Microsurgical Soft Tissue Reconstruction for Teeth & Implants - Part 1 of 2

Continuing Education Credits:
1 CEU (Continuing Education Unit)

Course Presenter(s):
Ramon Gomez Meda, DDS


Date Added:
02/11/2019

Course Description:

Esthetics plays a key role in a modern society and the average dental health of the population is improving every day. In such environment, the demands of dental treatments are different and dentists should approach their patients in a different way: they should be prepared to implement different and modern techniques around teeth and implants. Soft tissue grafting techniques provide the dentist with an armamentarium that makes possible to prevent and solve many problems and complications around teeth and implants, making more predictable the treatments results. This presentation is focused in the importance of soft tissue grafting techniques around teeth and implants and how to do it in a predictable, modern and a minimally invasive way. We present many different techniques illustrated with clinical cases.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the importance of soft tissue grafting around teeth & implants.
• Observe the evolution in STG techniques.
• Choose the right technique depending on the clinical situation: the importance of the diagnosis.
• What are the limits for STG techniques?
• Biomaterials as an alternative to CTGs.
• How to suture a CTG ? Understand the microsurgical approach.
• Possible complications of STG techniques and how to manage them.
• Other Indications for STG techniques in Prosthodontics & Implant Dentistry.