So, I have a habit of doing this here at times, and not over frequently because I don't want to kick the arse out of it.
Some years ago, I wrote a blog called No Superstar Required. It was a job opportunity which was extraordinary, which was taken up by Beatriz Sanchez, who's now an ITI fellow, level one implant clinician, and leads our Campbell Academy curriculum project for multiple sites.
It worked, but it was a subtle blog.
Another one that I posted was when Rony Young was coming, and I just posted that we were going to have an extraordinary clinician who was world-class come to do a master class, and we almost filled that masterclass, even though people didn't know who the speaker was, because they trusted us.
So, this is another one of those.
Next year, in 2027, in the first week of February, I intend to take 16 clinicians to São Paulo in Brazil. The reason I intend to do that is because we have our woman in Brazil, Cintia Fukuoka . Cintia was our ITI scholar at the clinic last year. She came from Sao Paulo and spent a year learning, developing, and teaching, and she has become an extraordinary and integral part of the team at the Campbell Academy and Campbell Clinic, even though she is thousands of miles away in Brazil.
Cintia is an extraordinary individual, and when she went back to Brazil, she wanted a way to continue to collaborate with the Campbell Academy, and so she suggested that we hitch up with the university in São Paulo, where she is associated, and we run a course in Brazil for our dentists.
And so why would we ever do that?
Why would we ship 16 people to Brazil to do a course?
Well, the reason we would do that is that you'd have the opportunity over the space of 5 days to place many surgical implants and procedures associated. We would also have the opportunity to split that into 3 cohorts of straightforward, advanced and complex (you could position yourself). If you were a young practitioner wishing to place 10, 15, or 20 implants in a week to kickstart your surgical skills and get moving, you'd be able to do it there. If you were advanced and you wanted to do more anterior aesthetic cases, or even sinus grafting, you would be able to do that. If you wanted to do some full arch cases, you would be able to do that.
The risk with this and the problem is that the Brazil course concept has been damaged by other people who got patients from the favelas and had implants placed into them (even zygomatics closed) with no intention of ever restoring them and treating the patients as though they were an object.
We would never, ever, ever entertain something like that.
What we have, though, is Cintia working with the university, and so the real key here is that Cintia would be your lead for this course, and she would take you through the patients from a distance with the digital material, the surgical guides and all the planning before you get there. You could place the cases digitally, guided, you would use Straumann implants and Geitlisch biomaterials, and you would also see them restored at the other end.
It won't be cheap, this course, because this is definitely not cheap. You have to pay for the course and pay to get there (you could fly economy or business class), but what I'm looking for now is a show of hands. I need 16 people for an extraordinary adventure of a lifetime in South America, and perhaps one of the most intensive and rewarding educational experiences you could imagine.
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Hope to see you there, it will be unforgettable.
Blog Post Number - 4453