• Understand the biological and anatomical principles of soft tissue around teeth and implants, and how differences in soft tissue features apply to clinical practice.
• Modify and augment soft tissue to support long-term periodontal and peri-implant health.
• Perform soft tissue harvesting techniques from the palate and tuberosity, including key clinical considerations for each donor site.
• Master the Coronally Advanced Flap (CAF), conventional and novel tunnel approaches, and the Tunnelled Coronally Advanced Flap (TCAF) technique for moderate to advanced gingival recession cases.
• Apply decision-making strategies to select the optimal technique for each clinical scenario, based on case prognosis and local and systemic factors.
• Gain proficiency in microsurgical instrumentation, flap management, and suturing for predictable, esthetic outcomes.
• Prevent, recognize, and manage complications and adverse events in soft tissue grafting.
• Apply crucial post-operative protocols and considerations following soft tissue grafting procedures.
• Avoid implant failures and long-term adverse aesthetic outcomes and manage implant aesthetic complications using soft tissue grafting protocols.

• Tunnel technique
• Tunnelled Coronally Advanced Flap
• Soft tissue grafting for implant complication sites
• Soft tissue grafting for papilla augmentation

Day 1. Coronally Advanced Flap, Tunnel technique, and the novel TCAF in natural dentition

Morning – Lectures

• 8.30-9.00 Registration 
• 9.00-11.00 Gingival recessions. Evolution of root coverage procedures and the Coronally Advanced Flap. 
• 11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
• 11.30-13.00 Tunnel approaches and the Novel TCAF for predictable and aesthetic root coverage
• 13.00-14.00 Lunch

Afternoon – Hands-On Session 

• 14.00-18.00 Hands-on on pig jaws or plastic models on tunnel technique and TCAF

Day 2. Soft tissue management at implant sites

Morning – Lectures

• 9.00-11.00 Soft tissue considerations for anterior and aesthetic implant placement. Novel techniques for soft tissue phenotype modification.
• 11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
• 11.30-13.00 Treatment of implant complications and novel approaches for papilla augmentation at implant sites (verTCAF).
• 13.00-14.00 Lunch

Afternoon – Hands-On Session 

• 14.00-17.30 Hands-on on plastic models on soft tissue grafting at implant sites for the treatment of aesthetic complications and papilla augmentation.
• 17.30 – 18.00 Wrap-Up, Key Takeaways, Certificates, and Farewell