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Saving compromised teeth with periodontics and restorative dentistry together — Daniel Melker’s biologic shaping and decades of follow-up
Daniel Melker, who lectures in several US periodontic and prosthodontic graduate programmes and co-wrote the textbook chapter on biologic shaping, shows how perio and restorative care work as one plan in Perio-Restorative Protocols: Team-Based Approach. Eight lessons (7 h 29 min) cover crown lengthening, connective tissue grafts, altered eruption, core build-ups and provisionals, and root reshaping, illustrated by cases followed for 20 to 35 years.
- 8lessons
- 7 h 29 minof video
- 35 yrslongest follow-up shown
What you’ll be able to do
- Keep questionable teeth with root amputation, bicuspidisation and furcation management instead of extracting
- Use bone sounding and probing to avoid violating the biologic width
- Perform closed-flap and open crown lengthening and gingivectomy for altered eruption
- Treat recession and thin tissue with tuberosity connective tissue grafts
- Reshape root irregularities and concavities with biologic shaping before vertical preparation
Inside the course
Biology first
Two opening lessons explain what makes perio-restorative treatment predictable, how periapical lesions heal, why inflammation persists and how high and low crest situations change the plan.
Soft tissue for the restorative dentist
Connective tissue anatomy, grafting biology, recession after orthodontics, root prominence and fenestration are covered, with step-by-step graft demonstrations, common errors and methods to gain attached gingiva.
Crown length and treatment planning
Surgical crown lengthening, flap design, active versus passive altered eruption, core materials, caries management and the role of provisionals in comprehensive rehabilitation.
Biologic shaping
Burs, indications, scaling and curettage, CEJ management and root reshaping lead into furcation cases and choice of final restorative materials.
Built for
- Periodontists and prosthodontistsA shared protocol for teeth that need both surgery and restoration.
- General dentists and restorative cliniciansAlternatives to implants that are backed by very long follow-up.
Curriculum
A biologic understanding in diagnosis and treatment of periodontal and restorative cases. Part 1 (55 min) 9 topics
- Treatment predictability
- Keys of long term results
- Root amputation
- Ways to avoid implants
- Demonstration of long term results (20-35 years) of conservative treatment
- Biological understanding of periapical lesions treatment
- Tissue management
- Bone sounding
- Vertical preparation
A biologic understanding in diagnosis and treatment of periodontal and restorative cases. Part 2 (58 min) 6 topics
- Closed flap crown lenghtening
- High crest-low crest
- Causes of inflammation
- Probing
- Biologic width invasion
- Clinical cases
Connective tussue in restorative dentistry. Part 1 (45 min) 7 topics
- Connective tissue: anatomy
- Treatment criteria
- Surgical treatment of recession
- Recession after orthodontic treatment: tactics
- Root prominence treatment
- Soft tissue grafting: biological, histological and physiological aspects
- Soft tissue grafts from the maxillary tuberosity: clinical aspects
Connective tussue in restorative dentistry. Part 2 (48 min) 5 topics
- Step by step demonstrations of recession treatment with soft tissue graft
- Mistakes in the recession treatment
- Long term results of treatment
- Root fenestration treatment
- The technique for increasing the width of attached gingiva
Length of clinical crowns. Consideration for altered active or passive eruption (1 h 10 min) 10 topics
- Crown lenghtening: surgical protocol
- Biological aspects of crown lenghtening
- Clinical crown length
- Flap forming features
- Implant placement in aesthetics zone
- Altered active eruption
- Altered passive eruption
- Gingivectomy: step by step protocol
- Tooth supporting tissues
- Clinical cases
Periodontal and restorative treatment planning (43 min) 8 topics
- Cores and provisionals: importance
- Team approach for treatment of complex periodontal and restorative cases
- Core build-up
- Materials and Instruments
- Caries: features of treatment
- Protocol of prosthetic rehabilitation in comprehensive cases
- Provisionals: features of work
- Clinical cases
Biologic shaping. Part 1 (1 h 01 min) 10 topics
- Aspects of treatment
- Burs for tooth preparation
- Indications for biologic shaping
- Root surface irregularities treatment
- Step by step protocols of perio-restorative treatment
- Keys of long term success
- Cemento-enamel junction
- The scaling and curettage technique
- Protocol of concavity treatment
- Root reshaping
Biologic shaping. Part 2 (1 h 05 min) 4 topics
- Furcation involvement: tactics
- Bicuspidization
- Materials for final restorations
- Clinical cases
Before you buy
How strongly is the course against implants?
It focuses on keeping natural teeth where biology allows, but one lesson also touches on implant placement in the esthetic zone.
Where is biologic shaping published?
Melker’s method appears in Advances in Periodontal Surgery and in Contemporary Fixed Prosthodontics, 6th edition.
Do I get CME credit or a certificate?
No. Clinicapedia provides the educational content only — no CME or CE credits, MOC points or certificates of completion are included with this product.
Specifications
| Format | Online video course |
|---|---|
| Instructor | Daniel Melker |
| Contents | 8 lessons |
| Duration | 7 h 29 min |
| Access | Lifetime, self-paced |
| Department | Dentistry |
| Delivery | Instant download · lifetime re-download |
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