Implant & Aesthetic Academy

07/10/2026

A crown that doesn’t fit is not a crown problem for long.

Poor fit. Peri-implantitis. An implant removed with calculus covering the threads.

Walk away from that site — and what you’re left with isn’t a socket. It’s a collapsed ridge, a missing buccal plate, and nowhere to place an implant.

So we rebuilt it. 🦷

Flap raised. Defect visualised. Measured — not eyeballed.

A titanium tenting plate fixed to the ridge to create and maintain the space. Particulate graft packed around and beneath it, built beyond the final contour.

An Ossix Plus membrane placed over the graft as the barrier, cut at the midline and folded over.

Then came the part that often decides whether GBR succeeds or fails:

Closure.

A rotated palatal flap over a connective tissue graft, secured with an apical suture and sling suture.

Because the graft isn’t the whole story.

Space. Stability. Closure.

Then six months of doing absolutely nothing.

Part 2 is the re-entry — and what the bone actually did.

Swipe through all 17 steps of the case. 👉

Want to get hands-on with the principles behind it?

GBR Course | 23–24 October | Cape Town

Space-making, graft stability, membrane management and predictable closure — worked through clinically and hands-on.

Last seats available.

🔗 Book via the link in bio.

30/09/2026

100 minutes on the Pikos stage. This is what the faculty said. 🔥

Prof Howard Gluckman () took the stage at the Bone Grafting Symposium 2026 in Orlando. He opened with his own failures, then walked the room through what they taught him: his 5-step workflow, the biology behind palatal connective tissue grafts, and why saving teeth should come before the rush to full arch.

The response from his peers speaks for itself. Thank you to .richardmiron, , , .ashi_singh, .castrocalderon, and gumagician for the kind words, and to the Pikos Institute for having him.

We are so incredibly proud to be led by a visionary 🔥

This is the same thinking we teach at the Implant & Aesthetic Academy in Cape Town. Want to learn it first-hand? Course dates are at the link in bio.

07/09/2026

From one room to a purpose-built home.

Our very first course crammed eight students into a small room at Dr Mark Otto’s own practice. From there we moved — Johannesburg, back to Cape Town, through Zevenwacht and Wright Millners, before settling into our home today at Enamel Clinic, with space to train 36 students at a time.

Grateful to everyone who gave us a room to grow in along the way — especially Wright Millners and Enamel Clinic for helping shape what IAA has become.

Same passion. A lot more room to teach it in.

04/09/2026

Seats are filling up for our Basic Dental Implantology Course — 18–19 September in Cape Town.

Two days, fully hands-on, CPD accredited. Whether you’re newly qualified or refining your technique, this course is built to take you from theory straight into practical, real-world application.
Plus over R6 000 worth of free implants, yours to use in practice!
We’re down to just a few spots. If you’ve been thinking about it, now’s the time — DM us or enquire below.

📍 De Waterkant Centre, Green Point, Cape Town
🗓️ 18–19 September 2026

Our Basic Dental Implantology Course will give you the necessary training to complete basic implant cases. Both beginners and more advanced practitioners will benefit from this course

03/09/2026

A poorly aesthetic crown is rarely just a crown problem.

This patient came to us unhappy with the final restoration. What she was actually living with was an implant in the wrong three-dimensional position,soft tissue that had never been developed, and a crown built short to try and hide both.

When we turned the screw to remove the crown, the implant turned with it. It had never integrated. So it came out, and we started again properly.

Four months of healing. Then a fully guided rebuild: the implant position planned in 3D, the surgical guide and the provisional both made before the patient sat in the chair. Bone reduced to create the EBC space, the buccal wall contoured to give the soft tissue somewhere to go, and a modified infold
technique to develop the profile.

The last slide is day one. Immediate provisional in place, soft tissue sutured around it, emergence profile and colour match by the guys at Diceram. The definitive crown follows once the tissue has matured, and we will post it.

Swipe through all 18 steps.

This is exactly the kind of case we work through on the IAA hands-on programmes. Not the easy ones. The ones that walk in already failed.

Case by Prof Howard Gluckman

02/09/2026

A little of our own history, this one felt worth sharing.

IAA was born from a conversation between two friends who believed South African clinicians deserved better.

It started on a train in Europe — Prof Howard Gluckman, Dr Mark Otto, and Professor Andre Van Zyl, talking about what dental education in South Africa was missing. Our first course crammed eight students into a small room at Mark’s own practice. Twenty-two years later, every course we run still carries a piece of what those two friends started together.

Ensuring dental education excellence for clinicians 📍

27/08/2026

Dr Ross Hickman flew in from Australia for our Full Arch course. 🇦🇺🇿🇦

He came looking for something specific: a course that bridges theory and ex*****on in full arch implant rehabilitation.

He found it here. 📍

“A lot of courses become heavily focused in one aspect of treatment. I really enjoyed the IAA approach and the balanced perspective we were given.”

Full Arch course: 30 and 31 October, 1 November 2026.
Limited seats. Link in bio.

25/08/2026

🇬🇧 The IAA UK Course is back — and better than ever!

Following the success of our first instalment, we’re bringing the CBCT & Intraoral Scanning Course back to Nottingham this October and November — and spots are limited.

Led by an exceptional faculty including maxillofacial radiologist Dr Edward Walker and maxillofacial consultant Dr Ibraz Siddique alongside Dr Bradley Bredekamp, Dr Yusuf Surtee and Dr Saquib Aziz, this course is designed to elevate your imaging confidence and digital workflow skills.

What’s included:
✅ Hands-on scanning sessions
✅ CBCT case interpretation workshops
✅ Lunch, dinner & refreshments
✅ CPD hours certificate
✅ All materials & digital notes

📅 23-24 October & 20-21 November 2026
📍 Bridgford Dental Practice, Nottingham

Swipe to find out more and drop us a DM or click the link in bio to secure your spot. 👆

20/08/2026

Five stars from Dr Ashwin Kassan, and the line that matters most to us: “learnt new surgical techniques that could be implemented in my practice and improve my treatment outcomes.”

Two days of Advanced Bone Augmentation & Soft Tissue Management with Dr Luca De Stavola.

The real measure of a course is not how it feels on the day, it’s what makes it back into the surgery on Monday.

Thank you Ashwin, and thank you Dr Luca De Stavola for two exceptional days in Cape Town.

18/08/2026

A first look. 😉🔥🇮🇹✈️ From Padova to Cape Town.

Two days. One exceptional mind in bone augmentation.

IAA had the privilege of welcoming Dr Luca De Stavola from Padova, Italy, to the Mother City for an immersive weekend of advanced education, innovation and hands-on learning.

Our delegates went deep into advanced bone augmentation, soft tissue management and the hands-on Khoury technique — with real models, real instruments and, most importantly, real-time expert guidance.

Bone harvesting. Shell technique. Precision. Practical application.

This is what excellence in implant education looks like. 🇮🇹🇿🇦🔥

And this is only the beginning… 👀