A SUBPERIOSTEAL TUNNELING TECHNIQUE

For Root Coverage and Periimplant Soft Tissue Recession

A hands-on Workshop

Various tunneling surgical procedures have been documented for the treatment of gingival recession. Their advantages include minimizing surgical trauma, maintaining better blood supply, preserving papillary integrity, reducing post-grafting tissue retraction, absence of scar tissue and excellent root coverage.

During this full-day lecture and hands-on workshop, plastic models and pig jaws will be used to demonstrate the tunneling technique.

Lecture objectives

Understand a classification of gingival recession.
Understand the application and technique of a subperiosteal tunneling procedure for improving soft tissue condition and correction of implant or root exposure.
Handling microsurgical tunnelling instruments.
Learning to safely harvest and handle autologous connective tissue graft.
Understanding the application of Geistlich Fibro-Gide^® as graft material.
Learning the suturing techniques to stabilize the gingival tissue and graft materials.

Vinh Giap Nguyen DDS, MSc

Dr Vinh Giap Nguyen obtained his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree at McGill University, Montreal in 1987. In 2014, he was awarded a Masters of Science degree in Implantology from Goëthe University in Frankfurt, Germany. Since 2016, he has been an Accredited Tutor for the Master of Implantology Program at Goëthe University.

He was an invited speaker at the International Scientific Symposium ‘Innovation Jumps in Oral Implantology’ in 2015, Frankfurt am Main, Germany on the subject of Ridge Splitting for Expansion, and in 2017 on The Clinical protocol on the Socket shield technique.

He focuses his practice in Implantology and Temporomandibular Joint disorder and Craniofacial Pain.

Scientific publication: Lateral Alveolar Ridge Expansion in the Anterior Maxilla Using Piezoelectric Surgery for Immediate Implant Placement. Nguyen VG, von Krockow N, Weigl P, Depprich R., Int J Oral Maxillofac Implants. 2016 May-Jun;31(3):687-99. doi: 10.11607/jomi.4214.

He is a member at the following organizations:

Diplomat of the American Board of Oral Implantology (AIOB)

Diplomat of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists (ICOI)

Fellow of The American Academy of Craniofacial Pain (AACP)

Associate Fellow at the American Academy of Implant Dentistry (AAID)

Member at The International Team for Implantology (ITI)

Member of the Straumann Speaker Consortium

Founder-Director of The Montreal Society of Implantology, an ITI affiliated study club.

Accredited Tutor of Department of Postgraduate Education, Faculty of Oral and Dental Medicine, J. W. Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.