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Apache Junction, Arizona

Learn advanced dentistry from a dentist who still does it every day.

Bigler Dental Institute teaches hands-on implants, reconstruction, and modern digital workflows inside a working practice. Not a hotel ballroom, not a slide deck you could have read at home.

  • Taught by a Fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry
  • Live-patient and hands-on formats
  • Hands-on training in a working practice
Four dentists in a bright modern training lab talking through a case together

The institute sits inside Dr. Bigler's practice on South Idaho Road, Apache Junction.

Featured live course

Implant Placement and Restoration

Plan, place, and restore. Two days that take you from the CBCT scan to the seated crown, with Dr. Bigler working beside you.

Format
2 days, hands-on, live patients
Tuition
$10,000
  • Screen your own schedule for implant cases you can keep in-house
  • Run a placement protocol you can repeat next Tuesday
  • Restore your own cases without guessing at components
Dentists working on implant models at a bench during a hands-on course
CE credit for dentists

Every live in-person course at Bigler Dental Institute provides continuing education (CE) credit for dentists.

Meet your instructor

Taught by a dentist who is back in the chair on Monday

Dr. John A. Bigler, DDS, FAGD, founder of Bigler Dental Institute

Dr. John A. Bigler

DDS, FAGD · Founder and lead instructor

Dr. Bigler is a general dentist who has practiced at Canyon Vista Dental Care in Apache Junction since 2004 as owner and mentor doctor. He is a Fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry, a study club leader, and an implant mentor dentist for Inobiosurge of America.

On-demand

Recorded courses you can start tonight

Buy once, watch when the schedule allows. Good preparation before a live course and a good reference after it.

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Implants

Implant Case Selection

How to tell an easy implant case from one that will humble you, before you pick up a handpiece.

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Occlusion

Occlusion Fundamentals for the General Dentist

The occlusion course that finally makes the terminology useful at the chair.

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Digital

Digital Workflow Starter

A recorded primer for practices going digital, so the live course starts at speed.

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Free training

We give real teaching away

The free library is not a trailer for a sales call. It is the same material, taught properly, in shorter pieces.

  • Reading a CBCT for Implant Planning

    The order Dr. Bigler works through a scan in his own practice. Where the nerve actually runs, how much bone is really there once you account for the ridge shape, what the sinus floor is telling you, and the findings that should stop a plan before it starts. Taught end to end, nothing held back for a paid course.

  • Clinical Photography for Case Documentation

    A repeatable photo series any team can shoot in a few minutes, with the camera settings, the retraction and mirror handling, and the lighting that makes shade and contour readable later. Good records make treatment planning easier and make the conversation with a lab or a colleague far shorter.

  • Presenting Treatment So Patients Say Yes

    How to explain a large plan without a script and without pressure. Framing the problem before the solution, phasing the work so a patient can start somewhere, showing records honestly, and answering the fee question without flinching or discounting. The language matters more than the slides.

Start free. Get a real lesson, not a sales pitch.

Leave a name and an email and the free library opens. Full lessons from the same material Dr. Bigler teaches in person.

Study club

The Bigler Study Club

A small group of practicing dentists who meet to work through their own cases with Dr. Bigler. Bring the case you are stuck on. Leave with a plan and people to call.

Serious about leveling up your dentistry? Start with a live course.

Two days in a working practice with a dentist who is still in the chair the following Monday.