Crown lengthening - Assessment, planning and surgical techniques

What to expect

During this webinar, Ian Dunn will discuss the role of crown lengthening covering assessment, planning and surgical techniques enabling you to enhance your restorative outcomes.

Learning objectives

• Understand the role of functional and aesthetic periodontal surgery to facilitate aesthetic restorative outcomes
• Revise the concept of biologic width
• Review different techniques for crown lengthening
• Understand how to discuss crown lengthening procedures with patients
• Understand biological width and why you cannot just cut the gum away without a proper assessment.

Development outcome

A, C

Meet the speaker

Ian qualified from Leeds in 1998. He went into NHS general practice after qualifying and was a general dental practitioner for many years. During that time, though a part time teaching role at Liverpool University, he developed a passion for periodontology and concentrated his postgraduate studies and teaching activities on perio whilst maintaining a busy general practice list. This culminated in him pursuing an MSc in Periodontology and ultimately becoming the Teaching Lead in Periodontics at Liverpool University and gaining a place on the GDC Specialist List in Periodontology.

Ian continues to maintain a busy referral network on the North West working between Liverpool and Wilmslow. He has been the Honorary Editor and Webmaster for the British Society of Periodontology and lectures nationally through the UK, having spoken at most of the major UK dental conferences.