Mucogingival surgery: root coverage protocols 2.0

Root coverage: treatment planning

• Lesson program
• Recessions: etiology and classification
• Root coverage: prognostic factors
• Tunnel techniques: technical features
• Criteria for successful treatment of recessions
• Indications for the use of a connective tissue graft
• The effect of Emdogain on periodontal tissue
• Connective tissue graft: donor zones
• Tunneling approach: demonstration of the methodology
• VISTA methodology: video demonstration
• The "
• Zipper technique"
• Techniques for closing multiple recessions.

Recommended for: Periodontists.

Duration: 1 h 59 min · Presented by: Robert Carvalho da Silva

Root coverage: complications and pitfalls

• Lesson program
• Types of complications in the root coverage
• Root coverage success criteria
• Root coverage decision tree
• Surgical technical notes
• Prognostic factors to achieve predictable outcomes
• Indications for root coverage that appeared after orthodontic treatment
• Protocol for the xenograft using in root coverage
• Non carious cervical lesions: tactics
• CEY identification
• Methods for the phenotype of soft tissues evaluation
• Graft necrosis: reasons and tactics.

Recommended for: Periodontists.

Duration: 2 h · Presented by: Robert Carvalho da Silva

Treatment of maxillary localised gingival recession

• Lesson program
• Classification of localised gingival recessions
• Diagnostics of the mucogingival lesions and planing their treatment to achieve the best possible outcomes
• Gingival recession lockalized in the maxilla: classification, diagnosis and treatment approaches
• Treatment standards for root coverage
• Using of autologous grafts in combination with the envelope technique for single tooth recession
• The tunnel technique for the treatment of multiple adjacent tooth recession: step-by-step protocol
• Coronally advanced flap: step-by-step protocol
• Technique of connective tissue graft sampling.

Recommended for: Periodontists.

Duration: 54 min · Presented by: Mariano Sanz

Diagnosis of gingival recession and determination of treatment tactics

• Lesson program
• How to diagnose a gingival recession?

• Clinical and anatomical cement-enamel junction
• Non-carious cervical defects: associated with gingival recession
• Classification of gingival recession
• Prognosis of root coverage procedure
• How to determine the maximum root coverage achievable?

• Etiology of gingival recession
• Indications and goals for surgical treatment of gingival recession.

Recommended for: Periodontists.

Duration: 52 min · Presented by: Ilham Mounssif

Harvesting technique for root coverage procedures

• Lesson program
• Palatal anatomy and its influence in choosing the proper harvesting technique

Techniques available in the literature:

• Trap door
• L-incision technique
• Single incision technique.

• De-epithelialized free gingival graft technique: step-by-step surgical technique
• Advantages and disadvantages of different harvesting techniques
• Primary intention palatal wound healing
• Complication of the de-epithelialized free gingival graft technique.

Recommended for: Periodontists.

Duration: 1 h · Presented by: Ilham Mounssif

Treatment of single and multiple gingival recessions

• Lesson program
• Prognostic factors in the gingival recession treatment
• Coronally advanced flap in the treatment of single gingival recession: step-by-step surgical technique, indications and contraindications
• Coronally advanced flap (envelope flap) in the treatment of multiple gingival recession: step-by-step surgical technique, indications and contraindications
• When applying the connective tissue graft
• Connective tissue graft substitute.

Recommended for: Periodontists.

Duration: 2 h · Presented by: Ilham Mounssif

Updated VISTA technique

• Lesson program
• History of concepts for management of gingival recession defects
• Periodontal phenotype
• Review of classic surgical techniques for the treatment of periodontal diseases
• Advantages of VISTA technique
• Mucosal split-thickness vs mucosal full-thickness flap
• Significance of periodontal phenotype in long-term stability of periodontal tissues
• Decision making on when phenotype modification therapy is necessary and whether augmentation of mucosa and/or alveolar bone augmentation is needed
• The VISTA protocol for phenotype modification therapy.

Recommended for: Periodontists, Implantologists, Oral and maxillofacial surgeons, General dentists.

Duration: 1 h 32 min · Presented by: Homa Zadeh