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Advanced Implant Courses by BAIRD Academy
IMPLANT OVERDENTURES MASTERCLASS
Course Overview:
This masterclass provides a structured approach to implant overdenture therapy, focusing on integrating both digital and analogue workflows into clinical practice. The course is designed to improve efficiency, predictability, and long-term success in removable implant prosthetics.
- Principles of case selection and treatment planning for overdenture cases
- Understanding different attachment systems and indications
- Digital vs analogue workflows and when to use each
- Step-by-step clinical and laboratory communication workflows
- Impression techniques for overdentures (digital and conventional)
- Occlusion and prosthetic design considerations
- Managing complications and maintenance protocols
- Strategies to improve patient satisfaction and retention outcomes
Clinical Outcome:
Delegates will leave with a clear, repeatable workflow to confidently plan and deliver implant overdenture cases in practice.
Early bird ending 17th May Code: Implant26
ADVANCED ORAL SURGERY FOR GENERAL DENTAL PRACTITIONERS
Course Overview:
This course is designed to enhance core surgical competencies for general dental practitioners, with a strong focus on safe, efficient, and predictable surgical outcomes.
What You Will Learn (aligned with BAIRD structure):
- Surgical extraction techniques for simple and complex cases
- Management of intra-operative and post-operative complications
- Flap design and soft tissue handling principles
- Atraumatic extraction techniques to preserve bone
- Management of emergencies in general practice
- Practical surgical skills using hands-on pig head models
- Clinical decision-making and when to treat vs refer
Clinical Outcome:
Delegates will improve surgical confidence, reduce complications, and manage more cases independently.
Early BAIRD Offer end 31st May: SURGERY26
PREDICTABLE SOFT TISSUEGRAFTING
Course Overview:
This two-day programme focuses on achieving predictable aesthetic and functional outcomes through advanced soft tissue management in implant dentistry. The course combines evidence-based theory with hands-on training to build clinical confidence.
What You Will Learn (aligned with BAIRD content):
- Principles of soft tissue biology and healing in implant dentistry
- Case selection and treatment planning for soft tissue grafting
- Grafting techniques for both maxilla and mandible
- Controlled-thickness graft harvesting techniques
- Suturing techniques for graft stabilisation and adaptation
- Managing soft tissue deficiencies around implants
- Complication management and troubleshooting
- Improving long-term aesthetic outcomes and implant success
Clinical Outcome:
Delegates will gain the ability to plan and execute soft tissue grafting procedures with confidence, improving both implant longevity and patient outcomes.
Early bird ending 31th May Code: DRADAM2026
Digital Workflow in Implant Dentistry
NEW DATE ANNOUNCED 5th April 2024
Full Day course inclusive with hands on practical training
This course will cover:
- Planning for digital surgical placement using various softwares
- Pilot vs Fully Guided Surgery: indications and limitations
- Clinical tips and hints on successful guided surgery
- * Workshop will be held on planning your own surgical guide and implant placement of fully guided implant with Strauamann BLX/BLT guided kits
Advanced Hard and Soft tissue Grafting Course
DAY 1 - BAIRD Academy
DAY 2 - BAIRD Academy
DAY 3- Live Surgery LEEDS DENTAL CLINIC (located at ground floor of BAIRD Academy)
DAY4-5 Cadaver lab
Cadaver specimens will be provided by the course for hands-on clinical training under direct supervision, allowing for bone grafting excursuses for each participant during the course in Coventry.
Full Day course with hands on training
This course will cover:
- Advanced guided bone regeneration techniques
- Membrane stabilisation skills
- Bone Block Grafting using autogeniouis and allograft blocks
- External Sinus Grafting and manipulation of the sinus lining
- Flap management in grafting cases and soft tissue augmentation
** Transport and Hotel accommodations are not included.
Internal Sinus Lift, Ridge Expansion & Maximising Bone Qualitywith Dr Walid Altayeb fully booked
Course Overview:
This hands-on course focuses on predictable management of compromised implant sites through bone enhancement techniques. It is built around practical surgical workflows that simplify complex procedures and make them applicable in general practice.
What You Will Learn (aligned with BAIRD content):
- Biomechanics of implant osteotomy preparation and bone behaviour
- Internal sinus lift techniques and indications
- Immediate implant placement protocols in compromised sites
- Ridge expansion techniques for narrow ridges
- Site optimisation using osseodensification principles
- Sub-crestal sinus autografting techniques
- Managing bone density and improving primary stability
- Surgical planning, risk management, and complication avoidance
Clinical Outcome:
Delegates will gain the confidence to treat cases they would normally refer, improving both surgical capability and practice revenue.
BAIRD ONLY Delegate discount code: BAIRDONLY26
fully booked
£500+VAT for BAIRD graduates and £750+VAT for non-BAIRD graduates.
