Anterior Implant Esthetics 1995–2022: Fantasy vs. Reality

Achieving anterior implant esthetics is challenging and demanding. Because of that, there is a "wow factor" when showing amazing and unbelievable cases. However, can one delineate fantasy from predictable reality? Creating implant restorations with harmonious gingival contour that emulate nature is a fusion of some science and lots of art. Understanding the biologic and physiologic limitations of soft and hard tissue is key to facilitate predictability in complex esthetic situations.

This course will focus on current implant treatment philosophies and methodologies for replacing currently missing teeth and the management of patients who will be losing a tooth or teeth in the esthetic zone. Emphasis will be placed on diagnosis and treatment planning of complex cases and complication management, interdisciplinary treatment options, occlusion management, and soft and hard tissue regeneration for optimal anterior implant esthetics.

Course objectives:

• Biologic prognostic keys for predictable implant esthetics
• Immediate vs. delayed vs. early tooth replacements concepts: What do we know, what we do not know & what we think we know
• Bone & soft tissue regeneration concepts: What is possible? What is not? & What are the limitations?
• Papilla management
• Gingival recession and papilla loss; etiology and treatment solutions
• Management of surgical and prosthetic complications
• Pink prosthetic gingiva concepts
• Interdisciplinary treatment concepts (ortho, perio & prosthodontics)
• What can we learn from long-term case follow-up; (5, 10, 15, 20+ years)
• Esthetics restorative emergence profile contouring (from provisionalization to final crown)
• Root shield: What I learned over the past 9+ years?
• Occlusion in the esthetic zone: concepts and management