Advance Your Skills With Treatment Planning Regional Education

Looking to elevate treatment planning in your dental practice? If you're seeking high-quality educational programs that can be delivered locally for your team or study group, we have a range of expert-led topics available.

ZimVie can bring an experienced clinician directly to your region to deliver engaging, evidence-based education tailored to your group's needs. Simply connect with your ZimVie Sales Representative to discuss available program topics and coordinate a session that works for your practice or study club.

Explore the available program offerings below and take the next step toward more confident, predictable treatment planning.

StepZ Implant Program Intro: Your First Step Toward Confident Implant Decision-Making

Program Description:

The StepZ Program is a comprehensive four-session implant training designed to help you systematically build your implant practice with confidence and clinical predictability. 

Program Objectives:

Implement structured implant protocols that support clinical predictability from case selection through long-term maintenance. 

Apply evidence-based workflows to enhance diagnostic accuracy, treatment planning, and surgical-restorative decision-making. 

Integrate practical strategies into daily practice to improve case acceptance and deliver consistent, high-quality patient outcomes. 

Strengthen clinical confidence by utilizing step-by-step approaches that promote reliable implant results.

StepZ Implant Program Intro

StepZ Implant Program Intro

Your First Step Toward Confident Implant Decision-Making

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Treatment Planning of Implants in the Aesthetic Zone

Program Description:

Clinical success can be defined as achieving a result that is aesthetic, functional, and predictable. The goal of this program is to provide a scientifically based rationale for all diagnostic, treatment planning, and patient care decisions in aesthetic zone.

Program Objectives:

Understand fundamentals of treatment planning, diagnostic steps, prosthetic considerations and prerequisites for successful treatment.

Determine proper smile and facial design.

Develop a stronger understanding of currently available advanced digital technology, clinical techniques, and materials.

Become better familiar with restorative component options and choices (screw-retained vs. cement-retained prostheses, provisional vs. permanent cementations).

Identify how to avoid or manage complications and maximize success.

Complex Treatment Planning: From philosophy to profitability

Complex Treatment Planning: From philosophy to profitability

Speaker: Kevin Moore, DDS



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Treatment Planning of Implants in the Aesthetic Zone

Speaker: Edward R. Schlissel, DDS, MS

 

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Anterior Implant Provisionals with Hands-On

Program Description:

This program provides a strong theoretical foundation for managing single-tooth implants in the aesthetic zone. Emphasis will be placed on maximizing peri-implant soft tissue aesthetics around definitive restorations—critical elements for achieving predictable, long-term aesthetic success.

Program Objectives:

Review essential clinical data required prior to treatment planning for immediate implant provisional restorations.

Differentiate between immediate loading and immediate non-occlusal loading protocols.

Become familiar with various techniques for fabricating immediate single-unit, non-occlusal provisional restorations.

Hands-On Objectives:

Fabricate a screw-retained anterior provisional restoration

Observe an OTS Over The Shoulder custom impression coping

Treatment Guidelines for Immediate Implant Provisional Restoration in the Aesthetic Zone

Treatment Guidelines for Immediate Implant Provisional Restoration in the Aesthetic Zone

Speaker: Ushma Patel, DMD



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Innovations in Digital Restoration and Guided Treatment Planning

Program Description:

This program will focus on digital technologies used in the fabrication of CAD/CAM and Ti-Base abutments as well as implant-supported restorations with the BellaTek® Encode System. 

Program Objectives:

Understand a simplified impression protocol for fabrication of implant-supported restorations with an intraoral scanner or traditional impression procedures.

Comprehend several new digital technologies available for fabricating patient specific implant-supported restorations.

Understand CAD/CAM abutment design using the BellaTek Encode Impression System.

Introduction to the RealGuide Software Suite which will allow you to case plan, create guides and share with members of the multidisciplinary team.

Learn how to incorporate new digital workflows into everyday clinical practice.

Innovations in Digital Restoration and Guided

Innovations in Digital Restoration and Guided

Speaker: James B. Wooddell, DDS & Joseph C. Passaro, DDS

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Complex Treatment Planning: From philosophy to profitability

Program Description:

Treatment planning complex dental treatment can be a daunting endeavor. This course empowers dentists to confidently manage complex dental cases. 

Program Objectives:

Identify your treatment planning philosophy in your practice, your current comfort level with complex treatments, and if there is a desire for growth.

Understand how to integrate a complex treatment planning philosophy into your current practice.

Recognize the necessary skillsets required to execute complex treatment plans and determine how to build your professional education level to successfully meet patient expectations.

Learn how to evaluate functional, prosthetic, and surgical risk in patients in order to appropriately treatment plan patients to maintain successful and profitable outcomes.

Complex Treatment Planning: From philosophy to profitability

Complex Treatment Planning: From philosophy to profitability

Speaker: Kevin Moore, DDS



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Complex Treatment Planning: From philosophy to profitability

Complex Treatment Planning: From philosophy to profitability

Speaker: Kevin Moore, DDS



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Comprehensive Implant Treatment Planning

Program Description:

This program is the first in a series that is designed to provide clinicians with the tools necessary to effectively communicate and treat patients with a comprehensive approach to implant dentistry. 

Program Objectives:

Identify Hidden Implant Patients.

Compare benefits of Crown & Bridge Dentistry Vs. Dental Implants Single, Multiple & Overdenture Restorations.

Comprehend the appropriate steps of Case Work-Up.

Learn tips to effectively communicate with Surgeon as an Implant Team.

Understand case parameters for Next Sessions.

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Treatment Planning

Speaker: Bruce R. Ouellette, DDS

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