ROOT COVERAGE
Cosmetic Grafting

8:30 - 4:30 (Hands On)	Pre-op smile - patient unhappy with esthetics Pre-op retracted shows recession Graft sutured on day of surgery 6 month post op
1. Free Gingival Graft Learn to widen the zone of attached gingiva. Eliminate frenum pulls
2. Subepithelial Connective Tissue Graft How to use CTG to cover roots for multiple teeth recessions 3. Pita Pouch Connective Tissue Graft How to cover one-tooth recession when inadequate gingiva is available for a pedicle

Subepithelial Connective Tissue Grafts

Subepitheal Connective Tissue Grafts combine the most positive features of the free gingival and pedical grafts. CTGs were originally used to build out edentulous ridges. In 1985, their use was expanded to include total root coverage in cases of severe recession on isolated and multiple teeth, especially in the maxilla where root coverage is difficult to obtain.

Indications for CTG would include:

• Multiple teeth with root exposure
• Esthetics concerns
• Multiple teeth with root exposure in combination with minimal attached gingiva
• Isolated wide recession not usually amenable to free gingival grafting especially in the maxilla

Advantages to using a CTG are:

• Increased graft vascularity
• One-step procedure
• Minimal palatal trauma
• Better esthetics due to better color matches

There are disadvantages to this procedure also:

• Complicated procedure and suturing
• Technique - sensitive
• Limited by shallow palates
• After healing the marginal tissues may appear thickened and a gingivoplasty may be required.

What You Will Learn	A comprehensive, illustrative manual will be given to each doctor. This manual along with techniques taught will enable you to learn when, why, and how to use the grafts.
Several Different Soft Tissue Grafts CTG for Multiple Tooth Recession Pita Pocket for Single Tooth Recession Free Gingival Graft
Why Our Workshops Are Successful
Each procedure is explained in detail using an instruction book and slides. (You get to keep the book.) After each explanation you do the actual procedures using frozen pig jaws. (We supply all the instruments.) All procedures are taught by licensed periodontists who understand your problems. Attendance is limited to ensure personal attention by the instructors.

Dr. James Kohner is originally from Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from The Ohio State University, and Case Western Reserve University Dental School, and obtained his certification in Periodontics from the Boston University School of Graduate Dentistry. He currently lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Dr. Kohner is an experienced teacher who has presented courses on Soft Tissue Grafting to a wide range of audiences, including many state associations all over the US and in 8 foreign countries, and has presented at the American Academy of Periodontology meetings for many years. He has been teaching for the Perio Institute since 2003.

He is a Fellow of both the American Society of Osseointegration and International Congress of Oral Implantology, as well as an active member of the American Academy of Periodontology.

The Course Schedule includes dates, times and prices.

Call 1-800-327-3746 for more information or to register

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