Written Examination

15% of exam

• Assess the patient’s medical history
• Evaluate the patient’s bone anatomy
• Assess patient risk factors
• Identify all clinical parameters for a completely edentulous patient
• Identify all clinical parameters for a partially edentulous patient
• Assess the patient’s dental history
• Obtain and evaluate diagnostic records
• Obtain and evaluate CBCT scans
• Assess the patient’s facial esthetics
• Assess the patient’s temporomandibular joints and parafunctional habits
• Obtain and assess the patient’s clinical and medical laboratory tests

18% of exam

• Select the most appropriate treatment
• Educate the patient on the limitations of the proposed implant therapy
• Integrate the patient’s medical and dental history findings into the proposed treatment
• Evaluate all pertinent treatment options with the patient
• Modify treatment plan based on biomechanics
• Assess and manage peri-operative pharmacological parameters
• Plan and present the sequence (staging) of the proposed treatment plan to the patient
• Modify treatment plan based on esthetics
• Coordinate the phases of the patient’s proposed treatment plan with dental and non-dental healthcare providers

44% of exam

• Use an aseptic field during surgery
• Perform a framework try-in
• Make and evaluate a final impression for 4 or more implants
• Design and fabricate a full arch prosthesis
• Design, manage, and suture various flaps
• Monitor and assess the patient’s peri-operative vital signs
• Implement a surgical and prosthetic contingency plan
• Make and evaluate a final impression for 3 or less implants
• Manage the patient’s anxiolytic state peri-operatively
• Maintenance and augmentation of the patient’s ridge
• Customize peri-operative protocols (hygiene, diet, medications, habit control, temporization, nightguard, occlusal control, etc.)
• Design, fabricate, and place a screw retained fixed prosthesis
• Utilize digital technology for treatment (CBCT, printed models, printed surgical guides, impressions, restorations, etc.)
• Perform a one or two stage implant surgery
• Assess primary and secondary implant stability
• Design and fabricate a single tooth transitional prosthesis for soft tissue contour
• Perform soft tissue grafting procedures
• Evaluate different radiographic modalities throughout treatment
• Design, fabricate, and place a removable overdenture
• Design, fabricate, and place a cement retained fixed prosthesis
• Use guided tissue regenerative procedures
• Manage the patient’s soft tissue
• Perform pre-prosthetic surgery, including hard and soft tissue
• Augment the patient’s sinus
• Evaluate the degree of healing and patient compliance
• Place implants in a healed ridge for a full arch with or without immediate functional load
• Perform immediate implant placement for a full arch with or without immediate functional load
• Perform immediate implant placement for a single tooth with or without a provisional
• Design and fabricate surgical guides
• Place short implants (<7mm)

8% of exam

• Assess comfort, occlusion, function, and esthetics
• Perform periodic radiographic evaluation
• Evaluate the patient’s implant treatment outcome periodically and refine as needed
• Customize maintenance protocols
• Evaluate the significance of changes in the patient’s physical and psychological health
• Identify and address changes in the patient’s temporomandibular status and parafunctional habits
• Identify changes in the patient’s lifestyle (social habits, vocational, employment, marital, and/or financial)

15% of exam

• Prevent and manage medical emergencies
• Prevent and manage post-operative surgical complications
• Prevent and manage intra-operative surgical complications
• Prevent and manage prosthetic complications
• Prevent and manage aesthetic complications
• Prevent and manage neurosensory disturbances
• Identify and manage peri-implantitis
• Treat a failing implant