January 31, 2025
Friday, 10:00am-2:00pm

Registration Fee: Complimentary
Lecture: 3CE credits

Advancements on several fronts have created a paradigm shift in the field of implant surgical guides. Cone beam CT, additive manufacturing (3D Printing), and point cloud merging have combined to make CBCT derived surgical guides cost effective for not only fully guided cases, but for pilot drill guides as well. Many practitioners are under the impression that CBCT derived guides represent a complicated process that involves scanning appliances and multiple CT scans. This program will discuss why this is no longer true, and present the simplified workflow that is now possible in today’s general practice, making it ideal to grow both surgical and restorative implant services.

Objectives
• Review the concepts of digital dentistry that make CBCT guided surgical guided surgery (and all other digital dentistry) possible
• Discover the dramatic decline in the cost of this treatment from 1997 to 2024
• Learn the difference between computer guided and computer assisted techniques
• Understand the computer guided workflow, especially what is needed to setup cases

Tim Hart, DDS, MS
Dr. Tim Hart graduated from Loyola University School of Dentistry in 1977, and the Fixed Prosthodontic Residency program in 1980. He was awarded the American Academy of Crown and Bridge Prosthodontics’ Stanley Tylman Research Award in 1981 for 3D modeling of the human condylar displacement using transform matrices. From 1977 to 1997, he practiced in Kenosha, WI and Racine, WI. From 1997 to 2017, he practiced in Shorewood Wisconsin, winning multiple awards for “Best Dentist” in both local monthly publications (Milwaukee Magazine and M Magazine). In 2007, Dr. Hart and Dr. Phil Hawkins (oral surgeon) founded and for a decade co-directed the Third Coast Study Club, an affiliate of the Seattle Study Club system. Since his retirement in 2017, Dr. Hart has maintained a privately run business focusing on surgical guide design and production, as well as medical models for surgical rehearsal. He also provides custom CNC wood fixtures to local remodeling contractors. His spare time activities include family (2 families, 4 grandkids in town), cycling, running, and relearning to ski.