Location: DCDS Headquarters

Meeting Attendance Note: Live streaming of this presentation is not available for those who want to access the presentation virtually. The recording of the presentation will be made available to all registrants within 48 hours of the presentation.

Contact: Cheryl Michi
Email: info@dcdental.org
Phone: (202) 367-1163

Registration closes the Monday before the event at 5pm.

Course Description:

Treating patients with dental implants is a popular approach now-a-days, but patients have become more demanding as they want restorations that emulate natural dentition. 

Prosthetically-driven treatment planning is critical in predicting functional, biologic, and esthetic success in implant cases. One of the more complex areas of treatment with dental implants is the soft tissue-restorative interphase, for this transition zone to be esthetic and biologically stable a series of conditions must be met. Proper provisionalization, prosthetic design, material selection and a clear understanding of biology are key for clinicians to achieve desirable results. In this lecture, the clinician will be exposed to protocols which will help treatment plan, and execute implant cases in an organized and straightforward manner to increase their success in this type of therapy.

Session 1: Treatment Planning the Implant Patient

In this session Patient selection and important perio-prosthodontic considerations for treatment planning implant cases will be discussed. The participant will be exposed to important concepts when treatment planning the patient in need of dental implants.

Learning Objectives Session 1:

• Identify important considerations for adequate treatment planning in esthetic implant therapy
• Understand the treatment strategies associated with the initial condition of the patient
• Learn the essential perio-prosthodontic principles for proper soft tissue response 

Session 2: Abutment Design and Biological Response 

In this session the relationship between implant position and abutment design will be discussed. Also, the participant will be exposed to important mechanical and biological considerations to abutment design. 

Learning Objectives Session 2:

• Understand the relationship between 3D implant placement and prosthetic design.
• Understand the importance of the different areas of the emergence profile and learn different techniques to condition the soft tissues.
• Understand important mechanical and biologic parameters of prosthetic design 

About the Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Esquivel

Jonathan Esquivel, DDS, Former Associate professor and director of Implant Dentistry for the department of Prosthodontics at LSUSD. He received his dental training at Universidad Americana in his hometown of Managua, Nicaragua. After graduating from dental school, he joined his father’s practice for four years. Due to his growing interest in prosthetics, he decided to pursue a specialty training in prosthodontics at LSUSD, completing the residency in 2013. He then was accepted and completed the LSUSD Esthetics and Surgical Implant Fellowship in 2014.Throughout his career as an educator he won numerous awards including "The Golden Apple “ excellence in teaching award in 2016, along with being named honorary faculty member for the C. Edmund Kells Honorary Society, and faculty member of the Omicron Kappa Upsilon National Dental Honor Society, Theta Kappa Chapter. He was selected to participate in the dental student “white coat ceremony", an honor bestowed upon respected faculty members and has recently been awarded the “Dr. Allen A. Copping” excellence in teaching award and has been awarded the Brasseler USA Professorship in prosthodontics and won the Claude Baker award from the American Academy of Fixed Prosthodontics. He has published articles on the topics of dental implants and esthetics in nationally recognized peer reviewed journals and has lectured nationally and internationally.