Midwest Implant Institute

What Midwest Implant Institute does

Midwest Implant Institute (MII) is a private non-profit dental education organization founded in 1980 in Lewis Center, Ohio, by Dr. Alfred "Duke" Heller and Dr. Jack Hahn, recognized as the nation's first American dental implant institute. The organization delivers structured, hands-on clinical training in implant dentistry to general dentists, specialists, and their support staff through a portfolio of live surgical courses (numbered 311, 411, 601, 603, and 605), a one-on-one mentored Surgical Externship, and an elite Fellowship pathway culminating in the Honored Fellow Award. Its core differentiator is a regulatory pathway — the Ohio State Dental Temporary License — that enables out-of-state doctors to perform live implant surgery on their own patients at the institute under faculty supervision, a model unavailable at most peer institutions. Coursework integrates digital dental technology including CBCT imaging, intraoral scanning, CAD/CAM design, 3D printing, Piezosurgery instrumentation, guided surgery materials, and bone spreading osteotome kits, delivered across prosthetically driven surgical and restorative workflows.

The business model is primarily transactional and tuition-driven. Course registration fees range from $995 (311 introductory course) to $22,995 for the bundled Complete Surgical Externship, which includes courses 601, 603, 605, the MII Business Course (801), and the Annual Fellows Symposium, with 12-month 0% interest financing available. Auxiliary revenue comes from $99 recorded/live webinars, a $1,995 Annual Symposium registration, and modest donation income. Distribution is direct-to-consumer via a Shopify-powered website where dentists self-register, supplemented by phone/email sales support and high-touch enrollment handling by a Business Director for Externship paperwork including temporary license processing. ADA CERP recognition confers continuing education credit legitimacy across the U.S. dental profession.

Sponsorships with implant technology vendors — Mectron (Piezosurgery), Salvin Dental, StellaLife, Deka Dental Lasers, Dental Ceramics USA, Keystone Dental Group, and the VISTA Institute — provide in-kind curriculum content and signal industry alignment. The 39th Annual Symposium (2027) reportedly sold out, and 1,000+ doctors have committed to the Externship program since founding, with alumni spanning all 50 states and multiple countries. The organization operates with a lean 1–10 person staff and has not raised institutional capital, consistent with its non-profit status and founder-led operating model.

Name

Midwest Implant Institute

Legal name

Midwest Implant Institute

Website

https://midwestimplantinstitute.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1980

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Midwest Implant Institute is a non-profit dental education organization founded in 1980 in Lewis Center, Ohio, providing live surgical implant training to general dentists through structured courses, a Surgical Externship, and a Fellowship program across all 50 U.S. states.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Dental Implant Education & Training

NAICS

Offices of Dentists (62121)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Dental Implant Placement (Surgical Implantology) (HLABACAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Dental Schools (EDAHAGAF), Surgical Navigation, Robotics & Patient-Matched Instrumentation (Ortho/Spine) (HLAHAEAL), Dental Assisting (EDAOAJAJ)

Keywords

• Dental implant training
• Live surgical courses
• Continuing dental education
• Dental implantology
• Surgical externship program

Headquarters

HQ city

Lewis Center

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Course Registration Fees: Dentists and their staff pay per-course registration fees to attend live surgical training programs. Each course has a distinct price point; assistants attend free for most courses. This is the primary revenue stream.
2. Surgical Externship Tuition: A comprehensive bundled tuition of $22,995 covers the full Externship program including courses 601, 603, 605, the MII Business Course (801), and the Annual Fellows Symposium. Payments of 12 months at 0% interest are available. This represents the highest-value enrollment.
3. Webinar Sales: Recorded and live webinars on specialized topics (e.g., Piezosurgery, Full-Arch Restorations) are sold individually at $99 each, generating supplementary recurring revenue from on-demand CE consumers.
4. Donations: The institute operates as a non-profit organization and accepts monetary donations to support attendee tuition costs, providing a charitable giving revenue channel.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Midwest Implant Institute is the nation's first American dental implant institute (founded 1980), offering hands-on live surgical training for dentists. Doctors perform implant surgery on their own patients under one-on-one faculty mentorship at the Lewis Center, Ohio facility, progressing through structured courses (311, 411, 601, 603, 605), a Surgical Externship, and an elite Fellowship pathway. The institute teaches prosthetically driven implant workflows integrating CBCT, intraoral scanning, CAD/CAM, 3D printing, and Piezosurgery instrumentation.

Product overview

Midwest Implant Institute is a dental implant education and training organization offering a structured curriculum of hands-on courses and programs for dental professionals. The portfolio centers on five core live surgical courses—(311) Extraction/Socket Preservation, (411) All-Inclusive Live Surgery (flagship), (601) Bone Grafting & Sinus Elevation, (603) Implant Prosthetics, and (605) Digging Out of Problems—complemented by a Masterclass Bundle, recorded webinars, and a Surgical Externship Program. The Externship provides one-on-one mentored training where doctors perform live surgery on their own patients. An elite Fellowship Program (requiring 250 CE hours plus externship completion) and Annual Symposium round out the advanced offerings. The institute was founded in 1980 and is located in Lewis Center, Ohio.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• (411) The All-Inclusive Live Surgical Course

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduces marginal bone loss from 0.36mm to 0.11mm using the Progressive Loading Protocol taught in the 603 Prosthetics Course
• +3 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Keystone Dental Group (Dr. Michael Klein)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDr. Michael Klein, CTO of Keystone Dental Group, is a featured webinar presenter through MII. Dr. Klein, a prosthodontics and oral implantology specialist with patents in computer-guided dental implant surgery technology, presents on full-arch fixed implant-supported restorations using digital workflows and AI-enhanced diagnostic tools.
• VISTA Institute for Therapeutic Innovations (Dr. Homa H. Zadeh)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDr. Homa H. Zadeh, an internationally recognized periodontist and implant surgeon, presents Mectron-sponsored webinars through MII on Advanced Bone Surgery with Piezosurgery and the MT-Bone System. Dr. Zadeh directs the VISTA Institute for Therapeutic Innovations, an Academy of Osseointegration authorized training center.
• Ohioan Hotel & Event CenterminorOthersThe Ohioan Hotel & Event Center, located adjacent to MII headquarters, offers exclusive discounted room rates for MII course attendees. The boutique-style hotel includes well-appointed guest rooms and suites with daily buffet breakfast, Wi-Fi, HDTV, and in-room refrigerators at the MII negotiated rate.
• Nationwide Hotel and Conference CenterminorOthersThe Nationwide Hotel and Conference Center, located adjacent to MII headquarters on a 15-acre park-like property, offers 193 well-appointed guest rooms and suites at MII-negotiated rates for course attendees.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Engel Institute: The Engel Institute delivers hands-on dental implant training with live surgery and mentorship components aimed at general dentists, making it a directly comparable peer to MII in the live-patient implant CE category. Both rely on small faculty, structured curricula, and premium pricing.
• Pikos Institute: Pikos Institute, founded by Dr. Michael A. Pikos, provides advanced dental implant continuing education including live surgery training, bone grafting, and full-arch rehabilitation. It is a direct competitor in the live-patient implant CE market targeting the same GP and specialist segments as MII.
• American Academy of Implant Dentistry (AAID): AAID is a credentialing and education body offering implant dentistry continuing education, fellowship pathways, and an annual meeting. It directly competes with MII for both CE dollars and the prestige of the AAID Fellowship credential that MII's curriculum helps alumni pursue.
• International Congress of Oral Implantologists (ICOI): ICOI is a large international implant dentistry society offering CE courses, credentialing (Fellowship and Diplomate), and congresses. It is a directly comparable peer offering both education and prestige pathways for implant dentists similar to MII's Fellowship.
• Tatum Institute: The Tatum Institute, associated with Dr. Hilt Tatum — a pioneer credited with the first sinus lift alongside MII's Dr. Duke Heller in 1974 — offers advanced implant surgical training including sinus augmentation. It directly overlaps with MII's bone grafting and sinus elevation course (601).
• Misch International Implant Institute: The Misch International Implant Institute offers live-patient dental implant continuing education with a curriculum built around surgical and prosthetic implantology, directly competing with MII for the same general dentist audience. Founded by Dr. Carl E. Misch, it is one of the most recognized implant training programs in the U.S. and parallels MII's Externship model.
• Dental XP: Dental XP is an online dental education platform featuring extensive implant dentistry content from leading clinicians. It competes with MII for the same general dentist and specialist audience, especially in the digital/webinar CE segment where MII sells $99 webinars.
• Bicon Institute: Bicon Institute provides dental implant surgical training tied to the Bicon implant system, including live surgical courses. Although it is a system-specific training center rather than an independent institute, it directly competes for live-patient implant CE enrollments from general dentists.

Broad incumbents

• Pankey Institute: The Pankey Institute is an established, broad-based dental continuing education organization offering comprehensive restorative and implant training. It is a broader incumbent peer that overlaps with MII on advanced dentist CE but does not specialize in live-patient implant surgical training.
• Dawson Academy: The Dawson Academy is a well-known dental CE provider focused on comprehensive dentistry, occlusion, and restorative care with some implant content. It is a broader peer competing for the same dentist's continuing education budget, though it does not focus on live surgical implantology like MII.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

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M&A

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