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Explore our upcoming dental implant CE courses, or learn more about our broader clinical training pathways through the Implant Residency Program and personalized dental implant mentorship.

The Digital Dentistry Advantage

Course Overview

This continuing education program explores the current landscape of digital dentistry and how practices can successfully integrate digital workflows to improve efficiency, enhance the patient experience, and optimize treatment outcomes.

Participants will learn how digital dentistry begins with intraoral scanning and expands into both additive manufacturing, including 3D printing, and subtractive manufacturing, including milling solutions. The course demonstrates how digital workflows can be tailored to the unique needs of each practice, recognizing that there is no one-size-fits-all approach.

Whether you are just beginning your digital journey or looking to expand your current capabilities, this course will provide valuable insight into the many pathways available to modern dental practices and help determine which approach best suits your business.

Topics Include

• The role of intraoral scanning as the foundation of digital dentistry.
• Understanding additive manufacturing, including 3D printing, and subtractive manufacturing, including milling workflows.
• Evaluating which technologies best align with your practice goals and clinical focus.
• Fixed versus removable workflows and their impact on technology selection.
• Outsourcing versus in-house design and manufacturing options.
• Building a digital workflow that fits your team, budget, and patient needs.
• Real-world applications and practical considerations for implementing digital solutions.

Featured Digital Dentistry Systems

Meet Your Instructors

This course is presented by Dr. Sajid Syed, DDS • ABOI Certified, Courtney Burtoo, CDA II, and Michelle Glover-DaCosta, CAD/CAM Specialist at Henry Schein®. Together, they bring clinical, surgical, assisting, and digital workflow experience to help participants better understand how digital dentistry can be implemented in practical and effective ways.

Complicated Extractions & Bone Grafting

Course Overview

This two-day hands-on course provides practical training in managing complicated dental extractions and bone preservation techniques. Participants will learn efficient operatory setup, surgical PPE, retraction, and assisting methods.

Clinical demonstrations cover sectioning, suturing, bone grafting, socket evaluation for implants, and removal of impacted wisdom teeth. The program includes supervised extractions with Dr. Sajid Syed, offering real-world surgical experience in a controlled environment.

CE Credits: 12 | AGD: 690 – Implants

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Diagnose and treatment plan complicated extractions using a prosthetically driven approach.
• Perform atraumatic surgical techniques that preserve hard and soft tissue architecture.
• Manage fractured roots, ankylosed teeth, impacted molars, and compromised sockets with control.
• Select and execute ridge preservation techniques based on future implant goals.
• Protect bone volume and anatomical landmarks critical to long-term implant success.

Meet Your Instructors

With extensive experience in surgical dentistry, Dr. Sajid Syed and Courtney Burtoo bring practical, real-world expertise, sharing proven techniques to enhance surgical outcomes, patient care, and clinical efficiency.

Dr. Syed, a Fellow of the American Board of Oral Implantology, specializes in implant dentistry, digital workflows, and full-mouth reconstruction. He mentors clinicians across North America through Fusion Implant Dentistry.

Ms. Burtoo, a Level II Dental Assistant, brings extensive surgical experience and trains teams in efficient, predictable implant workflows. Together, they teach a controlled, prosthetically driven surgical approach that ensures complex extractions are performed with precision and future implant therapy in mind.

Past Events

Fusion Implant Dentistry is a locally approved PACE Program Provider for FAGD/MAGD Credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by any regulatory authority or AGD endorsement. 1/1/2026 to 12/31/2027. Provider #440309.