Lecture Program DAY 2 - Saturday 30th October
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8.00am Exhibition Open
8.20am Introduction
Professor Iven Klineberg AM, RFD, BSc, MDS, PhD, FRACDS, FICD
8.30am The Clinical Evidence for Successful Bonding Procedures – Can it Work also for the Badly Broken Down Tooth?
Professor Michael Burrow MDS, PhD, MEd
The introduction of adhesive dentistry has seen large changes in the way we can treat our patients. The change in philosophy to MI Dentistry has largely been a product of the boom in adhesive materials, be they resin-based or glass ionomer cements. However, much of the MI philosophy has been directed towards the small caries lesion to heal it or place the smallest restoration possible.
As the population ages the need for restoration replacement is becoming a greater part of clinical practice. Restorations fail, teeth wear, making restoration more and more complicated. This problem is compounded by patients not wanting amalgam restorations; cavity preparation for amalgam is destructive of tooth structure and the cost of crowns is sometimes not affordable. Can adhesive restorative dentistry be employed as a sound alternative treatment?
The presentation will focus on what we know about current adhesive materials and techniques and how these materials can be used to restore form and function of the badly broken down tooth. The presentation will focus on the current clinical evidence and how it might be practically applied.
9.30am The Evolution of Bioactive Materials in Restorative Dentistry.
Dr Matteo Basso DDS, PhD, MSc
In modern dentistry, the correct approach for tooth decay must obviously require application of the latest materials and techniques. However, even if resin composites represent the most aesthetic and validated materials for restorative dentistry, in certain conditions the management of teeth lesions can be correctly obtained only through different “bioactive materials”. Generally, we can describe as “bioactive” some products or materials having an effect on or causing a reaction in living tissue. In dentistry, their benefits stay in their properties of inducing active phenomena, such as dental remineralization, antibacterial activity, or pulpal tissue healing.
In fact, it is now evident that the management of tooth decay cannot be based on the inefficient approach of “drill & fill”, simply removing damaged tooth structures and replacing them with our magnificent composites. Without comprehending mechanisms on the origin of tooth decay, in this last example we can remove just a symptom (the tooth lesion) leaving in our patients’ mouth the real pathology (tooth decay processes). The result of this inappropriate approach could easily be the early failure of our reconstructions, even if well done, because the untreated pathology restart to damage teeth immediately after the patient leaves our dental clinic.
For this reason, we must focus on tooth decay evolution, treating it during all the phases of development, from plaque adhesion, initial demineralization, formation of cavitated lesions, until destruction of enamel and dentinal structures.
This lecture, will present the latest bioactive materials, including their clinical performances when compared with traditional restorative materials, and the way they can be helpful in the earliest phases of decay processes.
10.30am Morning Tea
11.00am Biomaterials in Daily Clinical Practice: Socket and Ridge Preservation.
Dr Karl-Ludwig Ackerman DDS
Today implants are more and more a prerequisite for a satisfactory perio-prosthetic rehabilitation outcome. Tooth loss always is related with bone loss. To achieve a reliable and stable therapeutic result, implant placement in many cases is related with hard and/or soft tissue augmentation. Pre-implantological augmentation procedures or defect contouring and filling simultaneously to implant placement are the concepts of choice. Socket preservation is performed to maintain bone and soft tissues prior to conventional or implant based prosthetic therapy.
This presentation will cover all the necessities for successful socket preservation treatment:
- Conservative socket preservation
- Atraumatic extraction
- Socket preparation
- Protocol for application of biomaterials (within the fresh socket)
- Open healing with application of membrane
- Socket sealing
- Connective tissue transplant and fixation
12.00pm Post Graduate Research Presentations
12.30pm Panel – Question & Answers with the Morning Presenters.
1.00pm Lunch
2.00pm Ultrasonic Bone Cutting Technology Introduces a New Era in Implantology.
New Ultrasonic Implant Site Preparation for Traditional Technique and New Implant Typology using Piezosurgery Technique.
Professor Tomaso Vercellotti MD, DDS
This presentation highlights the New Ultrasonic Surgical instruments, New Surgical protocols, New Ultra-osseointegration process and the clinical applications in: delicate anatomy, soft bone, close to the nerve and the extraction socket.
The speaker introduces a New Surgical Bone Classification together with Piezoelectric Bone Surgery Implant Site Preparation that promotes maximum primary stability and accelerates the bone response for a new secondary stability and permits immediate implant loading.
Extensive clinical cases involving thin crest, low height and above-all immediate post-extraction implants.
3.00pm Excellence in Dental Aesthetics – New Trends and Materials in Aesthetic Implantology.
Luc Rutten MDT & Patric Rutten MDT
In this lecture we will show how to bring a case to perfection and will outline the contemporary prosthetic concepts in management of implants in the aesthetic zone with a view to achieving long term aesthetics and stability. We will attempt to cover all disciplines and all types of challenges in the most comprehensive way.
The true challenge does not lie in ceramic layering, but bringing pink and white aesthetics into harmony with facial features of our patients. As of now, the principles of facial harmony dictate our work and have turned our aesthetic understanding completely around. We no longer exclusively concentrate on the aesthetics of individual teeth, but are more concerned with the harmony we create between restoration and patient.
Given these high demands, it is natural that the cooperation between dentist or periodontist and dental technician will intensify. An interdisciplinary approach is the key to optimal case management and this will be demonstrated by cases ranging single tooth management to complex multiple tooth restoration.
4.00pm Afternoon Tea
4.30pm Precision and Accuracy in Present and Future Prosthetic Restorations.
Dr. Domenico Massironi MD DMD
The focus of this lecture will be precision and aesthetics of prosthetic restorations at high magnification. In recent years the use of the stereomicroscope has been appled to many dentistry disciplines including endodontics, periodontics, prosthodontics and dental technology. We have used the stereomicroscope in our surgery and laboratory since 1988.
High magnification is very important and a major advance in the stages of fixed prosthodontics . In fact, the possibility of analysis at greater magnification provides complete control and accuracy in each step of the prosthodontic phase.
The tooth preparation and margin placement, must be correctly related to marginal soft tissues and the use of
the microscope allows us to obtain a regular and accurate marginal finish line; furthermore, the use of the stereomicroscope in the finishing phases allows the use of sonic oscillating instruments.
4.30pm Exhibition Close
5.30pm Panel – Question & Answers with the afternoon presenters.
6.00pm Close
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