Master Implant Treatment Planning: A Step-by-Step Path to Clinical Confidence

Absolutely. While the pathway is designed as a progression, you can enter at the level that best matches your current experience and educational goals.

Rather than offering isolated courses, this pathway provides a structured learning journey. Each step builds on the previous one, combining online education, local mentorship, hands-on learning, and long-term coaching to help you develop lasting clinical confidence.

Our complimentary one-hour virtual courses cover foundational implant concepts, restorative treatment planning principles, digital workflows, case selection, and practical clinical topics that you can immediately apply in practice.

Regional programs provide interactive learning with experienced clinicians in a smaller group setting. You'll review clinical cases, discuss treatment planning strategies, and have the opportunity to ask questions relevant to your own practice.

These immersive programs focus on real-world application. You'll work alongside experienced prosthodontists to treatment plan actual patient cases—including your own—and receive personalized feedback in a collaborative learning environment.

Yes. Many Institute programs encourage participants to bring their own patient cases, allowing you to receive expert guidance and leave with treatment plans you can implement immediately.

This advanced program consists of four full-day sessions held throughout the year. Participants work closely with a local surgical mentor and expert faculty to strengthen treatment planning skills, identify additional implant opportunities, and develop predictable interdisciplinary workflows.

Improved treatment planning helps clinicians recognize more implant opportunities, present treatment options with greater confidence, enhance collaboration with specialists, and ultimately increase patient acceptance and practice growth.

No. Even if you restore implants and refer surgical procedures, developing stronger treatment planning skills allows you to diagnose more implant cases, coordinate treatment more effectively, and provide more comprehensive care for your patients.

Many of the courses within the pathway offer continuing education (CE) credit. Specific CE information is available for each individual program.

There is no required timeline. You can progress at your own pace, moving from on-demand education to advanced hands-on training as your confidence and clinical needs evolve.

Your ZimVie representative can help assess your current experience, treatment goals, and practice objectives to recommend the educational opportunities that will provide the greatest value.

Simply begin with one of our complimentary on-demand treatment planning courses. From there, your ZimVie representative can help guide you through the next steps in your educational journey.