chapter 4: The New Patient Experience & Preparing Patients For Full-Arch Dentistry

Section II – Fundamentals of AllonX & Fixed Complete Arch

  • Chapter 1: Fundamentals of AllonX Treatment Protocol
  • Chapter 2: Branemark Philosophy and Osseointegration
  • Chapter 3: Understanding the Scientific Basis of AllonX
  • Chapter 4: Prosthetic Space Requirements & Effects of Insufficient Space
  • Chapter 5: AllonX Biomechanics & Understanding “A-P” Spread
  • Chapter 6: Treatment Planning – How Many Implants for AllonX?
  • Chapter 7: Treatment Planning – Implant Locations
  • Chapter 8: Assessing Case Difficulty & Choosing AllonX Cases
  • Chapter 9: Dental Implant Design, Geometry, and Function for Fixed Complete Arch Treatment
  • Chapter 10: Options & Decisions Regarding Dental Implant Diameter and Length
  • Chapter 11: Immediate Loading Philosophies & Scientific Basis
  • Chapter 12: Understanding Passive Fit and Long-Term Health for AllonX Prosthetics

Section III – Radiographic Planning: Traditional & Contemporary Concepts

  • Chapter 1: Traditional Radiographic Options: Periapical, Panoramic, CBCT
  • Chapter 2: Making a Traditional Radiopaque Guide
  • Chapter 3: CBCT Scanning Workflows
  • Chapter 4: Patient Preparation for Soft-Tissue Separation CBCT Scans
  • Chapter 5: Preparing a Patient for CBCT Scanning
  • Chapter 6: Making a CBCT Scan & Exporting DICOM Files
  • Chapter 7: Introducing “Denture-Down” Treatment Planning
  • Chapter 8: Relining a Denture with a Home-Made Radiopaque Barium Powder and Light-Body PVS
  • Chapter 9: Relining a Denture with a Commercially-Available Radiopaque PVS
  • Chapter 10: Step-by-Step CBCT Planning AllonX Cases

Section IV – Step-by-Step AllonX Patient Preparation & Surgical Procedures

  • Chapter 1: Pre-Surgical Protocols for AllonX
  • Chapter 2: Traditional & Digital Impression Procedures for Immediate Load Cases
  • Chapter 3: Clinical/Laboratory Procedures & Tooth Setup Protocols
  • Chapter 4: Fabricating an “In-House Analog Surgical Guide”
  • Chapter 5: Fabricating an “In-House 3D Printed Surgical Guide”
  • Chapter 6: Patient Preparation for Surgical Procedures
  • Chapter 7: Anatomical Review
  • Chapter 8: Essential Surgical Procedures for AllonX
  • Chapter 9: Assessing Implant Stability
  • Chapter 10: Choosing Abutments & Prosthetic Components During Surgery

Section V – Restorative Procedures for AllonX –Immediate Load Interim/Temporary Surgical Conversion Prosthesis

  • Chapter 1: Strategies for Immediate Loading
  • Chapter 2: Preparing an Immediate Denture & Picking-up Cylinders
  • Chapter 3: Laboratory Finishing & Polishing the AllonX Conversion Prosthesis
  • Chapter 4: Placement of the Surgical Conversion Prosthesis
  • Chapter 5: Step-by-Step Immediate Denture – AllonX Conversion Demonstration
  • Chapter 6: Fabricating a Soft-Tissue Analog Cast
  • Chapter 7: Patient Instructions & Post-Op Protocols
  • Chapter 8: Introducing Stackable AllonX Guides & Protocols
  • Chapter 9: Step-by-Step Stackable AllonX Surgical & Restorative Procedures

Section VI – Restorative Procedures – Definitive/Final Restoration After Implant Integration

  • Chapter 1: AllonX Definitive/Final Restorative Workflow & Material Options
  • Chapter 2: Full-Arch Occlusion Concepts & Designs
  • Chapter 3: Clearance for Definitive/Final Restoration by Surgeon
  • Chapter 4: Introducing the Classic Approach to AllonX Restorative Procedures
  • Chapter 5: Step-by-Step Fabricating a “Splinted Technique” Impression Jig
  • Chapter 6: Goals of the AllonX Final Impression Appointment – Working with Splinted Impression Jigs & Sizing Stock Impression Trays
  • Chapter 7: Step-by-Step Luting the PVS Impression Jig, Sizing the Tray, and Patient Preparation for Impression Procedures
  • Chapter 8: Step-by-Step PVS Impression for AllonX
  • Chapter 9: Luting Analogs Before Sending to the Lab
  • Chapter 10: Laboratory Pouring PVS Impressions in Stone
  • Chapter 11: Fabricating & Designing Wax Rims
  • Chapter 12: Adjusting the Wax-Rim & Intraoral Bite Records
  • Chapter 13: Confirming Accuracy with the “One-Screw Test” and the “Sheffield-Test”
  • Chapter 14: Mounting Casts, Tooth Setup and Occlusion on Full-Arch Cases
  • Chapter 15: Clinical Try-In Procedures Before Bar Fabrication
  • Chapter 16: Coordinating and Designing the Implant Bar Substructure
  • Chapter 17: Laboratory Steps to Transfer Denture Teeth to Bar
  • Chapter 18: Clinical Try-in Procedures of Teeth on the Bar & Final Verification Check
  • Chapter 19: Understanding Basics of Laboratory Acrylic Processing for AllonX
  • Chapter 20: Clinical Procedures & Delivery of the Acrylic-Titanium AllonX Bridge
  • Chapter 21: Occlusal Guards & AllonX Patients

 

Section VII – Digital AllonX Workflows – Intraoral Scanning, 3D Printing, and Thimble Based Restorations

  • Chapter 1: Introducing the Digital Approach for AllonX & Intraoral Scanning
  • Chapter 2: Digital Scanning Workflow Options
  • Chapter 3: Step-by-Step Digital Intraoral Impression Techniques for AllonX
  • Chapter 4: Exporting Optical Scans From the Intraoral Scanner and Sending to the Lab
  • Chapter 5: Using 3Shape TRIOS Scanner to Scan the AllonX Cast for the Digital-Analog Hybrid Approach
  • Chapter 6: Using Medit i500 Scanner to Scan the AllonX Cast for the Digital-Analog Hybrid Approach
  • Chapter 7: Designing a Digital Verification Jig and Verifying Digital AllonX Scan Accuracy
  • Chapter 8: Designing and 3D Printing the AllonX Digital Model
  • Chapter 9: Designing the 3D Printed Prototype AllonX Prosthesis using exocad
  • Chapter 10: 3D Printing the Prototype Prosthesis
  • Chapter 11: Fitting Ti-Bases & Adding Pink Gingiva to 3D Printed Prototype Prosthesis
  • Chapter 12: Step-by-Step Clinical Try-in of the 3D Printed Prototype and Confirming Scan Accuracy
  • Chapter 13: Designing the Definitive Thimble AllonX Bar & Milling Options
  • Chapter 14: Adjusting the Bar, Opaque Application, and Scanning Thimble Preps for Final Crowns
  • Chapter 15: Designing and Milling Thimble Crowns
  • Chapter 16: Laboratory Steps to Finalize the Thimble AllonX Prosthesis
  • Chapter 17: Clinical Delivery of the Digitally Produced Thimble-Bar AllonX Prosthesis
  • Chapter 18: Digital Occlusal Guard Workflows

FAQs

When does the course start and finish?

The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course – you decide when you start and when you finish.

How long do I have access to the course?

For as long as you like! After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like – across any and all devices you own.

Will I be able to follow-along?

Absolutely! Our course is an interactive, self-guided journey through digital dentistry techniques. Included are interactive files for you to be able to work closely with the instruction given on the screen.

How do I get CE for this course?

We are happy to provide up to 3hr of CEU for this online course! Please complete the entire online course and complete the self-assessment section at the end of the course. E-mail us when you have completed the entire course and are ready to receive your CE credits.

Dr. Michael Scherer, DMD, MS