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Speaker Biography Dr. Joseph Massad practices in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He focuses on removable complete prosthodontics and conducts extensive national and international continuing education programs for the dental profession. Dr. Massad is a national Sponsor for the AGD. Dr. Massad graduated from Loyola University of Chicago and is presently an associate professor at the Pankey Institute in Florida, an adjunct professor at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston, an adjunct associate clinical professor in the Department of Prosthodontics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Dental School, an adjunct faculty member for the Oklahoma College of Dentistry, and an adjunct professor of forensic dentistry for the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Exquisite Complete and Implant Retained Over-Dentures Calibrated for the General Practitioner This presentation will cover the most important aspects of complete removable dentures reloaded to include implant retained over-dentures and why unsuccessful cases are generally a result of an inadequate assessment and poor esthetic analysis thereby leading to a weak treatment plan. Helpful tips to eliminate this situation will be detailed. Making the most desirable impressions both internal and external for edentulous, dentate for immediate and implant overdentures will bring the audience up to current methods. See how predictable fit and esthetics are obtained in the immediate denture arena even when implants are placed the day of extractions. The number two problem plaguing removable prosthetics is an inaccurate jaw registration. A precise jaw recording will be described in detail, for complete, partial, immediate and overdenture procedures. To sum it all up Dr. Massad will describe in detail several implant overdenture cases utilizing all of the above methods. Objectives: ✴ Determining the amount of tooth presentation to follow the optimal smile design on challenging immediate and implant retained dentures. ✴ Understand how a lip ruler can deliver vital information with the overall tooth display. ✴ Solving the problem of understanding why many patients who accept the preliminary esthetic try in, deny it when completed. ✴ Denture Relining: are you having predictable results on each case? ✴ Jaw Registration: understand making jaw relation records for complete edentulous, partially edentulous and fully dentate going to be fully edentulous. ✴ Hygiene of the implant prosthesis with stud, bar, hybrid and fixed bridge attachments. | |||||||||||||||||||||
