Full-Arch Fixed Implant Restorations: Monolithic Zirconia Bridges

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Michael McCracken, DDS, Ph.D.
Full-Arch Fixed Implant Restorations: Monolithic Zirconia Bridges

Course Objectives

1 CE Credit

This course covers the clinical steps required to deliver a successful Full-Arch BruxZir Implant Bridge. Included is information about patient selection and surgical treatment planning, including the use of tilted implant protocols.

At the conclusion of this lecture, participants will have familiarity with these topics:

    Learning Objectives

    • Treatment planning the full arch prosthesis
    • The All-on-4 or Tilted Implant approach
    • Rationale and clinical steps involved in the full arch monolithic implant supported restoration

    Recognition & Approval

    Pace Approval

    Glidewell Education Center
    Nationally Approved PACE Provider for FAGD/MAGD credit
    Approval does not imply acceptance by any regulatory authority, or AGD endorsement. 3/1/2024 to 2/29/2028.
    Provider ID# 216789

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    Michael McCracken, DDS, Ph.D.

    Dr. Michael McCracken is codirector of CIRP, a yearlong comprehensive implant education institute in Birmingham, Alabama. After completing dental school at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a prosthodontic residency at University of Alabama at Birmingham, he received a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering. Dr. McCracken is a part-time professor at UAB, where he has served as associate dean for education, director of graduate prosthodontics and director of the implant training program. He maintains an active research program within the university and a private practice focused on implant dentistry. He also lectures internationally. Contact him at 256-797-1964.


    References

    1. Misch CE, Suzuki JB. Tooth extraction, socket grafting, and barrier membrane bone regeneration. In: Misch CE, editor. Contemporary Implant Dentistry, 3rd ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2008. p. 870-904.
    2. Ohta Y. Comparative changes in microvasculature and bone during healing of implant and extraction sites. J Oral Implantol. 1993;19(3):184-98.
    3. Vera C, De Kok IJ, Reinhold D, Limpiphipatanakorn P, Yap AK, Tyndall D, Cooper LF. Evaluation of buccal alveolar bone dimension of maxillary anterior and premolar teeth: a cone beam computed tomography investigation. Int J Oral Maxillofac Implants. 2012 Nov-Dec;27(6):1514-9.
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