Soft Tissue Management is essential for the long-term success of both dental implants and natural teeth, ensuring stability, aesthetics, and function.

Proper management supports implant and periodontal health while preventing complications such as peri-implantitis, mobility, recession, and inflammation.

By addressing these aspects proactively, clinicians can promote the long-term health of implants, teeth, and surrounding tissues, achieving more successful outcomes for their patients.

Led by expert Prof. Puria Parvini, our 2-day course provides in-depth knowledge and hands-on training in Soft Tissue Management and Grafting Techniques for implant dentistry and natural teeth.

The course covers various augmentation procedures to correct soft tissue inadequacies, equipping clinicians with the skills to maintain or enhance soft tissue stability around both implants and teeth.

What to Expect:

• Comprehensive Training: Explore all aspects of Soft Tissue Management for both dental implants and teeth, from treatment planning to the execution of grafting techniques.
• Hands-On Techniques: Master Soft Tissue Grafting Procedures to address inadequacies and ensure stability, aesthetics, and function around implants and natural dentition.
• Complication Management: Learn systematic approaches to prevent, identify, and manage complications like peri-implantitis, mobility, recession, and inflammation.
• Surgical Augmentation Procedures: Gain insights into various soft tissue augmentation methods, including their indications, pros, and cons.
• Expert Guidance: Benefit from the knowledge and experience of Prof. Puria Parvini with over 20 years of academic teaching and surgical expertise in Implantology and periodontal care.

Course 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 & Technique

Indications, advantages and disadvantages of each technique

Step-by-step practice on sheep jaws

• Harvesting
  1. Identifying a suitable donor site
  2. Harvesting technique – autograft
  3. 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 Ccomplication

• Intraoperative bleeding
• Flap perforations
• Wound dehiscence
• Necrosis of the flap