Dental Implant Warning!

With the rise in popularity of dental implants, and the associated profitability of the dental implant business (of dental implant manufacturers) some of the dental implant companies are pushing to expand their business by "training" general dentists to surgically place the implants.

This training usually takes place over a weekend course of sometimes over several weekends. The unfortunate aspect of this type of training is that the dentist come out believing that they are fully trained to surgically manage a patient, but often find out in a middle of a case that their "mini" residency was woefully inadequate, and sometimes find themselves in big trouble.

Dental implant surgery can be easy and routine most of the time, but with most of the cases a high level of skill, expertise, and surgical know how is required to achieve complete success, and to reduce risks to the patient.

I firmly believe that university or hospital based surgical training is the only means to adequately prepare a dentist to become excellent implant surgeons. This type of training teaches you how to manage complications should they arise, which is the hallmark of a great practitioner.