Toyama International Conference Center One of the conference rooms
If I have to attend just one single Congress (for right
or wrong I have to be somewhere almost every
week), I will probably choose IFED, the Congress
of the International Federation of Esthetic Dentistry.
Why? It is biannual so a lot of news, not the same
speakers about nearly the same topics as I see
almost everywhere. And even with the highlighted
use of promoting the adjective "esthetic", it covers
the whole of dentistry. I am an implantologist, I enjoy
high-quality lectures in my specialty, but it is excellent
to hear what is hot for example in adhesive dentistry
or which prosthodontic material is the proper
choice today. Dentistry seems to be closer and
closer to something that looks like a combination
of small universes, but, for our daily work, we need
a bigger picture at least biannually. A week before
IFED I attended the FDI congress in Madrid where
the picture was too big, so you were just a runner
between various buildings missing on many, many
lectures... IFED offers everything in two rooms.
This year IFED took place in Toyama, a friendly, but
little-known city in Japan, and in two years’ time it
will take place in Barcelona, a quite shorter trip for
Europeans.
What did I learn this year? Dr Eduardo Anitua (Spain)
highlighted the role of the platelet rich fibrin (PRF)
and the autologous bone in oral implantology which
is full of healing factors irreplaceable with synthetic
materials; Dr Oded Bahat (USA) emphasized the
provision of dental implant treatment reversibly and
the fact that we have to include in our treatment
plans which ensure the remodeling of the skull
as people grow old and otherwise even perfectly
placed implants will be one day completely out of
the dental arch. Luiz Narciso Baratieri (Brazil) showed
mastership and minimal invasiveness of composite
restoration which is much less expensive compared
to ceramic materials. Javier Tapia Guadix (Spain)
presented dental esthetic and especially the choice
of the proper color, not as an art but as a scientific and measurable procedure. Sillas Duarte (USA)
demonstrated how he could predictably achieve high
dental esthetic with digital prosthodontics. Renato
Miotto Palo (Brazil) delivered a fantastic lecture about
the need of bleaching not whitening the teeth and
about the fact that we do not require any technology
for excellent results in bleaching - we just have to
understand how chemistry works. Florian Beuer
(Germany) demonstrated a 3-step concept which
improves the esthetics and simplicity of CAD-CAM.
George Freedman (Canada) is the great promoter
of the coming digital revolution with printing and
cost-cutting in prosthodontics- his visions are
interesting to hear, but the future will decide. Miguel
Roig Cayón (Spain) repeated for us the principle of
"nihil nocere" with so many possibilities as to how to
preserve tooth and bone - we can plan and provide
many less complicated dental cases. Prof John
Burgess (USA), Dr Wynn Okuda (USA), Dr Kenneth A.
Malament (USA), Prof Nasser Barghi (USA), Prof Dan
Nathanson (USA) all presented a very different view
of which are the best solution and the best material
for prosthodontics today. It was possible to see that
the final word about the precise indication of the
different full ceramic materials has not been uttered
yet.
If you are planning only one congress for the year
2019, let's try IFED in Barcelona, I think it will be very
informative as usual.
Stomatology Edu Journal
Nearly everything you need to
know I heard in Toyama, Japan
Roman Šmucler
DDS, PhD
Associate Professor
Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
Pavol Jozef Safarik University Kosice, Slovak Republic
Chief Dental Officer, Czech Republic
DOI: 10.25241/stomaeduj.2017.4(3).news.1
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