Dennis P. Tarnow is currently Clinical Professor of Periodontology and Director of Implant Education at Columbia School of Dental Medicine. He is the former Professor and Chairman of the Department of Periodontology and Implant Dentistry at New York University College of Dentistry.

He has certificates in both periodontics and prosthodontics and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology. Dr. Tarnow has been the recipient of the Master Clinician Award from the American Academy of Periodontology, the Teacher of the Year Award from NYU, and the Distinguished Lecturer Award from the American College of Prosthodontists. Just this year, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry and the Nobel Biocare Brånemark Osseointegration Award of Academy of Osseointegration.

Dr. Tarnow has a private multispecialty interdisciplinary practice in New York City and has been honored with a wing named after him at New York University College of Dentistry. He has published over two hundred twenty-five articles on perio-prosthodontics and implant dentistry and has coauthored four textbooks including one titled The Single Tooth Implant. Dr. Tarnow has lectured extensively in the United States and internationally in over forty-five countries.

Stephen J. Chu served as an Adjunct Clinical Professor at New York University College of Dentistry in the departments of periodontology, implant dentistry, and prosthodontics for 26 years. He presently maintains a full-time private practice in fixed prosthodontics, esthetic, and implant dentistry in New York City.

Dr. Chu has contributed to over 100 publications including 7 textbooks in the dental literature and has given lectures nationally and internationally on the subjects of esthetic, restorative, and implant dentistry.

Dr. Chu serves as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Esthetic and Restorative Dentistry.

Implant dentistry is continuously evolving, offering new and more predictable forms of therapy with minimally invasive protocols. Innovation in techniques now allow for better esthetics, decreased treatment times, and greater patient comfort.  However, these new techniques and therapies continue to raise questions and concerns regarding the risk and rewards of each.  Specifically, there remains some controversy regarding whether immediately placing a dental implant into an extraction socket is beneficial to survival and esthetic outcomes.

This lecture will address current concepts in the management of Type 1 and 2 sockets (intact or sockets with dentoalveolar defects). Techniques, clinical research, histologic evidence, and innovations in immediate implant placement and provisional restoration will illustrate how care has been enhanced with respect to time, and clinical outcomes. The ultimate end points will be greater patient comfort, predictable esthetics, and improved satisfaction. In addition, an implant with a novel macro design based upon biologic principles with hybrid strategies in implant diameter, shape, and thread pattern will be presented. This implant has an inverted body-shift macrogeometry which takes into account esthetic risks along with complications such as socket perforation, loss of labial plate thickness over time, and loss of the interdental papilla due to proximity issues between teeth and implants following placement. Pre-clinical [animal histology] and clinical [human] studies will be provided that scientifically support, validate, and reinforce the biologic principles of this particular dental implant.

During this lecture participants will:

• Discuss the treatment time and survival rates associate with immediate protocols.
• List prosthodontic innovations in provisional restoration fabrication.
• Discuss the management of implants placed into extraction sockets with dehiscence defects.
• List the dental implant complications and risks that exist in the esthetic zone.
• Understand the inverted body-shift concept in macro hybrid implant design.
• Understand the biologic principles behind circumferential bone volume for long term maintenance to prevent ridge collapse, recession, and papillae loss.

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