
Course Details
Course Objectives
- Understand the factors necessary for the success of any bone grafting procedure
- How to diagnose and classify bone defects based on a proposed classification
- How to manage buccal and lingual flaps for predictable primary closure
- How to manage vertical and horizontal defects based on presented decision trees
- How to avoid complications and protocols for their management
- Understand the determinants of mucogingival health and stability around implants
- How to diagnose soft tissue deficiencies, when to intervene, and how to treatment plan accordingly
- How to harvest soft tissue grafts predictably
- Understand and visualize the step by step protocol for soft tissue techniques
Bone Augmentation Topics
- Principles of bone augmentation
- Defect classification
- Flap management and suturing
- Decision trees for vertical and horizontal bone augmentation
- Autogenous bone harvest from tuberosity, ramus, and atypical sites
- Step by step techniques, including ridge splitting, GBR with resorbable barriers, titanium mesh, Ramus block harvest, autogenous particulate bone harvest, and Khoury technique
- Clinical case review
- Post-op management
- Complications
Bone Augmentation Hands-on Exercises
- Ridge splitting with implant placement
- GBR with resorbable barriers stabilized with sutures
- Ramus block harvest
- Khoury technique
- Labial and lingual flap release
Soft Tissue Topics
- Anatomy and terminology
- Literature review
- Defect classification
- Timeline of grafting
- Armamentarium
- Suturing
- Harvesting techniques, including free gingival graft, connective tissue graft, and tuberosity harvest
- Step by step techniques, including apically positioned flap, vestibuloplasty, rotated palatal pedicle, roll flap and modifications, and VISTA/tunnel techniques
- Clinical case review
- Post-op management
- Complications
Soft Tissue Hands-on Exercises
- Connective tissue tuberosity harvest
- Connective tissue palatal harvest
- Tunneling for CTG
- Vestibuloplasty
- Free gingival graft
- Apically positioned flap
- Rotated palatal pedicle