Minutes: 6/6/03

Hyatt Regency, Los Angeles

Meeting started at 8:45 AM

Speaker 1: Dr Roy Yanase

Current concept for long-term success with implant prostheses.

• The ARK system was introduced. (computer aided immediate flapless surgery with immediate permanent prosthesis)
• Common implant complications were reviewed.

Speaker 2: Dr Thomas Han (TH) is a board certified periodontist and an adjunct professor at UCLA school of dentistry.

Current concepts in esthetic approach to implant surgery.

• Controversial treatments of today allow faster more comfortable treatments for patients. These modalities will become eventually standard of care: immediate tooth replacement; bone graft; membranes in combination with bone graft.
• Surgical video of an extraction with immediate implant placement was presented.
• Another video demonstrated a CT graft to enhance esthetics around an implant.
• A flowchart of surgical options was discussed.
• Adjunct procedures cases reports were presented: rolling technique;
• Esthetic surgical procedures for cosmetic nightmares were presented using soft tissue, hard tissue grafts.

Speaker 3: Dr Perry Klokkevold is a periodontist, associate professior-director at UCLA school of dentistry.

Implants: the new standard of care.

• Emerging trends: shorter healing time, immediate loading. Evidence based decision.
• Implant surface evolution: HA; TPS; acid etched. rough surface is stabilizing blood clot.
• Contact osteogenesis; distance osteogenesis.
• Early loading; immediate loading; staged versus delayed; wide diameter implants in the anterior maxilla;
• Advances in implant dentistry: computer generated surgical guides are demonstrated with video

Meeting adjourned at 4:00 PM