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Failure and Success in Periodontal and Peri-Implant Soft Tissue Surgery
Recognize surgical risk, understand why complications occur and refine your decisions around teeth and implants.
With Prof. Giovanni Zucchelli and Dr. Martina Stefanini
Course information
Understand the failure—not just the repair.
Explore complications across the full surgical timeline: before incision, during treatment and throughout healing. Giovanni Zucchelli and Martina Stefanini examine the diagnostic and technical errors that can affect recession treatment and peri-implant soft tissues.
Ten theoretical lectures connect risk assessment with perforations, nerve-related injury, recession, palatal necrosis, implant malposition and graft positioning. A separate hands-on recording on a pig jaw supports the theoretical teaching with a practical demonstration.
Use the clinical cases to compare treatment choices and revisit the reasoning behind them. This is an advanced educational reference for clinicians with a foundation in periodontal or implant surgery, not a substitute for supervised surgical training.
Course duration8h 26m
Video curriculum11 lessons
Teaching languageEnglish instruction
Subtitle supportMultilingual options
Streaming qualityFull HD video
Course accessLifetime access
CertificateIncluded after completion
Who this course is for
For clinicians making soft-tissue surgical decisions.
Most relevant to dentists already involved in periodontal or peri-implant treatment who want to examine complications more critically.
Implant surgeons
Examine soft-tissue problems associated with implant position and immediate placement.
Dentists performing mucogingival surgery
Connect case selection and anatomical risk with intraoperative decisions and healing.
From prevention to review
Follow the complication back to the decision.
A disappointing result can reflect more than a single technical error.
The course examines diagnosis, anatomy, flap and graft handling, implant position and postoperative healing. Looking across these stages helps you evaluate where a problem began and which factors need attention.
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Better complication analysis begins with understanding the sequence that preceded it.
What you’ll learn
Recognize what can go wrong—and why.
01
Pre-surgical risk
Examine how diagnosis and treatment selection influence the risk of complications.
02
Intraoperative problems
Review perforations and nerve-related complications encountered during soft-tissue surgery.
03
Healing complications
Study postoperative recession and palatal necrosis through focused teaching.
04
Implant malposition
Explore the relationship between implant position and peri-implant soft-tissue problems.
05
Graft placement
Understand complications associated with incorrectly positioned palatal grafts.
06
Immediate implants
Review the mucogingival considerations that accompany immediate implant placement.
Theory and demonstration
Clinical reasoning, supported by a hands-on recording.
Move from ten focused lectures to a recorded demonstration on a pig jaw. Use the lesson list to revisit a specific complication, compare the underlying causes and reinforce the theoretical discussion.
- Pre-surgical prevention
- Perforation and nerve-related complications
- Graft and implant-position errors
- Recorded hands-on demonstration
Course curriculum
Eleven lessons across the surgical timeline.
Ten theoretical lectures and one recorded hands-on session, in the DentalEDX membership order.
Lesson list11 lessons
- Pre-surgical complication prevention
- Intraoperative complications
- Perforation management
- Intraoperative complications due to nerve damage
- Post-surgical complications
- Recessions and palatal necrosis
- Complications and errors in peri-implant soft-tissue management
- Management of misplaced implants
- Complications due to misplaced palatal grafts
- Mucogingival approach to immediate implant placement
- Hands-on demonstration on a pig jaw
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Two perspectives on surgical complications.
Learn from Giovanni Zucchelli and Martina Stefanini through theoretical teaching, clinical case analysis and a recorded hands-on demonstration.
Prof. Giovanni Zucchelli
DDS, PhD · Periodontal plastic surgery
Giovanni Zucchelli graduated in dentistry and earned his PhD at the University of Bologna, where he taught periodontology and implantology from 2000 to 2025. His research, publications and international teaching focus on mucogingival esthetics and soft-tissue surgery around teeth and implants.
Dr. Martina Stefanini
DDS, PhD · Periodontology and mucogingival surgery
Martina Stefanini graduated in dentistry with honors in 2005, completed postgraduate periodontal training at the University of Siena in 2011 and earned her PhD in 2016. An active member of the Italian Society of Periodontology and an ITI Fellow, she has taught and conducted research at the University of Bologna and contributes to scientific publications and international education.
Your learning experience
A focused reference for complication review.
Work through the full program, then return to the lecture that addresses the decision you want to understand.
Study the reasons behind failure
Connect the theoretical teaching with clinical examples and the recorded demonstration.
Keep your study materials close
Download course videos and included materials for personal offline review.
Revisit at your own pace
Return to the included lessons without a course-completion deadline.
Continue wherever you study
Access the course on a desktop, tablet or mobile device.
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Recognize surgical risk, understand why complications occur and refine your decisions around teeth and implants.
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