May 9, 2025 — May 10, 2025 // 9:00

Advanced Horizontal, Vertical Bone and Soft Tissue Regeneration with Dr. Balaji

Learn the latest regeneration techniques from the renowned Dr. Balaji.

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

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, periosteal suturing technique, CTG harvesting & suturing (Zucchelli Technique), plastic model training

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

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