OSSEOINTEGRATION STUDY CLUB OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Ayres Hotel Manhattan Beach, 14400 Hindry Avenue, Hawthorne, CA 90250, 310.536.0805
One block West of the 405 Freeway at the Rosecrans Exit
One block south of Rosecrans (southbound onramp to the 405) next to the gas station on the corner
It is visible from the 405 freeway going north

Study Club Meeting Agenda
7 CE Units

Friday, June 5, 2010 - 8:30 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.

25 Years of Osseointegration: What We Knew,
What We Know Now, and What We Don't Know!
THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR IMPLANT DENTISTRY PRACTICE

Friday, January 8, 2010

8:00 am - 8:30 am REGISTRATION - CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:30 am - The Scientific Basis for Implant Dentistry Practice
Asbjørn Jokstad, DDS, University of Toronto, Head of Prosthodontics
Implant dentistry is at an unprecedented peak and the market today is saturated with new implant manufacturers and brands, new adjunctive biomaterials and devices and innovative treatment interventions. At times there seems to be an information overload of the many advances and it can be a challenge to maintain the best clinical practice. The improvements in implant technology and its practical application in the dental clinic are not a function primarily of one specific implant surface, a specific treatment procedure, or some particular loading protocol. Rather it can be understood by conceptualizing the individual elements involved in placing implants to support an intraoral prosthesis. It is the refinement of each of these individual elements that has contributed to improve the osseointegration technology to solve our patients' problems.

The format I have developed is to walk the audience through an authentic patient-case from start to end (actually two cases are shown in parallel to highlight variations in procedures, i.e. conventional vs immediate load strategies). In context to the various procedures and treatment steps cases I have generated a continuous list of about 130 critical clinical questions that the clinician(s) have to face during the treatment process. I have spent considerable time identifying what I believe is the best clinical research to base our treatment decisions on, drawn from the approx. 200 systematic reviews, from the “classic literature” and from the osseointegration textbook.