Optimize your clinical practice by optimizing your patient care workflow through digital dentistry. This session will explore using digital tools to enhance the delivery of Interdisciplinary dental care. Our esteemed featured speakers will present a primer on diagnosis and treatment planning in a digital workflow, how digital dentistry can be harnessed to avoid classic complications, and the essential applications and functions that can boost every periodontist’s practice. This session will showcase how digital dentistry is transforming our field, from enhancing patient and clinician communications to improving soft and hard tissue outcomes.

Implant therapy in the esthetic zone demands precision, planning, and interdisciplinary synergy. This comprehensive session covers every stage—from timing of placement and loading protocols to evidence-based clinical guidelines—ensuring predictable, and esthetic results. Participants will learn when, why, and how to perform soft tissue grafting, understand the prosthodontist’s perspective on provisionalization, abutment and crown selection, and gain practical tips for prosthetically driven surgical placement. Real-world cases will highlight strategies for achieving optimal esthetics and function in even the most challenging anterior site.

This session explores the challenges and evolving concepts in implant therapy at molar sites, with a special focus on immediate implant placement and treatment options in the atrophic posterior maxilla. Is immediate molar implant placement realistically feasible 90–95% of the time? Can clinicians truly achieve >99% 10-year success rate whether the implants are placed immediately, in pre-existing bone, or in regenerated bone? We will critically examine these questions, weighing folk tales against reality and evidence-based outcomes.
Participants will dive into conceptual—not just technical—drivers of implant success, including the decision-making behind short implants vs. sinus augmentation, long-term prognosis of each approach, and the biologic and prosthetic complications associated with varied implant-to-crown ratios. This course emphasizes that surgical excellence alone is insufficient; long-term success demands a shift in conceptual thinking.

Presentation #1 Title: Replacing Single Molars with Dental Implants: Short Implants vs Long Implants with Grafting in Posterior Maxilla –
Clinical Considerations and Complications - Dr. Gian Petro Schincaglia

Presentation #2 Title: Ensuring Implant Reconstructive Success In Molar Sites: Beyond Immediate Results - Dr. Paul Fugazzotto

Course description:

This session explores the challenges and evolving concepts in implant therapy at molar sites, with a special focus on immediate implant placement and treatment options in the atrophic posterior maxilla. Is immediate molar implant placement realistically feasible 90–95% of the time? Can clinicians truly achieve >99% 10-year success rate whether the implants are placed immediately, in pre-existing bone, or in regenerated bone? We will critically examine these questions, weighing folk tales against reality and evidence-based outcomes. Participants will dive into conceptual—not just technical—drivers of implant success, including the decision-making behind short implants vs. sinus augmentation, long-term prognosis of each approach, and the biologic and prosthetic complications associated with varied implant-to-crown ratios. This course emphasizes that surgical excellence alone is insufficient; long-term success demands a shift in conceptual thinking.

This session will address the rising prevalence of peri-implantitis, and the key factors required for its prevention from prosthetic, periodontal, and treatment planning perspectives. The importance of adequate bone and soft tissue as well as proper implant position will be illuminated through beautiful case presentations. Critical factors considered will be the timing of implant placement, emergence profile, biotype medication, and atraumatic surgical technique. Strategies for the treatment of peri-implantitis will also be discussed.

This presentation will describe the successes and failures of this important therapy that has impacted our entire specialty and changed forever how we practice periodontics. It will examine the validity of currently held dogmas in light of the clinical reality of over 46,000 implants placed by two clinicians in private practice who had the good fortune to be trained by Per Ingvar Branemark in 1983 and have carefully documented the results up to the present.  Immediate implant placement, the ingredients necessary for superior esthetics, and methods to condense treatment time will be discussed.

Successful periodontal practice involves proactive planning. Implants are not a panacea, but when does one make the determination that the natural dentition is terminal? Two esteemed clinicians will present different options. Maintaining and treating the Stage IV dentition will have varying parameters. Transition strategies require extensive planning. This course will help the clinician determine when, what, where, and how to keep versus extract and place (or not) dental implants

Minimizing tissue loss following immediate tooth replacement has been challenging. Various hard and soft tissue grafting techniques have been used to minimize tissue loss with various successes. An innovative but controversial treatment concept called socket shield (leaving a piece of root fragment after tooth extraction) has been advocated to maintain implant soft and hard tissue. Since then, there have been numerous heated debates about the viability of this treatment. These two world renown teachers and clinicians will share their knowledge and experience of both the positive and potential negative aspects of this treatment modality.

The format will be a point-counterpoint discussion after each of the speakers present their latest data and treatment modifications.

Composite defects are a result of the loss of hard and soft tissue associated with tooth loss. The reconstruction of composite defects can be challenging and unpredictable, which is especially critical in the esthetic zone. This presentation will discuss the diagnosis and treatment planning of hard and soft tissue reconstruction in the esthetic zone of the partially edentulous patient in preparation for implant retained restorations.  Evidence based surgical and prosthetic techniques will be discussed, including various bone and soft tissue graft materials, barrier membranes, and prosthetic options to address the challenges and limitations involved when treating such defects.