La immediate loading implantology It is one of the dental disciplines that has advanced the most in recent decades. For example, new technologies, such as digital and 3D scanners, have made interventions faster, less invasive and less painful; Likewise, the materials used, such as zirconium, are increasingly biocompatible and with better biological integration.
All these advances are possible not only thanks to the research and development carried out in the different areas of dentistry, but also to the dissemination of this new knowledge among professionals around the world. In this sense, the Ahoa Dental Clinic team has three professionals who are also researchers and university professors, Dr. Alba Sánchez, Dr. Mercedes Forero and Dr. Dr. Iñaki Cercadillo, who contribute to disseminating this scientific knowledge in their classes and conferences.
This has been the case of the Cowell International Conference 2019 that has been held on the island of Jeju, in South Korea, on Biologically Integrated Digital Dental Implantology, and in which Dr. Iñaki Cercadillo has participated as an expert together with other outstanding specialists.
Dr. Cercadillo's intervention dealt with «Predicting the long-term success of immediate full-arch loading rehabilitation», where he shared the results of his research. This focuses on the long-term results of the treatment of an entire dental arch through dental implants and immediate loading, that is, those cases in which the patient has lost all the teeth and these are replaced in a single day by dental implants. and a fixed prosthesis. Dr. Cercadillo stressed that "the difficult thing, as always, is not that with this treatment the implants work well the first year, but rather that it is fine after ten years." And according to what he explained at the conference, with this system, 93% of implants are in good health after ten years.
Other interventions also focused on specific aspects, such as 3D alveolar reconstruction using stable membranes, the comprehensive digital procedure from guided surgery to final prosthesis, or a simplified method for maxillary sinus lift and augmentation. The synergies between technology and biointegration were the common thread of all the presentations.
The conference is organized by the South Korean company Cowellmedi Co., Ltd., manufacturer and distributor of materials for dental implantology since 1994. It is currently a pioneer in the biomedical industry with its technology for the development of recombinant proteins rhBMP-2 for bone reconstruction. In fact, one of the new lines of research of Dr. Cercadillo and Dr. Sánchez will be precisely the use of this type of protein to obtain more predictable and simpler bone regeneration.
