“Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.”

Rumi

Zahid H. Ahmed, DDS, FAGD, FICOI

I have practiced in some of the Bay Area’s most prominent teaching hospitals in outpatient and operating room settings. Since my residency, my primary focus has always been on dental surgery, implantology, and prosthetics. I have had the honor of teaching students, residents, and fellow doctors in a variety of settings. I have worked alongside specialists and generalists to provide comprehensive interdisciplinary care, helping achieve optimal results for adult patients.

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After working full-time in hospital based dentistry and surgery, I started a small private practice in Northern California. We grew the practice, continuously refining our implant protocols and systems. We recognized providing implants requires an entire ecosystem, with buy-in from the entire team. Successfully providing implantology requires an orchestra of coordination to include marketing best practices, streamlined treatment planning and scheduling, executing the procedure at a high level, and ultimately achieving great outcomes for patients. Through research, trial, and testing, we created systems to deliver dental implants in a predictable, efficient, and productive way. We incorporated the latest technology from digital scanning and virtual planning to 3D printing.

Having now sold and transitioned away from practice ownership, I am dedicated to teaching and mentorship. I’ve worked with general dentists and specialists to overcome challenges they face in private practice, solving problems and collaborating to create solutions. I love teaching fellow doctors the subtitles of dental surgery, and helping them find confidence to practice surgery with efficiency.

 

Education & Experience

 

Training

  • University of California Los Angeles. B.S., Psychobiology

  • University of Michigan School of Dentistry, D.D.S., Doctor of Dental Surgery

  • University of California San Francisco School of Dentistry. GPR, General Practice Residency

  • Fellow (FAGD), Academy of General Dentistry

  • Fellow (FICOI), International Congress of Oral Implantologists

Academic

  • Assistant Clinical Professor, Dept. of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, UC San Francisco

  • Clinical Instructor, Dept. of Surgery - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Stanford Healthcare

  • Attending Staff Dentist, Dept. of Dentistry, Veterans Affairs Hospital, Palo Alto

  • Clinical Staff Dentist, Admitting and Emergency Services, University of Michigan

Licensure

  • California, DDS #60864 - Dental Board of California

  • California, Oral Conscious Sedation Permit #2663 - Dental Board of California

  • Colorado, DDS #205479 - Colorado Dental Board

  • Washington, DDS License Pending (expected Summer 2023)

Continuing Education, Conferences & Events (not exhaustive list)

  • Sedation dentistry, UCSF

  • International Congress of Oral Implantologists Annual Symposium (ongoing)

  • Academy of Osseointegration Annual Meeting (ongoing)

  • Forsyth Institute evidence based dentistry, Boston

  • Implementing implant restorations, UCLA

  • Advanced techniques for implant practices, UCLA

  • SPEAR Education Seminars & Workshops (multiple)

  • Implant mini residency, Nobel Biocare

  • Certificate in laser dentistry, UCSF

  • Graftless solutions - A systematic approach

  • Soft tissue grafting continuum

  • Computer assisted 3D implant planning

  • Implant prosthetics with Dr. Howard Chasolen

  • Fundamentals in bone grafting and ridge preservation

  • Implant complications

  • Surgical master series

  • Digital 3D dentistry workshop

  • Full arch BSB planning and Exocad design

  • Achieving long term bioesthetics for single unit implants

  • Preoperative prosthetic planning for full arch rehabilitations

  • Integrating immediate full arch implant supported restorations into your practice

  • Peri-implantitis considerations and treatment

  • Digital workflow for immediate implant procedures

  • A pragmatic approach to the terminal full arch

  • American academy of implant dentistry annual meetings (ongoing)

  • Colorado surgical institute full arch course

  • Alveolar bone augmentation: defect classification and treatment planning

  • Buccal plate repair using allograft in compromised sites

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