Boost your dental practice and enhance your skills with new bone & soft tissue grafting techniques.

Dr Selvaraj Balaji

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NEW COURSES FOR 2026 AT OUR BRAND NEW ACADEMY!

Please see our detailed course programmes below or, for more information, please get in touch at: [email protected]

To secure your place on our courses, please book now and pay your deposit. *Deposits are non-refundabl

NEW COURSE - Advanced Horizontal & Vertical Augmentation - with Dr Selvaraj Balaji

PART 1
2 Day Course (April 2026)
Advanced Horizontal & Vertical Augmentation
- with Dr Selvaraj Balaji

Location: The Academy of Soft And Hard Tissue Augmentation, 22-26 Celtic Court, MK18 1RQ

  • Part 1 is a 2 Day Course with Dr Balaji.

    Location: Sheraton Skyline Hotel London Heathrow

    This course is designed for dentists who are already capable of placing implants and would like to enhance their skills.

    This course will teach you how to improve your skills in horizontal and vertical bone augmentation and soft tissue surgical work.

    The duration of this course is 2 days, both of which include lectures and hands-on exercises. A further 2 day course is also available.

    This course will give you an understanding of bone and soft tissue defects and how to treat them according to the size of the defect.  You will also learn the different types of biomaterial and which is best to use in different situations; bone harvesting techniques and connective tissue harvesting techniques.  

    We will also cover flap design; tension free flap closure, lingual flap advancement, and periosteal advancement.

    • Registration

    • Welcome & Introduction

    • Skills Test

    • Dr Sandy Limerick - Patient selection, diagnosis, digital planning applied anatomy of the maxila and mandible

    • Biology, Biomaterials, types of defects, patient selection

    • Socket Defects, Anterior aesthetic region horizontal augmentation techniques

    • Hands-on: Flip design, horizontal augmentation with GBR CTG harvesting and fixing, tunnel technique periosteo-elastic technique and suturing. Implant placement and custom made temp

    • Discussion

    • Welcome Dinner

    • Dr Sandy Limerick - applied anatomy Anterior maxilla and mandible

    • Sausage technique maxilla

    • Sausage technique mandible

    • Soft tissue, suturing technique

    • Complications

    • Hands-on Sausage technique, fibrogide, plastic model training

    • Discussion and Farewell

PART 2
2 Day Course (June 2026)
Advanced Horizontal & Vertical Augmentation
- with Dr Selvaraj Balaji

Location: The Academy of Soft And Hard Tissue Augmentation, 22-26 Celtic Court, MK18 1RQ

  • The second part of the course. Part 2 is a 2 Day Course with Dr Balaji.

    Location: Sheraton Skyline Hotel London Heathrow

    This course is designed for dentists who are already capable of placing implants and would like to enhance their skills.

    This course will teach you how to improve your skills in horizontal and vertical bone augmentation and soft tissue surgical work.

    The duration of this course is two days, both of which include lectures and hands-on exercises.

    This course will give you an understanding of bone and soft tissue defects and how to treat them according to the size of the defect.  You will also learn the different types of biomaterial and which is best to use in different situations; bone harvesting techniques and connective tissue harvesting techniques.  

    We will also cover flap design; tension free flap closure, lingual flap advancement, and periosteal advancement.

    • Registration

    • Welcome and Introduction

    • Skills Test

    • Dr Sandy Limerick - applied anatomy mandible

    • Vertical Augmentation - Anterior Maxilla

    • Vertical Augmentation - Posterior Maxilla

    • Hands-on: Flap design, vertical augmentation PTFE membrane, CTG harvesting and fixing, periosteo-elastic technique and suturing

    • Case presentation from delegates and discussion

    • Vertical augmentation - posterior mandible

    • Sausage technique mandible

    • Vertical Augmentation - anterior mandible

    • Soft tissue, harvesting and suturing technique

    • Complications

    • Test Questions

    • Hands-on soft tissue: coronary repositioned flap, strip graft, Mucograft and CTG harvesting

    • Case presentation from delegates

    • Discussion and Farewell and CPD certs

Email us at [email protected] to register your interest!

SOLD OUT : Soft Tissue Management Around Teeth & Implants - by Professor G. Zucchelli & Dr Selvaraj Balaji

PART 1
2 Day Course (November 2025)
Soft Tissue Management Around Teeth & Implants - by Professor G. Zucchelli & Dr Selvaraj Balaji

  • Part 1 is a 2 Day Course by Professor G. Zucchelli & Dr Selvaraj Balaji.

    2 days theoretical and hands on course. Ideal for clinicians seeking to improve their soft tissue management skills for natural teeth and implants.

    The goal is to enhance participants knowledge of soft tissue management and grafting skills to improve patient care in clinical practice.

  • Root coverage procedures for the treatment of single gingival recession

    • Coronally advanced flap alone for single recession defects

    • Palatal harvesting techniques – de-epithelised CTG, FGG

    • Coronally advanced flap + CTG

    • Apical repositioning flap

    • Free gingival graft

  • Root coverage procedures for the treatment of multiple gingival recessions

    • Treatment of multiple gingival recessions using coronally advanced flap techniques.

    • Lower anteriors

    • Hands on – single recession defect and multiple root recession defects

PART 2
2 Day Course (February 2026)
Soft Tissue Management Around Teeth & Implants - by Professor G. Zucchelli & Dr Selvaraj Balaji

  • Part 2 is a 2 Day Course by Professor G. Zucchelli & Dr Selvaraj Balaji.2 days theoretical and hands on course. Ideal for clinicians seeking to improve their soft tissue management skills for natural teeth and implants.

    The goal is to enhance participants knowledge of soft tissue management and grafting skills to improve patient care in clinical practice.

  • Implant Therapy

    • Implant placement in the aesthetic area: criteria for single and multiple positioning

    • Mucogingival approach in implant insertion

    • Keratinized tissue augmentation in the peri implant area

    • Soft tissue augmentation in the edentulous area

    • Short implant: an alternative solution to GBR

    • Platform technique

  • Management of periimplantitis and soft tissue dehiscence’s around implant

    • Aetiology and diagnosis of soft tissue dehiscence around implants

    • Treatment of soft tissue dehiscence around implants

    • Prosthetic treatment for soft tissue dehiscence

    • Aetiology and diagnosis of periimplantitis. Treatment of periimplantitis

    • Hands on implant placement and soft tissue management around implants

SOLD OUT - Comprehensive Cadaver Training in Advanced Hard and Soft Tissue Augmentation (With Sinus Grafting)

3 Day Course (December 2025)
Comprehensive Cadaver Training in Advanced Hard and Soft Tissue Augmentation (With Sinus Grafting)
- with Dr Selvaraj Balaji

West Midland Surgical Training Centre University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

  • A 2 Day Course with Dr Balaji.


    £3,500+ VAT for non-ASHA delegates:

    3-day master course: 1-day theory followed by 2-day cadaver practical

    £2,600 + VAT for ASHA delegates:

    Must have attended our ASHA Advanced Horizontal & Vertical Augmentation course 2-day cadaver practical

    Location: West Midland Surgical Training Centre University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

  • Theory day only.

  • Aims and Learning Objectives:

    • Horizontal bone graft

    • Vertical bone graft: maxilla and mandible

    • Flap raising: split thickness, full thickness

    • Flap advancement: mucoperioelastic technique, perioplasty, orbiculoris muscle dissection, lingual flap technique, CAF

    • Connective tissue graft harvesting

    • Sinus grafting

  • Aims and Learning Objectives:

    • Horizontal bone graft

    • Vertical bone graft: maxilla and mandible

    • Flap raising: split thickness, full thickness

    • Flap advancement: mucoperioelastic technique, perioplasty, orbiculoris muscle dissection, lingual flap technique, CAF

    • Connective tissue graft harvesting

    • Sinus grafting

SOLD OUT - Immediate Implant Placement Course - with Dr Hrisith Choksi & Dr Selvaraj Balaji

2-Day Course (September 2025)
Immediate Implant Placement
- with Dr Hrisith Choksi & Dr Selvaraj Balaji

  • 2-Day Course with Dr Choksi & Dr Balaji.

    Course aims and learning objectives:

    • Case selection and treatment planning

    • Management of hard and soft tissue

    • Utilising guided workflows

    • Use of digitally driven, pre-fabricated crowns for immediate loading

    • Conventional method of fabricating temporary crowns for immediate loading

    • Complications and management

    • Case selection, diagnostics, and treatment planning

    • In-house printing/milling of provisional crowns/surgical guides

    • Atraumatic extraction techniques for anterior and posterior teeth for immediate implant placement

    • Guided vs non-guided implant placement

    • Immediate loading using pre-fabricated crown vs conventional temporisation

    Hands-on:

    • Guided and non-guided immediate placement on model

    • Restoration of immediate implants using conventional vs digital workflows

    • Fabrication and use of custom healing abutment

    • Hard tissue management techniques in immediate implant placement

    • Soft tissue management techniques in immediate implant placement

    • Restoration of immediate implants with ti-base and custom healing abutments

    • Management of complications at the time of surgical or restorative stage

    • Flapless and coronally advanced procedures

    Hands-on

    • Hard tissue augmentation with immediate implant placement

    • Soft augmentation with immediate implant placement

Ongoing Mentorship

  • Chairside Mentoring

  • Peer to Peer Support

  • Continued Support & Mentoring

  • Private Whatsapp Community

  • Online Case Discussions & Presentations

  • Annual Study Club

ASHA CLUB PRINCIPALS

  • RESEARCH

    Our aim is to enhance knowledge and grow new skills through analysis of our work, as well as understanding the evidence proposed by others

  • REFLECT

    We encourage reflective thought of our work, and that of others to move from one practice into the next with deeper understanding

  • REGENERATE

    Our aim is to learn together as a community by sharing our experiences, so that we may grow, learn and improve

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