2023 Winter Meeting Speakers

Colin Richman Dr. Colin Richman, DMD

Dr. Colin Richman graduated from Wits University South Africa and completed his residency in Periodontics at the University of Connecticut. He practiced General Dentistry in London and Johannesburg, South Africa. He held a faculty position at Emory University School of Dentistry and had a private practice, limited to Periodontics and Implant Dentistry, for many years. Dr Richman is on faculty at both the Department of Periodontics at Augusta University, College of Dentistry, and the Georgia School of Graduate Orthodontics. He is actively involved in Surgically Facilitated Orthodontic Treatment and has been described as a pioneer in the emerging technology of SFOT. He has delivered more than 800 continuing education programs both in the US and abroad. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology, an Honorable Fellow of the Georgia Dental Association, a fellow of the Pierre Fauchard Academy, a Fellow of the ITI, the American Academy of Dentistry and the International Academy of Dentistry.

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships: None

Saturday Lecture

Why Don't Our Teeth Fit Our Jaws and What Can We Do About it?

Surveys suggest that up to 80% of the population demonstrates malocclusion, the majority associated with orthodontic tooth crowding. The consequence of this situation is that following orthodontic arch expansion, the dominant form of orthodontic treatment provided, up to 80% of treated patients may experience iatrogenic gingival recession, orthodontic relapse, apical root resorption, and/or white spot lesions when evaluated decades later. Surgically Facilitated Orthodontic Treatment (SFOT, a.k.a. PAOO, POPA and Wilckodontics) are innovative dental therapies combining generative/regenerative periodontal therapy with orthodontic treatment. This enables the dentist to minimize the potential long-term iatrogenic risk factors listed above that are associated with orthodontic therapy. Favorably positioned teeth, plus an enhanced mucogingival complex, facilitate ideal and predictable long-term dentition, esthetic, and functional stability, together with enhanced restorative outcomes.

Learning Objectives

  • Review the etiology of gingival recession, apical root resorption, iatrogenic white spot lesions, and orthodontic relapse from an anthropological, functional, dietary, and genetic perspective.
  • Discuss the benefits, limitations, and complications of orthodontic treatment and the value of SFOT as a necessary adjunct to this therapeutic modality.
  • Review how to effectively introduce SFOT into your general and specialty dental practice and community, including marketing and patient management strategies.
  • Become familiar with the evidence supporting the concepts of SFOT.

Teaching Method: Lecture


Sunday Lecture

Incorporating SFOT into Daily Clinical Practice; Clinical and Administrative Perspectives

This fun-filled interactive and interdisciplinary session will utilize three actual case studies to demonstrate the educational objectives listed below. One case will be presented by Dr. Richman, one by a member of the group and the third by a senior periodontal/orthodontic resident team. Members of the group will then gather in small 'interdisciplinary' clusters and treatment plan the case, with respect to biological, including periodontal, structural, esthetic and myo-functional, parameters. A representative member of each group will present their team’s treatment strategy to the group.

Learning Objectives

  • Review comprehensive records of a comprehensively treated interdisciplinary case.
  • Practice interactive treatment planning using various parameters with all members of each dental team, including hygienists. (Examples of varying treatment planning parameters might include: no financial restrictions, modest financial abilities, or no orthodontic therapy).
  • Review any complicating issues that occurred during treatment and present the case as treated.
  • Discuss administrative and motivational factors associated with each case.

Teaching Method: Lecture/interactive case study


 

Saturday Lecture

Innovations on Implant Site Preparation - How Drills Overheat the Bone and New Technology for Bone Cell Protection During Implant Osteotomies

Emilio Argüello Dr. Emilio Argüello

Dr. Emilio Argüello obtained his dental degree, specialty training in periodontology, and Master of Science in Oral Medicine from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston, MA. Dr. Argüello is Board Certified and a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and Implant Dentistry. He has conducted extensive clinical and basic science research in periodontology at The Forsyth Institute and Harvard University in Boston. His research work in biofilm formation as well as the microbiology and clinical treatment of periodontal diseases earned him a NIH-National Research Service Award. He has been a core faculty at the Harvard University School of Dental Medicine in the post-gradute periodontology program for over 15 years. Dr Argüello has faculty appointments in universities in the United States, Mexico and Europe.

Dr. Argüello has co-authored textbooks as well as several scientific publications in peer review journals. He lectures extensively nationally and internationally and is an active member of many professional associations. In addition he serves as a reviewer of the Journal of Periodontology and for the International Journal of Periodontics & Restorative Dentistry among others; in addition of being a chair of a scientific committee of the Academy of Osseointegration.

He actively collaborates with other specialists and industry leaders, locally, nationally and internationally for the constant improvement of the profession in benefit of patient care. Finally, he maintains a private practice limited to periodontics and implant dentistry." "While the industry have focused in implant fixture macro and micro designs for the last 50 years in order to have more predictable osseointegration; no much attention has been give to the osteotomy site and how the damage that occurs during drilling can negatively affect bone behavior and overall implant success. As no much research has been done on this field with regards to cell behavior and cell response during drilling of the implant osteotomy; this lecture will address a new technology that will have an impact in the way you perceive implant placement today.

Abstract

While the industry have focused in implant fixture macro and micro designs for the last 50 years in order to have more predictable osseointegration; no much attention has been give to the osteotomy site and how the damage that occurs during drilling can negatively affect bone behavior and overall implant success. As no much research has been done on this field with regards to cell behavior and cell response during drilling of the implant osteotomy; this lecture will address a new technology that will have an impact in the way you perceive implant placement today.

A new practical protocol will be presented for the first time in the US, to be ready to use in clinical practice that may help you minimize implant failures regardless of the implant system you currently use.

 

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