Title: Preventing Complications in Daily Dental Practice with Digital Measured Occlusion Technology

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Occlusion is a complex neurologic science that involves the interplay between teeth, muscles and the Temporomandibular Joints. Occlusion however, is taught biomechanically, absent of true interocclusal functional measurements of the occlusal force and timing of the contacts that affects patient’s neurologic health and comfort every time they use their teeth/prosthesis. The T-Scan 10 technology makes it possible to precisely control the occlusal forces and timing with natural teeth, dental implants, and prosthodontic restorations, offering patients predictably improved outcomes, while minimizing frequent common post-insertion occlusal adjustments that often don’t resolve the patient’s comfort issues, despite the dentist’s best efforts.
This course will present Digital Measured Occlusion treats common occlusal complications that appear in everyday clinical practice. Digital occlusion metrics guide the clinician to deliver comfortable, successful restorations, while eliminating the hit or miss subjectivity of using articulating paper, and overcoming the occlusal adjustment limitations that intraoral scanners and virtual articulation have during case insertion. And, because T-Scan accurately treats patients’ occlusal problems in MIP1-15, splints are less necessary. Clinical cases will illustrate how digitally diagnosing and treating occlusal problems to high-precision tolerances improves occlusal outcomes.

Biography:

Robert B. Kerstein received his D.M.D. degree in 1983, and his Prosthodontic certificate in 1985, both from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine. From 1985 - 1998, he maintained an active appointment at Tufts as a clinical professor teaching Fixed and Removable Prosthodontics. In 1984, Dr. Kerstein began studying the original T Scan I technology, and has since that time has also studied T-Scan II, T-Scan III, T-Scan VII, T-Scan 8, T-Scan 9, and now the present-day version, the T-Scan 10 technology. Dr. Kerstein has conducted original research regarding the role that occlusion and lengthy disclusion time plays in the etiology of Chronic Occlusal-Muscle Dysfunction.

Title: Aesthetic driven orthodontics with the Pitts Protocols

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He will talk about the paradigm shift with the Pitts Protocols in other words how we can change our orthodontic methods to achieve greater results with aesthetic driven treatment planning and how we can accomplish perfect aesthetics with great function. The Pitts Protocols include the super precise Pitts21 bracket system, the Smile Arc Protection (SAP) bracket positioning, early torque control, the use of disarticulation and early light elastics with a simplified archwire sequence.  With the Pitts Active early concept we can reduce the treatment time by engaging and activating the appliance as early as possible and the expansion with light forces helps for non-extraction treatment to be able to create the “12 tooth smile”. You will see how we can use Digital Smile Design, tooth recontouring, interproximal reduction and laser gingiva contouring for superior esthetic results. Case Studies will demonstrate how is it possible to simplify and shorten the treatment time of the various malocclusions and how to turn extraction cases into non-extraction and surgical cases into non-surgical solution with beautiful aesthetic results.

Biography:

Péter Csiki DDS, MSc was graduated in 1994 at the Semmelweis Medical University of Budapest Faculty of Dentistry. He took his orthodontic specialty in 2000. From 1994 to 2002 he worked at the Semmelweis Medical University of Budapest Department of Orthodontics and Pedodontics as professor’s assistant. He practices in Budapest (Hungary) and in Milan (Italy).  In 2004 he started to work with passive self ligation, he’s been teaching as PSL speaker since 2008. He’s also an expert in TAD, lingual braces and aligner treatment. He is an honorary associate professor at the University of Szeged Faculty of Dentistry.

Title: A case Report depicting a case of external inflammatory root resorption in an anterior tooth treated endodontically using MTA

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Root resorption in the permanent dentition is usually pathological. Local factors are the most frequent causes of resorption, most commonly excessive pressure and inflammation. The case presented with an inflammatory external root resorption and was treated with full root canal obturation with mineral trioxide aggregate and shows arrest or disease with 24 months follow-up. This article discusses the aetiology of inflammatory root resorption and the use of the latest root canal obturation materials in improving healing outcomes.

Biography:

Parag Srivastava is a Endodontist, DDS-IDP Candidate. He completed his education in University of California, San Francisco and as an assistant professor he took lectures for a class of 100 students, also provided care for patients at a Dental school setting and as a consultant Endodontist, he provided care for 1000+ Patients and performed complex root canal cases at a hospital.

Title: Case Report : Pansinusitis and periorbital cellulitis complicating External sinus lifting procedures

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Perforation of the maxillary sinus membrane is a common complication during sinus lifting procedures(10-40%).Maxillary sinusitis might result and displacement of the graft material may be a contributing factor. Antibiotic Regimes with removal of the implants perforating the sinus have been used for management of sinusitis with immediate or late replacement of the dental implants .

Patient with recurrent severe maxillary,ethmoid and frontal sinusitis attended our center complaining from periorbiral cellulitis .She visited multiple ENT clinics for several months with limited improvement and recurrence of the infection.CT scan revealed titanium membrane displacement into the maxillary sinus. Drainage was done intraorally and removal of the titanium membrane. She had sinus lifting procedure right side 9 years ago for placement of 3 implants to replace upper posterior teeth. Patient insisted not to remove the implants and accepted treatment without warrranty of the result. Sinus membrane was elevared and PRF used to fill the space above the implant apices. The infection resolved completely within 10 days. Follow up of the patient for more than 40 months did not show any recurrence . CT Scan shows formation of bony partition between the implants and the maxillary sinus.

Biography:

Nasser Al-Alami did the Postgraduate degree in Master of Science in Oral & Maxillofacial surgery from Baghdad University- College of Dentistry (2003) and He is the Specialist Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon in UAE and has experience from Nov. 2010 till the present time as Performing surgical extractions, dental implants, gingival and bone grafting, cyst enucleation and marsupialization, Maxillofacial Fracture Management. He is the AOCMF fellowship at University Clinic for Cranio-Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery, Innsbruck, Austria and A Dental Surgeon at Gulf  Dental Center in Qatar from January 2008 till Sept 2010.  Nasser Al-Alami is the senior house officer in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Department of AL-Karkh General Hospital (2000-2003).

Title: Gemmotherapic preparations used in contemporary periodontology and dentistry

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Gemmotherapy is a natural therapy that uses extracts obtained from plant tissues in the growth phase (buds, shoots, roots, flower buds). Therefore, it is considered a new, modern phytotherapy that uses embryonic tissues/ in the division phase (e.g. plant stem cells) processed in a fresh state, compared to classical phytotherapy that uses adult plant parts, which have lost the power of regeneration and are generally processed in a dry state.

The gemmoderivate (meristhemoderivate) reacts mainly by stimulating and rebalancing the function of cellular and tissue homeostasis. All plant substances in the meristhematic state or in the process of formation contain multiple minerals, hormonal substances, amino acids and prosthetic structural elements, as well as oligoelements (trace elements).

Nowadays, in dental medicine it has been found that gemmotherapy can help to obtain faster results or to maintain these results for a long time, supporting the mandatory specific dental treatment.

Biography:

Ruxandra-Ilinca Matei PhD, DDS, MaSc graduated in 1998 at Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest – Romania, Faculty of Dentistry. From 2000 she activates in the Department of Dental Medicine (disciplines of Restorative Dentistry and Periodontology), Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Oradea – Romania, and also in her private practice office in Oradea. In 2019, after a two years national course, she was certified in Homeopathy and Gemmotherapy, and since that time she has focused on phytotherapic/gemmotherapic (vegetal) extracts implications in oral complex treatments.

Title: Methods of Anterior Torque Control during Retraction: A Systematic Review

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Background: There are various methods of controlling the inclination of the incisors during retraction, but there is no evidence as to the advantages of some methods over others. Research conducted by our team related to the review of the available literature identified several methods with  varied effectiveness of torque control during anterior teeth retraction.

Methods: In the study of the available literature that was qualified to our study we included the patients with complete permanent dentition with the examined the maxillary incisor torque after  and before retraction with straight-wire appliance and different modes of torque control where statistically significant differences in torque values of the upper incisors after orthodontic treatment were observed. The literature of our research were subjected to risk of bias and quality analyses with the ROBINS-I protocol and the modified Newcastle–Ottawa QAS, respectively

Results: Despite numerous articles published in reputable scientific journals (580 subjects) only 13 articles could be selected because only they met our criteria. All authors recognized that incisors were retroclined during retraction by 2.46° (mean difference), which was statistically significant. Statistical analysis confirmed that the differences in torque between the study group and the control group were statistically significant in most of research. We assessed our research for heterogeneity of articles in relation to their impact on the significance of the analysis performed.

Conclusion: As a result of the analysis conducted by our team we recognized that both properly performed corticotomy and en-masse retraction using orthodontic microimplants seem to be the most effective and scientifically validated methods of torque control. Just after the publication of our research an article “En-Mass Retraction of Maxillary Anterior Teeth with Severe Proclination and Root Resorption—A Case Report” appeared  which also discussed the advanced retraction of incisors with the use of Tads and evaluate the difference in their inclination.

Biography:

Anna Ewa Kuc graduated from medical studies in 2004 year. She completed the specialization with a highly passed exam. Thus, she obtained the title of a specialist in prosthetics. Then she started education in the field of orthodontics and completed the 3-year postgraduate studies in orthodontics at the University of Austria in Krems, obtaining the title of Master of Science in Orthodontics. She participated in many specialist courses and trainings in the field of occlusion and orthodontics as well as treatment biomechanics with world-class lecturers. She did a specialization in orthodontics at the Specialist Dental Clinic of the Medical University of Bialystok.  She connected scientifically with Wroclaw Medical University.

Title: POWDER technology and more POWER in the dental prevention

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Disease prevention and maintenance of good oral health is key to success of in-clinic dental treatments for dental professionals and a healthy, happy life for patients, besides helping reduce pain and expense, more often encountered when the oral hygiene is poor. Preventive dental measures, known as oral prophylaxis are offered by dental professionals and extend to measures that patients take at home to ensure effective and long-term oral hygiene. Professional care offers deep teeth cleaning at the dental office whereas home care by individuals helps prolong its benefits. 

Effective removal of biofilm, the causative reason for dental diseases like gingivitis, periodontitis or tooth decay is essential for good oral health. Years of research and technological advancement has culminated into a clinical method for modern day clinical prophylaxis called "Guided Biofilm Therapy" (GBT). This state-of-the-art treatment protocol consists of eight clearly defined steps and has truly revolutionized the treatment of dental diseases and professional teeth cleaning. The paradigm change is achieved primarily from the more intensive use of powder jet technology which allows teeth to be cleaned in a comfortable, gentle, time efficient, and effective manner.  

Powder technology offers a broad opportunity to professional prophylaxis thanks to the "multi-mini" impact working mechanism. This mechanism combines a minimally invasive cleaning procedure due to the small particle impact with a highly efficient procedure given the quantity of particles reaching the surface. The powder itself is very versatile and has a range of 10 different application opportunities. The smart delivery pathway of the from the powder chamber up to the tooth surface can be optimized to ensure the best treatment comfort for both the patient and the practitioner.  

This presentation will immerse you in the POWER of the POWDER in PROFESSIONAL PROPHYLAXIS.

Biography:

Marcel Donnet is a Powder & Fluid Research Expert at EMS Electro Medical Systems SA (Switzerland). He is a chemical engineer with a PhD in Powder Technology. He has been carrying out academic as well as applied research for more than 20 years in interdisciplinary domains, including powders, fluids, chemical, medical and dental technologies. Over the 18 last years, his research passion was mainly directed to dental technologies and especially dental prophylaxis to offer best clinical option for both user and patient. He is instrumental in all powder related device development at EMS, from the initial powder up to the final clinical application.

Title: Improved Yale Total Tic Severity Score Due to Craniofacial Manipulation with an Oral Appliance

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Background: This study evaluated a novel treatment approach using the concept of cranial facial manipulation with an oral appliance, the TicTocStop Tic Guard (TTSTG), also known as the Tic Guard, to determine its safety and efficacy in the treatment of Tourette syndrome (TS) and chronic tic disorders (CTDs). Methods: A two-center study was undertaken at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and a facility on Long Island, New York. A total of 77 subjects enrolled between the centers upon referral from local neurologists and via Internet enrollment; 67 subjects started the study, and 58 completed the study. A licensed Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT) determined the subjects’ Yale Total Tic Severity Score (YTTSS) for tics at enrollment, after 1-week sham appliance, after 1-week Tic Guard, and after 10-weeks Tic Guard. Results: The results showed statistically significant improvement in the YTTSS with both the sham appliance and the Tic Guard with more robust improvement with the Tic Guard. The sham appliance resulted in a 25% overall reduction in tic severity, while the Tic Guard resulted in a 39% overall reduction in tic severity. There were no serious adverse events reported with either device. Conclusions: This study demonstrated significant reduction in YTTSS using the Tic Guard with no reported serious adverse events. As a result, this device could be considered for inclusion in treatment modalities offered to patients with TS/CTD.

Biography:

He helps Dentists and their Clinic/Office teams to reach new heights. Revenue, Job Satisfaction and Practice Growth are all interrelated. He learn about the Practice’s “DNA” to help implement systems and services that make sense for the patients while giving the team better job satisfaction. He work with dental teams that want to increase patient flow, practice revenue and job satisfaction. I have worked with small single office practices grossing less than 600k up to large DSO practices in excess of 500 offices. Finally, He worked with insurance companies.

Title: Innovative Artificial Intelligence-Based Algorithm for an Accurate Tooth Prognosis Decision

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Appropriate comprehensive treatment planning with a multidisciplinary approach is essential in clinical dentistry. It requires the evaluation of the entire oral health conditions, including the occlusal scheme, arch forms, and more. Furthermore, an accurate evaluation of the prognosis of each tooth is a critical initial step for treatment planning. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been used in dentistry to make the diagnosis process more accurate and efficient in various disciplines however, to date, little is known about AI-implemented tooth prognosis decisions in consideration of comprehensive treatment planning.
Our recent publication assessed efficacy of an AI-based machine-learning algorithm for tooth prognosis decisions. Seventeen clinical determining parameters were established by 20 faculty from multiple disciplines. The learning data used 94 cases with 2359 teeth, and 16 evaluators individually assessed the tooth prognosis by ranking from 1 to 5, with 1: hopeless tooth (signifying severe problems requiring tooth extraction) and 5: healthy tooth (signifying good conditions for long-term). The algorism was then created by 3 methods, including gradient boosting classifier, decision tree classifier, and random forest classifier. These three methods were evaluated against the gold standard data determined by the consensus of three experienced prosthodontists, and the decision tree classifier had the best accuracy (0.8413) among the three methods. For the next steps, we further investigated the efficiency of the recently created algorism for the larger number of cases with the wider range of case complexity.
In this presentation, decision of tooth prognosis for complex cases determined by AI-based algorithm will be introduced. Furthermore, comparison of tooth prognosis decision among the countries with different insurance system will be provided.

Biography:

Shigemi Ishikawa Nagai is an associate professor of oral medicine, infection and immunity at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Throughout her career, Dr. Nagai has been dedicated to teaching prosthodontics and mentoring students’ research. Dr. Nagai has received numerous awards recognizing her teaching and research. HSDM. She has more than 90 peer-reviewed publications. Currently, she holds the Nagai-Kim-Chen Lab, which is comprised of clinician-scientists focused on translational research that combines clinical and developmental research with basic science.

Title: Periodontitis management with laser therapy as a new treatment option

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Statement of the problem: Periodontitis is a disease that affects the whole organism, leading to cardiovascular diseases, respiratory disorder, chronic renal disease, diabetes type 2 and many others. The origin of this condition is supra- or subgingival bacterial biofilm that leads eventually to the destruction of the periodontium. Not that far ago the only way to counteract the discussing disorder was mechanical therapy with additional antimicrobial and local or systemic antibiotic therapy. Increasing antibiotic resistance has led to rise to a new modern treatment approach. During oral presentation will be presented result of using periodontitis treatment with high power lasers. Lasers clinically can reduce risk of side effects to minimum. Laser offers a lot of advantages such as selective calculus ablations, bleeding control, bactericidal and detoxification effects. The purpose of the lecture is to illuminate the current role of lasers in periodontal treatment procedures. The use of laser technology is becoming more and more popular in everyday dental practice, since it provides better treatment outcomes compared to conventional methods. The aim of the presentation is introduce the studies on our research group which were focus on the evaluation of clinical
and microbiological findings following non-surgical periodontal therapy by the different following methods: traditional periodontal debridement with a combination of ultrasound and hand curettes; antimicrobial photoactive disinfection with diode laser, combination of neodymium and erbium lasers high-power diode laser with combination of oxidative disinfectant as hydrogen peroxide or sodium hypochlorite Findings: All therapy modalities resulted in the superior clinical effect comparison to traditional mechanotherapy including reduction of total bacteria count as well as red and orange complexes according Socransky et al. Clinical research results show that after laser treatment therapy there is significant reduction of plaque index as well as bleeding on probing with the reduction of periodontal probing depth. The best combination that gives the most promising outcomes is combination diode laser with root scaling and low concentration of sodium hypochlorite, hydrogen peroxide or combination of two high power lasers like neodymium and erbium lasers in one procedure.
Conclusion: Research findings constitute beneficial alternative laser assisted non-surgical periodontal treatments in comparison to conventional treatment.

Biography:

Zuzanna Grzech-Leśniak is a young passionate scientist that is specially interested in innovative new approaches to dental treatment. Her special field of interest is laser therapy. She is author of international and national publications. She is associated with the Wroclaw Medical University that is at the forefront of Polish medical universities that are present in the prestige international academic rankings, such as Shanghai List or Best Global Universities.

Title: ZYGOMATIC IMPLANT TREATMENT IN THE EDENTULOUS MOUTH

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As a result of periodontal or endodontic diseases; local and systemic factors such as tooth extractions, early tooth loss, tumor resections, traumas, some type of developmental anomalies may lead to advanced horizontal and vertical bone resorption in maxilla. Jaw bones that have horizontal and vertical resorption, the retention and resistance of the prosthesis is negatively affected which disrupts the stabilization of the prosthesis and reduces the patient comfort. On the other hand, the reconstruction rehabilitation of the atrophic maxilla by using grafts is challenging for several reasons it requires a good surgical technique, high-quality soft tissues covering the graft, and a favorable overall health standard for repair as well as patient cooperation, which involves risk factors. For these reasons, zygomatic implants were introduced by Branemark in 1998 as an alternative treatment option for patients with substantially atrophic maxilla. In the searches conducted by different writers, the survival and success ratio of zygomatic implants reported high in literature. In this case presentation 36 year-old male maxillary edentulous patient with history of long-term prosthesis use applied to our clinic with a desire for improved prosthesis retention and a request for fixed prostheses. The patient, who consumed a considerable amount of alcohol, was found to have a medical history of kidney disease and elevated AST and ALT values. After evaluating the patient’s blood tests and CBCT image, total of 2 zygomatic implants were placed where the level of teeth #24 and #14, under general anesthesia. The bone was determined to be D4 in softness, so to increase the retention region dental implants were placed in the regions of teeth #12, #22, and #18. In the same day temporary fixed prosthesis were placed with surgical procedures. The patient who was edentulous for many years and used removable denture; so in his clinical images there were oral epulis fissuratums. After the osseointegration is complete, epulis fissuratums are removed with diode lasers and vestibul deepening is made at the same session. The patient is given the new total prosthesis after 2 weeks of soft tissue healing. This case report's purpose is to give newsworthy information about a zygomatic implantation made in an edentulous mouth, its indications, advantages and methods.

Biography:

Buse Sarpkaya is a 3rd year student of Dentistry at Istanbul Kent University and is the delegate of the Turkish Dental Association student branch for the 2024-2026 term. At the same time, she writes for the Toothfriendly Magazine, which is published by the Toothfriendly Association, which is the branch of Toothfriendly International in Turkey, and serves as a substitute supervisory board member of the association.