Implant Surgery

Course Overview

This course entails Surgical and Prosthetic principles of dental implants. It gives you an overview of components, procedures, and expected treatment outcomes of dental implants. This programme will cover the fundamental clinical aspects of implant placement and restorations and help you to profitably incorporate dental implants into your practice.

Admission criteria

Registered Dentist

Course Objective

• Basic

  • Single Implant Restoration & Principles of Impression Taking On Models

  • Digital Scanning

  • Implant Surgery Principles & Theory

  • Implant Instrumentalism Familiarisation

  • Laboratory Prescription

  Intermediate

  • Multiple Implant Restorations & Principles of Impression Taking

  • Watching/Assisting Live Patients – 2 Cases

  • Bone Augmentation Principles & Theory

  • Internal/Lateral Window Sinus Grafting

  Advanced

  • Full Arch Restorations & Principles of Smile Design & Occlusion

  • Full Arch Implants Theory

  • Assisting over a few sessions

Trainer

Dr Samintharaj Kumar

About the Trainer

Dr Samintharaj Kumar graduated in Dentistry (BDS) from Singapore in 2001 and Medicine (MBBS) from London in 2006. During his dental undergraduate period, he was the first South-East Asian recipient for the David B. Scott Research Fellowship Award (International Association for Dental Research). He spent the final year elective of his medical degree in the Craniofacial Unit at The Hospital for Sick Kids in Toronto, Canada.

During medical school, he received several prizes for excellence in academic merit including the Drummond and Frank Scott Prize for overall performance in preclinical medicine, received awards from the British Association of Plastic Surgeons, British Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons, The Royal College of Physicians and The Wellcome Trust.

He has also extensive training in Non-Surgical Aesthetic Rejuvenation since 2004. His training has been acquired through courses with providers in the non-surgical industry and has successfully provided such treatments since 2004.

Dr Kumar’s postgraduate training in England includes rotations in: Anaesthesia/Intensive Care, Infectious Diseases, ENT, Vascular Surgery, Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics, General Surgery, Accident & Emergency, Maxillofacial Surgery and Plastic Surgery in Singapore.