Course Overview:

This course is designed for dentists who are already capable of placing implants and would like to enhance their skills.
This course will teach you how to improve your skills in horizontal and vertical bone augmentation and soft tissue surgical work.
The duration of this course is 2 days, both of which include lectures and hands-on exercises. A further 2 day course is also available.

This course will give you an understanding of bone and soft tissue defects and how to treat them according to the size of the defect. You will also learn the different types of biomaterial and which is best to use in different situations; bone harvesting techniques and connective tissue harvesting techniques.

We will also cover flap design; tension free flap closure, lingual flap advancement, and periosteal advancement.

Aims & Objectives:

- Understand the biology and type of defect Understand the anatomy of the surgical area understand the biology and use of biomaterials.
- Learn the surgical principles of both horizontal and vertical bone augmentation.
- Learn surgical principles of soft tissue reconstruction to increase keratinised tissue around implants and newly generated bone.

PART 1
Part 1 is a 2 Day Course with Dr Balaji.

DAY 1

- Patient selection, biology, types of defects and biomaterials
- Implant placement in the aesthetic zone - intact socket and socket defect
- Soft tissue handling, anterior aesthetic zone, horizontal augmentation cheese burger technique
- Hands-on: flap design, horizontal augmentation with bio-gide, CTG harvesting and suturing (classical graft), periosteo – elastic technique

DAY 2

- Applied anatomy anterior maxilla Sausage technique anterior maxilla
- Sausage technique posterior maxilla
- Soft tissue, suturing technique Complications
- Hands-on: flap design, horizontal augmentation, cross-linked membrane, periosteal suturing technique, CTG harvesting & suturing (Zucchelli Technique), plastic model training, flap design on the model
- Discussion and case presentation

PART 2
The second part of the course. Part 2 is a 2 Day Course with Dr Balaji.

DAY 3

- Vertical augmentation – anterior maxilla
- Consent and applied anatomy – mandible
- Vertical augmentation – posterior maxilla
- Soft tissue – part 2
- Hands-on: flap design, vertical augmentation PTFE membrane, CTG harvesting and fixing, periosteo – elastic technique, perioplasty, orbicularis muscle extention and suturing
- Case presentation from delegates and discussion

DAY 4

- Vertical augmentation – posterior mandible
- Sausage technique mandible Vertical augmentation – anterior mandible
- Flap design in the maxilla and mandible with models Complications
- Test questions
- Hands-on – soft tissue: coronally repositioned flap, strip graft, mucograft, and FGG
- Case presentation from delegates and discussion