Recessions: All Types of Flap & Tunnel Techniques

Recessions: All Types of Flap & Tunnel Techniques is organized by OHI-S.

Total Lecture Time: 15h 50 min

Description:
We present to your attention the most complete course in the recessions treatment! All the key methods of treating this pathology are waiting for you.

Thanks to world-renowned lecturers:

• Leandro Chambrone
• Ion Zabalegui
• Roberto Carvalho da Silva
• Mariano Sanz Alonso
• Nelson Carranza
• you will thoroughly study this topic.

In the online course, doctors will cover the following topics:

• Strategy for the selection of techniques and materials for the treatment of recessions
• Tunnel technique for single and multiple gingival recession
• Treatment of deep (severe) gingival recessions with LAST (Laterally Stretched Flaps)
• Pinhole technique protocol
• VISTA technique protocol
• Soft tissue management during implantation
• Extraction socket management.

Lesson 1.Tunnel technique for single and multiple gingival recession

– Mucogingival surgery: principles of biological healing

– Phases of graft healing

– Split and full-layer flap: advantages and disadvantages

– RT ?lassification of recessions

– Bilaminar technique for eliminating single and multiple recessions

– Indications and goals for surgical elimination of recession

– Contraindications for conducting tunnel technique

– ?ollection of a connective tissue graft from the palate: the significance of the anatomy and phenotype of the donor site

– Tunnel technique: protocol and demonstration of the methodology

– New surgical approach for treating RT3 recession.

Recommended for: Implantologist, Periodontist, General dentists.

Lesson 2.Root coverage decision tree revisited: tunnel or flap procedures

– Gingival recessions: definition, causes, consequences

– Classification of recessions

– Algorithm for choosing a method of treating a recession

– Tunnel access techniques: 

- Modifications of the method

- Advantages of technology

- Criteria for successful treatment.

– Connective tissue graft: indications and benefits

– Modified envelope flap: technique

– Treatment protocols for extreme recessions.

Recommended for: Implantologist, Periodontist, General dentists.

Lesson 3.Coronally advanced flap: when a connective tissue graft is needed?

– Coronally advanced flap: indications

– Connective tissue graft sampling:

- Trap door

- "L" technique

- Envelope technique.

– Selection of the donor zone for graft collection

– Advantages of de-epithelized graft

– Closing recessions: anatomical and clinical aspects of the choice of treatment method

– Surgical protocol for the treatment of a single recession: a clinical example

– Closing multiple recessions: a technique for creating a forced recession

– Treatment of gingival recessions in the molar region: protocol.

Recommended for: Implantologist, Periodontist, General dentists.

Lesson 4.Treatment of deep (severe) gingival recessions with LAST (Laterally Stretched Flaps)

– Diagnosis and treatment planning of recessions

– The concept of pathological gingival recession

– Factors influencing the progression of recessions

– Surgical methods of correction of gingival recessions:

- Flap offset

- Use of connective tissue grafts.

– Algorithm for choosing a treatment method

– Working with connective tissue graft:

- Harvesting techniques

- Recipient site design

- Flap moving techniques.

– Principles and protocol of tunnel methodology

– Treatment of deep and narrow recessions, deep and wide recessions: step-by-step protocol

– The laterally stretched flap concept: technical variants.

Recommended for: Implantologist, Periodontist, General dentists.

Lesson 5.Localised gingival recessions. Definition, classification, aetiology and risk factors

– Localized gingival recession: anatomical background 

– Apical displacement of the gingival margin: norm or pathology? 

– Cervical non-carious defects: when do they appear and should they be treated? 

– Dentin hypersensitivity: tactics 

– Risk factors for the development of localized gingival defects 

– New classification of mucogingival conditions 

– Algorithm for choosing a treatment method 

– Tactics of treatment of localized gingival recessions.

Recommended for: Implantologist, Periodontist, General dentists.

Lesson 6.Soft tissue management in periodontal regeneration: interproximal attachment gain in RT3

– The adequate healing time of the periodontium after non-surgical therapy

– How to make clinical decision based on the site’s phenotype

– The operative sequence according to the defect’s characteristics

– The most advanced plastic regenerative surgical techniques for interdental attachment gain

– Techniques to treat RT3 recessions.

Recommended for: Implantologist, Periodontist, General dentists.

Lesson 7.Predictability of root coverage procedures: clinical scenarios and evidence-based treatment options

– Understanding the individual needs of the patient

– Recessions: indications for treatment

– Miller's classification of recessions

– Methods of closing gingival recessions:

- A group with a laterally positioned flap

- A group with a coronally advanced flap

- A group using a free gingival graft

- A group with the use of a subepithelial connective tissue graft.

– Predictability of treatment depending on the treatment plan

– Factors affecting the prognosis of treatment

– Treatment of Class I and II recessions according to Miller: the gold standard procedure

– Tissue healing after the closure of recessions in smokers

– Treatment of recessions of class III and IV according to Miller: the choice of treatment method

– Risk factors for the closure of the exposed root

– The value of the thickness of the keratinized gum for predicting treatment

– Methods of gingival phenotype modification

– Long-term stability of the gingival margin: factors

– Non carious cervical defects: treatment methods

– Treatment of multiple recessions: the use of allogeneic and xenogenic transplants

– Principles of connective tissue graft sampling.

Recommended for: Implantologist, Periodontist, General dentists.

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