Stem Cells: Science and Surgical Application

LOD-175-00

Dr. Bradley McAllister

<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; ">This presentation will examine the biology of stem cells and show you how you can improve your surgical cases by utilizing stem cells.  This is part of a new movement in molecular and cellular enhancement of bone regeneration surgery. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><br /> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; ">Learn how to achieve improved healing in your cases.  </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><br /> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; ">Many examples are demonstrated.  One involving titanium mesh and a cellular allograft: 4 months later a significant amount of bone is regenerated for placing dental implants.</p>

Aesthetic Treatment Planning - The Smile Design

LOD-174-00

Dr. Saiesha Mistry

<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Comprehensive treatment planning is essential for the satisfactory outcome of any case. Contemporary treatments are not considered successful unless the final outcome is not only functional but also aesthetic. <br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">As a result an Aesthetic Analysis has become integral to every treatment plan.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">This lecture will lay down a systematic approach for an aesthetic examination and the subsequent analysis of the collated information so as to predictably design and execute the most aesthetic treatments for our patients. </p>

Soft Tissue Esthetics & Health - 10 Key Factors in Soft Tissue Management

LOD-173-00

Dr. Sascha A. Jovanovic

<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">There are 10 key criteria that are important in implant therapy to achieve optimal soft tissue outcomes. The criteria are divided into 2 areas. <br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">The first area involves the biomaterial elements in therapy, while the second involves procedural issues. The biomaterial elements of implant surface, the implant neck, abutment material, the sub gingival abutment design, and abutment reconnection will be discussed. <br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">The procedural elements covered are implant spacing, implant vertical positioning, bone and soft grafting and provisional management. <br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">This presentation will focus on the 10 key criteria as applied in implant therapy for selected patients. </p>

Which Ceramic Should I Use ? A Clinical Perspective - Part 3

LOD-171-00

Dr. Anas Aloum

<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">This presentation aims to lift the large cloud of confusion that surrounds contemporary dental ceramics and their application. A systematic solution will be provided for common clinical situations. A complete range of common clinical situations will be discussed.  This includes, important sequencing and design consideration for restoring implants adjacent to ceramic restorations. </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">The following questions will be addressed: </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">- How do we achieve longevity while maintaining a high level of aesthetics?</p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">- Why, when and where should each contemporary ceramic material be used?</p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">- What role do soft tissues play in ceramic material selection? </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Participation in this presentation will allow delegates to be able to communicate more effectively with dental technicians. They will also be able to use dental ceramics predictably with dental implants.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">In part 3: Will look at stronger ceramic restorations and how to use them appropriately to be able to get the best out of them in terms of esthetics and function. The materials covered in this section will include Zirconia crowns, and porcelain fused to metal crowns. The presentation will also look at proper framework design in order to optimize esthetics and function predictably for our patients.</p>

Which Ceramic Should I Use? A Clinical Perspective - Part 2

LOD-170-00

Dr. Anas Aloum

<div style="text-align: justify; ">This presentation aims to lift the large cloud of confusion that surrounds contemporary dental ceramics and their application. A systematic solution will be provided for common clinical situations. A complete range of common clinical situations will be discussed.  This includes, important sequencing and design consideration for restoring implants adjacent to ceramic restorations. </div> <div style="text-align: justify; ">The following questions will be addressed: </div> <div style="text-align: justify; "><br /> </div> <div style="text-align: justify; "> - How do we achieve longevity while maintaining a high level of aesthetics?</div> <div style="text-align: justify; "> - Why, when and where should each contemporary ceramic material be used?</div> <div style="text-align: justify; "> - What role do soft tissues play in ceramic material selection? </div> <div style="text-align: justify; "><br /> </div> <div style="text-align: justify; ">Participation in this presentation will allow delegates to be able to communicate more effectively with dental technicians. They will also be able to use dental ceramics predictably with dental implants.</div> <div style="text-align: justify; "><br /> </div> <div style="text-align: justify; ">In part 2: Will investigate the pressed and milled ceramics that are available on the market today. In particular, Emax and Empress restorations will be investigated. The presentation will look at the constituents of these materials as well as their physical properties. In addition, systematic evidence based-applications will be provided for these materials. Translational research will be utilized to understand and realistic clinical application and use for these materials. The clinician will be able to decide which ceramic to prescribe for various clinical presentations.</div>

Which Ceramic Should I Use? A Clinical Perspective - Part 1

LOD-169-00

Dr. Anas Aloum

<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">This presentation aims to lift the large cloud of confusion that surrounds contemporary dental ceramics and their application. A systematic solution will be provided for common clinical situations. A complete range of common clinical situations will be discussed.  This includes, important sequencing and design consideration for restoring implants adjacent to ceramic restorations. </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">The following questions will be addressed: </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">- How do we achieve longevity while maintaining a high level of aesthetics?</p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">- Why, when and where should each contemporary ceramic material be used?</p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">- What role do soft tissues play in ceramic material selection? </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Participation in this presentation will allow delegates to be able to communicate more effectively with dental technicians. They will also be able to use dental ceramics predictably with dental implants.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">In part 1: An outline for the presentation will be provided. In addition, a contemporary and simplified classification for contemporary dental ceramics will be provided. This classification will allow proper communication and make the selection process simple. In this part the participants will be able to understands the benefits of feldspathic ceramics and their limitation. They will be able to decide what type of ceramics to use and where, in order to get the best esthetic results with good long term outcomes. A step-by-step evidence based approach for predictable bonding will be proposed.</p>

The 7 essential keys to success in Aesthetic Implant Restorations

LOD-167-00

Dr. Christopher Ho

<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">This lecture will discuss the 7 essential keys to success in Aesthetic Implant Restorations:</p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">1) Implant position, including bucco-lingual, apico-coronal and mesio-distal.  </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">2) Abutment design, including shape and form, how we want our implants to be more negative, especially in the mid-labial to maximize tissue thickness.  </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">3) Provisionalisation: how to develop provisionals using different types from cement-on to screw-retained, and how we modify that for our soft tissue aesthetics while using a restoratively based technique.  </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">4) Impression technique: how do we transfer the information from our provisional crown to our final impression. </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">5) abutment selection: we will discuss different abutment materials from gold, to titanium, to zirconia, and how do we determine which to use based on biocompatibility, aesthetics, cost, and strength. </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">6) Ceramics: the materials we choose to go on top of our implants and natural teeth, and how we decide which one to use for which case.  </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">7) implant papilla: how do we get good soft tissue aesthetics both for single teeth and cases where there are adjacent implants.</p>

Fixed Hybrid Prosthesis utilizing Zirconia - New Materials and Protocols

LOD-165-00

Dr. Stefano Conti

<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">This presentation will focus on a hybrid prosthesis, utilizing zirconia and the role of prosthetic gingiva in esthetic implant dentistry. <br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">We will see a pretty new treatment option that will give us the possibility to have complete control on the esthetic in a way that we have never been able to do before. <br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Some the questions that we will answer in this presentation are: <br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Why should we provide a hybrid prosthesis for our patients instead of a traditional one? <br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Is this prosthetic option really predictable in achieving a natural esthetic for long term success? <br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Which materials should we use Today, and why?</p>

Aesthetic Periodontal Surgery to Enhance Restorative Results

LOD-162-00

Dr. James Kohner

This course provides a complete overview covering the various principles and clinical procedures needed for crown lengthening in the Aesthetic zone. We cover indications, contraindications, and methods of managing surrounding bone.<br><br><strong>Topics include:</strong><ul><li>How to handle hard and soft tissues</li><li>Proper surgical techniques</li><li>Preservation of esthetics in the final tissue contours and relocation of all structures that comprise the biologic width, namely: sulcus, junctional epithelium, connective tissue fibers, and bone.</li></ul><br><br>The role of Lasers for gingival reduction is addressed.

Functional Crown Lengthening for More Predictable Restorative

LOD-161-00

Dr. James Kohner

<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">This course provides a complete overview covering the various principles and clinical procedures needed for crown lengthening. We cover indications, contraindications, and methods of managing surrounding bone. </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Topics include: how to handle hard and soft tissues; proper surgical techniques; and relocation of all structures that comprise the biologic width, namely: sulcus, junctional epithelium, connective tissue fibers, and bone. </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Dentists who want to do some or most of their own crown extensions, or those who just want to know more about the subject, will be helped by this course.  Crown extension is one of the most commonly required procedures in restorative dentistry, yet is often underutilized.</p><br />