Understanding Basic and Advanced Guided Bone Regeneration (GBR) and Ridge Augmentation, Atraumatic Extractions & Suturing Workshop
Course #1
Understanding Basic and Advanced Guided Bone Regeneration (GBR) and Ridge Augmentation
COURSE DESCRIPTON:
Guided Bone Regeneration and Ridge Augmentation have become routine procedures to enhance the functional, biological and aesthetic outcome of dental implants. This course will provide extensive hands-on exercises on anatomical models to prepare the general practitioner with the surgical skills necessary to perform GBR. The hands-on portion of the course will include lots of firsthand “over the shoulder” tips, tricks, and instructions. Special attention will be given to the selection of graft materials and membranes based on scientific evidence and decades of clinical experience. Participants will also perform exercises on the use of bone tacks and tenting screws.
Lecture Topic:
- Diagnosis and treatment planning for GBR and Ridge Augmentation
- Anatomical considerations to guided bone regeneration
- Criteria for appropriate donor bone graft and membrane selection
- Implant placement in compromised sites with simultaneous augmentation
- Use of radiographs and 3D imaging in GBR procedures
- Management of complications and post-operative care
Hands-on Exercises:
- Preparation of the recipient ridge
- (Appropriate flap design, and incisions for GBR to obtain tension-free flap closure)
- Management of compromised implant sites with horizontal and vertical augmentation
- Fixation of resorbable and non-resorbable membranes with and without bone tacks/screws
Hands-on Exercises:
- Gain an understanding of diagnosis and treatment planning for GBR and Ridge Augmentation with implants
- Recognize and define anatomical considerations to guided bone regeneration
- Define the criteria for appropriate donor bone graft and membrane selection
- Understand the use of 3D imaging in GBR procedures
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding on the management of complications and post-operative care
AGD Subject Code: 310
Course #2
Understanding Sutures and Flap Designs for General Dentists
COURSE DESCRIPTON:
This course is under the direcaction of Thomas G. Wiedemann, MD, PhD, DDS Oral Surgery procedures are an integral part of everyday dental practice. General Dentists perform extractions, periodontal surgery and implant placements that often require specific suturing skills. However, some clinicians may experience challenges such as suture loosing, flap dehiscence, tearing, and the inability to stabilize flaps. Improper suturing can lead to complications and even treatment failures. Whether dentists have been practicing for years or a relatively short period of time mastering suturing and soft tissue management is an essential skill that will predictably improve the final post surgical results. The goal of this hands-on course is to train general dentists in predictable and correct suturing techniques and flap designs. Attendees will learn about different types of suture material and needle configuration and indications for their use. The hands-on portion of the course will include lots of firsthand “over the shoulder” tips, tricks, and instructions. Participants will be confident with different suture types and experience the exercise of the most commonly used suturing techniques and flaps in dental practice. Doctors at any level who are interested in improving their suturing skills will be provided with practical information on how to suture properly and improve surgical treatment outcomes
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Comprehend predictable wound healing, suture mechanics and the importance of correct suturing
- Select the proper threads, needles, and hand instruments
- Know the armamentarium needed to facilitate surgical sutures in the mouth
- Understand why and how to choose a particular type or suture material
- Learn to perform and apply the most useful suturing techniques in divers clinical situations and understand the theory of these different suturing techniques in surgical exodontia, bone grafting, implants, clot and membrane stabilization, primary closure
- Discover how to avoid the most common suturing mistakes
- How to deal with suture challenges and complications
- Understand principles of wound healing and flap design
- Perform full-thickness and split-thickness flaps on a pig-jaw, including a GBR-procedure and the use of different types of classic and modern suture techniques as related to pre-implantological extractions
- Perform other frequent and common oral surgery procedures in the general dental practice
- Allow participants to refine and update all surgical skills
Course #3
Modern Advanced Atraumatic and Surgical Extraction Techniques, Complications Management, Socket Grafting, GBR and Other In-Office Oral Surgery Procedures for General Dentists
COURSE DESCRIPTON:
This course is under the direction of Thomas G. Wiedemann, MD, Ph.D., DDS, Clinical Associate Professor and full-time faculty at New York University, College of Dentistry, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery. Prof. Wiedemann´s career consists of more than 25 years of surgical and educational experience in an academic setting and successfully operating a private practice providing the full spectrum of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Implant Dentistry. He has special interests in dental emergency care, pain management, minimally invasive surgical strategies, and techniques of the full scope of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery. He has acquired extensive expertise in implant surgery with multiple implant systems since 1995. He is well versed in innovative concepts of alveolar ridge augmentation and reconstruction and soft tissue regeneration, CBCT guided, and piezo surgery. He is the author of many publications, a speaker at national and international conferences on oral surgery and implantology-related topics, and serves on the editorial board of several renowned and peer-reviewed scientific journals.
This action-packed extraction course, with two hands-on sessions and lectures, will provide a step-by-step blueprint for successful atraumatic extraction techniques with hand instruments and piezoelectric devices as wells as appropriate flap designs for surgical extraction procedures. The associated webinar will provide pre-op patient evaluation and safe patient selection and you will leave prepared to return to your practice and immediately provide these new techniques and procedures.
You will learn how to select and demonstrate proficient use of the appropriate armamentarium (Periotomes, Proximators, Apical Retention Forceps, Piezotomes vs. conventional instruments) in order to remove and section teeth as well as determine and demonstrate case-appropriate basic and advanced suturing techniques.
The course has been carefully designed to integrate didactic, and visual aides, and extensive hands-on attendee participation with a wide range of different exodontia and bone graft procedures (GBR, socket grafts) for each individual patient.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Understand and apply practical working knowledge in non-surgical and surgical techniques used in modern exodontia
- Apply and select specific instruments for minimally invasive and alveolar ridge-protecting extraction procedures to facilitate immediate dental implant placement
- Manage common real-life complications associated with tooth extractions
- Analyze and anticipate surgical challenges in tooth extractions
- Feel comfortable in risk assessment in medically compromised patients requiring tooth extractions
- Perform current simple protocols of GBR, including socket preservation, as related to pre-implantological extractions
- Perform other frequent and common oral surgery procedures in the general dental practice
- Allow participants to refine and update all surgical skills
Registration
WG Dental Institute
15436 N. Florida Ave.
Suite 102
Tampa, FL 33613
GBR/Suturing: Fri. June 13, 2025: 8am-5pm
Extraction: Sat. June 14, 2025: 8am-5pm
NYC Seminar & Conference Center
114 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
GBR/Suturing: Fri. Aug 15, 2025: 8am-5pm
Extraction: Sat. Aug 16, 2025: 8am-5pm
Sponsors
About Thomas G. Wiedemann, MD, PhD, DDS,
This course is under the direction of Thomas G. Wiedemann, MD, PhD, DDS, Clinical Associate Professor and full-time faculty at New York University, College of Dentistry, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery. Prof. Wiedemann´s career consists of more than 27 years of surgical and educational experience in an academic setting and successfully operating a private practice providing the full spectrum of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Implant Dentistry.
He has special interests in dental emergency care, pain management, minimal invasive surgical strategies, and techniques of the full scope of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery. He has acquired extensive expertise in dentoalveolar and implant-surgery with multiple implant systems since 1995. He is well versed in innovative concepts of alveolar ridge augmentation and reconstruction and soft tissue regeneration, robotic guided- and piezo-surgery.
He is the author of many publications, speaker in national and international conferences on oral surgery and implantology-related topics and serves on the editorial board of several renowned and peer-reviewed scientific journals. Recently he accepted leadership as co-editor in chief for the Journal of Dentistry and Oral Sciences and as Editor in chief for Journal of Surgery and Surgical Procedures.
