Speaker Bio: Engelwood, NJ; private practice; Attending, Englewood Hospital

Description:  This program is designed for the early to moderate level general dentist wishing to learn how to refine his/her skills in for general oral and implant surgery.  Participants will expand their knowledge for dental suturing and techniques. During the course participants will go over suturing essentials, flap designs, flap manipulation, flap release, flap closure, socket grafting and bone grafting with proper closure. Basic implant and soft tissue surgery will be covered. Hands On Exercises on pig jaws will enable participants to practice the techniques discussed.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand basic suturing principles
• Learn Flap Design and manipulation
• Understand various suturing techniques for closure
• Practice hands on suturing on pig jaws 
  Students to bring: Loupes

  ** This course is part of the AGD 2016 Blended Learning experience. Blended Learning combines the convenience of an online lecture with the guidance of hands-on instruction. By registering, you will gain access to a free webinar that provides the lecture portion of this course, giving you three full hours of hands-on learning at the meeting, and 4.5 total participation CE. The webinar can be taken live on June 29^th at 7 p.m. CDT, or anytime after June 30^th on-demand at the AGD Online Learning Center. To ensure a complete learning experience, the accompanying webinar is a prerequisite to Dr. Minichetti’s session.

  You will receive a notification via email the week of June 20 with instructions for accessing this webinar. Please contact courses@agd.org with any questions regarding this course or the webinar.