"Safe & Successful: From Core Dentistry to Implant Solutions for Medically Compromised Patients"

 Instructor:  Laila Akhlaghi, D.D.S.; Assistant Professor, Columbia University College of Dentistry

 Synopsis:  This comprehensive course is designed for clinicians seeking to deepen expertise in managing patients, including those with complex systemic disease, head, and neck cancer histories, and those receiving antiresorptive or antiangiogenic therapies.  Through evidence-based frameworks, clinical algorithms, and real-world case discussions, participants will develop the skills needed to plan, sequence, and deliver safe, predictable dental and implant care across challenging medical contexts.

 At the completion of the program, participants should be able to recognize:

• Medically compromised patients
• Challenges and solutions
• Key classifications for easier planning
• Phasing clinical dentistry
• How and when to get to definitive phase
• Dental implants in head and neck patients
• Differences between dental implant outcomes in osteoporosis versus cancer
• Guidelines for improved dental implant outcomes for cancer patients 
• Benefits of the ZimVie system for the medically compromised
• Select Case reviews and outcomes