Periodontics and Aesthetic Dentistry
The role of aesthetic periodontal surgery and its application to aesthetic dentistry is simplified to allow the clinician to master this important concept
Course Outline
- This part of the course focuses on the periodontal plastic surgery
- The importance of diagnostic mock-up is stressed (planned in previous modules) as it determines the level of lips gums & teeth display
- Patients with high smile line and high aesthetic expectations
- What facial, dental and periodontal features need to be assessed prior treatment? can be planned
Course Topics
- Dynamic Smile design revisited
- Contemporary Smile visualisation & Quantification
- AESTHETIC ZONE
- The applied anatomy of the dentogingival junction & periodontal ligament
- Assessment for gummy smile
- Gummy smile: gum lift
- The gum level the zenith in relation to tooth emergence profile and upper lip mobility
- We are treating gum asymmetry and high smile line cases
- Thin biotype, high scalloping margins
- When crown-lengthening procedures are appropriate
- When to treat & when to refer
Course Objectives
On completion of this module you should have good understanding of the following
- The art of seeing & assessment of patient with high smile line
- How to achieve aesthetics in this critical aesthetic zone
- How dental restorations may compromise aesthetics and cause long-term periodontal damage
Treatment options
- When it is appropriate to increase the keratinized marginal tissue or coverage of gingival recession
- Case selection: Decision process to treat or not
- How much gum recontouring is required?
- Simplified method of gum & bone recontouring
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