Advanced implant training for dental nurses

This CPD course meets the criteria for the GDC’s development outcomes: B and C.

To gain the knowledge and confidence required to assist in advanced and complex dental implant treatments — including preparation, setting up, chairside assistance, post-operative instructions, and follow-up care. All aspects are planned and presented from a dental nurse’s perspective.

• Live Surgery: Full-Mouth Rehabilitation – Experience the entire treatment process from start to finish. Depending on the case, you may observe bone augmentation, extractions with immediate implant placement, internal and external sinus lifts, and full-mouth rehabilitation workflows. When possible, participants will also observe the restorative phase of full-mouth rehabilitation.
  • Setup and Workflow – Learn the complete setup and component management for full-mouth rehabilitation.
  • Interactive Q&A – Ask questions and discuss concepts as the surgery progresses.
  • Theoretical Session – Comprehensive overview of advanced and complex treatments, including external sinus lift, guided bone
  regeneration (GBR), and full-mouth rehabilitation principles.

Join us for an immersive full-day of advanced clinical training designed for clinicians managing complex implant and prosthodontic cases.

Whether you’re restoring single implants or planning full-arch rehabilitations, this course equips you with practical, evidence-based techniques you can apply immediately in your practice.

This day is ideal for clinicians seeking to expand their clinical confidence and improve predictability across complex restorative treatments.

Venue: London Stadium, E20 2ST (previously the Olympic Stadium)

Programme

09:15 – 10:45 – Jasper Thoolen: The singular design: From data to design
Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45 – Jasper Thoolen: The singular design: From data to design
Lunch | 13:00 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:15 – Wiebe Derksen: Guided surgery, Immediacy and Temporisation. When, why and how?
Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:45 – Wiebe Derksen: Guided surgery, Immediacy and Temporisation. When, why and how?

The Daniele Cardaropoli world-class masterclass at the Campbell Academy is designed to provide detailed information and instruction on the use of soft tissue augmentation in implant dentistry (and other disciplines).

Daniele will explore the techniques and indications for the use of such grafts in implant surgery using both autograft material from a patient with connective tissue grafting and free epithelial grafting and also synthetic product grafting using Geistlich’s products, Fibro-Gide and Mucograft. Soft tissue grafting has become one of the most important developing areas of work for the implant dentist in practice, and understanding when to use it and how to use it will be one of the greatest skills moving forward to set clinicians apart from the clinicians who do not understand this essential area of work.

We will use lecture-based material, clinical cases, full explanations, and practical exercises based around a pig head model with extraordinary soft tissue instrumentation. Exploring these areas will allow delegates to leave the course with the confidence to diagnose, plan and implement soft tissue grafting to provide considerable benefits to the patient group and massive value to the treatment they provide.

This course is unlike any other we have seen regarding soft tissue management. It gives full and uninterrupted access to a world-class clinician in a small-group teaching environment. If you are interested in improving the soft tissue outcomes in your implant surgery cases, there may be no better course you could consider.

Immediate Full Arch Loading Live Skills

Advanced training for experienced implant surgeons in immediate, full-arch reconstruction, run simultaneously in Nottingham, Belfast and Dundee in association with Straumann Pro Arch.

A national Live Skills event, in association with Straumann Pro Arch, equipping experienced implant clinicians with the knowledge, clinical judgement and practical understanding to safely and predictably introduce immediate full-arch reconstruction into practice.

Immediate Full Arch Loading is one of the most sought-after treatments in the UK and Ireland, and one of the most misunderstood. This course takes a structured, supported approach with a strong emphasis on clinical decision-making: from case selection and planning, through surgery, provisional restoration and final reconstruction, and just as importantly, when IFAL should not be used.

VSSAcademy provides a structured supervised clinical training pathway in implant dentistry, enabling delegates to gain hands-on experience through the placement and restoration of dental implants on suitable patients allocated within the VSSAcademy programme.

All clinical training is delivered under direct supervision within a structured mentoring environment, allowing delegates to develop their clinical skills, confidence and experience whilst treating real patients as part of their training.

In Year 1, delegates will complete Level 1 clinical training, including the placement and restoration of two dental implants on allocated patients under direct supervision. In Year 2, delegates progressing to Level 2 will place and restore ten dental implants on allocated patients under direct supervision.

Patient provision, clinical supervision and clinical governance are provided by VSSAcademy as part of its clinical training programme.

Subject to validation and approval, delegates will have the opportunity to follow a PGCert, PGDip and MSc pathway in Implant Dentistry through the Academy of Dental Excellence (ADE) and the University of Portsmouth, with qualifications awarded by the University of Portsmouth upon successful completion of the relevant academic and clinical requirements.