GUANGZHOU, China: While live surgery demonstrations have been a popular and effective educational tool across all facets of the medical field for decades, little is known about their efficacy and reception in the context of education in dental implantology. Seeking to address this knowledge gap, a research team based at the Hospital of Stomatology at Sun Yat-sen University in Ghangzhou have recently undertaken a survey of their own continuing education courses to assess to what extent their participants benefited from them. Their findings demonstrate unequivocally that continuing education courses with a live surgical component are both better received and more effective.