Recent improvement of Implantology driven by computers improved the production and the placement of dental implants. Using a CT scan based planning system, in fact, the surgeon is able to select the optimal location for implant placement. Moreover precise osteotomy control is performed using stereolithographic surgical guides.

Recent research demonstrates that the emerging methods for transfer of CT scanning implant planning into CAD-CAM surgical guide are very precise. The CAI Academy, during the 1st International Computer Aided Implantology Academy Congress (May 2006), will present a new cone-beam computed tomography (CT) scanner technology, together with recent results of radiation dose and accuracy studies. The low-cost CT scanner will impact dentists by offering better access to computed tomography images with outstanding implications to implant and other dental diagnosis, which will be illustrated during the lecture. World-famous speakers, pioneers in using the new technologies, such as Daniel van Steenberghe (Belgium), David Sarment (USA) and Philippe Tardieu (France), just to mention a few, will intervene and alternate with their presentations in order to discuss and expand on how these new computerized procedures have completely revolutionized the traditional surgical approach in oral implantology.

The Computer Aided Implantology Academy is an international non-profit association that oganizes implantology courses, workshops and congresses for Implantologists and Prosthesists who need continuous adjournments and education on Computer Guided Implantology.