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Robert Santosa attended the ITI Annual General Meetings in Berlin Germany. The meeting was attended by the Section Leadership Team from the 30 ITI Section around the world.
During the meeting, The ITI announced that Charlotte Stilwell from London, UK has been voted the new President-elect. Charlotte is a specialist prosthodontist with a referral practice in London
It was an honour and privilege for Robert to represent Australia and New Zealand as the Section Chair of ITI Australasian Section.
On 10th - 11th November 2018, Robert Santosa was in Seoul, South Korea presenting at The 11th Congress of the Asian Academy of Osseointegration (AAO). The meeting was held over 2 days at the prestigious Yugwangsa Hall, College of Medicine Korea University. The theme for the meeting was " The Challenge and Sustainability for the Future of Implant Dentistry"
Robert presented the topic " Prosthodontic protocols for long-term prosthetic success"
The long-term performance of implant-supported prostheses is influenced by various factors such as prosthetically driven treatment planning, to ensure the correct 3D implant positioning and prosthetic design;
the timing of implant placement; soft tissue management; and prosthetic design to manage the possible development of complications. The presentation will propose some advice, clinical recommendations, and alternative treatment options to reduce the risk of complications in daily clinical practice.
As usual, Robert had the jetlag and walked around the beautiful city of Seoul early in the autumn morning here. For more information about AAO, please click here.
Dr Robert Santosa went to Switzerland last week for several days. Unfortunately, it was neither for fun nor a holiday. He attended an International Team for Implantology Digital Task Force meeting and ITI Online Academy Editorial Board meeting in Zurich.
As specialist dental clinicians, the dentists in Macquarie Central Prosthodontics are not just passionate for providing the best dental care for our patients. We also passionate in dental education, inspiring our dental colleagues to be the best they can be professionally and personally.
Robert managed to find a couple of days after the meeting hiking the Eiger Trail and trying to burn off calories from eating chocolates. He posted some photos of his hike on Instagram.
Every 5 years, for 3 days, The International Team for Implantology (ITI) held its Consensus Conferences. This is an important event for every clinician who works with implants as they lay the foundations for the latest guidelines to tried and tested techniques, methodologies and materials for use in clinical practice.
155 experts from all over the world and every discipline that is involved in implant dentistry will be gathering to review and debate the latest literature in five main areas: surgery, prosthodontics, patient-reported outcomes, complications/risks and digital technologies.
Australasian Section is well represented with Fellows participating as the lead authors (Stephen Chen, Lisa Heitz Mayfield, Danielle Layton, and Chris Evans) and participants (Anthony Dawson, Robert Santosa and Ivan Darby) of the Conference.
The 155 participants of the 6th ITI Consensus Statement Conference
The ITI welcomed more than 4,800 participants from 90 countries to its global flagship event, which took place in Basel between May 4 and May 6, 2017. The scientific program offered a wide range of practically oriented lectures and panel discussions and was supplemented by a poster competition, a rich social program offering ample opportunity for networking as well as an extensive industry exhibition.
A further highlight were the Breakout Sessions that allowed participants to customise their own Symposium program to meet their individual needs and dive into certain topics and aspects in more detail. Dr Robert Santosa presented at one of these sessions together with other younger generation of ITI Fellows and Members, offering an excellent opportunity to see how the younger generation approaches implant dentistry today. For further news, click this link: http://shakr.ly/2qLP8ri?embed_id=274.
Dr Robert Santosa presented lecture on cement induced peri-implantitis.
Dr. Santosa attended the FDI meeting in Bangkok.The FDI or Fédération Dentaire Internationale (International Dental Association), is a federation of approximately 200 national dental associations and specialist groups.
Further information is here
