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International Keynote Presentations
Monday 13th February 2012 – 5.30 pm to 8.30 pm LT2 (2nd Floor) Oman Dental College
5.30pm - Registration
6.00pm - Enhancing the Success of Restorations
The placement and replacement of restorations continues to comprise 60%-70% of the everyday clinical practice of dentistry. Through approaches to enhance the success of restorations, the quality and effectiveness of oral healthcare provision can be greatly increased.
This lecture will give an overview of modern approaches to improve the initial quality and in-service performance of restorations, with special emphasis on primary dental care.
Learning Objectives
- To better understand common limitations in newly placed restorations.
- To gain insight into techniques to enhance the quality of newly placed restorations.
- To appreciate the link between the quality of newly placed restorations and their in service performance and longevity.
Professor Nairn Wilson
CBE DSc (hc) FDS FKC
Professor of Restorative Dentistry and Immediate Past Dean & Head of the King’s College London Dental Institute and Deputy Vice Principal (Health) King’s College London, England
6.45pm - Management of the Anxious Restorative Patient
The control of pain and anxiety for patient requiring restorative care is fundamental to being able to provide high quality dental treatment. This presentation will investigate the reasons why some adult patients find restorative dental treatment difficult or impossible to accept with the usual local anaesthetics. The common causes of difficulties and the reasons for referral to a secondary care hospital unit will be discussed. The options for providing restorative treatment using psychological/alternative skills, sedation and general anaesthesia will be considered. The treatment criteria and limitations of treatment planning under different modalities will be described. Finally the training requirements of all staff participating in the use of different techniques in the management of anxious patients will be considered.
Learning Objectives
- To understand the aetiology of anxiety in adult patients having restorative treatment.
- Knowledge of the different options to help with managing patients.
- An understanding of the training requirements.
Dr Margaret Wilson
Ph.D, F.D.S.RCS, F.D.S. RCPS, M.D.Sc, D.D.P.H.RCS, B.D.S
Consultant in Restorative Dentistry Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospital NHS Trust, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Restorative Dentistry University of Manchester, Director of The National Advice Centre for Postgraduate Dental Education UK
7.30pm - Periodontal Regeneration: Efficacy, Predictability of Current Technologies. Future Possibilities
Periodontal regeneration in intrabony defects has been successfully attempted through different clinical approaches and there is evidence derived from both human and animal histological studies that periodontal regeneration can be achieved by barrier membranes (GTR), bone grafts, combination of barrier membranes and grafts and enamel matrix derivatives. The clinical efficacy of these different technologies has been studied in several systematic reviews that show a small but significant clinical attachment gain when compared with access flaps. In this presentation we shall review the key factors that may intervene in the decision making process of choosing a periodontal regenerative approach. Recently increasing attention has been paid to the introduction of the bioengineering concept in periodontal regeneration with the use of new biomaterial scaffolds, cell therapy and signalling molecules. We shall review in this presentation some of these initiatives and will elaborate on the future of these therapies.
Learning Objectives
- To review current regenerative therapies in Periodontology.
- To discuss the scientific evidence on the efficacy or the different regenerative therapies.
- To acquire knowledge on the critical risk factors involved in the attainment of clinically significant regenerative outcomes.
- To explore future therapeutic concepts with the application of the principles of tissue bioengineering in periodontal.
Professor Mariano Sanz,
MD, DDS, Dr Med
Professor of Periodontology and Dean of the Faculty of Odontology at the University Complutense of Madrid, Spain
8.15pm - Can Oral Biofilms Dictate Your Systematic Health?
Biofilms are ubiquitous in nature. It is now known that bacteria and fungi mostly exist attached to surfaces, in the biofilm phase in contrast to their suspended or planktonic phase existence. This is true for most infections of humans, including oral diseases. Thus, the two commonest human afflictions and the primary diseases of the oral cavity, caries and periodontal disease, are caused by oral biofilms –which were traditionally called dental plaque. There is a growing body of data that periodontal diseases can have profound effects on total health including cardiovascular disease including stroke, adverse pregnancy outcomes, diabetes and, pulmonary disease. Apart from these systemic effects, oral biofilms per se are now known to possess intriguing properties that have clinical implications. For instance, biofilm phase bacteria and fungi compared with planktonic phase organisms are recalcitrant to antibacterials, and antifungals, respectively. Moreover, emerging data indicate other intriguing dimensions of the behavior of biofilm organisms such as their ability to `cross-talk`, through chemical messengers between the biofilm community dwellers.
Yet, the association between biofilms and either local or systemic diseases they cause is not straightforward. This presentation will provide an overview of the role of oral biofilms and how they affect oral and systemic health.
Learning Objectives
- To understand the basic structure, functionality and behavior of microbial biofilms in general and oral biofilms specifically.
- To understand the role of plaque biofilms and its inflammatory consequences particularly systemic arterial health.
- To understand the association between oral biofilms, cardiovascular disease, adverse pregnancy outcomes, diabetes, hospital acquired pneumonia, and pancreatic cancer.
- To distinguish the fundamental difference between association vs causality (i.e. absence of evidence vs evidence of absence).
Professor Lakshman Samaranayake,
Hon DSc, Hon FDSRCSE, BDS, DDS, FRCPath, FCDSHK, FHKCPath, FHKAM (Dent Surg), Dean and Chair of Oral Microbiology, Tam Wah-Ching Professor of Dental Science, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, King James IV Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
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