Educational objectives

• Understand the principles of bone healing
• Know how to perform simple Guided Bone Regeneration
• Know the different clinical steps of this surgery
• Know how to optimize incisions and sutures in implantology

PROGRAM
Module 1: Healing and Alveolar Preservation
A. Physiology of Healing

• Bone healing
• Socket healing
• Clinical consequences
• Decision tree on managing bone defects

B. Alveolar Preservation

• Risk factors for alveolar resorption
• Atraumatic extraction
• Benefits / limitations of alveolar grafting
• Surgical stages
• Complications
• Surgical video presentations

Module 2: GBR (Guided Bone Regeneration) and Soft Tissue Management
A. Guided Bone Regeneration

• Biological principles
• Which biomaterial? bone substitute, PRF interest, membranes, pins and screws, etc.
• Surgical time: clinical steps
• Postoperative care, follow-up and complications

B. Soft Tissue Management

• Peri-implant periodontal biology
• Reopening surgery
• Management of attached gingiva defects
• Flap techniques: advanced flap and roll technique
• Additive techniques: connective tissue graft and epithelial-connective graft

Hands-on training on animal model

• Bone and soft tissue grafting
• Roundtable and discussion on clinical cases encountered by each practitioner