Join California Implant Institute

The California Implant Institute was developed in 2001 by Dr. Louie Al-Faraje to provide quality continuing education on the subject of dental implants and related topics using a hands-on approach.

As director, Al-Faraje has trained more than 1,000 clinicians in a hands-on, yearly forum of education in implant dentistry.

Al-Faraje holds diplomate status at the American Board of Oral Implantology, fellowship status at the American Academy of Implant Dentistry and fellowship status at the International Congress of Oral Implantologists.

The California Implant Institute offers a one-year comprehensive fellowship program in implant dentistry.

This program is made of four sessions designed to provide dentists with practical information that is immediately useful to them, their staff and their patients.

The four sessions combined offer more than 160 hours of lectures, laboratory sessions and live surgical demonstrations.

The goal of the faculty team, which is composed of some of the most respected instructors from the United States and around the world, is to provide you with comprehensive knowledge that will enrich your practice and improve your clinical skills so you can confidently perform predictable, prosthetically driven implant dentistry.

Session one topics

During the first session of this one-year comprehensive hands-on implant training program, the following topics are covered: anatomy, bone physiology, patient evaluation for implant treatment, risk factors, vertical and horizontal spaces of occlusion, bone density, step-by-step implant surgical placement protocols, impression techniques, restorative steps for implant crown and bridge and more.

Session two topics

During session two, computer-guided implant placement and restoration using SimPlant® software, immediate-load techniques for single and full-arch cases, biology of osseointegration, mini implants, bone grafting before, during and after implant placement and pharmacology will be discussed.

Implant prosthodontics for fully edentulous patients, high-water design, bar-overdenture, CAD/CAM designs, etc., will highlight the prosthetic portion of this session.

Session three topics

Advanced implant surgical techniques, such as alveolar ridge expansion with split cortical technique, guided bone regeneration, sinus lift through the osteotomy site and more, are covered in this session.

Hands-on pig jaw workshops using regenerative materials are performed by the class, and there are live surgery demonstrations by faculty.

The restorative portion of this session will focus on biomechanical principles, biomaterials and implant occlusion.

Session four topics

This session will focus on sinus lift through the lateral window, ramus block graft and chin block graft as well as the J-Block grafting procedures. PRP and other advanced bone grafting materials such as rh-BMP2/ACS grafts with titanium mesh.

The final graduation examination and certification ceremony will conclude this comprehensive implant training program.

For more information or to register, please contact Jennifer Bettencourt at (858) 496-0574.