Singapore

Modern Periodontal and Implant Therapy

Future Dentistry

Event Details

The circle of life-tooth preservation and implants in the course of a patient's live

Tooth preservation at the limits – what is a hopeless tooth in the year 2024

 Implant therapy in the 21st century – a paradigm shift in immediate implant placement

 Prevention of peri-implant diseases – the peri-implant mucosa in the spotlight

 Gingival recession therapy – the Gold standard for successful treatment outcome

 Implants in areas of esthetic relevance – scientific data and their transfer in clinical action Part1

 Alternatives to implants in the anterior maxilla – proven concepts re-thought

 Peri-implants of tissue reconstruction – lessons to learn from periodontal surgery

 Harvesting autogenous connective tissue grafts : free gingival grafts and subepthelial connective tissue grafts : physiological principal anatomical considerations and possible donor sites

 Flap designs : full-thickness flap ; split-thickness flap

Hands-On

Learning the new instruments ; harvesting free gingival graft, harvesting subepthelial connective tissue graft on egg plant and pig jaws

 Flap designs on the pig jaws

About Dr.

Markus B. Hürzeler received his D.M.D. degree in 1984 from the University of Zürich. He was certified as a Periodontics Specialist by the Swiss Society of Periodontology in 1989 and as a Prosthodontics Specialist by the German Society of Prosthodontics in 1991. He spent two years at the University of the Houston, Texas, Dental Branch as a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Periodontology from 1991-1993. After returning to Freiburg, Germany, he obtained the Docent (PhD) degree from the Department of Prosthodontics at Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany in 1996. He then moved to Munich, where he has since operated a joint private practice together with Dr. Otto Zuhr, limiting his activity to periodontics and implant dentistry. In 2002, he was appointed Professor of Dentistry at the Department of Medicine of Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany. In 2008, he co-founded the Hürzeler/Zuhr Education Center together with Dr. Zuhr, where they teach the concepts and philosophy of state-of-the-art dentistry. Markus B. Hürzeler has been a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Texas in Houston since 1993, and an Associate Professor at the Albert-Ludwigs University Department of Preventive Dentistry and Periodontology in Freiburg Germany since 1997.

Professor Hürzeler is the president of the European Academy of Esthetic Dentistry (EAED). He has produced more than 150 scientific publications in the field of implant dentistry, periodontology, and tissue regeneration. He regularly gives lectures and courses on topics related to periodontics and implant dentistry at national and international events. In 2012, Markus B. Hürzeler and Otto Zuhr published the world-renowned book “Plastic-Esthetic Periodontal and Implant Surgery - A Microsurgical Approach”.