Part 1 is a 2 Day Course with Dr Balaji.

This course is designed for dentists who are already capable of placing implants and would like to enhance their skills.

This course will teach you how to improve your skills in horizontal and vertical bone augmentation and soft tissue surgical work.

The duration of this course is 2 days, both of which include lectures and hands-on exercises. A further 2 day course is also available.

This course will give you an understanding of bone and soft tissue defects and how to treat them according to the size of the defect.  You will also learn the different types of biomaterial and which is best to use in different situations; bone harvesting techniques and connective tissue harvesting techniques.  

We will also cover flap design; tension free flap closure, lingual flap advancement, and periosteal advancement.

• Registration

• Welcome & Introduction

• Skills Test

• Dr Sandy Limerick - Patient selection, diagnosis, digital planning applied anatomy of the maxila and mandible

• Biology, Biomaterials, types of defects, patient selection

• Socket Defects, Anterior aesthetic region horizontal augmentation techniques

• Hands-on: Flip design, horizontal augmentation with GBR CTG harvesting and fixing, tunnel technique periosteo-elastic technique and suturing. Implant placement and custom made temp

• Discussion

• Welcome Dinner

• Dr Sandy Limerick - applied anatomy Anterior maxilla and mandible

• Sausage technique maxilla

• Sausage technique mandible

• Soft tissue, suturing technique

• Complications

• Hands-on Sausage technique, fibrogide, plastic model training

• Discussion and Farewell