The online dental institute called the Global Institute for Dental Education is going to host four hands-on workshops per year at its training facility in Los Angeles. The topics that will be covered in these workshops are ones like soft-tissue management and grafting around dental implants; bone, ridge and socket grafting; and sinus elevation and grafting.
This kind of advanced implant and grafting workshop is a four-day which is the perfect mix of hands-on clinical course. The course has been developed by Dr Sascha A. Jovanovic, a periodontist from Los Angeles and pioneer in implant dentistry, bone regeneration and esthetic procedures. The next workshop is planned for June 15–18.
The people who can benefit from this are the clinicians can benefit from taking one, two or all four days at this Training Center. Day 1 is composed of an interactive lecture in the morning addressing flap design and management, suturing methods, soft-tissue autografts and allografts, abutment design modifications, perio-implant papilla support and more.
During the second half of the day, participants will practice on fresh porcine maxilla models with the latest implant designs, microsurgical hand instruments, filler materials, resorbable and non-resorbable sutures and dermal allograft.
The second part of the course consists of a two-day workshop covering the latest techniques for successful bone grafting in implant placement, esthetic implant procedures and socket grafting. Two live surgery cases will be demonstrated: a posterior case for ridge and sinus augmentation purposes, and an anterior esthetic case exhibiting optimal implant placement and site development. Participants will practice tooth extraction with simultaneous implant placement and bone grafting with membrane placement on mandibular pig jaw models. Each workstation is equipped with an implant drill unit, dental implants, fresh pig jaw model, hand instruments, bone-filler material, membrane, BMP-2 graft, titanium mesh and fixation pins.
These workshops are a great boon for people who want to pick up advanced methodologies and techniques not only in the knowledge form but with the help of skills and hands on learning that they can put to use right away on their patients.