KaVo OP 3D Pro CBCT
Cone beam imaging. A 3D rendering of the jaw used to measure bone volume, the floor of the sinus and the path of the inferior alveolar nerve, and to build the digital treatment plan for implants.
Iowa DII / Dr. Ryan Weaver — Credentials & Implant Training
About Dr. Weaver
Every line here
is checkable.
Letters after a name mean nothing if nobody says what they took. This page lists what Dr. Weaver holds, what each one required, and where it came from — and it leaves out everything that could not be verified.
The short version
- D.D.S., Creighton University
- Fellow — Resnik Implant Institute
- Fellow — California Implant Institute
- Diplomate — International Congress of Oral Implantologists
- Over a decade owning and running the practice
The dentist
Ryan Weaver,
D.D.S., DICOI, FMIII
Dr. Weaver received his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from Creighton University and has since completed several advanced-level, multi-year courses in dental implantology training. He has owned and operated Grundy Center Family & Implant Dentistry for over a decade.
He is a Fellow of the Resnik Implant Institute and of the California Implant Institute, and a Diplomate of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists. The practice's own description of what that adds up to is direct: “This level of expertise in planning, placing, and maintaining dental implants is unmatched in this part of Iowa.”
He is also a certified Invisalign provider, and he designs and 3D prints surgical guides in the Grundy Center office rather than sending them out.
Without question, the biggest game changer in how I place implants was switching from freehand to guided surgery.
Dr. Ryan Weaver
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Training and credentials
What each one required.
D.D.S.
Creighton University School of Dentistry
The Doctor of Dental Surgery degree. Creighton is a four-year program with a heavy clinical emphasis; the dental degree is the floor that everything below is built on, not a credential in implantology.
Fellow
Resnik Implant Institute
A structured implant program built on the Misch curriculum — the teaching lineage that most of American implant dentistry traces back to. Fellowship is earned over a multi-session course with surgical and prosthetic components, not awarded for attendance at a weekend.
Fellow
California Implant Institute
A second, separate implant fellowship. Taking two is unusual and is a reasonable indicator of where the continuing education budget has been going.
Diplomate
International Congress of Oral Implantologists
Diplomate is the ICOI's senior designation, above Fellow. It requires documented implant education and a body of clinical experience assessed against the organization's criteria.
Ongoing
Advanced multi-year implantology courses
The practice describes “several advanced-level, multi-year courses in dental implantology training” without naming them all individually.
Certified
Invisalign provider
Relevant here mainly because orthodontic movement before restoring is often the conservative route, and it is available in the same building.
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Affiliations
The organizations behind those letters.
Shown as they appear on the practice's own site. Each links to a body you can check independently.
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The equipment
What a case is planned on.
Worth knowing if you are deciding whether to send a case here, because the planning is only as good as the data under it.
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iTero Element 5D
Intra-oral scanning. The digital impression that is merged with the CBCT to place the implant virtually against the adjacent and opposing teeth.
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MoonRay 3D printer
In-office printing of surgical guides, temporary crowns and dentures. It is the reason a guide is a few days rather than a few weeks.
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Guide design in house
Dr. Weaver designs the guides himself rather than outsourcing the planning. The person who plans the case is the person who places it.
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Digital radiography
Conventional digital X-rays with substantially reduced radiation exposure compared with film.
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One building
Scan, plan, print and place all happen at 106 East G Avenue. Nothing is waiting on a courier between the stages.
§ 05What is deliberately
A note on this page
What is deliberately
not on it.
There is no awards section, no “top dentist” badge and no press clippings, because a search of the practice's published material turned up none and inventing them would be worse than leaving the space empty.
There is no aggregate star rating either. What is on the page instead is the training record, which is independently checkable with the three institutes named above, and the equipment list, which you can take at face value or ask about.
If you want to know something that is not here — graduation year, case volume, which implant systems are stocked, how a particular kind of case is handled — the honest answer is to ask. The office will tell you.
Working together
Refer a case, or order a guide.
Whichever route suits the case and suits how you like to work. Both start with a scan and a plan.