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Vertical / Horizontal Ridge Augmentation - Course 601

Prerequisite: Course 101 or have placed a minimum of 50 implants

Vertical / Horizontal Ridge AugmentationVERTICAL / HORIZONTAL RIDGE AUGMENTATION
COURSE 601/602
This course is designed to help enable you to place implants in severely resorbed edentulous ridges.
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Course Highlights

This course is designed to help enable you to place implants in severely resorbed edentulous ridges. Traditionally block grafts or ridge split would be used with questionable predictability; however, with the help of the Vertical Translation Technique® it is becoming increasingly predictable to place implants under these circumstances using particulate grafts. This minimizes patient's morbidity. This will enhance your bone grafting skill in any area.

Course Objectives

  • Learn how to identify cases where the patient can benefit from Ridge Augmentation without using the block grafts.
  • Gain an understanding of the graft material to be used.
  • Learn the flap manipulation and wound closure technique.

Who Should Attend

  • Doctors who want to be able to service their patients with dental implants, but are leery about doing block grafts.
  • Doctors who have patients who need implants, but don't have enough bone to support them.
  • Doctors who want to learn a less invasive way of augmentation to allow better implant position and location.
  • Doctors who want to place implants at the time of augmentation.
  • Doctors who want to do augmentation without harvesting another part of the body.

Topics To Be Covered

  • Treatment planning
  • Case selection
  • Implant placement
  • Bone grafting technique
  • Choice of graft material
  • Flap manipulation and wound closure
  • Suturing technique
  • Post-Op and follow-up management

Testimonials

"In 25 years of Continuing Education, this is the best course that I can EVER remember in term of facility, intellectual stimulation, audio-visual presentation and instructor quality. It should be the gold standard."

Paul Bederson, DDS - Maryland

"Dr. Leon Chen - Great course. I learned a lot and enjoyed all your terrific tips. I'm going back now to do all those cases faster and better. Dr. Cha did a wonderful job with her surgeries."

Clyde Umaki, DDS, Periodontist, Diplomat - Hawaii