Treatment Planning in Practice: Establishing Peri-Implant Health in our Patients

Peri-Implant Health is paramount to long term Implant Success. Hygienists and Therapists are at the forefront of maintaining periodontal health and therefore can translate these skills to benefit the health of the Peri-implant tissues. This lecture will follow on from the mornings session on Risk Assessing and enable the Hygienist &Therapist to fully utilise their skill set in the monitoring and maintaining of the Implant Patient. This lecture will focus on how to Treatment Plan for each individual patient within a practice setting on a day to day basis. This will involve formulating Individualised Supportive Peri-implant Therapy Plans based on a Patients individual risk.

Learning Objectives

• The use of Indices in assessing Implants
• Designing Individualised Supportive Peri-implant Therapy Plans
• The correct treatment modality to establish Peri-implant Health