The 2025 Donald B. Osbon Memorial Lecture will be held on Saturday, April 12, 2025, in the Galagan Auditorium on the 1st floor of the University of Iowa College of Dentistry. This event qualifies for 6 hours of CE re-licensure credit and is free to participants who pre-register. If you would like to attend the dinner following the lecture, pre-payment and pre-registration is required. Registration closes on April 1, 2025.

The keynote speakers will be Dr. Edmond Bedrossian and Dr. Armand Bedrossian.

 Dr. Edmond Bedrossian received his DDS from University of the Pacific, and completed his Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency at Alameda Medical Center. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, honorary member of the American College of Prosthodontists, fellow of the ITI and fellow of the Academy of Osseointegration. Dr. Bedrossian was previously a longstanding professor in the Department of OMS at the Dugoni School, combining a successful private practice with academics. 

A world-renowned expert in implant dentistry, he has authored multiple articles and chapters on the various uses of the zygomatic implant, bone grafting, and treatment planning in implant dentistry. He also authored the textbooks Implant Treatment Planning for the Edentulous Patient and The Immediacy Concept. He has lectured with Professor Brånemark on the rehabilitation of patients with maxillofacial defects and collaborated with him in attaining FDA approval for the use of endosseous implants in maxillofacial defects. Dr. Bedrossian also serves on the editorial review boards of multiple journals in OMS and implant dentistry.

Dr. Armand Bedrossian is a Diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics and currently practices in his hometown of San Francisco. A native San Franciscan, he attended Cathedral School for Boys, St Ignatius College Preparatory and received his undergraduate degree from the University of San Francisco.

Dr. Armand Bedrossian received his dental degree from the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in 2015. He completed a three year Masters Program in Prosthodontics at the University of Washington, where he successfully received his Master’s Degree in Prosthodontics. He was also a recipient of the Dr. David H. Wands Fellowship in Graduate Prosthodontics Award. Dr. Wands, a long-time member of the graduate prosthodontics faculty at UW, established the award to support and inspire recipients to pursue an academic career in prosthodontics education.

He has  authored multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Armand Bedrossian has been the co-author of several chapters in textbooks, discussing the treatment planning and protocol for rehabilitating edentulous patients.

Course Description

A paradigm shift has taken place as the graftless surgical approach has gained credibility. Reduced treatment time, a single stage surgical reconstructions and immediate loading has resulted in a higher degree of case acceptance. 

After extraction of a non-restorable tooth, preservation of the soft and hard tissue volume is more predictable than its reconstruction.

This presentation discusses the surgical and the prosthetic fundamental principles for predictable treatment planning for offering patients immediate implant and immediate provisional prosthesis where indicated.

Understanding of the fundamental surgical as well as the prosthetic treatment planning is critical for predictable outcomes. The presenters will review bone biology and the principles of site preparation and will discuss the immediate versus delayed implant placement, as well as the role of the DWF in executing successful treatment plans.

Edentulous patients or patients with terminal dentition can be a challenge to treatment plan due to certain anatomic structures which can be barriers for immediate implant placement and immediate loading full arch reconstructions. 

This presentation will also present the protocol for the evaluation of patients for full arch fixed prosthesis.

In the maxilla, the volumetric loss of bone & soft tissues, enlarged maxillary sinuses, and presence of remaining compromised dentition pose unique surgical and restorative treatment challenges.  In the mandible, the position of the mental foramen poses a challenge for reconstruction with a fixed prosthesis.

The presenters will discuss the number as well as the distribution of implants for fabrication of an implant supported fixed prosthesis. The use of the Zones of the Maxilla to determine whether axial, tilted or zygoma implants may be indicated.

All cases will be treatment planned and executed using the DIGILOG concept; a hybrid of digital and analogue work flow.

You Will Learn:

• Understanding bone biology, fate of the edentulous alveolus.
• Understanding the fundamental prosthetic principles for treatment planning implants.
• Understanding the fundamental surgical principles for treatment planning implants.
• Understanding the consequences of drilling in bone, remodeling concept.
• Understanding techniques for achieving primary stability.
• Understanding the role of Digital workflow in the contemporary dental practices.
• Analogue as well as fully guided full arch treatment.
• The role and importance of adopting the digital work flow in the contemporary dental practices.
• When to outsource portions of the digital work flow

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