Quintessence Symposium Speakers lectures workshops

Lecture Program DAY 1 - Friday 29th October

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7.30am - Registration & Exhibition Open


8.00am - Welcome - Scientific Chairman

Professor Iven Klineberg AM, RFD, BSc, MDS, PhD, FRACDS, FICD

On behalf of Henry Schein Halas and Quintessence International, it is a privilege for me to welcome you to the latest International Quintessence Symposium. As with previous Symposia, this program has been designed to benefit general dental practitioners in particular, and will bring you the most up-to-date and clinically relevant evidence-based information through lectures and workshops devoted to topics of special importance to general dental practice.

The program will have a focus on how to optimize aesthetics to meet contemporary patient expectations, as well as relevant clinical data on oral implant treatment.

I enthusiastically welcome you to this state-of-the-art program and believe that it will be of real benefit to your role in providing optimum patient care.

8.30am - Advanced Diagnostics at the Chairside – Where Are We Now?

Professor Laurence Walsh BDSc, PhD, DDSc, FFOP(RACP), GCEd, FICD

This lecture will provide an overview of the latest research work in chairside diagnostic technologies for clinical practice, and how these augment or replace traditional methods, under the general headings of cariology and restorative dentistry, periodontology, endodontology and oral medicine.

The emphasis will be on what technologies are now available and how these can be used most effectively in a general practice ennvironment by both dentists and other members of the dental team.

9.30am - Implant Therapy in the Aesthetics Zone – Soft and Hard Tissue Management.

Dr Yasukazu Miyamoto DDS

In recent years, optimal implant results in the aesthetic zone can be predictably achieved utilizing many soft and hard tissue augmentation techniques. However, gingival recession following buccal bone resorption frequently occurs after completion of treatment. Dental Cone Beam CT can evaluate the change of the buccal bone before and after implant placement. This evaluation can clarify the predictable method for obtaining tissue stability around implants.

This presentation will focus on soft and hard tissue management around implants, and the optimal approach for obtaining tissue stability of aesthetic implants using evaluation by Dental Cone Beam CT.

10.30am Morning Tea


11.00am Dental Implant Therapy in the Context of Osteoporosis and Bisphosphonate Treatment.

Professor Sreenivas Koka DDS, PhD

The effect of the osteoporotic condition on jaw bones as it relates to dental implant therapy will be presented to define whether a diagnosis of osteoporosis or osteopenia constitutes a contraindication for dental implant therapy. Following on, guidelines for the dental management of patients treated with bisphosphonates for osteoporosis will be presented with a specific emphasis on concepts of the risk of osteonecrosis of the jaw, the risks and benefits of a drug holiday, and the safety of dental implant placement in these patients.

12.00pm Post Graduate Research Presentations.


12.30pm Panel - Question & Answers with the Morning Presenters.


1.00pm Lunch


2.00pm Interdisciplinary Approach for Optimizing Aesthetics.

Dr Galip Gurel DDS, MSc
With the ever-increasing importance that the media, patients and general society place on appearance, an even greater emphasis has recently been placed on elective aesthetic dentistry. By improving deficient facial proportion and integumental form, surgeons, orthodontists, and restorative dentists have the unique opportunity to weave these aesthetic needs and the creation of a pleasing smile into the fabric of their comprehensive treatment planning.

Creating precision in terms of the preparation, fit and the aesthetic final outcome needs serious treatment planning which is different for each case… Designing a new smile consists of many steps which are so very important and if followed correctly, produce predictable success.

At this point I would also like to emphasize the importance of minimally-invasive dentistry. This is only possible if we can insure that proper tooth position in the arch is established, eliminating the need for any soft or hard tissue removal. This brings to mind the importance of the interdisciplinary team (in contrast to multidisciplinary). The major difference between an interdisciplinary versus a multidisciplinary approach, is that with an interdisciplinary approach, treatment planning is accomplished in a group setting with all treatment team members present. All treatment planning and treatment challenges can be discussed in a collaborative environment with team members complementing and supporting the efforts of each other. A multidisciplinary approach only represents that each discipline or area of dentistry is involved in one aspect of the treatment without necessarily working together in a unified manner.

After that stage, in order to achieve a very precise and predictable tooth preparation, wax-up, silicon indexes and related techniques such as APR (Aesthetic Pre Recontouring), APT (Aesthetic Pre-evaluative Temporaries) and preparation through the APTs are extremely crucial.

3.00pm Evolving Implant Aesthetics…Options…Limitations…Solutions.

Dr David Garber DMD

This program is an alternate perspective into how “aesthetics-driven” implant dentistry has evolved, and why in 2010 it is essential to combine both the “pink” and “white” aspects to achieve that optimal cosmetic result.

This complete philosophical approach involves both a biologic understanding of the healing process, as well as a need for specific implant and abutment designs. Today, understanding the “limitations” of what is biologically feasible is of paramount importance as these limitations often require use of a new modus operandi incorporating gingival colored “pink” restoratives and the essential 3D CAD/CAM treatment planning for final implant cosmetics. Preemptive planning of soft and hard tissue grafts, implant placement, ridge reduction and restorative design now utilize definitively specific protocols for these type of prosthetic gingival restorations.

This program will address:

  • Virtual treatment planning for gingival restoratives- 3-dimensional planning of implants and grafts using computer simulation.
  • New protocols for dento-gingival provisional restorations
  • Artificial gingivae-ceramic versus composite
  • Gingival and osseous reduction to optimize aesthetics
  • Hygiene and maintenance beyond aesthetics over the long term.
  • Factors in selecting an implant system.
  • New considerations in abutment design.
  • The abutment/implant interface in aesthetics.
  • Zirconium titanium or ceramo-metal abutment.
  • Surgical augmentation –what to use and when to use it versus gingival ceramics

4.00pm Afternoon Tea


4.30pm Cone Beam Imaging: Your Key to Successful Implants.

Dr Dale A. Miles BA, DDS, MS, FRCD(C)

Dentists use x-ray imaging every day to assist their clinical treatment planning for implant placement. Cone Beam Imaging helps dentists and dental specialists assess pre-surgical implant sites more rapidly and place their implants more precisely. The data from these scans can also be used to create surgical guides to simplify the surgical procedure and reduce the clinician’s risk of damage to an anatomic structure.

Cone Beam CT allows us to see anatomical detail of the inferior alveolar nerve, nasal cavity and sinuses like you’ve never seen it before. Cases will be presented illustrating the power of this imaging and demonstrate failures when Cone Beam Imaging was not used.

Objectives - this program will enable the dentist or auxiliary to:

  • Understand the principles of CBCT
  • Visualize more precisely selected pre-surgical implant sites
  • Understand the role CBCT can play in their dental practice

5.30pm Panel - Question & answers with the afternoon presenters.


6.00pm Welcome Reception Cocktail Party


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