Days 1 & 2: Bone, Ridge, and Socket Grafting
Learning Objectives:
- Treatment planning and patient selection for grafting procedures
- Concepts and techniques in bone grafting from incision to suturing
- Extraction site management: immediate versus delayed implant placement with bone & soft tissue grafting
- The vertical and horizontal aspects of ridge augmentation
- The optimal selection of implant design, surface and position
- Treatment planning for esthetic cases and the development of gingival papilla support
- New technology using growth factors
- Implant complications, possibility of treatment and prognosis
- Clinical solutions to biological bone regeneration and socket grafting
- Potential intra-oral donor sites, as well as techniques for harvesting such sites
- Decision making based on outcome of available soft tissue protocols
- Immediate extraction site techniques with internal grafting for maximum tissue preservation
- Prosthetic steps to assist in grafting and implant procedures for the clinician
- Learn the use of biomaterials and growth factors with autogenous bone and barrier membranes
Day 3: Soft Tissue Management and Grafting
Learning Objectives:
- Identify advantages and disadvantages of various surgical approaches
- Flap Design, Flap Management and Suturing Methods
- Augmentation of Keratinized Tissue
- Augmentation of Soft Tissue Volume
- Complications and Compromised Attempts
- Abutment Design Modifications
- Perio-Implant Papilla Support
Day 4: Sinus Elevation and Grafting
Learning Objectives:
- Learn to perform sinus elevation surgery predictably
- Identify the clinical and practical benefits of minimally invasive osteotome sinus elevation
- Learn the technique for performing highly predictable lateral window surgery
- Identify a biological protocol using graft materials for sinus elevation
- Learn how to prevent and treat complications
- Peri-implantitis incidence, etiology and management
