Title: Strategic surgical planning for soft tissue reconstruction with gingival graft using the tunnel technique
Abstract:
This presentation teaches how to develop a strategic surgical plan for soft tissue reconstruction with gingival tissue graft in different types of gingival defects around teeth and implants using the minimally invasive approach, the tunnel technique. This technique has been widely disseminated and widely applied worldwide by leading periodontists, especially when there are three-dimensional gingival defects involving loss of interproximal tissue and gingival papillae. It will highlight the main pillars that support the success of a gingival graft, such as how to approach and prepare a surgical recipient and donor area of ??gingival tissue with the philosophy of the minimally traumatic approach, understanding the indication for this technique, taking into account the architecture of different soft tissue defects, elucidation of preoperative root and prosthetic preparations, and the technical details of the various types of incisions, instruments, scalpel micro-blades, suture's structural properties that influence the type of anchorage and how these are made using modern fixation techniques that make all the difference in postoperative results and enable aesthetic corrections of the gums and gains in gum volume.
Audience take away notes:
This presentation teaches how to develop a strategic surgical plan for soft tissue reconstruction with gingival tissue graft in different types of gingival defects around teeth and implants using the minimally invasive approach, the tunnel technique. This technique has been widely disseminated and widely applied worldwide by leading periodontists, especially when there are three-dimensional gingival defects involving loss of interproximal tissue and gingival papillae. It will highlight the main pillars that support the success of a gingival graft, such as how to approach and prepare a surgical recipient and donor area of ??gingival tissue with the philosophy of the minimally traumatic approach, understanding the indication for this technique, taking into account the architecture of different soft tissue defects, elucidation of preoperative root and prosthetic preparations, and the technical details of the various types of incisions, instruments, scalpel micro-blades, suture's structural properties that influence the type of anchorage and how these are made using modern fixation techniques that make all the difference in postoperative results and enable aesthetic corrections of the gums and gains in gum volume.
