Implantology Course 5

Easy and Predictable Hard Tissue Augmentation using Piezoelectric Bone Surgery

Course Dates:

December 9-10, 2011

Course Overview

This two-day hands-on course includes lecture, various video demonstrations on piezoelectric bone surgery associated with dental implant and oral and maxillofacial surgery, followed by hands-on training with freshly frozen rabbit and pig skull.  This lecture provides an overview of piezoelectric bone surgery and advanced surgical techniques using piezoelectric device. These procedures are taught with unique and clinician proven step by step teaching procedural surgical guides with piezoelectric bone surgery.

Course Objectives

• Understand basic principles and variable applications of piezoelectric bone surgery
• Understand the advantages of piezoelectric sinus bone graft compared to conventional sinus bone graft
• Understand the procedures of piezoelectric internal sinus elevation (PISE) technique and hydrodynamic (PISE) with minimal invasiveness and no use of mallet and no risk of postoperative positional vertigo
• Understand surgical procedures of piezoelectric harvesting of block bone and autogenous bone chips
• Understand piezoelectric ridge splitting and its efficacy
• Understand piezoelectric sandwich bone augmentation with interpositional bone graft
• Understand variable hard tissue management and oral pathosis using piezoelectric device such as cyst removal, apicectomy, removal of impacted tooth, alveoloplasty, distraction osteogenesis, etc.
• Understand the utilization of fibrin rich complications with concentrated growth factors for ridge augmentation for sinus bone grafting
• Understand the utilization of piezoelectric surgery during implant placement
• Understanding of when to use piezoelectric surgery and when to use allografts

About the Speaker

Dr. Sohn is Professor and Chair, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery, at Catholic University Medical Center of Daegu, Korea. He is Director of Implant C.E. Course at Daegu Catholic University. He has introduced Piezosurgery (Mectron, Italy), SuryBone (Silfradent, Italy) and UBS (Italia Medica, Italy) in Asia Pacific Area since 2002 and he is the inventor of piezoelectric internal sinus elevation (PISE) and Hydrodynamic PISE.

He has been invited for lectures on Implantology and piezoelectric bone surgery nationally and internationally for many years. He published many articles and books on Implantology and piezoelectric bone surgery in national and international journals.

He is a recipient of the 2007 Charles English Award by Implant Dentistry which is a flagship journal of the ICOI. He is part of the Editorial advisory board of the Journal of Implant and Advanced Clinical Dentistry and Society editor of Implant Dentistry. He is past president and chairman of the ICOI Asia-Pacific Section and founding President of ICOI Korea-KSOI (Korean Society of Oral Implantologists). He was congress chair of 9^th congress of ICOI Asia Pacific section in 2005 and co-congress chair of 28^th ICOI World Congress.

Testimonials

“Dr. Sohn does a great job of simplifying bone grafting and sinus augmentation procedures. You’ll leave the course with the confidence to tackle more difficult cases. I’d highly recommend this course to anyone who currently places or plans to place implants.”

Dr. Jeremy Moore, Baton Rouge, PA

“Dr. Sohn, I attended your piezoelectric bone surgery seminar in Los Angeles last week and enjoyed it very much. Thank you again for the outstanding lecture/ training course. It was very informative, educational and practical. I learned a lot.”

Dr. Andrew Satin, Lakewood, CA

“Hi DS, Thank you for coming to LA! The course was great! My brother, future associate and I really enjoyed it. You teach less invasive techniques that have the same or better results than conventional techniques. I highly recommend this course!”

Dr. Paul Maupin, Roswell, NM