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Total Tissue Hands-on Training: Bone Augmentation and Soft Tissue in Implant Dentistry

Total Tissue Hands-on Training: Bone Augmentation and Soft Tissue in Implant Dentistry

This is EM Academy’s most complete course ever! Enroll in this 3-day event to learn how to grow bone predictably as well as to gain the knowledge to replicate predictable results with soft tissues.

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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: Ridge
    preservation for compromised sockets, ridge expansion, ridge splitting, GBR with resorbable barriers stabilized with tacks, GBR with resorbable barriers stabilized with sutures, titanium mesh, Khoury technique.
  • Clinical case review
  • Post-op management
  • Complications

Bone Augmentation Hands-on Exercises

  • Ridge splitting with implant placement
  • GBR with resorbable barrier stabilized with tacks
  • 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: Free gingival graft, connective tissue graft, tuberosity harvest
  • Step by step techniques: Apically positioned flap, Vestibuloplasty, rotated palatal pedicle, roll flap and modifications, VISTA/tunnel techniques
  • Clinical case review
  • Post-op management
  • Complications

Soft Tissue Hands-on Exercises

  • Soft tissue harvest
  • Vestibuloplasty
  • Free gingival graft
  • Apically positioned flap
  • Rotated palatal pedicle