USA - Upcoming Courses

For the Treatment Planning, Placement
and Restoration of Dental Implants.

Live Surgery Dates
• September 19, 2025
• October 17, 2025
• December 12, 2025
• January 16, 2026
• February 20, 2026
• April 17, 2026

Learn to predictably treat your patients using dental implants. You will be encouraged to bring cases for review and you will benefit from one-on-one treatment planning. Our instructors will guide you in your acquisition of the knowledge and confidence to treat your own cases from start to finish. You will learn to use CT guided surgical techniques, participate in handson model workshops and observe and place implants in live surgeries. Upon completion of this course you will understand why, when, and how patients can benefit from dental implant
treatment as well as how to incorpoate implant treatment into your practice.

Learning objectives:

- Understand the AI workflow in implant planning.
- Learn the simple steps of implant planning, surgical guide, and crown design.
- Learn an efficient digital workflow you can use tomorrow to increase implant production.
- Review essential implant biology, treatment planning and how to reduce failure.
- Create your own implant plan and final crown using AI.
- Review basic principles of printing your guide.
- Learn how to use a keyless guided surgical kit.
- Place implant with guide into simulated maxilla.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand treatment planning aspects in your practice
• Adapt from single tooth to full arch reconstruction cases
• Simplify armamentarium when utilizing implants
• "Know their limitations" and understand the limitations of bone, implants, surgery, and grafting
• Simplify treatment planning, case presentation, and implement both phases of treatment (surgical and prosthetic)
• Cost Considerations
• Managing Complications

Learning objectives:

- Understand the AI workflow in implant planning.
- Learn the simple steps of implant planning, surgical guide, and crown design.
- Learn an efficient digital workflow you can use tomorrow to increase implant production.
- Review essential implant biology, treatment planning and how to reduce failure.
- Create your own implant plan and final crown using AI.
- Review basic principles of printing your guide.
- Learn how to use a keyless guided surgical kit.
- Place implant with guide into simulated maxilla.

This course assumes a base level knowledge of computer use and software. You do not need previous experience with Blue Sky Plan or implant placement.

Two-day hands-on software-based course covers all aspects of guided surgery. This course requires no previous experience.

• Master the open architecture Blue Sky Bio software
• Learn to quickly design your own guided surgery cases from single tooth up to full arches for any brand of implants
• Learn the treatment planning requirements for predictable surgical and prosthetic success
• Learn how to export and 3d print your own surgical guides or how to outsource it to affordable services
• Hands-on exercises that teach you the drill sequence of placing implants with using guided kits
• How to manage cases with high scatter
• How to design provisional and final prosthetics
much more….

Learning Objectives:

• Develop a streamlined workflow to capture all the necessary data in one clinical appt. allowing for 2nd visit final denture delivery using the novel Glenn • • Denture Impression Trays
• Learn how to digitize all the necessary data to do ideal smile design and create a digital denture
• Explore various technologies and their roles in digital denture fabrication such as facial scanners, desktop scanners, intraoral scanners, and 3d printers
• Learn to use the BSB Digital Denture Module and Exocad to virtually set teeth and generate digital dentures
• Understand the various materials and fabrication options for fabricating the actual denture such as 3d printing, milling, or injecting traditional acrylic in house
• Learn affordable ways to blend traditional and digital denture techniques
• Learn how to 3d print dentures and the process of bonding teeth to the base and how to polish for delivery
• Learn how to characterize monolithic dentures with gingival composite and stains
Much more…

This is an advanced course so participants should already understand the basics of Blue Sky Plan and designing simple guides. Participants should bring their own powerful laptop to design cases in the hands-on portion. (Min specs: 32 GB RAM, NVIDIA 1070 video card, or equivalent, with 4GB dedicated memory, i7 processor).

This On Demand course was created from a recording of a recent hands-on course. The benefit of a recorded live course over a stand-along recording is that the viewer benefits from the live discussions that always occur in a classroom setting.

In this course, we will be covering the basics of Clear Aligner Case Design and Fabrication. We will start from the basics of diagnostics, case selection, case workup, and how to implement model printing and tray fabrication in-office. Attendees will have the tools and strategies to implement the protocols the day they return to their practices. We will show you how to setup your cases as efficiently as possible and help you to delegate as much as possible. This course will not be for the faint of heart. We will be working hard and not holding back.

This On Demand course was created from a recording of a recent hands-on course. The benefit of a recorded live course over a stand-along recording is that the viewer benefits from the live discussions that always occur in a classroom setting.

In this course, we will be covering the basics of Guided Surgery including some more advanced strategies for full arch guides (even a BONUS peek into bone reduction guides).

Attendees will have the tools and strategies to implement both protocols the day they return to their practices.

We will show you how to design surgical guides in just minutes and help you to delegate as much as possible.

In this course, students will learn how to use Blue Sky Plan as well as basic ways to implement 3D printing in their offices.
A one hour long power point lecture is given by Dr. Russell Schafer that shows how he does design in his office as well as he does the basics of 3d printing.

After this, Dr. Schafer has 20 separate modules that cover:
1) How to build, articulate, and manipulate models in Blue Sky Plan
2) How to design crowns and bridges using both AI and Blue Sky Plan Libraries
3) How to design dentures and immediate dentures in Blue Sky Plan
4) How to create a surgical guide as well as how to create implant crowns with Blue Sky Plan.
Each individual module is between 15 to 90 minutes long depending on the topic and also has the corresponding STL files to follow along with Dr. Schafer.

Learn a methodical and repeatable approach to CBCT-based tx planning that will give you confidence in the operatory. This course is a required pre-requisite for those who are enrolling in the Entry Point™ live patient treatment sessions.

While this course is a critical part of the Entry Point™ continuum, it can also be taken as a standalone course. It is ideally suited for those who are already trained in implantology, but who do not yet feel comfortable with CBCT scanning and DICOM manipulation.

NOTE: First Hour of the course is offered for free: https://koernercenter.com/product/ep-txplanning-intro/

This 90-minute online course is designed to turn the normally frustrating and unpredictable process of denture creation into a simple, streamlined, and more profitable aspect of your practice, all while delivering better outcomes for your patients. Also Dr. Schafer includes the files to 3d Print your own denture trays to do your own 3 Step dentures as well as has a video to show how to use Blue Sky Plan to design dentures.

This is an edited down recording of a live course held in my office and streamed online. This allows the viewer to review all the same content delivered in the course, at his or her leisure.