The 11th New England Regional Seattle Study Club Symposium offers a unique opportunity for participants to connect with two globally renowned clinicians and educators, focusing on the Interdisciplinary Management of the Worn Dentition and the Management of Single Tooth/Multiple Implants in the esthetic zone.

PROGRAM OUTLINE:

DAY 1: DR. STEPHEN CHU

TOPIC I: Treatment Planning Strategies for the Restoratively Compromised Dentition: Tooth Selection and for the Dentate Patient

Comprehensive treatment planning of the complex aesthetic restorative case involving teeth and implants can be challenging. The key to success is to understand and develop predictable strategies in patient care.  

The presentation will focus on diagnosis of dental and gingival architecture discrepancies. Solutions will focus on interdisciplinary treatment, including orthodontics, periodontics, and restorative dentistry. The latest research in these areas will be presented as well as innovative instrumentation to obtain these goals. 

After this presentation, the attendee should be able to analyze and treat:

• Tooth size discrepancies at it relates to individual tooth esthetics, occlusion, and the Bolton analysis

• Understand the latest studies on tooth size and shape and whether gender differentiation exists

• Know what esthetic determinants define gingival esthetic

TOPIC II: Immediate Tooth Replacement in the Esthetic Zone: Understanding Biology, Risks, and Rewards

Esthetic implant dentistry is continuously evolving with minimally invasive protocols. Immediate tooth replacement therapy (immediate implant placement and provisional restoration) is now an accepted and predictable treatment option for patients in need of a single tooth replacement in the esthetic zone. Innovative techniques such as the dual-zone plus prosthetic socket seal now allow for decreased treatment times, greater patient comfort, and more consistent outcomes.  

This lecture will address current concepts in the treatment of Type 1 sockets (intact or with dentoalveolar defects), techniques, clinical research, histologic evidence, and innovations in immediate implant placement and provisional restoration and how they can enhance treatment procedures, time, and clinical outcomes for greater patient comfort, care, and satisfaction.  

In addition, esthetic risks and complications exist such as socket perforation, loss of labial plate thickness over time, and loss of the interdental papilla due to proximity issues with tooth-to-implant distance following placement. Innovative treatment solutions will be presented and supported by pre-clinical [animal histology] and 6–7-year prospective clinical [human] studies that scientifically validates and reinforces the biologic principles in implant design that ultimately enhances esthetic outcomes in modern day implantology. Also, anatomic abutments will be introduced that allows efficient and timesaving in provisional restoration fabrication.

After this presentation, the attendee should be able to understand the following concepts associated with immediate implant placement and provisional restoration: 

• Management of implants placed into extraction sockets in the esthetic zone

• Understand what implant complications and risks exist 

• Understand the co-axis and inverted body-shift concept in macro implant design 

• Understand the indications and use of anatomic abutments in tissue preservation 

DAY II: DR. CHRISTIAN COACHMAN

TOPIC I: 7 Steps from Conventional towards Ideal Dentistry

Synthesizing 30 years of learning in Dentistry into 7 movements that will create the conditions to change dentistry for better, improve the treatment outcomes, empower collaborative work, deliver more ethical patient care and change patient perception of value towards our profession. How the changing world will disrupt the way we diagnose, plan, communicate, sell and perform dentistry, ethical patient care and how can we stay relevant in this new environment.
A framework for transforming dentistry from its current treatment-focused model to a more holistic, preventive, and technologically integrated approach.

Upon completion of this course, attendees should be able to:

• The need to shift dental mindset toward prevention and holistic care

• Technology integration for comprehensive treatment planning

• Essential visualisation for decision-making and patient communication

• Collaborative, asynchronous communication between specialists

• Guided clinical execution and quality control

• The role of digital planning centers

• Ethical patient communication and treatment presentation

TOPIC II: Smile Design Knowhow - Overcoming Compromises Restoratively

Using optical illusion and morphological knowhow to create harmony and beauty when facing common challenges during the process of rehabilitating smiles. Prosthodontists, restorative dentists and technicians are constantly treating patients that, for many reasons, don’t have the ideal bone, gingiva, implant and/or tooth position. When the only tool left are the restorations, what can we do to overcome these compromises, camouflage the limitations and generate the best possible esthetic outcome for these cases.

Upon completion of this course, attendees should be able to:

• Understand and diagnose the dento-gingival esthetic compromises

• Learn the morphological and design tricks to camouflage limitations

• Control what matters to create balance and harmony

• Improve your communication Dentist-Lab

• Become more effective by controlling esthetic issues chairside.

TOPIC III: Dentist-Lab Synergy in the Digital Era

The technological disruption in dentistry is transforming the role of technicians and placing labs in the center of this revolution.
There is no digital dentist,  there are digital teams. Modern Dentistry is a Team Sport and the players are digitally connected. This lecture will focus on pragmatic and realistic systems to improve the, so important, communication between the dentist and the technician to create more precise, predictable and natural outcomes.

Upon completion of this course, attendees should be able to:

• Understand the steps of a comprehensive digital workflow when rehabilitating smiles.

• Creating protocols to communicate on key moments in an automated way.

• Learn how digital can facilitate the restorative process with concepts like Complete Patient Digitalization, Cloud Dentistry, Asynchronous Communication, Copy-Paste Dentistry, Natural Algorithms and Digital Quality Control.