Get Started with Elemental | Make your first stent.

Welcome to the Elemental Learning Platform!

This platform will guide you to make and use Elemental stents.

Introducing Elemental Stents

Set up water bath & making PerioPlast mouldable

Making your 1st Elemental stent

Clinical & financial implementation

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This platform will guide you to make and use Elemental stents.

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Introducing Elemental Stents

Set up water bath & making PerioPlast mouldable

Making your 1st Elemental stent

Clinical & financial implementation

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Make a stent,
step-by-step.

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Handling 1

Heat PerioPlast and make a disk.

Making the material mouldable

Fill both cup & bath to the line with water & place the cup in the bath.
Turn on the water bath.
Pour 1 whole blister in 90°C / 180°F water.
Stir for 5-10 seconds.
Remove the material.

Making a disk

First, apply Vaseline® on your gloves to prevent sticking.

With gentle manual pressure, press the material into a disk.
Make the disk 2mm / 0.1 inch thin.
Push, don't pull. Stretching the material will create uneven thickness.
Next, position the disk on the palate.

Handling 2

Push disk onto palate with the tongue & bite down.

Push with tongue

Position the disk on the palate.
Instruct your patient to press the disk with the tongue onto the palate.

Bite down firmly

Instruct your patient to bite down firmly into the disk.
Press the material on the buccal side into the interproximal spaces.

Notice the thin bite marks. Biting down will create a comfortable stent with bite function.

Handling 3

Press with your fingers.

Press with fingers

For precise palatal adaptation, press the material on the palate with tactile pressure.
The blood clot will be stabilized without the need for suturing.

The stent will now set on itself after 1-2 minutes. Remove it when it's solid.

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Elemental Intro Kit

€249,-

ex. VAT & shipping costs

Includes:

material for 6 cases
Chairside water bath
Sample to practice
Protocols, tips & tricks from expert users

Finishing the stent

Trimming excess material

When the stent is set, excess material can be trimmed with scissors.
Trim the excess material. This may cause some sharp edges.

When should I trim?

When the stent covers the soft palate.
When the stent covers the alveolar mucosa.

Smoothening sharp edges

Use a heated instrument to stroke over the sharp edges to soften them.

Tips & tricks from the experts

tip by

Prof. Dr. Anton Sculean

Make the stent before the surgery.

There’s no blood getting in the way and there's no rush.
There’s no Elemental PerioPlast® pressing into the wound.
You maintain space & volume to hold and stabilize the blood clot.
You have the stent available to place immediately after harvesting the graft.

tip by

Prof. Dr. Thomas Nguyen

Reheat to remodel.

By putting the material back in hot water it will become soft again after about 10 seconds.
Using a water bath, your water will stay at the right temperature and you can just put the stent back in.
If you want to soften sharp edges without remodelling the whole stent, you can heat a metal instrument in hot water and stroke over the edges to soften them.

tip by

Prof. Dr. Gil Alcoforado

Don’t suture the donor site.

The stent is available the moment you harvest the graft to immediately protect the site and stabilize the blood clot.
Suturing the donor site causes additional pain.
Suturing the donor site is quite challenging and increases surgical time.

tip by

Prof. Dr. Markus Hürzeler

Press the tongue to the palate.

After heating the material and shaping a disk, you apply the disk on the palate.
Let your patient help you by asking them to press the disk onto the palate with their tongue.
This will help to create a thin stent which is contoured perfectly to the palate.

tip by

Dr. Homa Zadeh

Bite down hard for stable retention.

When shaping the stent, instruct your patient to bite down firmly into the soft material.
This will make the material very thin on the occlusal surfaces, creating a comfortable stent with bite function.
The patient will be able to take out the stent and click it back in place.

tip by

Dr. Egle Ramanauskaite

Give clear postoperative instructions.

Patient adherence: make sure patients don’t remove the stent too early.
Make sure they realize the stent is beneficial for their comfort.

Postoperative timeline

First day: wear the stent non-stop to stabilize the bleeding.
Day 2-5: you may take the stent out once per day to clean it.
From day 5: no pain? You can remove the stent.

tip by

Prof. Dr. Andy Temmerman

Only cover the hard palate.

To prevent the stent from moving and causing irritation or ulcers, the stent should only cover the hard palate.
If the stent extends onto the soft palate, you can easily trim it with scissors.

Ready for the next step?

Elemental Intro Kit

€239,-

ex. VAT

material for 6 cases
free chairside water bath
free sample to practice
protocols, tips & tricks

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