The Balance of Success and Complications Associated with Oral Implant Rehabilitation
COURSE DESCRIPTON:
Over the past few decades, oral implant therapy has been increasingly popular as a treatment of choice. Although implants have shown to be highly predictable, there has also been an increase in various complications derived from surgical and prosthetic interventions. Some of these problems have led to acute and chronic infections. This program will review clinically some of the treatment planning strategies to prevent iatrogenic complications. These include the lack of ideal biological position of implant fixtures due to insufficient alveolar and gingival topography as well as poor three dimensional positioning. A combination of these various factors may lead to the potential of loss of tissue, affect osseointegration, and suprastructure integrity.
Furthermore, we will evaluate and treatment plan by creating a blueprint for patients who require implant assisted reconstruction in the aesthetic zone. Some of the factors for discussion and presentation will include analyzing treatment indications, techniques for provisionalizaton, and guided tissue profiling to enhance our prosthetic and surgical outcome. These key factors in our discussion will help clinicians learn how to “see the end result before you start” and have a better understanding of the prevention and management of complications related to implant assisted therapy.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE:
Upon the completion of this course, participants will have a better understanding to:
- Effectively treatment plan and minimize future complications
- Manage most common implant-related complications
- Avoiding long term aesthetic complications
- Understand the importance of three dimensional positioning as it relates to surgical and prosthetic therapy
About SHERRI M LUKES:
Dr. Ira Paul Sy received his D.D.S. from Case Western Reserve University. Thereafter, he obtained his initial specialty certification training in Implants and Periodontics at the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill. He later completed a Prosthetic Implant Fellowship at the University of Berne, Switzerland.
He has served as the Director of the Graduate Periodontology and Implantology residency program at the University of British Columbia, Canada. In addition, he has served on faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of British Columbia, and Case Western Reserve University as a Clinical Assistant Professor in Periodontics and is also Visiting Professor of Periodontics at the University of Witten in Germany.
His main interests are in the field of minimal invasive aesthetic soft tissue therapy, advanced hard tissue biological regenerative therapy, and Prosthetic/ Surgical implant assisted reconstruction. In 2011, he was the only Canadian selected in the Straumann World Wide Esthetic Case Competition. In 2015, he was selected to author “Oral Implant Assisted Rehabilitation in the Aesthetic Zone Clinical Reality and Potential Pitfalls”.
Dr. Sy was awarded Diplomate status by the American Board of Periodontology, member of the Academy of Periodontology, Academy of Osseointegration, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Restorative and Prosthodontics, and the PEERS (Platform for Exchange of Education and Research) group for North America.
Currently, he is a consultant for Implant Therapy at the Veteran’s Administration Hospitals and offers a Comprehensive Implant Fellowship under the Vancouver Institute of Osseointegration (VIOSS). He maintains a full time