11:30AM-12:45PM
Peri-implantitis – All you want (or not) to know!
During the last years, the use of dental implants is becoming a common practice and peri-implant diseases are more frequently evident. Apparently, as time goes by and also implies from the available literature, we will be seeing more and more cases of peri-implant diseases. The reported prevalence in the literature reaches almost 30 to 50% of implant patients. This means that one out of two or three of our implant patients might present with peri-implant disease at some point. This is also an important aspect of informed consent for our patients. Another troubling issue with regards to peri-implant diseases is the lack of appropriate, well-documented gold-standard treatment, specifically for peri-implantitis. There are many suggested treatment options described in case reports and case series in the literature; none of them seems to provide a predictable long-term resolution of the disease.
In order to prevent and treat peri-implant diseases, there is a need to understand the nature of the disease and the risk factors.
This lecture will focus on causes and risk factors for peri-implant diseases, ways to prevent its occurrence as well as the currently available treatment options for peri-implantitis. Preventive measures as well as treatment planning dilemmas will be discussed as well.
Objectives:
a. To understand the risk factors for peri-implant diseases
b. To explore ways to prevent peri-implant diseases
c. To recognize the occurrence as well as the currently available treatment options for peri-implantitis
d. To understand the prognostic systems for teeth and implants
e. To develop realistic expectations in terms of implant health and disease
1:45PM-3:00PM
Education and Prevention – A Team Approach to Better Oral Health
In the rush to train and practice various techniques, procedures and technologies, we sometimes skip important steps in treatment planning and implementation. While trying to excel in our clinical skills, we now and again, leave out the preventive, educational part of the treatment plan and also the possibilities to maintain and improve by using the natural healing capacity of the body. Treating disease starts with and is based on prevention. This is true for both major diseases that we are mainly dealing with in the dental profession - caries and periodontal diseases but also to traumatic dental injuries and tissue presentation following trauma.
Our profession is sometimes too busy dealing with improving our treatment results and too often abandons the preventive interventions that should be our main goal. Each and every patient should be engaged in a comprehensive and well-organized prevention program. Explaining the disease, its etiology, risk factors, and ways for intervention and prevention of all types to patients is our primary role, not filling teeth or placing implants. Preventive measures can truly change our patients’ health and wellbeing.
Success in dental treatment is the ability to bring patients to a stable condition in which they come for regular checkups with no need for further treatment. This is success, not just a perfect color match or a stable bone level around an implant. A patient who needs ongoing dental treatment, again and again for years, should be considered our failure.
In this lecture, different level of prevention will be discussed providing keys for enhancing long term success of dental treatments.
Objectives:
1. Understanding the different levels of prevention
2. Recognizing the main etiologic factors of oral diseases
3. Identifying the evidence behind prevention measures
4. Acquiring important keys for long term success of dental treatments
5. Discussing practical ways for prevention of dental diseases
6. Providing tools for enhanced prevention programs
3:30PM-5:00PM
Interactive Case Discussion
(cases submitted from attendees)
In collaboration Penny Hatzimanolakis
- CAP to ask attendees to submit their cases before the conference.
- During that session, those who submit their cases will present for 7 mins each about the case. Based on what they learn on the day, a discussion will be facilitated on how would they assess, classify and come up with their treatment plan.
- Penny and Dr. Levin will facilitate the discussion on each case accordingly.
Powerpoint template for case presentation to be downloaded and used for case submission.
Download (PowerPoint PPTX File)
Biography
Prof. Liran Levin is a professor of periodontology at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Canada. He is also a visiting professor at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA.
Prof. Liran Levin was the Head of Research at the School of Dentistry, Rambam Health Care Campus, and Faculty of Medicine - Technion IIT Haifa, Israel.
Prof. Liran Levin received his DMD degree with distinction at Tel Aviv University and completed his Post Graduate Periodontology Program at the Department of Periodontology, Rambam Health Care Campus. He also received his Periodontology Specialist Certificate from the European Federation of Periodontology as well as a Fellow of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada in Periodontology.
Prof. Liran Levin has published more than 300 articles and book chapters in the international professional literature and is involved in research mainly in periodontology, dental implants and dental trauma. His papers received more than 10,000 scientific citations. He has been lecturing extensively both nationally and internationally in the fields of dental implants and periodontal diseases.
Prof. Levin serves as the Editor-in Chief of Dental Traumatology, an Associate Editor for the International Dental Journal, Scientific Associate Editor for the Quintessence International and as an Editorial Board Member and a manuscript reviewer for some of the leading international professional Journals in the fields of periodontology, dental implants, dental trauma and general dentistry.
Prof. Levin has served as The Chairman of the Ethics in Dental Research Committee of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR). He is currently the President of the International Association for Dental Traumatology (IADT) and was chairing the 2020 IADT dental trauma guidelines committee.
