PERIODONTICS - BASIC

Course Director: Dr Georges Hage

Duration: 5 weeks 

Timing: 1 half-day per week / 16 hours of lessons & 4 hours of workshop

Tuition: $ 500 (including videos from live surgery cases)

 

1. Periodontal disease:
   • Etiology, diagnosis, classification and prognosis
   • Periodontitis and systemic diseases
      
2. Periodontitis treatment:
   • Plaque control
   • Medical prescription in periodontitis treatment
   • Non-surgical:
     • Scaling
     • Root planning
   • Surgical:
     • Access flaps and suture techniques
     • Respective therapy: ostectomy and osteoplasty
        
3. Reconstructive therapy:
   • Guided Tissue Regeneration (GTR)
   • Bone grafting
   • Emdogain
   • Growth factors
      
4. Furcation treatment:
   • Apical repositioning
   • Root separation
   • Root amputation
   • Tunnelisation
   • GTR
   • Emdogain
      
5. Endo-perio lesions
    
6. Pre-prosthetic surgery:
   • Crown lengthening: single and multiple
   • Preventing ridge deficiencies
      
7. Periodontal maintenance