More than ten years at the forefront of dental research

At the next congress of the Spanish Society of Oral Surgery, to be held next November in Salamanca, Dr. Iñaki Cercadillo, director of the Ahoa Dental Clinic, will present the preliminary conclusions of a study of immediate loading, together with the team of Oral Surgery of the University of Barcelona.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the long-term results in treatment success and satisfaction of patients treated with immediate loading of a complete jaw.

This treatment has multiple advantages for patients: the number of surgeries and the total treatment time are reduced, and above all they can enjoy their teeth from the first day of treatment, without having to wait months to be able to eat and smile satisfactorily. The quality of life of patients who choose this type of treatment clearly improves with respect to classic protocols, as indicated by many recent studies. The intention of the study carried out is to confirm this differentiating fact and to confirm that the results achieved are still satisfactory even after ten years of treatment.

Another of the lines of research in which Dr. Cercadillo is working is guided surgery. Next October, at the Nobel Biocare Symposium 2014 to be held in San Sebastian, he will present the first results obtained with a new protocol in guided surgery that he has been developing since 2006, when the first cases were performed.

Although this is the most recent research, Dr. Cercadillo has been combining professional practice with research for more than ten years, especially in the areas of immediate load dental implantology and guided surgery.

As a result of its research work, the Ahoa Dental Clinic has recently been appointed as a research center associated with the Bellvitge University Dental Hospital (CEIC-HOU) by the Generalitat de Catalunya. This new position allows him to present the results of his treatments in clinical research in the framework of the Oral Surgical Pathology group of the Faculty of Dentistry.

Ahoa, headed by Dr. Iñaki Cercadillo, also contributes with its research in the private sector, since it has been collaborating for more than five years with the company Ball Head System in the diagnosis, design and manufacture of customized prostheses, with the development of new treatments. So far they have registered three European patents and have launched a catalog with fourteen products, including the BHS-30 angled screw. Dr. Cercadillo has presented this product at numerous scientific society congresses, such as the Spanish Society of Stomatological Prosthetics and the International Association for Dental Research.