• The nurse’s role and fundamental principles of dental implant surgery
• Introduction to implant treatment, planning & documentation
• Stages of treatment & the patient journey

• Asepsis techniques & surgery preparation
• Surgical gloving and gowning
• Treatment coordination for the Implant patient

• Post-operative care & advice
• Hands-on implant placement & impression techniques

• Observe a live full-mouth rehabilitation treatment.
• Understand the workflow and setup for advanced and complex implant procedures.
• Learn the differences between straightforward, advanced, and complex implant treatments.

• Attend a lecture on External Sinus Lift, Extractions (Xla), and Immediate Implant Placement — including requirements,
  indications, contraindications, and pre-/post-operative instructions.
• Explore Digital Dentistry and the evolving role of the dental nurse.
• Review instruments, materials, and setup in detail.

• Learn how to communicate effectively with your implant provider and laboratory technicians.
• Understand the TCO and Dental Nurse roles: patient communication, consent, instructions, and managing complications.
• Emphasize the importance of teamwork among administrative, clinical, and provider teams.

The venue is located in the very heart of the London overlooking Regents Park and Lord’s Cricket Ground.
Being just a 10 minute walk from St. John’s Wood tube station, and Baker street station, the hotel is easily accessible.

Parking is possible on site. Parking charges are £35 for 24Hrs or £4.50 per hour.

Danubius Hotel Regents Park – Google Maps

1. Tooth Extraction Reinvented: Minimally Invasive Strategies for Maximum Bone Preservation

Post-extraction bone resorption can complicate implant placement and affect esthetics. This session will explore minimally invasive extraction techniques aimed at preserving ridge dimensions, supported by clinical case examples.

2. Peri-Implantitis Uncovered: Navigating the Challenges of Diagnosis, Treatment, and Long-Term Maintenance

Peri-implantitis continues to be one of the most pressing challenges in implant dentistry. In this lecture, Prof. Araújo demystifies the complexities behind this inflammatory condition affecting the tissues around dental implants.

3. Slim but Strong: Mastering the Use of Narrow Diameter Implants in All Regions of the Jaw

With increasing patient demands for minimally invasive options and anatomical constraints in implant therapy, narrow diameter implants (NDIs) have become a critical tool in the modern clinician’s arsenal. Learn how to confidently place and restore NDIs without compromising on strength, function, or aesthetics.

• Evaluate the biomechanics, indications, and evidence for Narrow Diameter Implants in all regions of the jaw, including posterior sites.
• Learn how alveolar ridge resorption supports the use of NDIs to avoid unnecessary bone augmentation.
• Master minimally invasive extraction techniques to preserve ridge dimensions and optimize implant site development.

•  Understand the biological mechanisms behind peri-implantitis and apply best practices for diagnosis, treatment, and long-term maintenance.
• Critically assess complex clinical cases and apply evidence-based strategies for predictable implant outcomes and soft tissue stability.

Development Outcomes:

• This course meets the criteria for the GDC’s development outcome C

The venue is located in the very heart of the London overlooking Regents Park and Lord’s Cricket Ground.
Being just a 10 minute walk from St. John’s Wood tube station, and Baker street station, the hotel is easily accessible.

Parking is possible on site. Parking charges are £35 for 24Hrs or £4.50 per hour.

Danubius Hotel Regents Park – Google Maps

Principles, techniques, and considerations surrounding immediate implant placement versus ridge preservation procedures. Indications, advantages, disadvantages, limitations and risks of each procedure will be explained.

• Introduction to immediate implantology and temporisation
• Patient selection, Assessment and treatment planning, CBCT analysis
• Decision-making: When to use socket preservation vs immediate implant placement
• Surgical protocols and techniques, indications and contradictions for immediate implant placement and immediate loading.

• Extraction protocols: the classification of extraction sites to plan treatment for ridge preservation and immediate implant placement in the anterior region. Minimally invasive extraction techniques to preserve the maximum amount of bone before immediate implant placement.
• Implant planning and placement into the extraction socket.
• Step-by step protocols to preserve or minimise bone resorption
• Temporization: prosthetic planning, temporary fabrication. Selection of appropriate prosthetic components and materials for the temporary and final restoration.

• Different techniques for immediate temporisation from chair-side to digital pre-planning

• Socket grafting: Analyse the different graft materials and membranes used for ridge preservation.

• Soft tissue management with CTGs to improve the result in the aesthetic zone.

II. HANDS-ON

• Hands-on Implant Placement & Ridge Preservation on specially designed models

III. DISCUSSION OF PARTICIPANTS CASES, Q&A SESSION

• Understand when and how to apply immediate implant placement versus ridge preservation.
• Master minimally invasive extraction techniques to preserve bone.
• Learn how to plan and fabricate temporary restorations for optimal esthetic and functional results.

• Select appropriate grafting materials, membranes, and prosthetic components.
• Implement soft tissue management techniques to achieve superior esthetic outcomes.
• Gain practical experience with immediate implantology procedures through hands-on training.

Development Outcomes:

• This course meets the criteria for the GDC’s development outcome C

The venue is located in the very heart of the London overlooking Regents Park and Lord’s Cricket Ground.
Being just a 10 minute walk from St. John’s Wood tube station, and Baker street station, the hotel is easily accessible.

Parking is possible on site. Parking charges are £35 for 24Hrs or £4.50 per hour.

Danubius Hotel Regents Park – Google Maps

I. Intraoperative complications

• Flap design
• Preoperative acute and chronic infections at the implant site
• Incorrect implant angulation
• Deep/shallow implant placement
• Injury to adjacent teeth
• Nerve injury
• Bleeding
• Bone overheating during drilling
• Excessive torque during insertion and compression necrosis
• Accidental dislodgement of dental implants into the maxillary incisive canal or alveolar nerve canal
• Aspiration or ingestion of foreign material
• Implant fracture
• Mandibular bone fracture
• Insufficient initial stability
• Bleeding during incision and flap reflection
• Unstable implants
• Tissue emphysema induced by dental procedures

II. Postoperative complications

• Postoperative pain
• Tissue emphysema induced by dental procedures
• Cover screw exposure during healing
• Bone growth over the cover screw

III. Discussion of participant cases, Q&A Session

• Understand the causes and mechanisms of common intraoperative and postoperative complications.
• Improve flap design, surgical technique, and implant placement accuracy to avoid errors.
• Recognize risk factors for nerve injuries, implant fractures, and surgical site failures.
• Learn practical steps for managing complications if they occur.

• Develop problem-solving skills through case analysis and discussion.
• Reduce fear and uncertainty associated with managing complex cases.
• Build a predictable treatment plan that minimizes risk and improves patient outcomes.

Development Outcomes:

• This course meets the criteria for the GDC’s development outcome C

• Understand the indications, materials, and techniques for implant-supported single crowns, 3-unit bridges, and full-arch reconstructions.
• Explain the advantages and protocols involved in using milled crowns on Ti-Bases, following the Geneva concept.
• Perform clinical and technical steps for cementing implant crowns to Ti-Bases in a predictable and reproducible manner.

•  Apply chairside stain and glaze techniques to enhance aesthetics and individualisation in implant restorations.
• Collaborate more effectively across clinical and technical teams for optimal patient outcomes.
• Critically assess and discuss real-life clinical cases, identifying potential improvements in planning and execution.

• To provide participants with an in-depth understanding of contemporary implant restorative protocols, from single-unit to full-arch restorations.
• To bridge the gap between clinical and laboratory workflows by fostering collaboration between dentists and dental technicians.
• To enhance participants’ practical skills in modern techniques such as Ti-Base restorations, cementation protocols, and stain-and-glaze procedures.
• To encourage critical thinking and peer discussion through interactive case-based learning.

GDC CPD outcomes:

• A (Effective communication with patients, the dental team and others across dentistry, including when obtaining consent, dealing with complaints, and raising concerns when patients are at risk.)
• C (Maintenance and development of your knowledge and skills within your field(s) of practice)
• D (Maintenance of skills, behavior’s and attitudes which maintain patient confidence in your and the dental professions and put patients’ interests first.)

• Exceptional clinical faculty from academic and practice backgrounds provide the broadest possible range of educational opportunities.
• A course that is heaped full of hands-on and practical elements to get you better at basic surgical skills and into implant placement as soon as possible. This includes three clinical days for delegates to work on patients.
• Access to a certificate on completion of the courses – ITI Foundation Level Certificate in Implant Dentistry

• Digital mentoring for the entirety of the course, supporting you through your first implant cases.
• State-of-the-art training facilities for the course are based in Dundee and Glasgow, Scotland.
• Twelve days of teaching over 9 months, including lecture-based teaching, discussion groups, hands-on practical sessions, further reading opportunities, evidence-based discussion, full clinical exposure to patients in a supervised environment, and mentoring opportunities in a structured nationwide mentoring program aligned with GDC guidance.

• Entry into clinical mentoring using the Straumann Clinical Mentoring data platform, developed by The Campbell Academy.
• Online collaboration and discussion between delegates and faculty between course modules to learn as much as possible.
• Access to an ITI Classroom, containing a vast library of additional resources to complement the material we provide directly here at The Campbell Academy.

• The scientific basis of implant dentistry
• Management of dental implant patients
• Basic surgical skills, Implant Complications and Medicolegal aspects of implant treatment

• Treatment Planning of the Implant Patient
• Implant Surgery with the Straumann Implant System
• Hands-on surgery – two sessions

• Restorative Days 1 & 2
• Introduction to Advanced and Complex Implantology

• The art and science of implant therapy in the aesthetic zone
• Restorative excellence – provisional and final crown design and execution

• Managing the most challenging complications in aesthetic implant dentistry
• Hands-on sessions, in-depth lectures, and rich discussions throughout

Please note that Beatriz Sanchez and Alex Jones will be attending Oscar’s course in summer 2025 to assist us in developing our bespoke version. As a result, the course schedule may be subject to slight changes.

Day 1: Surgical management of complications

• Decision tree for managing complex implant cases in the aesthetic zone.
• Flap design and management: pedicle vs. tunnel.
• Soft tissue grafting around implants: how, when, and why.

Day 2: Prosthetic management of complications

• Soft tissue conditioning around implants.
• Advanced concepts on implant provisionalisation.
• Critical and subcritical contour.
• Foundational principles and clinical application.
• Hands-on: Implant provisionalisation.
• New technologies and advanced solutions.
• Ortho-Perio therapy.

GDC CPD outcome

• B (Effective management of self and effective management of others or effective work with others in the dental team, in the interests of patients providing constructive leadership where appropriate.)
• C (Maintenance and development of your knowledge and skills within your field(s) of practice)
• D (Maintenance of skills, behaviours and attitudes which maintain patient confidence in your and the dental professions and put patients’ interests first.)

• Delegates will understand the basic principles of guided surgery, pros and cons.
• Delegates will understand the comparison to conventional surgery.
• Delegates will understand which datasets are required, and how they are obtained and managed.

•  Delegates will receive a demonstration in co-DiagnostiX planning software.
• Delegates will understand how to design a full guided surgical guide, using Straumann AXS and Smile in a Box.
• Delegates will understand the implants that are suitable for guided surgery, including the new iExcel range from Straumann.
• Delegates will understand the surgical procedures and witness a live surgery in the Education Facility.

Development Outcomes:

• This course meets the criteria for the GDC’s development outcome A,B & C

• Be placed in an Implant Clinic under an Implant Mentor
• The surgery environment will be fully digital with Intra Oral Scanners and CBCT.
• You will have an opportunity to take part in implant surgery under direct supervision

• You will have the opportunity to assist in implant surgery and we aim to allow you to place at least 10 implants.
• You will complete a Clinical Portfolio

Aims & Objectives:

The MSc programme is divided into separate modules. This ensures that you complete the requirements of the MSc Learning Outcomes.
The modules are integrated within each of the separate course units. The course is designed in 12 face to face days to advance the learning of each delegate through the programme.

Development Outcomes:

• This course meets the criteria for the GDC’s development outcome A,B,C & D

Month 1 – Single Implants
Month 2 – Multiple Implants
Month 3 – Over Dentures

Month 4 – Full Arch
Month 5 & 6 – Clinical Attachments
Month 7, 8 & 9 – Full Same Day Implants
Month 10, 11 & 12 – Clinical Attachments
Month 13-24 – Understanding Research & Critical Appraisal, Reflective Clinical Practice & Dissertation