Adam Filali completed his degree in General Dentistry, followed by three years of intensive training in the study of Prosthodontics, the discipline focusing on full

mouth rehabilitation. This field of dentistry pays special attention to the esthetic appearance and clinical reconstruction of the mouth. He received his Prosthodontic

specialty training at the highly esteemed and prestigious Boston University Henry M Goldman School of Dental Medicine. Pursuing his specialized interests, he

continued his education by acquiring numerous certifications and credentials in this field.

Although CAD/CAM systems have been utilized in the practice of dentistry for many years, they are becoming increasingly popular in today’s growing digital age. This course will provide you with the knowledge and experience needed to utilize the Sirona Cone Beam CT for the surgical planning of implants in your dental practice. Through a systematic approach, you will learn how to incorporate guided surgery technology into your practice, discuss restoration-driven implant placements, and master digital treatment planning and workflows for the fabrication of surgical guides. The focus of this lecture is to integrate guided surgery into your practice and to be able to communicate with your team and patients.

Zeeshan Sheikh is trained as a Dental Clinician and a Biomaterial Scientist with clinical and research degrees of BDS, MSc and PhD in Dentistry. After graduating as a Dentist, he worked as a Dental Surgeon for 2 years before proceeding to obtain an MSc degree in Dental and Biomaterials field from Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) with distinction. During his MSc, he worked upon synthesizing and characterizing novel polymeric guided tissue regeneration (GTR) membranes for periodontal regeneration applications. He then joined Altamash Institute of Dental Medicine (AIDM) as Head of the Department of Dental Materials and Preclinical Dentistry (2007). He also continued to work as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oral Anatomy. He then proceeded to obtain a PhD from McGill University, Faculty of Dentistry (2014). During his PhD his work was related to bone grafting and augmentation for maxillofacial and orthopaedic applications using alloplastic bone replacement graft materials. He currently works at Faculty of Dentistry (Matrix Dynamics Group), University of Toronto and the Mt. Sinai Hospital

(Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute) in Toronto, Canada as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow. In addition to several conference talks and presentations both locally in Canada and internationally, he has more than 35 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He has also co-edited two text books on Oral Biology and Dental Biomaterials. He currently holds two research grants from the American Academy of Implant Dentistry Foundation and the Alpha Omega Foundation of Canada.Being trained extensively as a Clinician Scientist in world renowned insititutions like the Queen Mary University of London, McGill Univeristy and University of Toronto, his expertise lie in developing novel biomaterial options for bone grafting and alveolar ridge augmentation applications.

The long-term success of implants depends upon the degree of osseointegration that can be achieved, which is largely determined by the volume and quality of bone available at the time of surgery. Bone height and volume is often diminished in patients due to the extended time after tooth loss and this is a major limitation impacting long term dental implant treatment success. Some

of the commonly used surgical techniques for ridge augmentation are (i) Osteoperiosteal flap (OPF); (ii) Distraction osteogenesis (DO); (iii) Block grafting; (iv) Guided bone regeneration (GBR) using membranes; and (v) Subperiosteal tunneling for minimally invasive approach to GBR. This talk discusses the development of bioceramic graft materials with controlled microstructure and superior biological properties to those currently available. Dicalcium phosphate cements, brushite and monetite, resorb faster than

hydroxyapatite (HA). Monetite (unlike brushite) does not re-precipitate as HA in vivo, and demonstrates superior osteoconductive properties. We have produced monetite disc grafts by varying processing conditions which alter their physical properties such as porosity, surface area and mechanical strength. Histological observations after 12 weeks of onlay grafting on rabbit calvaria reveal higher bone volume (38%) in autoclaved monetite grafts in comparison with the dry heat prepared monetite grafts (26%). The vertical bone height gained is similar for both the types of monetite grafts (up to 3.2 mm). This talk discusses and provides information regarding two types of monetite onlay grafts prepared with different physical properties that could be used for achieving more predictable vertical bone augmentation.

Samuel Lee is an Innovator with a passion for teaching and developing new technologies. When he was a dental student, he taught Biochemistry at UCLA. Today,he teaches across the globe to dental schools and makes time to conduct CE courses for general dentists and specialists while increasing access to care to underserved populations in developing countries. He is a Diplomat of the International Academy of Dental Implantology and past Diplomat of the American Board of Oral Implantology/Implant Dentistry. He actively conducts research and development, while running a busy private practice in Boston, MA and San Diego, CA which is limited to Implant Surgery and Orthodontics. His credentials include two Doctorate level degrees, Doctor of Medical Science and a specialty certificate in Periodontology from Harvard University and a DDS from UCLA. He also won multiple 1st place Table Clinic Presentation Awards at the American Academy of Implant Dentistry in 2008, American Orthodontic Society and International Congress of Oral Implantologies in 2007. He invented the “Crestal Window Sinus Grafting Technique” and owns patents on various sinus and surgical instruments. He introduced a new method of dental radiography that boasts ultra low dosage radiation and allows for angulation correction that enhances 3D imaging capabilities. He serves as the current President of the International Academy of Dental Implantology.

Dental implant surgery is a very predictable treatment. However, it is very common to encounter severely resorbed ridges, which makes dental implant treatment difficult. In this presentation, the author will present many innovative options to overcome pneumatized sinus, thin ridges, and loss of vertical bone heights. Diagnosis and guidelines for these treatments will be reviewed concisely. The author will be discussing on: Diagnosis and treatment planning for implant treatment will be discussed, new sinus classification developed by the author, which simplifies the treatment of pneumatized sinus will be discussed, simplified GBR technique will be discussed, new autogenous bone harvesting technique will be introduced, easier mandibular ridge splitting technique will be introduced, biological modifiers will be discussed, non-traumatic Nerve Lateralization Technique will be introduced and cases involving multidiscipline specialties will be presented.

Ajibola Adegboye completed his Dental and Postdoctoral degrees from Nigerian and South African Universities. He owns a solo dental practice in South Africa. He attended the UW, Seattle School of Public Health as a Fogarty Fellow (1990), and he has contributed to scientifically reputed international meetings and journals on infection control and HIV/AIDS, and dentistry. He is currently finalising his MBA dissertation with Management College of Southern Africa (Mancosa). His previous peer-reviewed publications include the collaborations with Joan Kreiss, MD, Femi Soyinka, MD and Greg Moss, MD (1990) and PG Robinson, RW Rowland, Steven Yeung and Newell Johnson (2002).

Early Childhood Caries (ECC) has been documented to be of highest

prevalence in predominantly Coloured (Mixed-Race) rather than in White- or Black-dominated communities of South Africa. As a result of a new realization that parents/primary caregivers (PCGs) rather than the child are the key individuals who determine the social and behavioural environment that shape oral health practices for children, this study set out to examine the relationship between health behaviours of primary caregivers (Biological parents or not) of preschool children and caries experience in South Africa's Ekurhuleni Health District (using a predominantly Coloured community of Arla Park). A total of 545 PCG-child pairs for children in the age group of 12-71 months were interviewed (PCGs only) and examined, using DMFT/deft indices (PCGs and children). Results showed that overall, the mean deft ranged between 2.88 (aged <4 years) and 3.78 (aged 4-5.11 years); and high deft scores occurred to children with PCGs who are unemployed (78.1%),consume alcohol frequently (59.87%), visited dentist only when in pain and for tooth extraction (68.11%) and admitted to putting infants to sleep with bottle-with-sugary-drinks (65.72%). The strong negative relationship that was revealed in this study between socio-economic profile, oral/dental care and health seeking/child grooming behaviour of PCGs on the one hand, and mean deft index of their children on the other, can be a useful tool for screening and targeting child populations in need of treatment, and also assist public policy planning towards developing health preventative and promotion programmes to aid early intervention and prevention.

Randa Kerassa had completed her doctorate from the University of France; she has published many articles and recipient of many awards and grants for his valuable contributions and discoveries in major area of research, currently working as a private dentist at her own clinic at Dubai, UAE.

Aim: The aim of this systematic review was to compare the clinical performance of anterior single-retainer all-ceramic and metal fused to porcelain resin-bonded fixed partial dentures (RBFPDs) after an observation period of at least 1 year.

 

Materials & Methods: An electronic PubMed search complemented by manual searching was conducted to identify prospective cohort clinical studies with a mean observation period of at least 1 year. Data extraction and study inclusion were performed independently by 2 reviewers. The studies included reported survival rates of 2-unit anterior all-ceramic and metal-ceramic cantilever

RBFPDs. Patients had to be examined at follow-up visit. Survival rates were analysed and descriptive comparisons performed.

 

Results: The search resulted in 9 prospective cohort studies. Survival rates ranged from 90 -100% over a mean observation period of 55.4 months for all-ceramic RBFPDs and 93 -100% over a mean observation period of 35.2 months for metal-ceramic RBFPDs. Debonding was the most frequent complication with more occurrences in all-ceramic RBFPDs.However, no observed difference in survival rates was determined between the two types of restorations.

 

Conclusion: Both types of resin-bonded FPDs provide an effective short to medium term treatment option. All-ceramic singleretainer RBFPDs was shown to have excellent survival rates and esthetic outcome when replacing anterior missing teeth. Dentists should be aware of success rates, longevity and failure modes of this type of restoration and recommend it to patients as a medium to long-term option.

Negin Kouchak Dezfuli received a Doctor of Dental Medicine degree from the Faculty of Dentistry at the Islamic Azad University of Tehran in 2014. She has been a Teacher Assistant during her study in the Cosmetic & Restorative department. She has worked as a General Dentist in Dental Treatment department of Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, for one year. She is currently training the Oral Health Technicians in Alborz University of Medical Sciences. She is also the member of the Dental Research Center of this university.

The purpose of this in vitro study is to evaluate and compare the cytotoxicity of three commercially available root-ending materials,MTA Plus, Pro root MTA and Retro MTA, at different storage times after mixing on human periodontal fibroblast using a MTT method. Varied concentrations (3, 6, 12, 25, 50 mg/ml) of the fresh and set root-ending materials (ProRoot MTA, MTA Plus and Retro MTA) were placed in adjacent flasks of human periodontal fibroblast in DMEM medium within 96-well plates. Cellular viability was evaluated using a MTT assay after 24, 48, and 72 h of initial mixing. The results were analyzed with 1-way ANOVA. The results showed that there was no significant difference between the biocompatibility of MTA Plus, and that of Pro root MTA or Retro

MTA (P>0.05). Furthermore, no significant difference was observed between different time intervals for each group (P>0.05). The current in vitro study showed almost similar biocompatibility for ProRoot MTA and MTA Plus and Retro MTA.