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Dental Implants in Older Adults

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Increasingly, clinicians are providing stable function by placing dental implants in patients in their 80s and 90s.

AGD Subject Code: 690

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

After reading this course, the participant should be able to:

  1. Describe how implant surface design and hard and soft tissue augmentation can expand applications for dental implant treatment.
  2. Explain clinical considerations for implant therapy in older adults.
  3. Discuss how implant placement in older adults can support overall health and quality of life.

This course was issued in February 2023 and expires February 2026. The authors have no commercial conflicts of interest to disclose. This 2 credit hour self-study activity is electronically mediated.


Belmont Business Media is an ADA CERP-recognized provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ada.org/cerp. Belmont Business Media Nationally Approved PACE Program Provider for FAGD/MAGD credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by any regulatory authority or AGD endorsement. 7/1/2023 to 6/30/2026. Provider ID 317924
3621 Harbor Blvd., Suite 265, Santa Ana, CA 92704

Timothy L. Hottel, DDS, MS, DBA, FACD, is an adjunct professor at Lincoln Memorial University College of Dental Medicine in Knoxville, Tennessee. He can be reached at: timothy.hottel@lmunet.edu.


Cristian Chirla, DDS, FMII, is in private practice in Akron, Ohio, and is a fellow of the Midwest Implant Institute.


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