Advanced Implant Therapy & Grafting Course (Oct 27 - 30, 2020)

Credits:
• 4-Day Advanced Implant Therapy & Grafting Course: 32 CE Credits
• GBR – Bone Ridge & Socket Grafting (2 days): 16 CE Credits
• Soft Tissue Management and Grafting (1 day): 8 CE Credits
• Sinus Elevation and Grafting (1 day): 8 CE Credits

Overview:
Take your surgical skills to the next level for managing complex implant cases.  Each course day has a didactic presentation using lecture & video material & a clinical hands-on or live surgery demonstration.

Day 1:
BONE, RIDGE & SOCKET GRAFTING
Day 1 consists of a full day of Lecture.

Learning Objectives:
• Treatment planning and patient selection for grafting procedures
• Concepts and techniques in bone grafting from incision to suturing
• Extraction site management: immediate versus delayed implant placement with bone & soft tissue grafting
• The vertical and horizontal aspects of ridge augmentation
• The optimal selection of implant design, surface and position
• Treatment planning for esthetic cases and the development of gingival papilla support
• New technology using growth factors
• Implant complications, possibility of treatment and prognosis

Day 2:
BONE, RIDGE & SOCKET GRAFTING
Day 2 consists of 1/2 Day Live Surgery (morning) and 1/2 Day Hands-On Workshop on porcine mandible models (afternoon)

Learning Objectives:
• Clinical solutions to biological bone regeneration and socket grafting
• Potential intra-oral donor sites, as well as techniques for harvesting such sites
• Decision making based on outcome of available soft tissue protocols
• Immediate extraction site techniques with internal grafting for maximum tissue preservation
• Prosthetic steps to assist in grafting and implant procedures for the clinician
• Learn the use of biomaterials and growth factors with autogenous bone and barrier membranes

Day 3:
SOFT TISSUE MANAGEMENT & GRAFTING
Day 3 consists of 1/2 Day Interactive Lecture and 1/2 Day Hands-On workshop on fresh upper porcine models.

Learning Objectives:
• Identify advantages and disadvantages of various surgical approaches
• Flap Design, Flap Management and Suturing Methods
• Augmentation of Keratinized Tissue
• Augmentation of Soft Tissue Volume
• Complications and Compromised Attempts
• Abutment Design Modifications
• Perio-Implant Papilla Support

Day 4:
SINUS ELEVATION & GRAFTING
Day 4 consists of 1/2 Day Interactive Lecture and 1/2 Day Hands-On Workshop on goat maxilla models.

Learning Objectives:
• Learn to perform sinus elevation surgery predictably
• Identify the clinical and practical benefits of minimally invasive osteotome sinus elevation
• Learn the technique for performing highly predictable lateral window surgery
• Identify a biological protocol using graft materials for sinus elevation
• Learn how to prevent and treat complications
• Peri-implantitis incidence, etiology and management