How to Perform and Perfect Full-Arch Freehand Surgery
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This session will review the often-debated topic of guided versus non-guided full-arch surgery. The lecture will emphasize the advantages that freehand surgery provides the full-arch surgeon and will help provide the practitioner the confidence and clinical techniques to consistently execute it at a high level.
Key topics include: The benefits of developing freehand full-arch skills and techniques, necessary instrumentation, treatment planning for freehand full-arch cases, denoting/marking intraoperative ID points using the graphite-guided technique, selecting and correlating radiographic and clinical reference points for intraoperative use, and management of the edentulous arch from a freehand perspective.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this program, participants should be able to:
- Explain why freehand full-arch surgery is an important and beneficial surgical skill to develop and provide to patients.
- Apply treatment plans and execute high-level, quality full-arch surgeries without the use of a traditional guide.
- Implement optimal freehand surgery treatment planning and techniques with a specific focus on the edentulous arch.
Matthew Krieger, DMD
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Dedicated Full-Arch Practice
Nuvia Dental Implant Center
Austin, Texas
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
An Internet-based CDE/CME Activity
Original Release Date: September 15, 2025
Expiration Date: September 15, 2028
Estimated time to complete this educational activity: 1 hour
Method of participation: Self-Study
Matthew Krieger, DMD
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Dedicated Full-Arch Practice
Nuvia Dental Implant Center
Dr. Matthew Krieger was inspired to pursue Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery while attending dental school. He has always been driven by the urge to help others and found that the specialty of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery provided a way to comfortably and efficiently resolve patients’ dental and facial pain, as well as improve facial esthetics through procedures such as dental implant placement.
While Dr. Krieger has been practicing Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery since 2015, he has been focused exclusively on the “All-On-X” full arch implant procedure since 2019. He found a true passion for this surgery when he witnessed the life changing effect and profound impact the procedure can have on the health and emotional well being of patients. Dr. Krieger looks forward to delivering this exceptional oral surgery and dental implant care to patients every day in the community of Austin, Texas.
Education & Residency:
Dr. Krieger earned a bachelor’s degree in Spanish from Whitworth College in 2006. He completed dental school at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in 2011 with a Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) degree. Following dental school, Dr. Krieger completed his oral and maxillofacial surgery residency at Christiana Care Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware.
Dr. Krieger is licensed to practice dentistry in Texas as a specialist in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He is also licensed to perform general anesthesia. He is a member of state and national societies. He also attends several meetings each year for continuing education in his specialty.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose.
Continuing Education Provider Approval
The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider.
ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education.
ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.
The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons designates this activity for 1.25 continuing education credit(s).
AGD - Accepted Program Provider
FAGD/MAGD Credit
11/1/22-12/31/26
Provider ID# 214680
The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons designates this internet-based enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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