Advanced Implant Competency Continuum
Live Surgical Training
Learn sinus lifts, block grafts, bone manipulations, immediate placement and All-on-X. Learn soft tissue grafting, advanced PRF and PRP, ridge expansion.
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StartingAugust 16, 2025
9:00 AM -
VenueElizabeth, New Jersey
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Credits120 CE hours (AGD & NJ State Board Approved)
What You Will Learn
- • Advanced concepts of implant dentistry which include immediate placements and immediate function
- • Review and perform predictable sinus grafts - lateral and crestal approaches
- • Treat atrophic ridges with ridge expansion
- • Perform predictable GBR with block grafts
- • Review digital workflow for guided cases with mentorship for planning guides and immediate restorations
- • Review treatment options for staging cases for fill arch restorations
- • Advanced PRF & PRP protocols - venipuncture and phlebotomy training
- • Optional All on X cases under supervision can be arranged (call for details)
Unique Features
- • In depth review ofsurgical and prosthetic protocols
- • Non-commercial, non-sponsored course covering a wide spectrum of implant types and systems
- • Certificate of completion with AGD credits and NJ state board credits
- • Patient implant surgeries - out of state dentist can learn surgeries
- • Competency in utilizing a minimum of 4 recognized implant systems
- • Bone manipulation including ridge expansion
- • Bone grafting procedures including block grafts
- • Advanced suturing techniques and soft tissue management
- • Complete Digital workflow
- • Designing over dentures, cement and screw retained restorations
- • Milled provisional fabrication and 3D printing
- • Photogrammetry and full arch designs
- • Guided surgery modules and hands on live patient for All-on-X
- • Bring your patients for complete rehabilitation (on a case by case basis)
- • To aid participants in preparation for AAID associate fellow/fellow membership examinations
Course Director
Dr. Shankar Iyer
Past-President of American Academy of Implant Dentistry (AAID), Clinical Assistant Professor Rutgers School of Dental Medicine
“ Dear Colleague,
I am happy to welcome you to our seventeenth annual mini-residency implant continuum. My team and I are committed to making this program a memorable learning experience for you in many ways.It is my personal desire to facilitate your learning curve as you have been exposed to the basics of implant dentistry and now with some edvanced hands-on training you will expand the scope of treatment in your practices.
This program is designed for the General Dentists or GPs who have some basic surgical skills, also for those who have completed the AAID Maxicourses and implant Marathons and are now looking to advance to the next level with patient competencies.”
“ We have over 120 residents who have completed our program and everyone has placed and restored implants to reach the level of competency to treat patients on their own in their practices. ”
“ Besides being able to treat mainstream cases, you will have life long mentorship benefits that will provide you with treatment planning options, complication management and trouble shooting cases. This course is very personalized and participation is limited to ensure a one to one interaction.
It is my desire to help you build your career dreams in implant dentistry, be credentialed and achieve excellence. Thank you very much for considering our program. We appreciate your interest and we hope you will give us the privilege of having us be your implant mentors for life. ”
Course Tuition
$15,000 USD
/Payment plan with installments can be arranged/
Course Faculty
Dr. Shankar Iyer
Past-President of American Academy of Implant Dentistry (AAID), Clinical Assistant Professor Rutgers School of Dental Medicine.
Dr. Iyer graduated with honors from the New York University College of Dentistry in 1994 and went on to pursue graduate studies in Prosthodontics from the same University. He taught as a clinical Assistant Professor for several years at NYU’s department of Post Graduate Prosthodontics. Currently he holds two appointments in the departments of Periodontics and Prosthodontics at Rutgers’ University Dental School, New Jersey.
Dr. Iyer is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral Implantology/Implant Dentistry and a Fellow of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry. He has lectured in over 36 countries and presented at over 200 symposia in Implant Dentistry and Prosthodontics.
He is the Director of the prestigious AAID Implant Maxicourse held in Asia with centers in Abu Dhabi, Chennai and Sri Lanka. He co-directs these courses at Rutgers University, New Jersey, Roseman University, Utah, Nova Southeastern University, Florida and at Newport Beach California.
Dr. Khyati Handa, BDS, MDS, CAGS
Dr. Khyati Handa is a board-eligible prosthodontist with over a decade of clinical experience in advanced restorative and implant dentistry. She currently serves as a Prosthodontist and Dental Director at Jefferson Dental & Orthodontics in Dallas, Texas, where she leads clinical teams and delivers expert care in complex prosthodontic and full-mouth rehabilitation cases.
Dr. Handa earned her Master’s degree in Prosthodontics internationally, followed by a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study (CAGS) and dual MDS degree in Prosthodontics in the United States. She also holds a Certificate from the American Academy of Implant Dentistry (AAID), reflecting her specialized training and clinical proficiency in implant dentistry. Her expertise spans esthetics, digital workflows, implant prosthodontics, and interdisciplinary treatment planning.
She is known for her precision, compassionate care, and dedication to mentoring fellow professionals, and she remains committed to advancing patient care through evidence-based, comprehensive treatment.