Management of Failed Full Arch Implant Cases
Speaker
Dr. Costa Nicolopoulos, BDS cum laude, FFD (SA) MFOS, qualified as a dentist in 1984 receiving his dental degree “cum laude” from Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa. He received numerous awards including the Gold Medal of the Dental Association of South Africa for the most outstanding graduate. In 1990 he completed his 4-year full time postgraduate Maxillo-Facial & Oral Surgery training at Wits University and was awarded FFD (SA) MFOS from the College of Medicine of South Africa. Since 1991 he is in full time specialist Maxillo-Facial & Oral Surgery private practice concentrating on immediate loading of dental implants. To date he has placed over 40.000 dental implants. In 2011, with Dr Petros Yuvanoglu, he established the SameDay Dental Implants Clinic in Dubai where he is also the co-director of the Branemark Osseointergration Center as well as the ZAGA Zygoma Implant Center-Dubai.
Dr. Costa has been an invited speaker at numerous organizations, including the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS), Academy of Osseointegration (AO) American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry (AAED) , Osseodensification Academy , Association of Dental Implantology (ADI ), HAOMS , AEEDC and is a Diplomate of the International Congress of Oral Implantology ( ICOI).
Disclosure: Dr. Nicolopoulos's spouse is a distributor for Southern Implants & Versah Densah products in Greece and UAE.
Course Description
Reported dental implant success rates are high resulting in an ever increasing number of patients being treated with implants. Nevertheless implant failures due to peri-implantitis & bone loss do occur. Over time the percentage of dental implants that fail increases because of biological and technical issues. Inevitably clinicians will have to dedicate more time to dealing with ailing and failing dental implants.
Educational Objectives
- Identify failed implants requiring removal & replacement.
- Identify an atraumatic method of removing failed implants.
- Become familiar with the concept of immediate replacement of failed implants in the same or adjacent site
- Become familiar with the protocol of immediate loading replaced implants.
- Identify cases where immediate replacement is not possible and a delayed protocol is indicated.
Contact
For information, please contact Penn Dental Medicine Continuing Dental Education at:
PDMContinuingEd@dental.upenn.edu