The flagship qualification
The Postgraduate Implant Diploma.
The flagship postgraduate diploma — advanced, accredited training in surgical and restorative implant dentistry.
Surgical & restorative, end to end.
Planning & assessment
Surgical planning, patient assessment and case selection.
Placement techniques
Implant placement, mentored from planning through to surgery.
Restorative & follow-up
Restorative integration and long-term follow-up.
Hands-on clinical sessions.
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Key facts
The essentials of the Dip.Imp.Dent(BCDIS) programme at a glance.
Location
Dental Implant Centre Twyford, 1 Church Street, Twyford, Reading RG10 9DP — in Berkshire, around 25 minutes from Heathrow (M4), with direct rail links via Twyford station (Elizabeth line and GWR).
Faculty
Over 145 years' combined clinical experience across the faculty — clinicians who deliver regulated postgraduate training and qualifications.
CPD
480 hours of verifiable CPD across the programme.
Fully digital workflow
A fully digital implant workflow — CBCT diagnostics, intra-oral scanning and guided surgery throughout.
Friday–Saturday modules
Modules run Friday–Saturday — one working day out of practice per module. The exams module runs Friday–Sunday.
Getting here
Around 25 minutes from Heathrow by car (M4), in Berkshire — and direct trains run from Twyford station to London Paddington. Convenient for UK and international delegates alike.
Course dates 2026–28
Twelve modules over eighteen months at the Dental Implant Centre Twyford. Modules run Friday–Saturday.
Module 1 — 23–24 October 2026
- Record keeping, assessment, consent, pre-op and post-op protocols
- Case documentation, criteria and presentation
- Components and terminology
- Surgical kits overview
- Data required for treatment-planning cases
- Introduction to the MegaGen implant system and its components
- Asepsis training and set-up
- Essential medicine related to implant surgery
Module 2 — 13–14 November 2026
- Review of clinical case PDP treatment-plan approvals
- Introduction to flap design
- Introduction to osteotomy creation
- Placement insertion torques of implants and temporisation
- Soft-tissue practical skills
- Live case
- Clinical photography practical
- Indemnity insurance and further medicolegal aspects
Module 3 — 29–30 January 2027
- Dissertation writing overview
- Literature searching and clinical evidence review
- Live cases — students place under supervision in the main clinic
- Impression materials and demonstration
- Open- and closed-tray impressions
- Surgical skills practical — placements, flaps and suturing
- GBR practical — synthetic, autogenous and allograft grafting, part 1
Module 4 — 19–20 February 2027
- Marketing in general dental practice
- CBCT radiography and diagnosis
- CBCT Level 1 (referrer) and Level 2 (reporting)
- Intra-oral scanning and planning criteria
- Overdentures and surgical kits review, part 2
- Live case — students start placing on patients
Module 5 — 23–24 April 2027
- Reviewing clinical evidence
- Thesis writing
- Review of student cases
- Occlusion part 2 — advanced considerations
- OSCE mock practical
- Implant removal and complications management, part 1
- Live full-arch guided case + implant removal demonstration
Module 6 — 18–19 June 2027
- Implant complications
- Peri-implantitis and peri-mucositis management
- Medical issues relating to dental implants
- Planning mistakes
- Operative mistakes
- Post-operative complications management
- Replacing implants practical
Module 7 — 16–17 July 2027
- Ethical considerations
- Single teeth
- Short-span bridges
- Full-arch restorations
- Cement-retained
- Screw-retained
- Lateral-fixation screw-retained
- Sinus grafting — internal and external
Module 8 — 17–18 September 2027
- Asepsis theory and practice, part 2
- Training of surgical assistants and dental care professionals
- Timescales:
- delayed placement
- hard-tissue management — bone manipulation
- soft-tissue management
- immediate placement, delayed loading
- immediate loading — full arches
Module 9 — 12–13 November 2027
- Restorative phases
- Provisional restorations
- Transitional restorations
- Definitive restorations
- Impression techniques:
- open tray
- closed tray
- conventional
- impressions at first-stage surgery
Module 10 — 21–22 January 2028
- Block grafts — partial extraction technique
- Biomaterials and GBR
- Full-arch restorations — All-on-4, All-on-X, immediate loading
- Extra-maxillary implants
- Sedation in general practice overview
- Dealing with bleeding and arterial bleeds
- Osteotome use and bone plates
Module 11 — 10–11 March 2028
- Recap
- Surgery
- Soft-tissue management
- Hard-tissue management
- Bone expansion
- Ridge expansion
- Live cases skills
- Student literature reviews
Students sitting the diploma examination must complete their cases by this module.
Module 12 — Examinations — 5–7 May 2028
- Student case presentations
- OSCE assessments
- DOMS assessment results
- Viva examinations
- Diploma results
Raise your standard.
Applications for the Dip.Imp.Dent(BCDIS) are made on our fees & application page.