Perio Surgery for the Modern Dentist

Course overview

Join us for an innovative, hands-on course for those interested in learning surgical and non-surgical solutions to periodontal disease, including improving patient compliance for at-home care. Participants will take part in hands-on exercises that include flap and suturing, bone contouring, and bone grafting. Exercises will be done on both pig jaws and anatomically correct models. Day One is ideal for clinical staff, especially Hygienists. We will also show an evidenced-based method for the minimally invasive management of moderate to advanced periodontal infection targeting the bacteria and not the pocket. We will explore ongoing maintenance, a key factor for long term success, and emphasize methods that patients can manage at home without being too complicated. With this approach, compliance might be improved over traditional efforts to get people to floss. In this course, we will clarify diagnosis and treatment planning to help practitioners feel comfortable with different kinds of treatments, and the potential for success of these approaches, whether you treat infective periodontal disease cases yourself or make approaches, whether you treat infective periodontal disease cases yourself or make informed referrals. Topics to be covered include: Diagnosis, Prognosis, Minimally invasive anti-microbial methods, Instrumentation, Basic flaps and palatal flaps, Osseous concepts for both osseous reduction procedures, and basic bone grafting for three-wall defects, The role of trauma from the occlusion, Predictable methods for patient motivation that will include a key cornerstone for long term successful maintenance care.