Mastering the Chairside Implant Restoration
With Dr. Neal Patel, DDS, CDT
Chesterfield, MO
Friday, December 12th
8:00 - 2:00 PM CT
Complimentary CE Clinic
What if you could deliver a single-unit implant restoration, from scan to seated crown, in just one appointment?
Join Dr. Neal Patel, CDT for a hands-on clinic on delivering single-unit implant restorations chairside—in one visit—from digital impression to seated crown. Clinicians will integrate intraoral scanning, CAD design, and chairside milling into a predictable workflow, while tackling real-world pitfalls: open contacts, high occlusion, screw loosening, esthetic mismatches, inadequate emergence, and soft-tissue management. By day’s end, attendees will have scanned, designed, milled/finished, and seated a screw-retained or hybrid-abutment crown on a typodont—leaving with a repeatable, revenue-positive protocol for Monday morning.
Advanced Implant EducationLocation:
Patterson Dental St. Louis | 17849 Edison Ave, Suite A | Chesterfield, MO 63005
5 CE Credits
$295 - 30 Seats Available
Course Objectives
- Capture accurate implant position/angulation with validated scan-body protocols and avoid common IOS errors.
- Select the appropriate restoration-screw-retained, hybrid-abutment, or cement-retained-and digitally design an ideal emergence profile for tissue health and cleansability.
- Mill, finish, and characterize a chairside implant crown, including polishing/staining and screw-access planning.
- Verify and adjust contacts and occlusion using a stepwise protocol to minimize overload and prevent chipping or screw loosening.
- Prevent and handle complications such as, open contacts, high occlusion, misfit/microgap, screw loosening, peri-implant tissue irritation, with a practical checklist.
- Operationalize the digital workflow and model chairside economics to cut chair time and remakes while improving ROI and patient experience.
Course Overview
Restoring a single implant crown traditionally requires multiple appointments and laboratory turnaround, increasing chair time, cost, and risk of complications. With advancements in digital dentistry, clinicians now have the capability to streamline this process and deliver a final restoration chairside in a single visit. However, predictable outcomes depend on mastering the digital workflow, from accurate scanning and CAD design to milling, finishing, and seating. Without this proficiency, complications such as open contacts, high occlusion, screw loosening, esthetic discrepancies, and inadequate soft-tissue emergence can compromise clinical success and patient satisfaction.
This course provides a step-by-step approach to delivering a single-unit implant restoration from digital impression to final crown using a fully integrated chairside workflow. Attendees will learn how to capture precise intraoral scans, design restorations digitally, and mill esthetic, functional crowns in-office. Following the didactic portion, participants will transition to a hands-on session where they will scan, design, mill or finish, and seat a screw-retained or hybrid-abutment crown on a typodont. By the end of the course, clinicians will leave with a predictable, repeatable workflow that can be implemented immediately for efficient, revenue-positive implant restorations.
Dr. Neal Patel, DDS, CDT
Owner/Operator, Infinite Smiles
