As dental implants become increasingly commoditized, how can practitioners distinguish themselves and elevate their implant therapy to a higher level? While surgical protocols for implant placement have been well established for many years, the true opportunity to stand out lies in planning implants for long-term stability.
In Taking Your Best Shot at Long-Term Peri-Implant Stability, we will explore the various factors that influence implant longevity. By examining pre-surgical, peri-surgical, and post-surgical aspects of implantology, participants will gain a deeper understanding of what it takes to ensure that the implant placed today remains functional and esthetic thirty years from now.
Course Learning Objectives:
By the end of this lecture, participants will:
- Understand how periodontal and peri-implant health affect long-term implant stability.
- Recognize how osseous and gingival augmentation procedures performed prior to implant placement influence long-term implant stability.
- Understand how implant position and angulation affect long-term implant stability.
- Appreciate the role of maintenance protocols in achieving long-term implant stability.
- Learn how to effectively manage the various phases of implantology, whether placing the implant, restoring it, or both.
DMD, Cert Perio, MSD, FRCDC, Dip ABPDIS - Montreal, Quebec
Dr. Sam Malkinson graduated from McGill’s Faculty of Dentistry in 2007, and went on to do an Advanced Education in General Dentistry Residency at the University of Connecticut, followed by a General Practice Residency at the University of British Columbia. He then pursued a specialty in Periodontics at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he also earned his Master’s degree for his thesis concerning the effects of aesthetic crown lengthening on social perceptions. Having returned to Montreal in 2012, he is in full-time private practice limited to periodontics and implantology. He has been a Faculty Lecturer at McGill University since 2012, and is currently involved there in teaching through Continuing Dental Education. In 2014 he was named McGill Dentistry’s Clinical Demonstrator of the Year. In 2015 he was honoured with the W.W. Wood Award for Excellence in Dental Education, and the American Academy of Periodontology Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring in Periodontics Award, for commitment to excellence in providing education in the full scope of clinical periodontics, and relaying that enthusiasm to students. He also teaches at the Université de Montréal’s Faculté de médecine dentaire as a clinical instructor of periodontics, and in 2025 was again awarded American Academy of Periodontology Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring in Periodontics Award.
Dr. Malkinson is a Fellow of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and Dental Implant Surgery. He is a member of the Ordre des dentistes du Quebec, the Quebec Periodontal Association, the Federation of Dental Specialists of Quebec, the Canadian Academy of Periodontology, and the American Academy of Periodontology. He has been appointed by the National Dental Examining Board of Canada as an Examiner Expert in Content for Periodontics, and is a manuscript reviewer for the Acta Odontologica Scandinavica journal.""
