Meet Dr. Kohner
Dr. Kohner is a Periodontist, and a leader in the periodontal world of dental health. He is an expert in the management of periodontal infection using non-surgical methods, as well as being current on the latest procedures relating to surgical therapy.
With over 35 years in the private practice of Periodontics and more than 20 years teaching, Dr. Kohner has the experience to make his courses meaningful. If your goal is to learn about what it takes to deliver new procedures to your patients and improve your restorative results at the same time, then his programs will give you the information you need.
Crown Lengthening
“Hands-on” Workshop for Performing Crown Extensions.
This course is intended for the general dentist that wants to do some or most of their own crown extensions.
Topics Covered:
- Biologic Width
- Soft Tissue Crown Lengthening
- Principles of Osseous Surgery
- Anterior/Posterior Crown Lengthening
- Indications and Contraindications
- Hands-on Learning Using
- Pig Jaws and Anatomically Correct Models
Soft Tissue Grafting
Featuring Free Gingival Grafts and Subepithelial Connective Tissue Grafts.
Subepithelial Connective Tissue Grafts combine the most positive features of the free gingival and pedicle grafts.
Free Gingival Graft:
- Learn to widen the zone of attached gingiva.
- Eliminate frenum pulls.
Subepithelial Connective Tissue Graft:
- How to use CTG to cover roots for single or multiple teeth recessions.
Beating Up on Periodontal Disease
A Minimally Invasive Approach
Learn ways to effectively control moderate to advanced periodontal disease using minimally invasive methods. Understand why Periodontal Treatment fails and what to do about it.
Then a link like the others to “Learn More” that goes to Course Description:
Topics covered:
- Why Periodontal Surgery or SCRP fails
- To manage failed or failing cases with a degree of confidence
- To improve diagnostics with bacterial culturing
- Simplified methods for patient care at home as an integral part of treatment
- To accurately select antibiotics instead of guessing
Perio Surgery for the Modern Dental Practice
Two Day Course goes from Diagnosis to Treatment Planning to Surgery
We will focus on different ways to both treat and control periodontal disease from minimally invasive to full flap approaches. And you will learn some simplified methods for patient self care at home where they may actually be compliant!
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Topics covered:
- Treatment choices – from non-surgical to surgical
- Long term maintenance care
- Minimally invasive antimicrobial methods
- The role of occlusion in causing and controlling disease
- To diagnose and treat osseous defects
- Bone grafting – products and membranes
Surgical Training Video
Workshop Instructor, Dr. James Kohner, is an experienced teacher who has presented Nationally and Internationally to dental meetings, as well as individual study clubs. He has done courses for implant manufacturers as well and has presented at AAP meetings for many years.
He is a Fellow of both the American Society of Osseointegration and International Congress of Oral Implantology, as well as an active member of the American Academy of Periodontology.
Refine your surgical skills by reviewing narrated videos of pig jaw exercises taken from Dr Kohner’s courses and actual patient surgeries
You will see a Flap Surgery on a pig, as well as Flap and Osseous Surgery on a patient. Also you will see a Gingival Graft done on the pig, followed by a Connective Tissue Graft done on a patient.
All videos are narrated by Dr Kohner.