OVERVIEW

Advanced Soft Tissue Grafting is organized by Perio Institute and will be held during Jun 23 - 24, 2018 at Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.

The target audience for this medical event is Dentists. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 14 CE hours.

Explore step-by-step treatment options for the soft tissue problems that you see every day in your practice such as gingival recession, the gummy smile, exposed crown margins, and the need for esthetic recontouring of uneven gingival margins. You will be given specific guidelines for when to use autogenous grafts and when to employ Accelular Derman Allografts. Pig jaws will be used to practice the surgical skills and techniques needed for harvasting tissue, suturing and a unique tunneling procedure that is an effective method to treat recession.

Topics Covered Day One :

• Causes of recession.
• Mild to moderate gingival recession.
• When to treat and when to watch and wait.
• Patient selection.
• How to diagnose defects and what is the diagnosis?
• Treatment planning.
• Accelular Dermal Matrix vs. autogenous.
• Instrumentation
• Flap design

Topics Covered Day Two :

• Harvest location, thickness.
• Tunneling technique.
• Placement of graft
• Suture technique, suture type.
• Esthetic crown lengthening.
• Frenectomy.
• Post op care recipient site and sonor site.
• Drugs post op instruction home care.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.