Short courses / Field Notes Edition
Pedro Moura
Sinus liftField notes
Clinical course
Learn it. See it. Perform it.Oral Surgery Field Notes, brought to life.
Overview
Sinus surgery, from the foundations to advanced case management. Two days of applied teaching, six hands-on exercises and three planned live surgeries, with an optional third day where you operate on a patient.
Directed by Pedro Moura
Choose your format
Core course · everyone
2 days
23-24 Mar 2027
- Applied teaching and case discussions with Pedro Moura
- Six hands-on exercises on models, including guide creation
- Three live surgeries performed by Pedro Moura (you watch)
- Your printed Sinus Operative Manual
Optional · add it at checkout
Day 3 · You operate
25 Mar 2027
- You perform surgery on a real patient
- Pedro Moura and the Foramen team beside you, step by step
- Case and your operating role agreed with you after booking
- Only for participants of the core course
Next edition23-25 Mar 2027LocationForamen HQ, PortoLanguageEnglish
Sheet 01 · The course
Sinus surgery,from the foundations to advanced case management
Develop your skills from standard lateral and crestal sinus elevation to demanding anatomy, alternatives to sinus augmentation and complication management.
Learn lateral and crestal sinus elevation, train on demanding anatomical models and watch Pedro Moura perform three planned surgeries on real patients. Then take the next step: choose supervised clinical training and operate with us at Foramen Headquarters in Porto, Portugal.
From your first sinus cases to difficult anatomy and alternatives for the posterior maxilla, develop the technique and judgement to approach treatment with greater control. Through detailed clinical cases, explore membrane perforation, bleeding, implants displaced into the maxillary sinus and oroantral communications.
How the course works
01Core course · two days
Applied teaching, six practical exercises and three planned live surgeries. You watch Pedro Moura operate; your own hands-on work is on models.
+Optional Day 3 · you operate
On 25 Mar 2027 you perform surgery on a real patient, with Pedro Moura and the Foramen team beside you. Only 6 places. Add it at checkout when you book the course.
Included for everyone
Your printed Sinus Operative Manual, handed to you on arrival.
Sheet 02 · Optional Day 3 · 25 Mar 2027
Operate with usin Porto
On the optional Day 3, perform an agreed sinus procedure on a real patient with Pedro Moura and the Foramen team.
Plan the case with us, work through the surgery under supervision and review your technique and decisions afterwards.
How it works: add Day 3 when you book the course. Only 6 participants per edition can take it. After booking, we review your clinical experience and agree the procedure and your operating role with you before the course.
The two-day core course is complete on its own, with model training and three live surgeries performed by Pedro Moura.
Fig. 02 · Supervised surgery at Foramen HQ
Sheet 03 · The details
Learn to handlethe details that make the surgery work
Knowing the sequence of a sinus lift is the beginning. The clinical work lies in adapting that sequence to the patient: where to make the incision, how much access you need, how to approach a septum, which instrument gives you the movement you need and what to do when the membrane behaves differently from what you expected.
This course opens up that work. Pedro explains the rationale behind his current protocols and the refinements developed through his clinical practice. You examine ordinary cases closely, rehearse more demanding anatomy and follow the decisions in live surgery.
The aim is to develop a more deliberate, controlled approach to sinus augmentation, with a clearer understanding of each operative step and the alternatives available when the original plan needs to change.
Fig. 03a · Lateral window, graft in place
Fig. 03b · Implant seen through the window
Sheet 04 · Live day
Train with the teamwho will be beside you
The live day gives you access to the working method around the surgery as well as the surgery itself.
Review how we prepare a case, organise the surgical sequence, select instruments and biomaterials, coordinate with the team and plan postoperative care.
At each demonstration, follow the link between the scan, the operative field and the decisions being made. Ask why one instrument is used rather than another, why the access changes between patients and what information would make us continue, modify the approach or stop.
Train at Foramen Headquarters, where surgical care and education share the same clinical setting. Work with the team, instruments and case preparation around the live procedures, then explore Porto between course days.
Sheet 05 · Clinical reasoning
The reasoningbehind our protocols
Fig. 05 · Field Notes plate: planning the antrostomy
05.1
Assess the patient with a purpose
Use the preoperative questionnaire to identify the history and symptoms that change planning. Connect that information to your radiographic findings and define the next action: proceed, modify treatment, treat first or investigate and refer.
05.2
Read the anatomy as a surgical plan
Examine the available bone, lateral wall, vessels, floor, septa and membrane appearance. Understand how these findings change the access, instruments and elevation. Discuss the limits of the scan and the role of drainage assessment.
05.3
Choose the appropriate approach
Compare lateral and crestal elevation and decide when implants can be placed simultaneously or treatment should be staged. Consider relevant alternatives for the posterior maxilla and explain why a sinus procedure belongs in the patient’s plan.
05.4
Prepare for a change in the operation
Work through membrane tears, difficult elevation, bleeding and problems with graft containment. Follow a membrane-repair demonstration and discuss when the better decision is to change the approach or stop and return.
Sheet 06 · Posterior maxilla alternatives
Beyondsinus augmentation
Learn when to elevate the sinus, and when to consider another route.
Explore trans-sinus, pterygoid, palatal and zygomatic options through a focused comparison of real clinical cases. Understand what makes an option relevant, what limits it and how the restorative plan changes the decision.
Then bring one of those options into practice: rehearse a trans-sinus implant placement on a model using a bone level guide. Connect the scan and planned implant position to the guide and the operative steps, with instructor feedback.
Trans-sinus THEORY + MODELPterygoid THEORYPalatal THEORYZygomatic THEORY
The theoretical module covers all four alternatives. The additional hands-on exercise focuses on trans-sinus placement.
Fig. 06a · Long implants for the posterior maxilla, 3D plan
Fig. 06b · Bone level guide, 3D plan
Sheet 07 · Hands-on
Six hands-on exercisesconnecting planning and surgery
Each hands-on exercise includes instructor feedback.
Ex. 01 · Guide design
Ex. 06 · Trans-sinus implant position (Field Notes)
Ex. 04 · Crestal on model
Ex. 01
Create a surgical guide for sinus surgery
Turn the selected case plan into a surgical guide. Work through its creation and check its fit and relationship to the planned access on the model.
Ex. 02
Lateral window with bony repositioning
Prepare and remove the bony window, elevate the membrane and rehearse graft placement and repositioning of the bony lid.
Ex. 03
Standard lateral window
Prepare the lateral access, elevate the membrane and work through graft containment and management of the window.
Ex. 04
Crestal sinus lift
Rehearse osteotomy preparation, floor crossing, elevation and implant placement, including osseodensification.
Ex. 05
Sinus surgery with septa
Adapt the access and instrument movements to the anatomy of a model case with septa.
Ex. 06
Trans-sinus implant placement
Work through a planned trans-sinus case on a model, connecting the anatomy, implant trajectory and operative execution.
Membrane repair, selected palatal entry techniques and the role of endoscopic inspection are addressed through the related teaching and demonstrations.
Fig. 08 · Pedro Moura, lateral sinus lift (1:28)
Sheet 08 · Day 2 · Live surgery
Follow threedifferent decisions in live surgery
The second day is planned around two sinus augmentation procedures and a third case demonstrating either an alternative to sinus augmentation or a more complex sinus procedure. The sinus cases may include lateral, crestal or demanding anatomical situations, selected to show different treatment decisions.
The actual procedures follow the patients’ needs; no specific alternative operation is guaranteed for every edition. Complication teaching is supported by demonstrations and recorded clinical cases, so membrane repair and re-entry decisions remain part of the course whatever happens during the demonstrations.
BEFORE
You review the patient’s history, scan and treatment plan, together with the planned access and instrument sequence.
DURING
Pedro explains the fine details of exposure, membrane handling, graft placement and closure, including the decisions that are easy to miss when watching an edited video.
AFTER
The group compares the plan with the operation and reviews implant timing and postoperative management.
Sheet 09 · Programme
Your two daysin Porto
Day 1
Assessment, planning and hands-on surgery
Morning sessions connect sinus anatomy, clinical history and CBCT interpretation to approach selection, including preparation for the trans-sinus exercise. The afternoon includes six hands-on exercises: sinus guide creation, lateral window with bony repositioning, standard lateral window, crestal lift, a septa case and a trans-sinus case. Related teaching addresses membrane repair and selected palatal entry techniques. The day ends with the planning conference for the live patients.
Day 2
Posterior maxilla alternatives and live surgery
Start with a focused, case-based overview of trans-sinus, pterygoid, palatal and zygomatic options. Then follow the three planned procedures from case briefing to final debrief: two sinus cases and a third alternative or complex sinus case. Discussion includes grafting, implant placement, medication rationale, postoperative care and the response to complications.
Day 3 · 25 Mar 2027 · Optional
You operate on a patient
Review and plan your allocated case with Pedro Moura, then perform your agreed operative role under direct supervision, followed by a clinical debrief.
Only 6 places. Add it at checkout when you book the course.
Fig. 10 · Oral Surgery Field Notes
Sheet 10 · Field Notes in the operating room
Your printedOperative Manual
Bring the Field Notes approach into your sinus surgery. Connect illustrated concepts with operative steps, practise those steps on models and follow them in real patient treatment.
Every participant receives a printed, course-specific Field Notes Operative Manual at registration in Porto. The manual is yours to annotate during training and keep afterwards; course handouts are supplied in print.
The Sinus manual brings together patient assessment and radiographic review sheets, operative sequences, instrument and material planning, membrane-repair reference sheets, posterior maxilla treatment comparisons, sinus guide-creation worksheets, trans-sinus planning and guide-check sheets, live-case notes and postoperative review prompts.
Use it to record the details that change your execution: the incision, the access, the instrument movement and the decision to adapt. Leave with the material you worked through, your own annotations and the cases discussed during training.
Meet the course instructor
Learn withPedro Moura
Dental Surgeon | International Lecturer | Educator
Dr. Pedro Moura graduated in Dental Medicine in 2008, following an earlier degree in Clinical Psychology in 2002. He subsequently completed postgraduate training in Implantology and Periodontology.
His clinical work is mainly dedicated to advanced implant surgery, with a particular focus on complex full-arch rehabilitation, severely atrophic maxillae, sinus surgery, and soft tissue reconstruction. His experience includes pterygoid, palatal, trans-sinus, transnasal, and zygomatic implants.
In 2014, he founded Foramen Dental Education in Porto, Portugal, where he remains Academic Coordinator and directs its 10-month clinical residency in oral surgery and implantology.
International teaching has become a central part of his professional career. He has lectured in more than 30 countries worldwide and regularly delivers advanced surgical courses, hands-on training programs, and live surgery demonstrations throughout the year. His educational activities take him across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East, working with clinicians from a wide range of backgrounds and levels of experience. Since 2023, he has been a Key Opinion Leader for Alpha-Bio Tec.
He is the author of Oral Surgery Field Notes – Volume 1 (2026), a practical surgical book featuring clinical protocols, original illustrations, and video demonstrations. He is currently preparing a second volume dedicated to maxillary sinus surgery.
Alongside his international educational activities, he continues to work in private clinical practice in Portugal, focusing on complex implant rehabilitation and advanced surgical procedures.
Who it is for
Is this the right coursefor you?
The course is intended for dentists with previous implant surgery experience who want a structured approach to sinus augmentation.
It addresses the decisions behind routine cases and the adaptations needed for difficult anatomy. If you already perform sinus lifts, the value lies in refining access, interpretation, repair and contingency planning. If you are preparing to start, the combination of case reasoning, model training and live demonstrations gives you a clear pathway for further clinical development.
If you want to operate on a patient, add the optional Day 3 at checkout.
What the core course includes
- Applied teaching and case discussions with Pedro Moura.
- Six hands-on exercises: one sinus guide-creation workshop and five surgical model exercises.
- Instructor-led live surgery demonstrations and case debriefs.
- Your printed Sinus Field Notes Operative Manual, including assessment, planning, exercise and live-case sheets.
The optional Day 3 is added at checkout. Travel, accommodation, catering and attendance documentation are specified in the final registration details.
Practical details
DatesCore: 23-24 Mar 2027 · Optional Day 3: 25 Mar 2027
LocationForamen Dental Education, Rua de Santa Catarina 582, Porto
LanguageEnglish
DurationTwo core days + optional Day 3
Places20 core · 6 for Day 3
Core fee2,000 € (VAT exempt) · Day 3: + 1,800 €
Payment50% deposit at booking, 50% balance up to 15 days before the course
Optional Day 3Added at checkout, separate fee
Questions before booking
Frequentlyasked questions
Both options include your printed Sinus Operative Manual, handed to you on arrival. A book is not included in this course.
The two-day core includes model practice and instructor-led live surgery. Operating on a patient is the optional Day 3, which you add at checkout.
Yes. The model programme includes both approaches, lateral window with bony repositioning, a septa case and trans-sinus placement. You also create a surgical guide for sinus surgery. Membrane repair and selected palatal entry techniques are covered in the related teaching and demonstrations.
The additional model exercise focuses on one trans-sinus implant placement using a bone level guide. Pterygoid, palatal and zygomatic options are covered theoretically through case discussion.
No. Two sinus procedures and a third alternative or complex sinus case are planned to show contrasting decisions and levels of difficulty.
Choose the core course + Day 3 option at checkout. There are 6 places per edition. After booking we review your clinical background and agree the case and your operating role with you.
Yes, subject to suitable cases and supervisory availability. Each allocation is agreed individually.
A laptop for the sinus guide-creation workshop. Software and equipment requirements will be sent before the course. If you do not have one, we provide a computer, shared between two participants. If you use loupes in your clinical practice, please bring them.
We adapt the clinical schedule and use equivalent available cases and documented material to support the learning objectives.
Fig. 12 · Field Notes plate: aborted sinus lift, what to do now
Porto · Foramen HQ
Coursegallery
Field Notes Edition
Sinus lift.
Learn it. See it. Perform it.
Take your next sinus case further. Train with us. Learn the techniques, practise the difficult steps and follow real patient treatment from planning to closure. Add the optional Day 3 to perform an agreed sinus procedure with Pedro Moura and the Foramen team beside you.
Questions?
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Not sure which pathway fits you, or want to know more before booking? Send us a message and we will get back to you.
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