Ridge Preservation Hero Lab + PRF | Hands-On Pig Jaw Course

Hands-on pig jaw course: socket grafting, membranes and sutures, plus PRF with live draws. Small group, 30 seats.
About this Event

Every implant starts with the ridge you save. In this small-group, hands-on lab, you'll practice ridge preservation from start to finish on pig jaws, then learn to make and use PRF with live blood draws.

Morning: Ridge Preservation

• Why ridges collapse after extraction, and when to graft
• Socket grafting: picking and packing graft material
• Membranes: trimming, placement and handling
• Suturing to hold it all together, including the sling suture

Afternoon: PRF

• What PRF is and how it helps healing
• Live draws and the centrifuge protocol (being drawn is optional)
• Making PRF plugs, membranes and "sticky bone"
• Putting PRF to work in your ridge preservation cases

Your instructors

• Dr. Sausha Toghranegar, periodontist (Perio Hero, North Tampa Periodontics)
• Dr. Vanessa Alexiou, board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon, adjunct faculty at Nova Southeastern University

Who it's for: General dentists, residents and dental students who want to start or sharpen ridge preservation and PRF in their practice.

What's included: Pig jaws, graft materials, membranes, sutures and instruments, PRF supplies, coffee and lunch.

CE: details to come

Agenda

🕑: 08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Check-in, coffee
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:45 AM
Ridge preservation: the why and the how
🕑: 09:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Hands-on: socket grafting, membranes and sutures on pig jaws
🕑: 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
Lunch
🕑: 12:45 PM - 01:15 PM
PRF: the science and the protocol
🕑: 01:15 PM - 02:30 PM
Live PRF draws, plugs, membranes and sticky bone
🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Hands-on: PRF plus ridge preservation on pig jaws
🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Q&A and wrap-up