Thursday, November 6, 2014

8:30am-11:30am / 1:00pm-4:00pm (6 CE hrs)

Room 101-C

Course Objectives:

• Understand biological basis for periodontal diseases.
• Relate oral infections to systemic diseases and conditions.
• Describe advances in periodontal treatment planning and therapies.
• Understand concepts of periodontal and implant surgeries including regeneration.

The afternoon program will highlight the increasing problems facing dental clinicians in the new era of Implant Dentistry. Implant complications, failures, and peri-implantitis are quickly becoming a major clinical entity impacting on patient care and replacement of teeth with dental implants. Etiologies are beginning to be defined for peri-implantitis and predictable implant therapies for failures elude the profession. However, clinical approaches for implant rescue continue to be tested and will be presented.

Course Objectives PM:

• Define peri-implant mucositis and peri-implantitis.
• Recognize the 4 primary etiologies of peri-implantitis.
• Treatment non-surgical approaches for implant rescue.
• Treatment plan surgical approaches for implant rescue.
• Recognize the importance of implant maintenance.

Recommended for…Dentists.

Jon B. Suzuki, DDS, PhD, MBA is president of the ICOI, and currently, has a presidential appointment as Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in the School of Medicine and Professor of Periodontology and Oral Implantology in the School of Dentistry at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. USA.  He also serves as the chairman and program director of Graduate Periodontology and Oral Implantology at Temple University. He has been dean of the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, CEO of the faculty dental practice plan, and Chief of Hospital Dentistry.

Dr. Suzuki received his D.D.S. from Loyola University of Chicago and Ph.D. in Microbiology from the Illinois Institute of Technology.  He completed an N.I.H. Fellowship in Immunology at the University of Washington in Seattle, and a Clinical Certificate in Periodontics at the University of Maryland. His MBA with an emphasis on International Affairs is from the Katz Graduate School of Business of the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Suzuki is a current panel member and immediate past-Chairman of the Food and Drug Administration Dental Products Panel, Silver Spring, MD.  He is on the faculty of the US Navy National Naval Medical Command, Bethesda, MD, and also holds Professorships at Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, the University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, University of Oklahoma and Maimonides University, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

He served as Chairman of the American Dental Association Council on Scientific Affairs, Chicago, and continues to serve as a consultant to the Scientific Council, Practice Management Council, and Commission on Dental Accreditation. Dr. Suzuki served on the National Institutes of Health National Dental Advisory Research Council, and numerous NIH Study Sections, Bethesda, MD. Dr. Suzuki has current hospital appointments at the Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia, PA and the Veterans’ Affairs Medical Centers.

He is a fellow of the American and International College of Dentists, a Boarded Specialist Microbiologist and former Board Examiner of the American College of Microbiology, a Diplomate and current Board Examiner of the International Congress of Oral Implantology, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology.

Dr. Suzuki is the current Executive Secretary/Treasurer of the Supreme Chapter of Omicron Kappa Upsilon, the national Honorary Dental Society, and has served in this position for almost a quarter of a century.

His honors include being named “Alumnus of the Year”, Loyola University of Chicago, “Alumnus of the Year”, Illinois Wesleyan University, “Recognized Alumnus in Biological Sciences”, Illinois Institute of Technology, and “Faculty of the Year”, University of Maryland. Dr. Suzuki won 1^st place, Orban Prize Competition of the American Academy of Periodontology and won 1^st place in the ADA/Dentsply SCADA Table Clinic Competition.  He is in private practice limited to hospital periodontics in Philadelphia.

Dr. Suzuki has published over 150 papers, chapters, and symposia, 200+ abstracts, and 1 textbook in Medical Technology.

Dr. Suzuki is not associated with, employed by, nor consults for, any manufacturer, supplier, or retailer of dental instruments or materials.