ICOI prepares for two big upcoming events

Well, guess what? Our event has outgrown that property!

With the very welcome dilemma of increased attendees and vastly improved corporate support via exhibitors and sponsors at this and other ICOI events (ICOI now has a waiting lists for exhibitors at its meetings), the 2014 Summer Implant Prosthetic Symposium will be held at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place Hotel & Convention Center.

While the host hotel will be the Hyatt Regency, the meeting will take place in the convention center, which is attached to the Hyatt.

ICOI President Dr. Jon Suzuki has designed a scientific program featuring 20 hours of C.E. credit with a theme focusing on “Implant Failures.” The international faculty will feature clinical reports from generalists, specialists, academicians and laboratory technicians with a primary focus on the restorative discipline, but with secondary emphasis on surgical placement and its issues.

Featured speakers include Drs. Robert Blackwell, Lyndon Cooper, Frank De Luca, Charles Goodacre, Ken Hebel, Les Kalman, Aldo Leopardi, Craig Misch, Ricardo Mitrani, Ady Palti, Yvan Poitras, Thomas Rams, Randy Resnik, Paul Rosen, Guido Sarnachiaro, Edwin Scher and Raymond Yukna.

Upon completion of this symposium, attendees will:

• Learn to properly assess patients and understand the essential components for thorough implant examinations.
• Compare the clinical survival rates of multiple implant treatment modalities.
• Review treatment solutions for surgical and prosthetic implant complications.
• Learn how important the treatment planning phase is to avoid problems.
• Review etiologies of peri-implant disease and treatment strategies for infectious dental implant complications.
• Understand the various systemic medical conditions and contraindications that influence implant success.

A highlight of this symposium will be the Aug. 23 commemorative reception to honor Dr. Carl Misch and to recognize the vast contributions he has made to the field of oral implantology/implant dentistry.

Accompanying the doctor program will be the customary two-and-a-half-day auxiliary program given by an ICOI Component Society, the Association of Dental Implant Auxiliaries (ADIA), and designed by ADIA Executive Director Lynn Mortilla, RDH.

Thursday’s half-day session will feature Patti DiGangi and Deborah Miller followed by a two-hour ADIA hands-on workshop.

Friday’s program will consist of speakers from both the auxiliary arena as well as several doctors (Ira Langstein, Avi Schetritt, Burt Melton and Jeff Melton), whose lectures will cover a wide variety of implant topics, and Yva Khalil, who will deal with post-op implant care. While the Plenary Session for this symposium begins at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 21, several sponsor-conducted pre-symposium workshops will be offered Thursday morning from 8 a.m. to noon.

The ICOI is pleased to announce that the following sponsors will offer both didactic and hands-on courses: GOLD SPONSOR Zest Anchors; SILVER SPONSORS BioHorizons, Consult Pro, Dentis, DENTSPLY Implants and Salvin Dental Specialties.

Please see the meeting website, www.icoichicago2014.org, for full course descriptions and additional information.

ICOI World Congress XXXI, Tokyo

The ICOI is delighted to once again hold its world congress in the Asia-Pacific region. The site for the 2014 ICOI World Congress XXXI will be the grand Tokyo International Forum and Convention Center. The theme for the congress, as designed by the Scientific Chairmen Dr. Koichi Ito and Dr. Jon Suzuki, is “The Future of Implant Dentistry.”

The meeting will be held from Oct. 3-5. The congress will commence on Friday morning with a program featuring special guest speakers, Drs. Dennis Tarnow, Craig Misch and Sang Choon-Cho.

Tarnow will peek into his learned crystal ball as he speaks on “The Realities in an Implant Dentistry Future.” Misch will channel Shakespeare as he discusses, “To Graft or Not to Graft, That is the Question,” and Choon-Cho will expound on “Implant Oriented Sinus Augmentation — From Autogenous Bone to BMP.”

Following these three lectures will be two doctors who present cases from the young implantologists’ perspective. Dr. David Holmes will show cases involving “Implant Surfaces and Peri-Implantitis: from Surface to Supperation,” followed by Dr. Teruaki Homma whose focus will be “One Miracle at a Time, One Abutment at a Time.”

On Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 4-5, the main podium will feature a host of international speakers including Drs. Mani Alikhani, Mabil Barakat, Bach Le, Scott Ganz, Thomas Han, Joseph Kan, Yataro Komiyama, Richard Kraut, Paul Lin, Preston Miller, Ady Palti, Gerald Scortecci and Takashi Tsuji.

Sponsors’ Workshops by Nobel Biocare and BIOMET 3i will be featured on Friday afternoon, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Attendees should plan to attend one of these courses, the chairmen recommend.

There will also be a full-day program for hygienists presented on Friday, Oct. 3, designed by Mortilla. Doctors should plan to bring their team member hygienists to this important program, Mortilla said.

The social highlight of the World Congress will be the gala dinner, which will be held Saturday, Oct. 4 at the elegant Imperial Hotel. Labeled, “A Night in
Tokyo,” this evening promises to be filled with entertainment, food and drink. The dinner will also honor the incoming ICOI President Dr. Gerard Scortecci from France and newly elected president of the ICOI Asia-Pacific Section, Dr. Shohei Kasugai from Japan.

For complete information on World Congress XXXI, visit the website, www.icoi-ap.org.