February 22, 2024 — February 26, 2024
Event Schedule
Day 1 (22nd Feb 2024)
08:30 Registration
09:00 Dr. Gustavo Giordani: Part 1: Soft tissue management, periodontology and implantology in prosthetic treatments. Virtual planning and implant/perio guided execution
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Dr. Gustavo Giordani: Part 2: Soft tissue management, periodontology and implantology in prosthetic treatments. Virtual planning and implant/perio guided execution
13:00 Lunch break
14:30 Dr. Nazariy Mykhaylyuk: Gummy smile, esthetic crown lengthening, root coverage, gingival grafts, immediate implants. Final abutment design and ceramic restorations
16:30 Coffee break
17:00 Dr. Nazariy Mykhaylyuk: Crown lengthening and ceramic veneer: Great solutions for a beautiful smile
18:30 Dr. Nazariy Mykhaylyuk: Discussion and Q&A Session
Day 2 (23rd Feb 2024)
08:30 Registration
09:00 Dr. Nuno Sousa Dias: Part 1: Importance of orthodontics in facial and functional integration of a new smile
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Dr. Nuno Sousa Dias: Part 2: Importance of orthodontics in facial and functional integration of a new smile
13:00 Lunch break
14:30 Dr. Nuno Sousa Dias: Demonstration and discussion of clical cases, that involves team approach with different level of complexitiy
16:30 Coffee break
17:00 Dr. Nuno Sousa Dias & Dr. Nazariy Mykhaylyuk: Ortho/Prosthetics/Perio combination for a complete smile makeover
18:30 Dr. Nuno Sousa Dias & Dr. Nazariy Mykhaylyuk: Discussion and Q&A Session
Day 3 (24th Feb 2024)
08:30 Registration & collection of hand-outs
09:00 Prof. Giovanni Zucchelli: Principles of soft tissue grafting
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Prof. Giovanni Zucchelli: Soft tissue coverage around natural dentition
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 Prof. Hom-Lay Wang: Principles of bone augmentation. Flap management and releasing as well as advanced suturing for membrane fixation and primary wound closure
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Prof. Hom-Lay Wang: Decision tree and material choice: How to use certain instrumentation; Pre-op, post-op as well as complications management
17:30 Prof. Hom-Lay Wang: Discussion and Q&A Session
Day 4 (25th Feb 2024)
08:30 Registration
09:00 Prof. Hom-Lay Wang: Horizontal bone augmentation (step-by-step illustration)
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Prof. Hom-Lay Wang: Vertical bone augmentation (step-by-step illustration)
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 Prof. Giovanni Zucchelli: Soft tissue coverage around dental implants
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Prof. Giovanni Zucchelli: Soft tissue manipulations to correct implant esthetic nightmares
17:30 Prof. Giovanni Zucchelli: Discussion and Q&A Session
Day 5 (26th Feb 2024)
08:30 Registration
09:00 Dr. Otto Zuhr: Hitting hurdles in oral soft tissue reconstruction. Why do things go wrong?
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Dr. Otto Zuhr: Exploring the human hard palate. Soft tissue autografts and their subsitutes
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 Dr. Otto Zuhr: Gingival recession therapy. Lessons learned.
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Dr. Otto Zuhr: Knowledge transfer and further indications. Outlooks and perpectives of pontic site development, peri-implantitis soft tissue augmentation and surgical papilla reconstruction
17:30 Dr. Otto Zuhr: Discussion and Q&A Session
Dr. Nuno Sousa Dias, DDS, MOrth, received his degree in Dentistry from Universidade Fernando Pessoa (Porto) in 2007. In the same year, he created and registered a Smile's Analysis named SAEF® - Smile's Aesthetic Evaluation Form®. From 2008 to 2012, he completed the full-time Orthodontic Postgraduate Program at Tel Aviv University (ISRAEL). In 2010, he was awarded the 1st prize at the 4th Scientific Research International Competition of the Spring Meeting of the EAED (European Academy of Esthetic Dentistry) in London (UK). He was elected ambassador for EPSOS (European Postgraduate Students Orthodontic Society) for Portugal and Israel in 2011 and 2012. In 2013, he was awarded by SEDO (Sociedad Española de Ortodoncia) with a fund to attend the AGE (Advanced Graduate Education) Didactic Courses at the Department of Orthodontics of HSDM (Harvard School of Dental Medicine). He is a member of several national and international dental and orthodontic scientific organizations. Since 2013, he has been practicing limited orthodontics at his own private clinic NSD-DENTISTRY in Portugal. He also collaborates with multidisciplinary teams in Belgium, Germany, and Istanbul. Additionally, he is an international lecturer in the field of Orthodontics and Smile's esthetics.
Dr Giordani has specialized in maxillofacial and periodontal surgery, and implantology. After graduating from the Universidade Paulista (UNIP), São Paulo, Brazil, he took a fellowship in Belgium, on “Implants and Periodontal Plastic Surgery” with Dr Eric Van Dooren, collaborating with him to the present day. Dr Giordani is treating cases in an interdisciplinary fashion, working with specialists all over the world. He lectures internationally on soft tissue management, periodontology, and implantology in prosthetic treatments. His main focus is treatment for gummy smile, esthetic crown lengthening, root coverage, gingival grafts, and immediate implants. He works closely with the Dentcof team and Ateliê Oral, one of the most successful dental clinics in São Paolo.
Nazariy Mykhaylyuk is a specialist in a field of microscopic dentistry (mostly indirect restorative dentistry). Works in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine in family clinic in a team with his father and dental technician Bohdan Mykhaylyuk (Oral Design Ukraine). 2008 he qualified as a dentist in Ivano-Frankivsk Medical University. 2010 Created Mykhaylyuk Study Center and started organising courses for dentists on topic "Tooth preparation with microscope for full crowns". Organised about 80 courses in Mykhaylyuk Study center for about 700 dentists. Was lecturing about 70 times in Ukraine and worldwide. Started organising new courses on topics – "Photo and video documentation in dentistry. Microscopic approach", "Total rehabilitation from A to Z", "Indirect restoration – from macro to micro. MicroVision approach"; Developed his personal kit for teeth preparation for full crowns (Komet); 2013 developed hand instrument for finishing preparations (enamel chisels – Deppeler); developed MicroVision preparation kit for veneers and onlays (Komet).; posted in Journal of Cosmetic Dentistry AACD Winter Edition. Became a DentalXP expert. Doing more and more international hands-on courses and lectures about microscopic dentistry worldwide. Co-founder of MicroVision group. 2018 He opened a clinic in Kyiv.
Hom-Lay Wang, DDS., MSD., Ph D, Professor and Director of Graduate Periodontics at the University of Michigan.He has co-editor two textbooks, published more than 50 book chapters/invited reviews and more than 750 peer-reviewed scientific articles. Dr. Wang serves as a Co-Editor-in-Chief for Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research, an Associate Editor for The IJOMI and IJOI.Dr. Wang is the recipient of many awards/honors including AAP Outstanding Educator Award (2017), AAP Distinguished Scientist Award (2017),AAP Master Clinician Award (2019), AAP Distinguished Service Award (2021), and AAP Clinical Research Award (2021).
Graduated in 1988 with a degree in dentistry from the University of Bologna, Italy. He was awarded a PhD in medical biotechnology from the same university. Professor of periodontology at the University of Bologna, Italy. Head of the Department of Periodontology and Dental Hygiene at the University of Bologna, Italy. Coordinator of the degree course in Dental Hygiene at the University of Bologna, Italy. Honorary member of the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP). President of the Italian Academy of Osseointegration (IAO). Member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Periodontics and Restorative Dentistry, the Journal of Periodontology, and the International Journal of Oral Implantology. Associate editor of the International Journal of Esthetic Dentistry. Active member of the European Academy of Esthetic Dentistry (EAED), the Italian Society of Periodontology (SIdP), the Italian Academy of Osseointegration (IAO), and the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP). Author of more than 130 scientific publications in the field of periodontics and implantology. Winner of various awards in Europe and the United States for scientific research in the field of periodontology. Co-author of two illustrated textbooks on periodontal plastic surgery (Ed. Martina) and of the chapter “Mucogingival Therapy—Periodontal Plastic Surgery” in Clinical Periodontology and Implant Dentistry (Lindhe J, Lang NP, Karring T [eds]; Wiley-Blackwell). Author of the book Mucogingival Esthetic Surgery, published by Quintessence Publishing and translated into 12 languages. Speaker at major Italian and international conferences on the topics of periodontics and implantology.
Internationally renowned for his achievements in the fields of periodontal and peri-implant diseases as well as esthetic periodontal soft tissue corrections, Dr. Zuhr is one of the world's leading oral surgeons. Together with Prof. Dr. Hürzeler, he wrote a specialist book in 2011 which, according to his colleagues, is "without doubt one of the most important oral surgery publications of recent years and a must-read for every periodontist and implantologist." Dr. Zuhr studied dentistry in Aachen and in the USA. He is a specialist in Periodontology and has been a board member of the German Society of Periodontology since 2007.