MODULE 1: PERIODONTAL MECHANICAL INSTRUMENTATION AND SURGERY

A Hands-On Workshop Featuring Flap Designs and Suturing Techniques as well as Furcation Defect Management

• Explain the causes, symptoms and biology of periodontal disease.

• Familiarize newest periodontal diseases classification system that is currently used.

• Familiarize periodontal instrumentation that includes hand and variety of ultrasonic instruments.

• Know the goals of periodontal therapy and how to evaluate periodontal conditions.

• Learn when are the adjunctive procedures (e.g., lasers, locally delivered and systemic antibiotics) can be used and their true clinical effect.

• Familiarize variety of periodontal surgical procedures and how to perform them.

• Know how, when and why a periodontal surgery is needed.

• Understand different flap designs and suturing techniques.

• Learn how to achieve tension free flap releasing techniques.

• Know the variety surgical instruments and how to properly use them.

• Know how to provide pre and post-surgical instruction after surgery.

• Learn how to properly manage infrabony and furcation defects.

• Know when and how to perform guided tissue regeneration.

• Understand the differences among all available bone grafts (auto-, allo-, xeno-graft, and alloplast) and barrier membranes.

This course combines didactic lectures and hands-on workshop with pig jaws to cover a broad range of advanced flap designs, suturing techniques as well as periodontal surgical techniques such as gingivectomy, distal wedge, Modified Widman’s flap, guided tissue regeneration, bone grafts and apically positioned flap with or without osseous recontouring. In this module, the participants will gain a good understanding of various bone grafts as well as barrier membranes that are currently available in the market.

Module 2: ORAL PLASTIC SURGERY :

A HANDS-ON WORKSHOP - Featuring tunnel soft tissue graft and procurement of connective tissue graft

This hands-on course is designed to help dentist incorporate both crown lengthening (aesthetic and functional) and soft tissue grafts (eg. free soft tissue graft, subepithelial connective tissue graft, acellular dermal matrix, guided tissue regeneration based root coverage...etc) into their daily practices. Techniques such as recently introduced tunnelling approach will be thoroughly discussed and demonstrated. In addition, the participants will be exposed to how to use soft tissue grafts to enhance implant aesthetics. After completion of this three-days continuing education course, the participant will be able to:

• Understand the principles of an aesthetic smile.

• Know the goals of aesthetic and functional (restorative-oriented) crown lengthening.

• Familiarized how to perform surgical crown lengthening.

• Know why, when, where and how to perform different soft tissue grafts (eg. free soft tissue graft, subepithelial connective tissue graft, acellular dermal matrix, guided tissue regeneration based root coverage...etc)

• Learn how to use decision tree to make proper selection of different soft tissue grafting techniques.

• Learn when to use envelope, cornally advanced flap or tunnel approach for sub epithelial CT graft or accellular dermal matrix graft.

• Know the variety surgical instruments and how to properly use them.

• Know how to perform tunnelling soft tissue graft and understand the differences between tunnel, semilunar, VISTA and apical tunnel techniques.

• Learn to control factors that influence soft tissue grafts outcome.

• Understand the differences among all available acellular dermal matrix grafts.

Module 3: ADVANCES IN IMPLANT SURGERY

A hands-on workshop featuring predictable and successful implant surgery

This hands-on course is designed to help dentists understand the importance of implant therapy, therefore incorporate this new discipline into their daily practices. Participants will be familiarised with every aspects of implant treatment including: difference between natural teeth and dental implants, when to extract or save a tooth, bone volume and quality assessment, indications and contraindications, diagnosis, prognosis, medical contraindications, treatment planning including aesthetic surgical insertion, current advances in socket augmentation (eg. MBP and PTFE techniques), soft tissue management around dental implants, flawless implant surgery, horizontal and vertical bone augmentation, sinus lift, management of biological and biomechanics implant complications and implant maintenance. After completion of this four days continuing education course, the participant will be able to:

• Know how to incorporate implant therapy into their daily practice.

• Recognise the advantages and limitations of implant therapy.

• Know the goals of implant therapy and how to evaluate hard and soft tissue conditions to facilitate ideal implant placement.

• Familiarise implant instrumentation and materials.

• Be familiarise with the bone volume, bone quality, indications, contraindications, objectives and techniques for implant surgical and prosthetic procedures.

• Learn step-by-step surgical sequence and clinical tips associated with implant placement.

• Know the concept of ideal implant 3D position and aesthetic triangle.

• Recognise the advantages and limitations associated with immediate implant placement, flapless implant surgery and immediate implant functional loading.

• Be able to perform socket preservation.

• Have the understanding of how to perform horizontal and vertical bone augmentation as well as sinus lift procedure either lateral window or crystal approach.

• Learn how to avoid and manage implant biological/biomechanical complications.

• Be familiar with soft tissue manipulation around dental implants. • Learn how to perform implant maintenance.

Module 4: IMPLANT PROSTHODONTICS AND PLANNING WITH HANDS-ON WORKSHOP

Featuring prosthetic treatment planning, CBCT planning, surgical guides fabrication, immediate provisionalisation, simple and complex prosthodontics and implant occlusion

This hands-on course is designed to help dentists understand the importance of implant prosthodontics. Participants will be familiarised with every aspects of implant prosthetic treatment including: prosthetic implant treatment planning, CBCT planning, abutment selection, impression techniques, surgical guides fabrication, implant occlusion, prosthetic procedure step-by-step, CAD/CAM for implant therapy, implant prosthetic complications and management and immediate temporarisation. After completion of this four days continuing education course, the participant will be able to:

• Know how to incorporate implant prosthodontics.

• Recognise the advantages and limitations of using CBCT for implant treatment and planning.

• Be familiar with implant prosthetic procedures including abutment selection, impression techniques and prosthesis designs. • Learn step-by-step prosthetic sequence and clinical tips associated with implant prosthodontics. • Know the goals of surgical guides and how to fabricate them. • Familiarise with the types of implant occlusions and when to use what. • Recognise the advantages and limitations associated with temporarisation.