* Medical Evaluation and Review of Systemic Health prior to implant placement
* Assessment of periodontal condition prior to implant placement
* Clinical Evaluation of Proposed Dental Implant Sites
* Radiographic evaluation of proposed dental implant sites (Anatomy respect in
implant dentistry)
* Soft tissue consideration before implant placement
* Placement of implants in a correct three-dimensional position (detailed explanation)
*One or 2 stage approach?
* Management of soft tissue during the second stage approach
*Planning & Manipulation Before, During & After Dental Implant Surgery
*Importance of mucogingival conditions with gingival recession.
*Difference between implants and teeth in their response for tissue grafting.
*Benefits and indications of free gingival grafts around implants and teeth.
*History of all types of soft tissue grafts.
*How and where to harvest an FGG from.
*Learn a step-by-step approach for FGG harvesting from the palate.
*Best techniques to manage the donor site.
*Learn how to prepare the recipient site for optimum wound healing and no graft loss!
*Best suturing techniques to stabilize the graft and minimize patient discomfort.
*What are gingival recessions and what are their types?
*Can ALL types of gingival recessions be covered?
*Can ANY implant surface coverage with recession be achieved successfully?
*What other reasons to do connective tissue grafts, even with no recession?
*When should you use connective tissue grafts and when should you use a free gingival graft?
*What are the harvesting techniques of connective tissue grafts (5 techniques)?
*Which donor site is best for a connective tissue graft?
*Of all this, which technique do we recommend you use?
*How to manage the donor site? How to reduce pain, bleeding, and improve patient acceptance?
*What are the most predictable alternatives to using patients own tissue?
*What is the role of biologics in improving my treatment outcome? is it just hoax?
*The most pressing issue facing the GP in today’s dental implant practice.
*How to identify salvageable implants from hopeless ones.
*How to predictably treat peri-implantitis
* Evidence-based strategies for management of simple and complex implant-related biological complications in the aesthetic zone.
*Special emphasis will be placed on the impact of the morphology and severity of peri-implant bone defects on the outcome of reconstructive treatment.
Learn Implants 3 days a month
(1 didactic -Friday- and 2 clinical days Saturday & Sunday)
for 10 months on live patients. Plus one free makeup session



Founder of DII

DDS, MS, Ph.D. | Assist. Director of Perio Program | U of Pittsburgh | Perio. Program U of M