Practical Implant Education – Vancouver
September 2022 – June 2023
300 HOURS OF CONTINUING EDUCATION IN ORAL IMPLANTOLOGY
THE MAXICOURSE ADVANTAGE
• Comprehensive foundational program in oral implantology
• Scientifically based, systematic approach to learning implant dentistry, from the ground up.
• Review anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and medical management of patients.
• Exposure to a broad spectrum of Oral Implantology, beyond root forms.
• Learn diagnostic and treatment planning algorithms.
• Sharpen restorative, surgical and periodontal skills.
• Attain clarity in where dental implant services fit into your practice.
• Connect with a support team and gain camaraderie with other dentists.
• Provide dental implant services in a safe, effective and profitable manner.
• Option to be recognized by writing the Associate Fellowship Exam Part A.
THE VANCOUVER MAXICOURSE
Connecting dentists with the most comprehensive and foundational dental implant training, led by the most experienced team of oral implantologists in the Pacific Northwest.
The Vancouver MaxiCourse® is a structured program consisting of 30 days of education over ten months. The program has been designed to impart the understanding of diagnostic and treatment modalities necessary to properly treat patients who are candidates for dental implant therapy.
The 300-hour interdisciplinary approach utilizes a systematic buildup of didactic material, laboratory exercises, surgical demonstrations, clinical participation, and surgeries on your own patients. All surgeries are mentored and supervised by AAID board-certified faculty members in the UBC Faculty of Dentistry grad specialty clinic. At the completion of the program, each participant will be eligible to challenge the written component of the AAID Fellowship exam. This is optional and a personal choice.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Dr. William (Bill) Liang
B.Sc., D.M.D., F.A.G.D., D.I.C.O.I., F.A.A.I.D., Diplomate, American Board of Oral Implantology
Director, AAID Vancouver MaxiCourse
Dr. William Liang attended the University of British Columbia and received his Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology in 1981 and his Doctor of Dental Medicine Degree in 1983. At graduation, he was awarded the Canadian Oral and Maxillo-Facial Prize for highest standing in the area of Oral Surgery. He has been practicing dentistry in Surrey, BC for the past 35+ years. Currently his practice is focused on adult restorative and implant dentistry. He is on the executive of the AAID Western District. Dr. Liang is Board Certified by the American Board of Oral Implantology / Implant Dentistry, Fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry, Fellow and Diplomate of the International Congress of Oral Implantology, Fellow of the Misch Implant Institute and Honoured Fellow of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry. He is also lead Director of the AAID MaxiCourses Committee, representing MaxiCourses globally.
CLINICAL MODULES
Each three-day Module in January, March, & May includes a weekend clinical component. Participants are given the opportunity to bring their own patients for Saturday and Sunday to perform surgery, with personal, one-on-one mentorship from one of five faculty who are fully credentialed, board-certified oral implantologists.
Many clinical sessions include a demonstration surgery that examines the didactic material of focus for that Module. Demonstration surgeries may include the following procedures:
Each participant is provided a complimentary first implant and healing abutment from each of our implant company partners.
Module four of the program offers an opportunity to review surgical anatomy as well as engage in the placement of implants and performance of various surgical procedures on cadavers at the Science Care Facility in Phoenix, Arizona.
•Tooth extraction
•Socket/ridge preservation
•Bone (particulate, block) grafting
•Tunnel grafting
•Soft tissue grafting
•Sinus augmentation
•Ridge expansion and augmentation
•Single and/or Second Stage surgery
•Guided surgery
•Impression-taking & Crown Insertion
ONLINE CLASSROOM
The Vancouver MaxiCourse® is proud to provide a unique online learning platform for use by our participants throughout the year. With many integrated tools, plus an expanded online CE educational experience, the MaxiCourse® is literally at your fingertips.
Receive announcements from faculty and staff, view lecture and supplementary material, assess your current knowledge base through online quizzes and CE videos, access and share a wide variety of scholarly literature, upload, share, and comment on your own as well as fellow participants’ surgical cases, build comraderie and friendships outside classroom hours through chat rooms and discussion boards, and much more! This is a powerful tool to help make the most of your education with us.
COURSE DATES
LIVE SURGERY
The most powerful component of our program is live patient surgery, which takes places on 3 weekends of the Vancouver MaxiCourse. Your exposure to the possibilities within implant dentistry will expand as we progress through our curriculum, with participant surgeries and faculty-led demonstrations surgeries, from guided and non-guided implant placement to particulate, block, and tunnel grafting, to sinus augmentation, to soft tissue grafting, and beyond.
Participants are encouraged to begin looking for patients within their own practice or their social networks, and to prepare those cases for the coming year. Share those cases on our exclusive Online Classroom platform and receive feedback from faculty as you refine your treatment planning skills and individual treatment plans.
HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS
A variety of hands-on workshops will take place throughout the year, including but not limited to:
• Bone density lab • Soft tissue skills and manipulation pig jaw workshop
• Guided surgery workshop • Lateral window sinus approach egg exercise
• Suturing labs
HANDS-ON CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
MODULE 1, SEP 30-OCT. 2, 2022 [LIVE WEBINAR]
Dr. William Liang & Dr. James Rutkowski
•The expanding scope of implant dentistry
•Medical assessment, risk management, and pharmacology—review of tests, values and evaluations of the medically compromised patient
•Case selection, case development, and the single tooth implant
MODULE 2, OCTOBER 21-23, 2022 [IN PERSON IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA]
Dr. Dorothy Sonya, Dr. William Liang, & Dr. Peter Balogh
•Implant design and the nuts and bolts of root form implants
•Concept of platform switching and prosthetic complications
•Principles of bone grafting
•CBCT and the implant patient
MODULE 3, NOVEMBER 18-20, 2022 [LIVE WEBINAR]
Dr. Charles Shuler, Dr. Mohamed Sharawy, & Dr. Shankar Iyer
•Bone physiology, pathology, and biomechanics
•Mechanics of bone grafting – particulate grafts, block grafts, ridge expansion, remote incision and tunnel approach
•Surgical Anatomy for the Oral Implantologist [lecture]
MODULE 4, DECEMBER 2-4, 2022 [IN PERSON]
Dr. Mohamed Sharawy
•Surgical anatomy of maxilla and mandible as boney organs
•Bone anatomy, physiology, and local growth factors
•Evidence-based management of atrophied jaw bones
•Surgical anatomy of the floor of the mouth
MODULE 5, JANUARY 13-15, 2023 [IN PERSON]
Dr. William Liang
•Treatment planning the maxilla & pre-maxilla
•Functional biomechanics
MODULE 6, FEBRUARY 10-12, 2023 [LIVE WEBINAR]
Dr. William Liang, Dr. Bernee Dunson, & Dr. Hilt Tatum
•Treatment planning the mandibles
•Decision-making algorithms
•Occlusion & Implant Occlusion
•Immediate vs. delayed implant placement /Second stage surgery
•Implant provisionalization
•The Sinus
MODULE 7, MARCH 24-26, 2023 [IIN PERSON WITH 1DAY LECTURE & LIVE SURGERY]
Dr. Peter Balogh, Dr. Sonia Leziy, Dr. Paul Newitt, & Dr. William Liang
•Post-Op Surgical Management
•Implant success & failures
•Complications Management
•Principles of hard and soft tissue grafting
•Peri-Implant Mucositis & Peri-Implantitis
•Extraction defect management
•Laser dentistry and laser physics
•Benefits and features of laser in implant dentistry
•Applied laser dentistry in hard and soft tissue
MODULE 8, APRIL 14-16, 2023 [IN PERSON IN CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA]
Dr. Bernee Dunson
•Concept of NIRISAB
•Bone manipulation
•Tunnel Grafting
•Bone and tissue enhancement in implant dentistry
•Considerations for aesthetic and clinical outcome requirements
•Full arch restoration + laser dentistry
MODULE 9, MAY 26-28, 2023 [IN PERSON]
Dr. Shankar Iyer
•Digital workflow
•Prosthetic workflow management
•Restorative Sequence
MODULE 10, JUNE 9-10, 2023 [IN PERSON]
Dr. Bill Holden, Dr. Ali Afshar, & Dr. William Liang
•Implementing Implant Dentistry into Your Practice
•Setup and configuration in your office
•Inventory
•Paperwork
•Practice management
•Preventing and managing the unhappy patient
•Lab support
HANDS-ON CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
LIVE SURGERY
The most powerful component of our program is live patient surgery, which takes places on 3 weekends of the Vancouver MaxiCourse. Your exposure to the possibilities within implant dentistry will expand as we progress through our curriculum, with participant surgeries and faculty-led demonstrations surgeries, from guided and non-guided implant placement to particulate, block, and tunnel grafting, to sinus augmentation, to soft tissue grafting, and beyond.
Participants are encouraged to begin looking for patients within their own practice or their social networks, and to prepare those cases for the coming year. Share those cases on our exclusive Online Classroom platform and receive feedback from faculty as you refine your treatment planning skills and individual treatment plans.
HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS
A variety of hands-on workshops will take place throughout the year, including but not limited to:
• Bone density lab • Soft tissue skills and manipulation pig jaw workshop
• Guided surgery workshop • Lateral window sinus approach egg exercise
• Suturing labs
REGISTRATION
Learn From the Best!
Our team consists of Six American Board-Certified Oral Implantologists. As well, learn from our world renowned guest clinicians speaking on their specialty topics.
TUITION: $18,500 CAD plus taxes.
(Fees for live participant-led surgery are additional and cover all instruments, sundries, and staffing)
• $1000 per surgery – perform a single surgery sometime during the clinical weekends: atraumatic extraction, socket grafting, ridge preservation, single implant placement
• $2000 per surgery – perform a single surgery sometime during the clinical weekends: sinus augmentation, ridge expansion, tunnel grafting, block grafts, multi-implant guided surgery, soft tissue grafting
NEW GRAD: Dentists who graduated from dental school within three years ( 2022, 2021, 2020 ) qualify for a $1000 discount, independent of other discount offers. This offer expires August 31st 2022
REFERRAL: Refer a friend/colleague to join the MaxiCourse with you; when they register, receive a $1000 discount automatically.
CONTACT: Andrew Gillies, Education Coordinator
EMAIL: [email protected]
PHONE: 604.330.9933 or 1.888.TEETH.99
WEB: www.vancouvermaxicourse.com
