Why Should You Avoid Flapless Implants? – GF015

Is flapless implant placement really a solid technique? What percentage of cases are amenable to flapless implant placement? The cynic in me wondered if this is indeed a novel technique, or was it made mainstream to attract Dentists who seldom raise flaps? I brought on straight-talking Implant genius Dr. Pav Khaira on today's Group Function to discuss flapless implant placement - 'what's the deal?!' https://youtu.be/679HAttBQ1c Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Highlights of this episode: 4:36 The Rise of Flapless Implants7:04 Indications for Flapless implants9:43 Immediate implant placement13:59 Advice to Young Dentists considering implants18:56 Implant Mentorship24:11 Dr. Pav’s Implantology Course27:46 From Course to Implementation Check out The Dental Implant Podcast for information on dental implants and the Academy of Implant Excellence to learn how to place implants or upgrade your skills. If you enjoyed this episode, you will also like 'Can I Probe This Implant?' Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: You pay to learn in one fashion or another. This is something I've said before, right? Is you either pay your mentor to show you how to do it. And when you do it that way, you'll avoid most of the pitfalls, okay? Or you don't pay your mentor you have things go wrong and then you've got to pay out of your own pocket. Of those two scenarios one leads to a happy patient and another one leads to an unhappy patient. Jaz's Introduction:Are flapless implants a thing or are they a fad? I feel like there is a lure of some courses that want to attract the inexperienced GDP who perhaps is afraid of surgery or averse to surgery who can't raise a flap and they thought you know what, if we start teaching a guided system that doesn't involve flaps and maybe the dentist will come and learn implants and place our implants so that is the cynic in me thinking that but I got on the main man who knows everything about implants Dr. Pav Khaira on today on this group function about IS THERE A PLACE FOR FLAPLESS IMPLANTS? And of course from that we go into different directions in terms of okay, when is it suitable? When is it contraindicated? What are the problems? And how we can learn more and get into this field of implantology. If you are a novice if you are someone who's thinking about it, but you're afraid to make that next commitment. How does one get into the field of implants are huge daily topic for young dentists. Main Episode:So let's join this group function with Dr. Pav Khaira. Dr. Pav Khaira back again for the third time from the dental implant podcast. How are you, my friend? [Pav]I'm very good, how you doing? [Jaz]Amazing. And last few times you came on you really busted some myths and you helped us to understand some basic things. Can we probe implants? What happens when an implant is bleeding? The soft tissues are bleeding. How can you tell if you're too worried or not? So you cover these really fundamental topics. And you guys if you haven't listened to ready, listen to those. And of course we had you on for finding your niche in dentistry. So you've done some pretty big topics. And when this topic came along about flapless implants, which what we're talking about today, and I can't wait to dig into that. But just for those people who haven't listened to that those episodes yet, and I will urge them to check out those episodes right now, those watching on YouTube, the thumbnails be flying up, you need to listen to those previous episodes to really appreciate all the wonderful things we've covered so far. But just tell them about your week to week, day to day dentistry that you're passionate about. [Pav]Jaz, firstly, thank you for having me back again. Secondly, all I do is place implants. That's it, I don't do anything else. So what's the best way to frame it as an average implantologist and ...