Periodontal and Implant Therapies in Clinical Practice: Reality vs. Hype

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Course Description

Regenerative and implant therapies afford unmatched opportunities for providing previously undreamt of patient treatment outcomes. In order to maximize the benefits of such therapies, it is imperative that the conscientious clinician recognize the indications, contraindications and limitations of various treatment approaches, as well as how best to incorporate these therapies into existing armamentaria. All treatment must be grounded in comprehensive diagnosis, treatment planning and case work up.

Designed to underscore the inter-relationships between the various specialties and the restorative dentist, this course includes a framework in which to carry out differential diagnosis and comprehensive treatment planning; periodontal restorative inter-relationships; and various esthetic procedures. The roles of guided bone regeneration, sinus augmentation and implant therapy in the treatment of a variety of patients will be discussed. The indications for sinus grafting will be reviewed, and long-term results will be examined. The realistic use of osteotomes and other techniques to simplify therapy will be discussed in detail, culminating in a mathematically based system for treatment approach selection and augmentation of the posterior maxilla.

Guided bone regeneration will be discussed in detail. Diagnostic and technical prerequisites for maximization of regenerative treatment outcomes will be reviewed, and the results of over 3500 cases will be discussed. Numerous pre and postoperative clinical examples will be examined critically.

A clinically based hierarchy of implant selection and utilization will be explored and critically examined.

Techniques for implant placement at the time of maxillary and mandibular molar extraction will be detailed, and data from over 700 cases will be examined.

The role of immediate insertion and/or immediate load implant therapy in every day practice will be highlighted, focusing upon treatment planning, surgical restorative interrelationships, and various implant options and approaches in different clinical situations.

Finally, the use of newer technologies in the diagnosis and delivery of implant therapy, both in non-immediate load cases and in full arch immediate load situations, will be discussed in detail. The use of the ICAT machine or other CAT scan imagining systems, in conjunction with various treatment planning and stent generating computer softwares will be explored. The advantages and disadvantages of each system in various situations will be critically appraised.

This program is sponsored in part by an unrestricted educational grant from the Straumann Institute.

Dr. Paul Fugazzotto received his DDS from New York University and a certificate in advanced graduate studies in periodontology from Boston University. Since that time he has maintained a private practice limited to periodontics and implant therapy in Milton, Massachusetts.

Dr. Fugazzotto has authored or co-authored over 80 articles in refereed scientific journals, as well as authoring a monograph entitled "Guided Tissue Regeneration: Maximizing Clinical Results" and a textbook entitled "Preparation of the Periodontium for Restorative Dentistry". A second book, "Decision Making in Regenerative and Implant Therapies", is in press.

Dr. Fugazzotto is an active member of many organizations, and is a fellow of the International Team of Implantology. He is Senior Editor of Implant Realities.

Dr. Fugazzotto lectures nationally and internationally on a multitude of topics.