SOFT TISSUE

Advanced Soft Tissue:

This course is designed for clinicians with intermediate or advanced experience in implant dentistry, who are looking to gain clinical knowledge and surgical skills required to perform advanced peri-implant soft tissue grafting, soft tissue implant site development, and periodontal plastic surgery procedures at compromised sites.

Emphasis will be placed on:

• Patient evaluation

• Anatomic and biologic material science

• Tissue engineering concepts

• Surgical principles related to performing combination onlay-interpositional grafts and vascularized palatal pedicle flaps (VIP-CT flap) for soft tissue implant site development

Clinicians will gain experience with:

• Conventional and microsurgical soft tissue instrumentation

• Operatory set up

• Aseptic technique

• Contemporary donor and recipient site procedures that minimize patient morbidity and maximize volume outcomes

This course will help doctors become proficient in:

• Combination onlay-interpositional grafting to improve the quality and quantity of soft tissue cover prior to bone grafting procedures and for root and abutment coverage

• Vascularized periosteal connective tissue flap (VIP-CT Flap) procedures for large volume soft tissue augmentation at compromised maxillary anterior sites

• Papilla augmentation procedures

• Esthetic crown extension procedures

Surgical assistants will receive training in the following areas:

• Identifying patients who would benefit from the soft tissue augmentation and periodontal plastic surgery procedures learned in this course

• Patient consultation and case presentation

• Informed consent

• Operatory set up

• Aseptic technique

• Protocols for effective surgical assisting

• Care and  maintenance of instrumentation and equipment

• Inventory control of supplies and materials

• Peri-operative patient management, including placement and removal of periodontal  dressings and adjustment and reline of provisional prosthesis 

This course will help surgical assistants with implementation of the Sclar Center Clinical Patient Management Protocols for successful management of patients who undergo the peri-implant soft tissue grafting and periodontal plastic surgery procedures learned in this course.

Detail:
24 hours of CE credits are given for this 3-day certificate course. Although no prerequisite is required for this course, participants are expected to have intermediate experience in dental implant surgery and demonstrate proficiency in the soft tissue augmentation procedures detailed in the Sclar Center Intermediate Soft Tissue course. Additionally, students should become familiar with the pre-course reading materials that will be supplied in advance. Students are encouraged to make hotel arrangements at the nearby Sonesta Bayfront Hotel in Coconut Grove. Transportation to and from the Sclar Center will be provided.

Tuition:
$3,695