VISTA Technique for Coverage of Recessions around Teeth and Implants

Description

The Vestibular Incision Subperiosteal Tunnel Access (VISTA) is used in mucogingival surgery to address a variety of soft tissue defects around teeth and implants. The VISTA concept, developed by the prestigious international periodontist Dr. Homa Zadeh, is minimally invasive, and allows to treat soft tissue defects with a series of advantages:

it facilitates the elevation of the mucogingival complex for its coronal mobilization without tension;
it provides wide access for the placement of different graft materials directly on the recipient sites;
it avoids the need for surface incisions;
it stabilizes the soft tissue in a coronal position with bonded sutures;
it preserves blood supply and enhances healing without scars.

VISTA has a wide variety of applications: root coverage on teeth, peri-implant mucosal dehiscence coverage, periodontal and peri-implant regeneration and soft tissue volume augmentation.

This Course will offer hands-on, technical, and clinical experience with advanced VISTA applications for reconstruction of periodontal and peri-implant soft tissues.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Understand the use of root coverage techniques
Learn steps of the VISTA Technique
Cover multiple recessions on teeth of an entire arch with VISTA
Cover recessions on implants with VISTA
Management of coronal replacement bonded sutures with composite
Use and indication of different soft tissue graft materials

CLINICAL CASES

1. Root coverage of an entire arch with one single surgery and no marginal incisions

2. Root coverage in teeth with complex and multiple recession defects

3. Root coverage in teeth with cervical defects with VISTA and associated restorative treatment

4. Implant mucosal recession coverage in the esthetic area

Lecturer

Dr. Alfonso L. Gil

Advanced Implantology, University of California Los Angeles (2016-2017).
Advanced Periodontology, University of Southern California (2013-2016).
Advanced Prosthodontics and Material Science, University of Zürich (2017-2022).
Doctorate-PhD VISTA from the University International of Catalonia (2015-2019).
Accredited Instructor by the VISTA Institute. Speaker at EAO, SEPES and SEPA.
Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Esthetic Dentistry.

Program

Theoretical Part

9:00 to 10:00	Etiology, risk factors and evolution of root coverage procedures
10:00 to 10:45	Surgical steps of the VISTA Technique and scientific evidence
11:15 to 11:45	Materials for soft tissue grafts (autogenous CTG, L-PRF®, MDA, collagen matrices)
11:45 to 12:45	Clinical Case Presentation of Recessions on Teeth treated with VISTA
12:45 to 14:00	Clinical Case Presentation of Recessions on Implants treated with VISTA