Patients are looking for natural looking restorations in a frame of healthy surrounding soft tissues. Many times the very same patients present with tissue deficiency and excess that can compromise the esthetic outcome and pose a great challenge for the treating clinician.

This course is designed to provide participants with the scientific background and surgical techniques to attain success from a soft tissue perspective. It will address step-by-step esthetic periodontal surgery techniques, their indications and contraindications as well as management of complications. Diagnosis, treatment planning and when a referral is indicated will be emphasized. Participants will learn how to manage soft tissues around teeth and implants and will be able to provide their patients with more esthetic and predictable outcomes.

Topics to be covered:

• Smile design and gingival harmony
• Diagnosis and treatment planning
• Treatment for the excessive gingival display (“gummy smile”)
• Esthetic crown lengthening
• Root coverage procedures
• Enamel matrix proteins with coronally repositioned flaps for root coverage
• Soft tissue allografts – when are they indicated?
• Surgical lip repositioning
• Soft tissue surgery instruments
• Flap design and suturing techniques

• Complication management

Hands-On Workshop

• Suturing techniques
• Flap design
• Free gingival grafts to increase the zone of attached gingivae
• Connective tissue grafting for root coverage
• Coronally repositioned flaps
• Soft tissue allografts and enamel matrix proteins in soft tissue procedures

Dr. Ziv Simon

Beverly Hills, CA

Dr. Ziv Simon is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and a Fellow of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada. He obtained his dental degree and Bachelor of Medical Sciences degree from Tel Aviv University, where he held a teaching position in the department of prosthodontics. He received his periodontal graduate degree and a Master of Science from the University of Toronto. He has conducted research and published on bone engineering, dental implants and smile design. He lectures nationally and internationally on gingival esthetics, advanced hard and soft tissue reconstruction and implant dentistry. Dr. Simon is the founder of the Beverly Hills Multidisciplinary Dental Study Group and taught as a clinical assistant professor at USC. Dr. Simon maintains a private practice limited to periodontics, dental implants and reconstructive surgery in Beverly Hills, California.