Dr. Iñaki Cercadillo participates in the Cowell International Conference 2019 in South Korea.

Immediate load implantology 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 procedures faster, less invasive and less painful, and the materials used, such as zirconium, are increasingly biocompatible and better biologically integrated.

All these advances are possible not only thanks to the research and development carried out in the different areas of dentistry, but also thanks 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 Sanchez, Dr. Mercedes Forero and Dr. Iñaki Cercadillo, who contribute to disseminate this scientific knowledge in their classes and lectures.

This was the case of the Cowell International Conference 2019 held on Jeju Island, South Korea, on Biologically Integrated Digital Dental Implantology, in which Dr. Iñaki Cercadillo participated as an expert along with other leading specialists.

Dr. Cercadillo’s presentation was on “How to predict the long-term success of rehabilitation with immediate full-arch loading“, where he shared the results of his research. This focuses on the long-term results of full-arch treatment with dental implants and immediate loading, i.e., cases in which the patient has lost all teeth and these are replaced in a single day with dental implants and a fixed prosthesis. Dr. Cercadillo pointed out that “the difficult thing, as always, is not that with this treatment the implants work well in the first year, but that they work well after ten years”. And as he explained at the conference, with this system 93% of the implants are in good health after ten years.

Other presentations also focused on specific aspects, such as the 3D alveolar reconstruction using stable membranes, the comprehensive digital procedure from guided surgery to the final prosthesis, or a simplified method for maxillary sinus lift and augmentation. The synergies between technology and biointegration were the common thread of all presentations.

The conference is organized by the South Korean company Cowellmedi Co., Ltd., manufacturer and distributor of materials for dental implantology since 1994. is currently a pioneer in the biomedical industry with its technology for the development of recombinant rhBMP-2 proteins for bone reconstruction. In fact, one of the new lines of research of Dr. Cercadillo and Dr. Sanchez will be precisely the use of this type of proteins to obtain a more predictable and simple regeneration bone.