Bone Regeneration Hands-on Course

Bone regeneration with autogenous tissues is the state-of-the-art implant dentistry due to its biologic superiority. In this realm, the “Khoury” Technique stands out and is recognized for its unmatched possibilities in horizontal and vertical bone regeneration.

However, free-hand autogenous bone grafting can impose significant challenges on the clinician. Therefore, this bone regeneration hands-on course by Luca de Stavola goes beyond by adding not only innovative protocols to augmentation but also digital guidance to Khoury bone grafting procedures.

Master Bone Regeneration and Soft Tissue Management

Under the guidance of Luca De Stavola, an oral-surgeon and world-renowned expert and educator in this field, you will learn all relevant aspects to modern bone reconstruction and particularly to block grafting in the Khoury technique.

After this bone regeneration hands-on course, you will increase your confidence and skills, and the predictability of your grafting procedures.

Teaching format is by lecture, live surgery videos, and detailed hands-on practiced on pig jaws and patient replica models.

The Only 4-day Master Class – Your Best Option for Bone Regeneration

This course covers strategic concepts together with the important practical topics to become highly predictable with bone grafting in your clinical reality.

You will learn state-of-the-art, evidence–based, biologic, clinical approaches for any extend of horizontal and vertical augmentation for obtaining reliably treatment success.

Diagnostics and the rules of bone augmentation to understand when to do what to enable clinicals to make the right surgical decisions in grafting procedures will be discussed.

You will learn the biological principles of bone augmentation and biological classification of deficiencies to be able to decide from a strategical point of view the best surgical approach – to define procedural goals, to determine the technique to use, and the appropriate timing.

Soft tissue management, which is the crucial component in bone augmentation success, is a highly dedicated topic of this hands-on course.

You will learn incision strategies for different purposes, different clinical soft tissue conditions and for the final expected outcome in that area. Different flap elongation strategies will be taught based on anatomical areas. The front maxilla and the posterior mandible demand completely different flap structure designs.

Strong focus is put on teaching wound closure by obtaining primary wound healing through passive wound closure, which is still probably the most important point in soft tissue management and is the aspect where many surgeons are failing during the bone augmentation.

This course also discusses GBR, particularly together with implant placement and small horizontal and vertical bone augmentation up to four millimeters in the vertical direction.

Master the Khoury Shell Technique – in the Freehand & the Novell Guided Approach

The high emphasis of this course is the Khoury block grafting technique which is for vertical defects that are more than five millimeters in vertical direction. You will learn any aspect of the surgical spectrum to master the Khoury Shell Technique.

You will enhance your skills in:
– Rational of Autogenous bone, diagnosis of deficiencies, decision of grafting approach
– Bone harvesting: shape of bone block and cutting plane for safe distance from neighboring structures, and surgical flap design for harvesting bone
– Bone block separation in two laminae and lamina stabilization in vertical bone grafting
– Soft tissue management: to optimize soft tissue volume in the esthetic area and function and esthetics in the posterior mandible
– Traditional free-hand approach
– Novel digitally guided surgical protocols

Autogenous Shell Technique and Soft tissue Strategies – Safer & Simpler Workflows

Both approaches, Freehand and Guide, will be practiced for mastering the Khoury technique. You will learn the digitally guided way for the Khoury protocols, the digital approach that is not just stopping at bone harvesting but will also be helpful in separating the block and in the lamina fixation.

Guided by the digital protocol which is improving the path of the surgery a lot, you will experience increased safety and simplicity, and more comfort performing bone reconstruction procedures.

All Khoury technique bone grafting protocols will be practiced step-by-step in hands-on; for the traditional free-hand approach you will perform surgery on pig jaws and for the digitally guided workflow on patient replica models.

Transform Complex Bony Defects into Predictable Success Stories

You will return to your practice with increased Confidence, Competence, and Control. in bone augmentation procedures and ready to implement new skills right away.

Whether your goal is to master autogenous bone grafting or to integrate the latest digital advancements, this hands-on course offers the complete roadmap to success in modern implantology and bone regeneration