Dr Andrea Enrico BORGONOVO – Italy

He graduated in Medicine and  postgraduated in Oral and Maxillo-facial Surgery with honors at the University of Milan.  He started his Academic Career in 2005 as Clinical Assistant Professor at the School of Oral Surgery, at the University of Milan. Recently He obtained the National Abilitation for Associate Professor  and was admitted at University of Murcia as Visiting professor of Implantology and at Ludes Foundation University of Malta as Adjunct Professor of Oral Surgery.

Actually He is Vice Chief  of Department of Esthetic Dentistry of University of Milan  focuses  his practice on  reconstructive surgery, Orthognathic surgery and oral implantology  with specific interest in metal free rehabilitation. He is author of a more than 150 international publications, and speaker at more than 250 national and international conferences. He is author of 4 surgery’s books

 

 

“A new generation one-piece ceramic implants based on long term evidence” – 2023 EACim congress

Lecture Abstract :

In the recent years, the dental implantology has evolved towards the research of alternative materials to titanium. The zirconia implants becomes an optimal metal free alternative in modern dentistry, at first used in their one-piece variant, have been further developed thanks to the introduction of the two-piece version.

In the first part of the  lecture the A describes the peculiarities of one piece zirconia dental implants and long term results of clinical and experimental studies   analyzing survival and success rates, soft tissue health and radiographic marginal bone loss (MBL) with 16 years follow-up. The second part of the lecture  the A shows the evolution of one piece ceramic implants with the introduction of new morphology design  and  clinical experience results  in order to understand current indications , morphological characteristics and success rate of these implants.