Schedules & Topics
Thursday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Lecture Format covering:
- Importance of attached tissue around teeth and implants
- Surgical anatomy of soft tissue
- Blood supply of soft tissue
- Incision and flap design for grafts and implants
- Full thickness and split thickness flaps
- Spreading of soft tissue flaps for coverage
- Free gingival and subepithelial connective tissue grafts
- Suturing of grafts and flaps
- Choosing suture material
- Use of growth factors with soft tissue grafts
- Diagnosis and treatment planning
Friday 8:00 am – 6:00 pm
Lecture Format covering:
- Divisions of available bone
- Classification of bone density
- Twelve keys to bone grafting
- Socket/ridge preservation after extraction
- Monocortical block onlay grafting from symphysis and ramus
- Block allograft
- External and internal sinus grafting
- Classification of sinuses
- Introduction to Cone Beam CT technology
- Introduction to Piezotome surgery instrument
- Surgical anatomy
- Introduction to Consult-Pro
- Preview of Saturday laboratory session
Saturday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Model Lab Hands-On (1.5 Hours)
Cadaver Lab Hands-On Soft Tissue and Bone Grafts (6 Hours)
Cadaver Lab Hands-On Soft Tissue and Bone Grafts (6 Hours)
- Suturing practice on cloth models
- Ramus block on mandibular model
- Sinus lift on maxillary model
- Free gingival graft
- Connective tissue graft
- Vascularized Interpositional Periosteal connective tissue graft
- Computer exercise utilizing Virtual Implant Placement (VIP) software and cone beam CT scan of your cadaver specimen. Each participant will have the opportunity to evaluate their cadaver specimen for: sinus height / width, sinus septa, sinus floor, best place for sinus window, trace inferior alveolar canal, and ramus height /width for block graft harvesting
- Sinus lift
- Ramus block graft
- Periosteal flap fenestration for closure over block graft
- Use of trephines
- Maxillary V2 anesthetic block
- Dissection of nerves, muscles, spaces, etc.