IP3: Rising Stars

Program Track: Emerging Concepts and Innovative Therapies

Presenters

Description

This session is intended for speakers in practice 10 years (or less) following post-graduate training. It is designed to showcase clinical advances and/or translational research with direct application to patient care. The selected candidates will give a 15-minute presentation on a specific topic, followed by a five-minute Q&A period. Speakers are selected by a blind review of abstracts submitted to the AAP and will undergo a training session in presenting their material at a podium.

Educational Objectives

  • • Gain knowledge of innovations and advances in clinical periodontics, research, or related subjects.
  • • Describe a new advancement or translational research with direct application to patient care.
  • • Understand the role of the regional acceleratory phenomenon in orthodontic movement of teeth.
  • • Consider the versatility of utilizing dental implants to aid in the application of orthodontic force.
  • • Describe the rationale and current evidence for localized antibiotic delivery via resorbable membranes in GBR/GTR, including microbiological and mechanical considerations.
  • • Outline the glow-discharge plasma functionalization of PDO membranes with amoxicillin and interpret data on release kinetics, mechanical integrity, and biofilm reduction to inform clinical indications and limitations.
  • • Review the historical evolution of corticotomy and bone grafting for orthodontic purposes.
  • • Discuss factors influencing treatment sequence in interdisciplinary periodontics-orthodontics cases.

CE Hours: 1.5


Disclosure(s):
Liliana E. Aranguren, DDS, MDSc.: No financial relationships to disclose
Martinna Bertolini, DDS, MS, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose
Nour Hobani: No financial relationships to disclose
Anthony A. Vargas, DDS MS: No financial relationships to disclose