Crown Lengthening For The General Dentist

Why Crown Lengthening:

In your private practice you routinely face with frustrating challenges in situations where you need to restore teeth in the smile zone with uneven gingival levels, and /or crowns that keep coming out with minimal or no retention.

Crown Lengthening is a simple surgical procedure that should be incorporated into every practice, crown lengthening, should be a part of every restorative practice.

Dr. Sordelli will review in detail all aspects of esthetics and functional crown lengthening, and guide you through hands-on demonstrations so you can start diagnosing, treatment planing and performing this procedure in your practice the next day.

This course includes hands-on exercises, lecture and life surgery demonstration of surgical technique. The full day workshop will give you the opportunity to practice these procedures on pig jaws.

Table of Contents:

• Why Crown Lengthening?
• Alternatives to Crown Lengthening
• Treatment Planning for Crown Lengthening
• Armamentarium
• Radiographs
• Biologic Width
• Anesthetic
• Initial Incisions
• Flap Evaluations
• Suturing
• Surgical Evaluation
• Postoperative Instructions

Learning Objectives:

• Understand clinical and diagnostic criteria necessary for crown lengthening cases
• Review surgical steps and instrumentation for functional and esthetic cases, and the myth of the biologic width
• Learn why and when to avoid crown lengthening for treatment