What We Ought To Know About Full Arch Implant Dentistry – PDP093

Protrusive Dental Podcast

I think we owe it to our patients to a know some fundamentals of full arch implant Dentistry, even if you do not currently place or restore implants. Make a big cup of coffee because this is one of those longer episodes! I am joined by Restorative Specialist Dr. Harpal Chana to breakdown FP1 to RP5 and exactly what GDPs should know about full arch implant prostheses. https://youtu.be/QY_3SZKdc0U Check out this full episode on YouTube Protrusive Dental Pearl: Instead of booking patients for a ‘fit appointment’ for crowns or bridges, rebrand it to ‘try-in appointment’. This takes the pressure off of you and your technician - in the small chance that things are not perfect, you can correct it and book their fit. If everything is good at the 'try-in' you can go ahead and fit your work definitively. It's just a good way to manage expectations and reduce the chance of disappointments and surprises. Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! As Promised! Infographic summarising FP1 - RP5 classification In this episode we talked about: Dr Harpal Chana’s journey to full arch dentistry 8:19The initial stages of full arch complex implant reconstruction 15:18What determines a terminal dentition? 23:52Implant Reconstruction Options for GDPs to know + Classification 31:03Difference between Implant retained and Implant Supported 37:10How many implants? 40:56Research about the quality of life that impacts clinician’s decisions 48:40Learning how to place the first implant 56:56Advice for dentists who wants to learn implants 1:08:00 If you liked this episode, you will love to listen and learn about Implant Assessment for GDPs: from Space Requirement to Ridge Preservation Implant Overdenture and All-on-4 course Sponsored by Nobel Biocare 12-13th March 2022 at Elmfield House Dental Education, Teddington, London. Hosted by - Harpal Chana, Harjot Bansal, Pynadath George, Manish Patel, George Xirogiannis, Hannah YoungSummary: Beginners course for fixed and removable implant retained and supported bridges and dentures. Cover implant planning, bone grafting, prosthetic planning and execution, dealing with failures and maintenance of appliances and implants. Register your interest by emailing: [e-mail] Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: And one of the procedures they always used to make me do was to do a workup make them a new set of dentures. And it was interesting that half the patients I made new dentures for say, thank you very much. I don't need implants now. I'm actually quite happy with these. And they're much better than they were before. I really don't think I want implants. So okay, maybe a lot of these patients don't always need implants. They just need to have well fabricated dentures... Jaz's Introduction: FP1, FP2, FP3. Do you know what I'm talking about? No, I'm not talking about filtering facepieces ie FFP3 masks like we're all experts now on FFP2 masks and FFP3 masks, unfortunately, due to the COVID pandemic, but do you know what I mean, when in the context of implant restorations, what I mean by FP2 and FP3. Well, I'm embarrassed to say I had zero idea when it came to talking to our guest, Dr. Harpal Chana, who's a consultant restorative dentist, and the pinnacle of full arch implant prosthesis like this guy does some most complex work. The kind of work Harpal Chana does is based on referral work, complex full arch prosthesis work. So it's a great honor to have him on the show today. He is someone who I've looked up to for many years, like all the clinicians that I have on the show, I had a impromptu lunch with him in Pizza Express actually just behind his practice in Denton, when I was absolutely starstruck. I was like one year qualified, and that then I knew who he was and I knew he was about and I went to a few more of his study clubs in the local area, and he just has a brilliant clinician.