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6-Day LIVE Patient Surgical Externship
Intermediate to Advanced
Rosarito, Mexico
2025 Dates
January 20-25, 2025 Sold out
June 2-7, 2025 Sold out
Sept 29 – Oct 4, 2025 Sold out
2026 Dates
February 23-28, 2026 Sold out
September 14-19, 2026
2027 Dates
February 22-27, 2027
September 13-18, 2027
September 13-18, 2027
About CIl Live Patient Externships
This program has allowed hundreds of patients from all over the United States to receive the dental care they need but could not otherwise afford. Patient testimonials describe the experience as life-changing, allowing them to eat foods they had given up enjoying and to rediscover the smiles they thought they had lost forever. Some even described the experience as fun and like a “vacation” due to the beautiful location.
Potential patients are screened before being accepted into the program to make sure they are good candidates for dental implant treatment, and individualized plans are made according to the patient’s particular situation. Patients are carefully informed of all the steps and any risks that might be involved. Patients arrive in San Diego and are shuttled to the facilities in Mexico, which are located on the beach in a gated community, offering gorgeous views and a relaxing setting.
Dr Louie Al-Faraje and the other members of the CII faculty are overjoyed to be able to offer this win-win scenario in which they have been able to provide not only essential training to practicing dentists but also millions of dollars’ worth of free dental implants. Perhaps more importantly, they have been able to give renewed confidence, self-esteem, and quality of life to people in a range of situations, from the elderly to veterans to people young and old who simply cannot afford the cost of replacing their failing teeth with implants.
Program Overview:
In this 6-day comprehensive live patient program, doctors will learn CBCT planning & surgical anatomy, prosthetic-driven surgical planning, flap design, suturing, atraumatic extraction techniques, socket grafting & simple ridge augmentation, crestal sinus lift techniques, and post-operative management.
Doctors will also engage in 4 hours of treatment planning each morning.
Participants will operate and assist across multiple cases per day, rotating roles to maximize their surgical exposure and learning under the guidance of world-class faculty.
Train with expert faculty in a 2:1 student-to-instructor ratio
Learning Objectives:
- Learn treatment planning during the 3-4 hours of daily treatment planning sessions.
- Learn proper surgical techniques (flap design, drilling principles, biomechanics, and more).
- Place multiple implants (on average, each attendee places 10-15 implants).
- Assist with multiple implants (as doctors are divided into groups of two, each doctor, in addition to placing 10-15 implants, will assist their partner in placing their 10-15 implants).
- Learn how to avoid and manage complications.
- Experience implant placement techniques in both edentulous areas and immediate extraction sockets.
- Learn how to perform alveoloplasty.
- Learn various suturing techniques and experience different suturing materials.
Program includes:
- All materials and implants.
- Certificate of attendance.
- 48 CE Credits (100 CE Credits available with add-on online component)
- Course manual.
- Flights and lodging will need to be arranged by the participant; however, we will provide transportation to and from San Diego International Airport (SAN) as well as transportation in Mexico.
- Special product discounts.
- Lunch and dinner will be provided by CIl, with breakfast provided by the hotel.
- Dr. Al-Faraje’s Surgical Complications in Oral Implantology Textbook.
- Dr. Al-Faraje’s Oral Implantology Review: A Study Guide.
- Dr. Al-Faraje’s Oral Implantology Surgical Procedures Checklist.
- Lecture material and recorded surgical videos are provided to participants before the program to enhance the learning experience.
- Completion of this program fulfills the fellowship requirements for the ICOI.
Tuition:
- $12,995
- Clinical observation only: $4,995
- Dental assistant: $1,995
Participants:
- Maximum 15 participants
Location:
- The program will be provided at the California Implant Institute (Rosarito, Mexico campus), which is located at Km. 40 (45-minute drive south of USA/Mexico border).
Payment options:
- Pay online the full amount of the course
- Installment Option:
$2500 deposit due with registration
The balance is due 4 weeks prior to the start of the program. - Bank Transfer:
JP Morgan Chase Bank,
270 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10017Account Name: California Implant Institute
Account #: 326103550
SWIFT #: CHASUS33
0% interest for 6 months and 12 months.
Additional terms of 18 months and 24 months available with interest.
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FACULTY
Dr. Louie Al-Faraje literally defined and authored the art of Oral Implantology. As a leading authority, he created many classifications and techniques, the standards by which oral implantology surgical procedures can be successfully performed. His name has become synonymous with results-oriented oral implantology treatments around the world.
Louie Al-Faraje
Clinical Instructor
Dr. Le is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral Implantology and Implant Dentistry (ABOI/ID). He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry, and a fellow of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists. He earned his Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is currently practicing as a Implant Specialist in the Bay Area, California.
Andy Le
Clinical Instructor
After graduating from Tulane in 1983, he received his dental degree from the Louisiana State University School of Dentistry in 1987. He was then accepted to a two-year hospital-based residency, where he obtained advanced training in oral surgery, implant dentistry, intravenous sedation, and comprehensive rehabilitation and restorative dentistry.
In 1995, he received advanced surgical implant training through the University of Miami School of Medicine.
Jorge Aguilar
Clinical Instructor
Dr. Barry Hillam graduated from the University of Iowa College of Dentistry in 2004. He entered private practice in Provo, Utah, where he made implants, bone grafting, and connective tissue grafting a regular part of his practice. Since that time he has lectured and written on topics including comprehensive treatment planning, implant implementation, implant prosthetics, connective tissue grafting, dental photography, and personal productivity.
He also enjoys teaching oral implantology and holds licenses in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and Utah.
Barry Hillam
Clinical Instructor
Dr. Steve Hurst is a 1993 graduate of the UCLA School of Dentistry and a Fellow of the California Implant Institute. He maintains his practice in San Diego, emphasizing dental implant placement and restorations. Dr. Hurst coordinates a few aspects of the California Implant Institute’s live patient externship program.
Steven Hurst
Clinical Instructor
Dr. Chad Slocum graduated from the University of Washington School of Dentistry in 1998. He then continued his education by completing a one-year general practice residency program at the University of Washington Medical Center in 1999. Dr. Slocum maintains his private practice in Mill Creek, Washington, with an emphasis on implant surgery, bone grafting, and complex restorative care. He is a Fellow of the California Implant Institute and a Fellow of the ICOI.
Chad Slocum
Clinical Instructor
Dr. Muhaimin’s patients travel from as far away as San Jose to see him – they love him that much! His patients describe him as professional, attentive, gentle and extremely personable and fun. They also talk about his great sense of humor and down-to-earth personality that puts even the most fearful patient at ease immediately.
Dawud Muhaimin
Clinical Instructor
Domenico Cascione obtained his primary education in Bari (Italy), where he was also certified as a Dental Technologist (CDT) in 1985. From 1986 to 2004 he was the owner and director of Dental Laboratory in Bari (Italy). He is a Master Ceramist and also is a specialist in metallurgy, implant work and complex esthetic rehabilitation. In 2005 he was awarded a Bachelor of Science of the Dental Technology degree from the University of Illinois.
Domenico Cascione
Clinical Instructor
"Dr. Al-Faraje's series of courses on Implants and Advanced Bone Grafting are phenomenal. Dr. Al-Faraje has an outstanding clinical and didactic knowledge of his course content. He is extremely precise and has fantastic written guidelines and steps for his course attendees. Dr. Al-Faraje's venue, power point presentations and DVD's are excellent. He sets a tone and desire for continual learning for his participants.
FIRST CLASS, 5 STARS, SUPERIOR!!."
The California Implant Institute is proudly sponsored by TruAbutment & Uris Implants
All implants used in the Live Patient Surgical Externship Programs are made by Uris Implants
