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Location: Baltimore, MD
Price: $2,300.00 USD

Hands-On Surgery Videos

See hands-on surgery filmed live at a recent ADE Seminars course.

Course Objective

This two-day hands-on course includes lecture, discussion, videos of periodontal soft and hard tissue procedures followed by hands-on training with freshly frozen cadavers. This lecture provides an overview of pertinent head and neck anatomy, biology of healing, surgical closure, advanced soft tissue surgical techniques for restoring three dimensional soft tissue topography and sculpting gingival tissues to enhance patients' smiles. These procedures are taught with unique and clinician proven step-by-step teaching procedural surgical guides.

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

  1. Describe and understand pertinent anatomy and vital anatomic structures encountered during soft and hard tissue periodontal surgery.
  2. Describe how to perform an esthetic periodontal evaluation with emphasis on total hard and soft tissue management especially as it relates to the placement of dental implants.
  3. Describe the importance of soft tissue management and the biological basis for attached keratinized tissues at the soft tissue implant interface and around conventional prosthetic gingival interfaces.
  4. Be able to evaluate the soft tissue environment and three dimensional soft tissue topography prior to implant surgery and be able to apply appropriate surgical techniques to augment soft tissue.
  5. Describe the use of PRP to enhance results with soft tissue grafting.
  6. Describe what a frenum is and why and when it should be removed when performing orthodontic, dental implant or conventional fixed prosthetic therapy.
  7. Understand when and how to apply specific soft tissue surgical techniques in the management of the edentulous and partially edentulous patient with an emphasis on gingival smile line and prosthetic excellence.
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Course Schedule

Friday

8:00Registration
8:30Anatomy and biology of periodontal and peri-implant tissues
9:15Pre and post-operative considerations, instructions and informed consent
9:45Osseous surgery, rationale and technique
10:15Break
10:40Frenectomy procedure, rationale, and timing with various therapies
11:30Differential diagnosis of gummy smile and aesthetic crown lengthening versus gingivectomy
12:00Lunch
1:00Esthetic crown lengthening and gingivectomy procedures
3:00Discussion of appropriate age for esthetic crown lengthening and relationship to implant surgery; when and why.
3:30Socket preservation
4:00Rationale for use of PRP for improved soft tissue results

Saturday

8:00Coffee and get charged up
8:15Soft tissue ridge augmentation, rationale, and therapeutic objectives
9:15Recipient site surgical design and provisional restoration design
10:00Soft tissue ridge augmentation technique with palatal tissue
10:30Donor site harvest technique
11:00Soft tissue ridge augmentation with acellular dermis
12:00Lunch
1:15Lab
5:00Thank you and have a safe ride home!

Corporate Sponsors

  • Salvin Dental Specialties
  • BioHorizons

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This course is limited to 30 participants in order to maximize personal attention and keep a high caliber of education. Program includes course materials, hands- on model, cadaver dissection, refreshments, and lunch each day.
16 CE credits.