CAGD 2025 Fall Meeting

CAGD 2025 Fall Meeting– Don’t Miss This!

Join Dr. Charles Mastrovich for an in-depth course on Managing Implant Mechanical Problems at the CAGD 2025 Fall Meeting!

DATE + TIME: Saturday 9/6/2025 | 8 AM – 12 PM
REGISTER + DETAILS: tinyurl.com/IMR-CAGDMeet9625

Implant dentistry has revolutionized restorative outcomes, offering conservative, stable, and long-lasting solutions. But mechanical failures can still arise, complicating cases and increasing costs for patients and practices. This course will help you:

• Identify factors that predispose cases to mechanical problems
• Recognize design and construction choices that optimize force distribution and longevity
• Understand screw function and manage failures effectively
• Make confident decisions when complications arise—and avoid worsening the situation

Where: San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront
1800 Old Bayshore Hwy, Burlingame, CA 94010

Tuition:
AGD/ Members: $129.00
Non-AGD Members: $250.00

CE: 4 (lecture)
AGD Code: 690 (Implants)

For years we have all experienced the invaluable addition implant dentistry adds to a restorative outcome. Adding implant support can often provide a more conservative treatment approach, as in avoidance of additional preparations for a fixed partial denture or adding support and or retention to augment stability in a case. It’s really hard to imagine practicing dentistry without modern implant technology. However, in some cases, various mechanical failures can present, complicating the prognosis of the case or forcing revisions which are expensive to both the patient and practice. This course will examine many of the issues surrounding these failures. Why did it happen? Could it have been anticipated and or prevented? Is it possible to effectively resolve the immediate problem while re-engineering the case for increased stability? And lastly, understanding your limitations as to when to safely proceed or to refer. If proceeding, what tools and training do you need to prevent complicating the case. All these issues will be systematically examined and then reinforced utilizing multiple Implant Mechanical Rescue (IMR) cases gathered from actual case histories.

Objectives

• Better identify some of the issues which pre-dispose a case for mechanical problems.
• Recognize options in case construction which greatly influence force distribution, mechanical integrity, and long-term robustness.
• Understand how screws function and how to deal with screw failure when it presents.
• Decide what to do when an implant mechanical complication presents, but even more importantly, what not to do to prevent additional complications