Biography
Dr. Mario Roccuzzo graduated cum laude from the School of Dental Medicine of Torino, Italy, in 1987 and attended postgraduate education in Periodontology in Stockholm, Sweden, and at the University of Siena, Italy. He conducts research in the fields of periodontal plastic surgery, bone regeneration, early loading of implants and implants in periodontally compromised patients. Mario Roccuzzo is faculty member of the Division of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Torino and lecturer for periodontology at this university. He is an invited speaker in more than 30 countries of all continents and an active member of the Italian Society of Periodontology, an ITI fellow, and member of the ITI Leadership Committee. Dr. Roccuzzo is a member of the Editorial Board of the Clinical Oral Implants Research, The International Journal of Esthetic Dentistry, and The International Journal of Periodontics and Restorative Dentistry.
He has been awarded for the best clinical presentation on implants in periodontally compromised patients at the 2009 EAO Congress in Montecarlo and for the best published research article on the same subject by the German Society of Periodontology in 2010. He was also the winner of the 2013 Osteology Clinical Research Prize on the study “Long-term stability of soft tissues around implants following ridge preservation”. Dr. Roccuzzo has a private practice active in the fields of periodontology and implantology, in Torino.
Abstract
Patients’ expectations have tremendously increased in the last years. One of the greatest challenges clinicians face is to select the correct implant in order to obtain an ideal long-term soft-tissue integration that mimics a perfect gingival contour and prevents the formation of pockets and/or recessions. A decision making process will be applied to the treatment of edentulous areas in the various regions of the mouth. Different surgical approaches will be shown –step by step– particularly in compromised sites, due to trauma, atrophy, periodontal disease and/or infection, where ideal positioning and primary stability are not easy to achieve. A new surface for a possible better soft-tissue integration will finally be presented.
Why should an implantologist see the presentation?
To select the correct implant in order to obtain an ideal long-term soft-tissue integration that mimics a perfect gingival contour and prevents the formation of pockets and/or recessions.
