The Ultimate Restoration
Defining the guidelines for ideal restorative dentistry.

Creating A SuperNatural Smile
Strategies to develop and maintain esthetics in the anterior zone.

Computer Enhanced Implant Dentistry - Part 1 of 2
The traditional methods of creating implant supported restorations are on a precipice of change and are being replaced. The multiple technologies of 3D CBCT imaging, 3D modeling, digital restorative design and CADCAM production have contributed to this trend. Simultaneously, restorative materials have been introduced that have improved strength and esthetic qualities. Integration of these capabilities create opportunities enhanced restorative performance and practice efficiency. This presentation will highlight a practice-based model centered around Digitally Enhanced Treatment.

Socket Shield Preparation: An Oral Surgeon's Perspective
Periodontists and general practisioners are used on working with high speed, whereas oral surgeons are used to preparing hard tissue utilizing a straight handpiece. One can object that a straight handpiece is causing more vibrations and may dyslodge the shield. However, in our experience (myself:>300 socket shield procedures, Richard Martin, Michael Pikos) it works very well. This is not recommendation for the periodontists and GP to start to prepare socket shield utilizing a straight handpiece, but the explanatory video for oral and maxillo-facial surgeons used on a straight handpiece.

Implant Esthetic
Implants...Esthetics...Solutions

Immediate Loading in Implant Dentistry - Coherent Clinical Application in Everyday Practice
Dr. Henry Salama will outline clinical protocols to facilitate efficient, successful and predictable application of immediate loading protocols for single unit replacement as well as fully edendulous patients.

Full Mouth Rehabilitation: Clinical Overview a Systematic Approach
Full mouth rehabilitation is a complex subject that requires the clinician to resurrect broken and mutilated dentitions. Armed with a thorough understanding of the disease process to enable an accurate diagnosis and risk assessment that will enable a conservative treatment approach is the need of the hour. This presentation aims to take the audience through a systematic approach towards this subject and empower them with a vision that will enable them to set up the case to end it well with accurate form, predictable function and superior esthetics!

A Defined Algorithm for Regenerative Success Part 2
These presentations will focus open the above concepts but prioritize the diagnostic phase and surgical common denominators required for a successful regenerative outcome. Flap design, space maintenance, bone and membrane selections and tension free closure provides the template for all the new age materials and technologies to be successful in clinical practice.

Osseointegrated Titanium Implants for Maxillofacial Protraction in Monkeys
Titanium implants were placed surgically into the maxillary, zygomatic, frontal, and occipital bones of four pigtail monkeys. After a 4-month healing period, the implants were exposed and abutments were placed. Extraoral traction appliances were then attached to the abutments. The cranial implants were used to support the framework of the traction appliance; those in the facial bones were used to attach springs that delivered a protraction force. The application of force varied among animals. In animal…

Facial Development, Continuous Tooth Eruption, and Mesial Drift as Compromising Factors for Implant Placement
The replacement of teeth lost by children because of trauma can be an important indication for early implant therapy. Osseointegrated dental implants, like ankylosed teeth, alter position as growth-related changes occur within the jawbones (displacement, remodeling, mesial drift). Facial growth of the child and even of the adolescent, as well as the continuous eruption of the adjacent anterior teeth, create significant risk of a less favorable esthetic and/or functional outcome. For patients with…

CT Scan Technology
Implant dentistry, one of the most predictable treatment alternatives offered to patients who are missing teeth can be enhanced by thorough pre-surgical diagnosis and treatment planning efforts by all members of the implant team. Conventional radiologic techniques including periapical and panoramic radiographs are limited by the two dimensional interpretation of existing hard and soft tissue. The inherent distortion factor can misrepresent bone topography in critical areas associated with vital anatomy or potential implant sites. Advances in diagnostic radiological techniques improved with the introduction of CT scan technology for dental applications. The enhanced diagnostic range of this evolving technology empowers the clinician with necessary tools to avoid potential complications associated with implant dentistry.