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education I 1987. An extensive literary research showed that ten percentoftheimplantsareaffectedbyperiimplantitis in20percentofthepatientsafterfiveoruptotenyears. MombellialsorelativizedthestudybyZitzmann,which isoftenquotedbythelaymanpress,sincethepatients examined were preselected and criteria such as BOP were evaluated. Mombelli highlighted that “Bleeding doesnotnecessarilymeanperiimplantitis”andpointed outthatnicotineabuseandthepatient’s“periohistory” arefactorswhichhavetobetakenintoaccount. Already in the beginning of the discussion, the dogmaof“noprobinginimplants”wasreplacedbythe overall opinion that probing in implants is an impor- tantdiagnostictool.Anotherviewonwhichthemem- bersagreedwasthatitisimportanttodiagnoseperiim- plantitisasearlyaspossibleandthentoimmediatelyin- duce the respective therapeutic measures. The “tests” whichareofferedtoevaluatetheincreasedriskofperi- implantitis were seen negatively be the participants. Theyagreedthatacorrectanamnesisandestimationof individualriskfactorsweremoreimportant.Inorderto avoidcementitis,whichcanbethestartingpointofperi- implantitis,supraconstructionscanbescrewedon.The podium voiced a critical opinion on implant plastics as presented by Frank Schwarz and colleagues. In severe casessuchasthese,explantationwasseenastheprefer- ablechoice.Allagreedthatanimplant-specialisedeval- uationwillbecomemoreimportantinthefuture. _Corporate podium Another highly estimated tradition is the corporate podium,whichgivesDGZImembersandregistereddoc- torstheopportunitytoreportontheirpracticalexperi- enceandfindings.Contributionsfromtherealmofuni- versityresearchcomplementthepodium,amongthem Prof Rother, Germany, who spoke about “CBCT today and in the future”. All of the eight speakers dedicated their talks to the motto of the 42nd DGZI international annualcongress“Sustainabilityandlong-termsuccess in quality-oriented implantology”, among them topics suchasaugmentationprocedures,aestheticsandseda- tion. Concluding,theDGZIannualcongresshassuccess- fully communicated the concern of Europe’s oldest dental society regarding sustainability in implantol- ogy. Therefore, the overall tone during the congress can also be taken as its summary: DGZI is well posi- tioned to face current and future challenges in im- plantology and takes responsibility with regard to both the education of members and colleagues (“Fo- cus: Registered Practice”) and patients (“Focus: Infor- mation”)._ I 43implants4_2012 Dr Georg Bach Rathausgasse 36 79098 Freiburg im Breisgau,Germany doc.bach@t-online.de DGZI Zentrale Geschäftsstelle Paulusstraße 1 40237 Düsseldorf,Germany sekretariat@dgzi-info.de www.DGZI.de _contact implants