Clinical hospitation – advancing clinical excellence while integrating structured case documentation into real-world practice

Clinical residency & advanced treatment concepts module

This module provides participants with immersive, hands-on clinical exposure through a structured clinical residency at a Straumann customer or Key Opinion Leader (KOL) clinic. It is designed to bridge advanced clinical concepts with real-world practice, enabling participants to observe, understand, and integrate high-level implant-based restorative workflows into their own clinical routines.

Participants enhance their clinical expertise by expanding their treatment portfolio and gaining in-depth insights into advanced implant-based restorative concepts through individualized training at world-renowned clinical centers. Particular emphasis is placed on integrating effective case documentation into daily clinical practice, including the alignment of workflows, key stakeholders, and practical facilitation.

Residencies are tailored to participants’ individual areas of interest and provide focused exposure to specific treatment concepts, while fostering clinical confidence and excellence through direct observation and guided learning.

Key focus areas include:

• Integrating case documentation into everyday clinical routines
• Advancing implant-based restorative treatment expertise 
• Individualized training in advanced treatment concepts
• Exposure to best practices at Straumann customer and KOL clinics
• Focus areas such as full-arch rehabilitation, esthetics, and digital dentistry workflows

Designed to strengthen clinical competence and broaden therapeutic perspectives, this module enables participants to translate advanced clinical knowledge into daily practice while learning from leading experts within the Straumann network. Particular emphasis is placed on integrating effective case documentation into routine clinical workflows, including the alignment of processes, key stakeholders, and practical facilitation to ensure structured and sustainable implementation.

To ensure individualized supervision while covering a broad range of indications and treatment options, participants may choose from six carefully selected clinics. The clinical hospitation will be completed in pairs, with two participants attending the selected clinic together. The clinics will make every reasonable effort to have patients presenting with the defined indications available during the observership; however, availability may depend on clinical scheduling and case flow.

Please find below an overview of the clinical focus areas offered by each respective clinic.

Horia Barbu
Advanced Dental Education Center Bucharest, Romania

• Lateral and vertical bone grafting using Khoury techniques
• Soft tissue management after bone grafting, also using Prof. Khoury techniques (Kazanjian, Appically repositioned flap)
• Nasal floor elevation 
• Sinus lift elevation simultaneously with cyst removal 
• Immediate loading 
• Pterygoid and Transsinus implants 
• Zygomatic implants
• Nerve repositioning and lateralisation
• Sinus lift simultaneously with lateral or vertical bone augmentation
• Immediacy and bone grafting from simple to advanced techniques

Jiří Blahák
Bladent, Nove Mesto, Czech Republic

• Digital workflow in implantology - full digital workflow
• Guided surgery – Implantstudio 3Shape, coDiagnostix 
• Immediate implant placement in compromised socket with provisionalization
• Autologous bone augmentation - carrot technique, Khoury technique, sinus-lift
• Soft tissue around implants.

Maja Chmielewska & Kris Chmielewski
SmileClinic Chmielewski & Karczewska Advanced Implant Center Gdansk, Poland

• Digital workflows
• Guided surgery 
• High-end aesthetic cases 
• Hard and soft tissue augmentations
• ProArch® – surgery and prosthetics – FP1 & FP3

Aleksa Marković & team
Faculty of Dental Medicine University of Belgrade, Serbia

• Implant therapy in the esthetic zone– surgical and prosthetic aspects
• Immediate implant placement with immediate loading
• Full arch rehabilitations 

Algirdas Puišys
Meliva Clinic Vilnius, Lithuania 

• Immediate implants
• Soft tissue augmentation 
• Bone grafting 
• Implants in the aesthetic area 
• Aesthetic complication correction 

Irena Sailer & team
University of Geneva, Switzerland

• Topics pending