Day 2 – Friday, 19 May

08:45

Welcome and opening

Luca Cordaro & Mariano Sanz

09:00

Session 1 – Treatment planning in the digital era

Katja Nelson & Dehua Li

Digital planning in the esthetic zone

Florian Beuer

The ABCD Algorithm: A comprehensive philosophy in treatment planning for full-arch cases

A comprehensive planning and perfect execution of implant dentistry protocols for full arch cases always has been challenging. Minor errors can have detrimental repercussions on the longevity of the work we do. This presentation aims to present a novel classification system for planning of full arch cases. From assessing the available bone, to lip lines and determining the final prosthetic material and design; all this keeping the patients age in sync with the proposed treatment is the need of the hour. The classification is open ended to allow room for all philosophies of implant dentistry from tilted implants to zygoma or pterygoid implants and any grafting protocol in between. It has the bandwidth to allow all the current digital protocols as well as time tested analogue ones, thereby making this a truly patient-centered approach.

Learning Objectives

Understand the interplay of factors in the ABCD algorithm and use it for effective treatment planning
Understand the selection criteria for materials and designing options in modern full arch implant dentistry
Understand the workflow of Digital Dentistry in full arch implant prosthodontics

Udatta Kher & Ali Tunkiwala

Analogic planning – is it still viable?

The evolution of Implantology has allowed for new standards to be reached, hard to imagine only a few years ago. Now, new challenge is to treat the patient through a simpler way while maintaining or even improving the high level of treatment quality.

The accurate planning of the clinical case is extremely important in achieving this goal and, during the last few years, the impact of digitalization has hugely improved the way to address the implant treatment.

In fact, computer-guided planning, intra oral scanning and digital tools are the modern keys to optimize the implant positioning in relationship with the bone availability and the ideal prosthetic plan.

Nevertheless, there are few details of the procedure that, even nowadays, are still well managed by using an analog approach.

During this lecture, these details will be taken into account with the purpose to discuss when the complete digital workflow is not the first choice and which are the steps that should be treated from the analog side.

Sergio Piano

10:30

Coffee break

11:00

Session 2 – Timing in implant treatment

Homa Zadeh

Post-extraction socket development

Mauricio Araujo

Immediate placement

Ramón Gómez-Meda

12:30

Lunch break

13:30

Session 3 – Treatment of soft tissue defects: do we have relevant innovation?

Mariano Sanz

Peri-implant tissue management using connective tissue grafts - still golden standard?

To be functionally useful, oral implants have to pierce the gingiva and enter the oral cavity, thus establishing a transmucosal connection between the external environment and the inner parts of the body. Still, the major goal is to obtain long-term peri-implant health based on stable soft tissue dimensions. Thus, periodontal plastic microsurgical soft tissue grafting procedures are increasingly performed in conjunction with dental implants. From a biological point of view the gain of keratinized mucosa and soft tissue thickness is associated with stable peri-implant health. From an esthetic point of view, increased soft tissue thickness (thick peri-implant phenotype) may decrease the risk of recessions and loss of papilla-like tissue. Since almost 50 years the connective tissue graft is used for periodontal indications (Edel 1974). Hundreds of studies were published and made this technique to the Golden Standard. Nowadays new biotechnological materials enter the dental field to replace the subepithelial connective tissue transplant in order to avoid the donor harvesting surgery. The lecture checks wether there are still advantages for CTGs and which modifications in microsurgical techniques surpass those of biotechnological matrices.

S. Marcus Beschnidt

13:00

Science Slam

15:15

Coffee break

15:45

Session 4 – CAD/CAM implant supported restoration – are they a must?

Irena Sailer

One crown one time concept

The one abutment one time concept presents biological advantages. In this lecture, the literature background and the practical aspects of this concept will be introduced and discussed.

For worfklow efficiency purpuses, and thanks to the possibilities the Ti-base components and the digital workflow offer, the one crown one time concept was developed. The approach of the Geneva Team of Fixed Prosthodontics to this evolved concept will be presented, reviewing its advantages, limitations, and tips and tricks for its application in the clinics.

Participants’ learning objectives