SOFT TISSUE MANAGEMENT COURSE FOR IMPLANTS & TEETH

12 December 9:00AM – 13 December 5:00PM 2025

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Date: 12 December 9:00AM – 13 December 5:00PM 2025
Location: Danubius Hotel Regents Park, London NW8 7JT
Price: £1,550 Early Bird Fee, £1,799 Standard Rate

Explore all aspects of Soft Tissue Management for both dental implants and teeth, from treatment planning to the execution of grafting techniques.

Held several times and back by popular demand, this 2-day course is led by renowned expert Prof. Puria Parvini and provides in-depth knowledge alongside hands-on training.

The course covers various augmentation procedures to correct soft tissue inadequacies, ensuring clinicians are equipped to maintain or enhance soft tissue stability.
Key topics include indications, pros and cons of different techniques, and the prevention and management of complications.

Event Content

I. LECTURE
-Anatomical structures; principals of predictable soft tissue grafting
-Anatomical factors affecting grafting outcome
-Surgical instrumentations
-Incisions
-Flap designs – which one to use and when
-Suturing techniques
-Treatment of gingival recession
-Altered passive eruptions
-Crown-lengthening
-Primary healing; how to handle the tissue to always get primary healing
-Post operative patient management
-Management of extraction socket vs. immediate implantation
-Vestibuloplasty

II. HANDS-ON & TECHNIQUES
Indications, advantages and disadvantages of each technique
Step-by-step practice on sheep jaws

- Harvesting
Identifying a suitable donor site
Harvesting technique – autograft
Preparation of recipient site

- Pin-hole Technique
- Zucchelli Suture Technique
- Vista Technique
- Tunnelling Technique
- Coronally advanced flap with releasing incisions
- Connective tissue Graft
- Free Gingival Graft for keratinised gingiva gain

III. PREVENTION / MANAGEMENT OF COMPLICATIONS
- Intraoperative bleeding
- Flap perforations
- Wound dehiscence
- Necrosis of the flap

Benefits

- Understand indications for soft tissue grafting around dental implants and teeth
- Learn various incisions and flap designs
- Get a better understanding of graft harvesting and management of the recipient and donor sites
- Familiarise yourself with different soft tissue grafting techniques. Learn indications, advantages and disadvantages of each technique.
- Learn complication prevention and complication management

Resulting Qualification

14 hours verifiable CPD

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