Avinash S. Bidra, BDS, MS, FACP, is a board certified maxillofacial prosthodontist and director of the Prosthodontics Residency Program at the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine in Farmington. He lectures on dental implants at meetings nationally and abroad and publishes extensively in international scientific journals. Bidra has developed diagnostic and treatment protocols for full-arch fixed implant prostheses used by many clinicians and prosthodontic programs in the United States. He can be reached at bidra@uchc.edu.