Ordinary Meetings
Dear All,
The dates for next years meetings 2011-2012 have been announced, so please keep these dates free in your diaries.
Wednesday 19th October 2011 The Savile Club, 69 Brook Street, Mayfair, London W1K 4ER
“ACHIEVING BIOMECHANICAL AND AESTHETIC PRECISION IN COMPLEX CASES”
Dr Basil Mizrahi
Complex cases require multiple stages of treatment to complete. To achieve a precise, stable and predictable end result requires that these stages build on each other and become progressively refined as treatment progresses. This clinical and practically based lecture will focus on 3 key elements required for treating a complex case, namely: provisional restorations, accurate impression making, precise transfer of occlusal relationship and aesthetic information between the clinic and the laboratory.
Basil graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa in 1989 and shortly afterwards completed an MSc in Dentistry with a major in Periodontics. He completed his 3 year full time Prosthodontics and Implant dentistry training at Louisiana State University, USA under the leadership of Dr Gerard Chiche, a leading world authority on aesthetic dentistry. While specialising, he also obtained a Masters degree in Education.
Basil is recognised by the General Dental Council as a Specialist in Prosthodontics and Restorative dentistry and is an Honorary Clinical lecturer at UCL Eastman Dental Institute. He is a Diplomate of the “American Board of Prosthodontics”.
Wednesday 16th November 2011 The Savile Club, 69 Brook Street, Mayfair, London W1K 4ER
“RISKS IN IMPLANT TREATMENT”
Prof Richard Palmer
There appears to be a widely held belief by patients that implant prostheses are a lifelong tooth replacement with few if any complications. Complications can occur during the initial treatment phases and throughout the life of the restoration. Most published clinical studies are of relatively short duration, 5 years or less, and very few report longer term data. In addition, most studies report survival data of the implants or prostheses and thereby avoid the difficult issue of what constitutes success. Success criteria should include assessment of bone levels, biological and mechanical complications as well as patient based outcomes such as comfort, function, appearance and maintenance issues. Although most of the reported complications appear to have a relatively low incidence, they are clinically important and problematic to clinician and patient and there is a need to identify and control risk factors.
Richard qualified at the Royal Dental Hospital in 1975. He was appointed as Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in 1987. In 1996 he was appointed to the first Chair in Implant Dentistry in the UK. He is currently Head of the Department of Restorative Dentistry and clinical lead in implant dentistry.
Thursday 8th December 2011 The Savile Club, 69 Brook Street, Mayfair, London W1K 4ER
“DENTAL IDENTITY THEFT”
Dr John Besford
1) Daily exposure to doctored body-images (TV, magazines, movies, etc.) and increased prosperity in industrialised countries are causing many people to seek unnatural perfection in their physical appearance.
2) Evolving technology has multiplied the number of appearance-changing procedures available.
3) The desire to maximise income leads many clinicians to market these procedures aggressively.
The resulting interventions do not always lead to aesthetic excellence or patient satisfaction. In dentistry they may cause loss of character by making dentitions look ‘all the same’. Indeed that is one of the marketing strategies: vulnerable patients are made to feel that, by not conforming to certain geometric ideals (advocated by the practitioners though rarely found in nature), their dental appearance is substandard.
Some patients are pleased with their monoshape, monoshade dental makeovers. Others of more sophisticated taste, deprived of natural teeth (or of their outer surfaces), wish to recover their own individual, imperfect, characterful yet unobtrusive smiles. They want their dental identity back.
But making restorations inconspicuous by imitating nature requires much more skill and time and is much less profitable than churning out wall-to-wall stereotypes. Thus the ethical dilemma.
In the 47 years since he qualified as a dentist John Besford has tried to persuade his students and colleagues to stop extracting teeth and, where it is too late for that, to make the replacement teeth and gums look real.
He has also tried to make his audiences aware of the huge emotional, social and sexual consequences of tooth loss and of the corresponding healing aspects of making it look (and function) as if it that loss had never occurred.
Thursday 12th January 2012 The Savile Club, 69 Brook Street, Mayfair, London W1K 4ER
(Joint meeting with American Club of Paris)
“PORCELAIN LAMINATE VENEERS: THE FIVE KEY POINTS”
Dr Eric Hazan
For the last twenty five years, anterior porcelain bonded restorations, known as porcelain laminate veneers have been a very elegant alternative to porcelain fused to metal crowns. This was even more obvious with the emergence of the new full porcelain crowns (Aluminous or Zirconia). The therapeutic choice, then, became larger and more complex for the clinician. What choice should we make? How do we choose? What are the clinical steps, and how do we handle them? These are most obvious questions we ask ourselves, on a daily practice. The goal of this presentation will be to show the exact place of the APBR in a modern restorative oriented practice, and to detail step by step these beautiful and very delicate restorations that are “the restorative reference” biologically and esthetically. But also to understand the complex relationship between tooth and its periodontal environment and try to reproduce nicely and durably the relation between the prosthetic tooth and its gingival belt?
Dr Eric J. Hazan graduated from Paris VII University School of Dentistry in 1982. Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in Prosthodontics from Boston University in 1987. In private practice dedicated to restorative, prosthetic and aesthetic dentistry since 1991. Past President American Dental Club of Paris (2002-2004) Past President of the Société Odontologique de Paris (1994-1997). Active Member in: American Dental Club of Paris, Société Odontologique de Paris, American Academy of Fixed Prosthodontics, International College of Prosthodontics, Pierre Fauchard Academy.
Wednesday 15th February 2012 The Savile Club, 69 Brook Street, Mayfair, London W1K 4ER
“DO YOU NEED A DENTIST?”
Dr Gillian Greenwood
Gill’s lecture will illustrate the wide remit of Special Care Dentistry and discuss the barriers to care for patients with special/additional needs. She will demonstrate the holistic approach to care for this wide patient group and challenges the audiences in lifelong treatment planning for these patients.
Gill qualified at the London Hospital 1985 with Honours. Her career has followed her dual and converging interests of special care dentistry and oral surgery. In 2008 she was accepted onto the GDC’s specialist list as a Specialist in Special Care Dentistry and on 1st November 2010 was appointed as Consultant for Special Care Dentistry at Hull and East Yorkshire.
Although the remit of Special Care Dentistry is very wide ranging, Gill’s particular area of interest is those patients with severe medical compromise, including those undergoing oncology care, and those patients with a severe dental or oral phobia
Wednesday 21st March 2012 The Barber Surgeons’ Hall, Monkwell Square, Wood Street, London EC2Y 5BL
PRESIDENT’S DINNER
“PLASTIC, FANTASTIC OR DRASTIC?”
Mr Adam Searle
For more than two thousand years surgeons have been performing plastic surgery procedures to repair and reconstruct anatomy damaged by deformity, disease and trauma. Techniques have evolved to include ever greater precision and technology. Whilst outcomes improve with restoration of form and function, has the specialty been hijacked by the media and big business? Has Plastic Surgery become the domain of celebrity, extreme fashion and public voyeurism? A journey throughout the ages explores this complex interface of medicine and society.
Mr Adam Searle is a Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London and in private practice at The Consulting Suite in Portland Place. He is a Past President of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons. His initial qualification was in dentistry, before gaining a medical degree, and going on to surgical training and specialisation in Plasti Surgery over the last twenty years.
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