FCE9: Management of the Esthetic Zone: Global to Local

Speaker

Carlo Ercoli

David P. Mathews

Moderator

Ashley B. Hoders

CE hours: 1.5

Course Description

Treatment in the esthetic zone presents several challenges and often requires an interdisciplinary approach for optimizing outcomes. Dr. Mathews will elucidate the importance of working with an interdisciplinary team of specialists when confronted with complex esthetic dilemmas. Dr. Ercoli will focus on surgical and prosthetic factors that impact esthetic success for immediate implant placement.

Educational Objectives

• Learn how to form a high-level specialist network.
• Discover how to select a leader and how to coordinate as a team in the treatment planning of difficult cases.
• Realize how to treat challenging esthetic dilemmas utilizing an interdisciplinary team of specialists.
• Increase understanding of the benefits that immediate implant placement offers from a patient perspective and surgically in creating esthetic outcomes.
• Discuss the importance of the prosthesis emergence profile and the essential role of the peri-implant soft tissues in optimizing white and pink esthetics.