Dental CE Course: Crown Lengthening Workshop

This course will provide participants with an optimal hands-on training. Dentists will be able to learn all the specifics of bone and soft-tissue management to plan and perform crown lengthening procedures. The instructors will cover indications, contraindications, as well as detailed surgical techniques and instrumentation.

Topics to be covered include: how to handle hard and soft tissues; preservation of esthetics and final tissue contours, as well as full understanding of all structures that comprise the biologic width, such as sulcus, junctional epithelium, connective tissue fibers, and bone.

The hands-on experience includes flap surgery, hand instrumentation and suturing on pig jaws, plus bone surgery utilizing rotary instrumentation on typodonts under close supervision of experienced periodontists. Participants will receive a take home video of the hands-on practice.

Learning objectives

* Diagnosing esthetic crown lengthening
* When to perform crown lengthening and when to extract
* Post-operative management
* Understanding and treating the gummy smile
* Learn why crowns come loose and how to prevent loosening
* Save chair time and be more profitable
* Understand causes of red gum tissue around crown margins
* Coordinate surgery with restorative procedures

This is a stand-alone course that will allow you to do many of your own crown lengthening cases. If you choose not to do your cases, it will help you understand the principles. Most importantly, you do not need to have taken previous perio courses or have surgical experience to benefit from this workshop.