Dental CE Course: Hard & Soft Tissue Regeneration for Ideal Implant Placement

2-Day Hands-On Training Course
Dates: October 23 & 24, 2009

Course Description:

Today in implant dentistry, osseointegration alone is no longer enough. Implants must not only be osseointegrated, but in the right place and esthetic. The excuse, “well that is where the bone was,” is no longer acceptable.

Techniques that are now available to augment hard and soft tissue at the various phases of treatment will be shown. Techniques will include particulate bone grafting, guided bone regeneration with bio-absorbable and non-resorbable membranes, autogenous block grafting, the use of the osteotomes, and maxillary sinus grafting.

Soft tissue procedures to assure optimal esthetic reconstruction before implant placement, at implant placement, at second stage surgery and after second stage surgery will also be demonstrated. These include flap designs to optimize ideal soft tissue profiles, thee dimensional connective tissue grafting, the use of number of a second stage surgical flap designs. The requirements and limitation of papilla regeneration between implants, implants and natural teeth, and implants and pontics will be shown.

The sequence and timing of implant placement and regeneration will vary depending on the situation. Implant placement may be immediate or delayed up to nine months depending on the quality and quantity of bone. The advantages and disadvantages of each of the treatment modalities will also be discussed.

Upon completion of this course the participants should be able to:

-Understand the variety of techniques that are available to them for hard and soft tissue regeneration
-Choose the appropriate therapy for different surgical situations
-Perform that surgery with higher success and low complication rates

Course Objectives:

-Treatment planning for ideal esthetics
-Gingival augmentation options
-Free Gingival Graft
-Subepithelial connective tissue graft
-Acellular dermal matrix grafts
-Management of the edentulous ridge
� a. Preventing ridge collapse
� b. Recapturing extraction sites
� c. Pontic designs and site development
-Gingival augmentation around dental implants
� a. Enhancement
� b. Second stage surgery
� c. Guided gingival growth
-Flap designs
-Sequencing treatment and provisionalization
-Hard tissue regeneration - the options
-The use of barrier membranes
-Resorbable versus non-resorbable membranes
-Flap designs for bone augmentation
-Socket preservation techniques
-Site development without implant placement
-Immediate implants
-Augmentation at the time of implant surgery
-Reduction of surgical complications
-Building your implant practice
-Hands-on model surgery