Postgraduate Award in Aesthetic Periodontology
The postgraduate award in aesthetic periodontal is for dental surgeons who want to introduce soft tissue plastic surgery techniques as treatment modalities to their practices and who would like to receive credit for their training. An area of increasing concern is the emergence of peri-implantitis. This will be covered by the course and its aetiology and the latest management protocols will be taught. As implants become commonplace, dentists will have to be able to manage patients with both periodontal disease and peri-implant disease and manipulate soft tissue aesthetics in relation to implant restorations as well as teeth. The course covers the surgical and non-surgical treatment of periodontal disease and its implant counterpart peri-implantitis together with its diagnosis and prognosis.
Why should I enrol on the Postgraduate Award?
1. To develop your periodontal practice and acquire valuable transferable treatment planning skills.
2. To enhance your CV - particularly important if you wish to follow a career in academia.
3. If you are placing or restoring implants
4. The postgraduate award in aesthetic periodontology is awarded by The City of London Dental School which is a Licensed Higher Education institution
Who Should Attend?
1. If you wish to learn to manage periodontal disease and correct soft tissue defects around teeth and implants
2. If you would like learn more about but do not feel ready to actually perform periodontal surgery
3. If you already manage patients with periodontal disease but want to understand current treatment protocols and concepts especially in relation to dental implants
Opportunity for further professional development
The postgraduate award is a foundation programme for the MClinDent in Periodontology offering the opportunity to further expand and develop your clinical skills. It meets all current training requirements and the opportunity for mentored clinical training.
Course Features
The postgraduate award comprises of ten teaching days and attendance is required only one day a month over the year. Through lectures and group work participants are introduced to the very latest periodontal treatment concepts and given a clinical overview of surgical and restorative techniques in the school's teaching facility. The topics cover anatomy, pathology, surgical and non-surgical protocols, patient selection and healing outcomes relevant to aesthetical goals. Step by step techniques, complication handling and factors necessary for success are also covered along with clinical assessment and factors that contraindicate periodontal surgery. A knowledge will be gained of basic periodontal assessment, non-surgical treatment, patient maintenance schemes and alternative treatment options along with the ability to accurately treatment plan and determine risk and prognosis. The healing processes following surgery and potential complications along with the latest planning of soft tissue grafting around teeth and implants with the medicolegal implications of periodontal surgery are also covered.
Course Themes
- Patient selection and periodontal assessment
- Balanced smile
- Recessions, and lack of dental substance and how to manage
- Delayed eruption and how to manage
- Crown lengthening, restorative dentistry and how to manage
- Soft tissue grafts to improve keratinised tissue
- Soft tissue grafts to improve volume
- Changing paradigms towards a multidisciplinary approach in RD
- Soft tissues, implant restorations and how to manage
- Soft tissues, regeneration and how to manage
- Team training – a day where your staff get to attend and receive training
Upon Completion of the course you will be able to:
1. Identify and select suitable patients for correction of soft tissue defects
2. Confidently diagnose, treatment plan and assess risk
3. Design and instigate supportive periodontal therapies
4. Understand the fundamental principles, theory and safe practice of periodontal cosmetic surgery
CPD Certificate
In addition to the postgraduate award granted on completion of the year course you will also receive a CPD certificate for six hours for every day attended.
Course Dates
September 3rd and 4th
October 1st and 2nd
October 29th and 30th.
Course Fee
£ 2,850.00 (for both days including light lunch)