Welcome to the official Web site of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry’s 59th Annual Meeting.

The theme of the meeting is “Navigate Zones of Implant Dentistry: Complications, Confidence, Comfort” and the meeting will be held October 20 – 23, 2010 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Meeting Highlights

• Why we are here: Identify your comfort zone
• Reconstruction of the severely atrophic maxilla
• Complications associated with reconstruction of the severely atrophic maxilla
• Reconstruction of the severely atrophic mandible
• Occlusion and Implants: When is guided surgery appropriate from a restorative perspective?
• Prosthetic complications
• The role of implants in orthodontic treatment
• Esthetic gingival reconstruction
• Periodontal complications with dental implants
• Optimal esthetics for implant restorations
• Optimal facial esthetics: Laser treatments, Botox & Restylane
• Medical management of dental implant patients
• Medical legal responsibility for all implant dentists: Identifying the high risk case to know your comfort zone

Interactive, dynamic, informative, participatory: New in 2010 – Nearly 20 Surgical Round Tables limited to 20 participants each. Just a sample of topics:

• Face Transplant
• Guided vs. non-guided surgery
• Sinus grafting, Challenges, Techniques and Complications
• Extraction with graft vs. extraction with implant
• Sinus graft vs. onlay graft vs. guided surgery
• Risk Management – avoiding the suit
• Let's design the ideal dental implant

Allied Staff programs on implant practice management:

• Cosmetic Dentistry: Proper shade selection and advanced provisional fabrications (hands-on)
• Implant Practice Management: Case presentation, financial arrangements, indications for dental implants, benefits, and more
• Implant treatment planning coordination (both within office and with referring offices)
• Proper patient monitoring for the sedated patient
• Documenting cases with photography
• Women's Health Issues – It is a quality of life issue!!