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34 Dental Tribune Middle East & Africa Edition | January - February 2014implant tribune “Using short implants you are much more conservative” Bicon Short Implant Event held in Dubai By Dental Tribune Middle East D UBAI, UAE: During the Bicon Short Implant Forum 2013 in Dubai, UAE we caught up with Dr. Mi- chael Ziegler, Clinical Director of the American Dental Clinic in Dubai to understand his ex- perience with Bicon. DTME: Dr. Michael Ziegler, you have been here a long time in the Middle East and we are eager to learn more from you. Dr. Michael Ziegler: Well I have been here for over 27 years, actually I opened my clinic when Emirates Airlines opened their office who grew a little faster than I did but I have always loved the region and had a great time here. How long have you been using Bicon? For about 5 years now how- ever I have known about Bicon for a long time but I just was not quite ready to embrace and take the jump into Bicon mainly due to the fact that I did not know enough about it and everybody was talking against the usage of short implants and I believed that too but a lot has changed since. What changed was that I am look- ing for something conservative and something that is consist- ent which works. These two points work for me and for my patient. Bicon is conservative because in my hands I had a lot of problems before to make bone. By using short implants you are much more conserva- tive and it is a lot easier for the patient and with less time in- volved, risk with a consistent outcome. You can top these points and Bicon offers all of these. Would you advise your dental colleges to use Bicon? How is the learning curve? When I started using Bicon I was on my own over here. There is a learning curve but once you understand it, it be- comes simple and you have more control compared with other systems. The is a learn- ing curve because there is a different way of thinking. One system is a screw and one you tap in so these are two differ- ent total concepts, two differ- ent healing concepts and the healing process of Bicon is one the greatest reasons why it is a wonderful implant. The Bicon implant provides room to form a clot or a callus with quick support whereas a screw in implant is very closely associ- ated to the bone so it is a total different type of healing. I have put Bicon in a patient where after drilling the sight there was no blood after having lost two implants and absolutely no bleeding and to put a regular implant in there would have been a very scary thing to do. Two years I had put it in and recently the x-rays showed it is working and it is fine. Further- more, it is suitable for many situations such as periodontal situations and one of the great- est benefits is for sinus lifts al- lowing predictability and easy on the patient. More or less you have enough experience to share today dur- ing your lecture at the Forum? My lecture will explain a bit about my philosophy and I have been asked to show some of my cases and being amongst the pioneers to use it in the area I will show my ex- periences with Bicon in areas which it is difficult to use other implants. My presence here to- day is not to teach the partici- pants but to share my experi- ences and to show that using the Bicon system works for me and has led to many successful results. Bicon has been good for me. By Bicon D UBAI, UAE: The Bicon Short implant event 2013 has been held on November 14th and 15th at At- lantis the Palm resort in Dubai, UAE. The main speakers were Dr. Vincent Morgan, President of Bicon LLC/Boston; Prof. Dr. Mauro Marincola, Clinical Di- rector Bicon/Italy; Dr. Laura Murcko, Bicon consultant/ Boston; Mr.Paolo Perpetuini, Italy, Bicon International Tech- nician. Additionally two local Implantologist Dr. Kadhim Himdani and Dr. Michael Zie- gler spoke about their experi- ences with Bicon. Dr. Haider Khader and Dr. Joji Markose assisted the hands on course which also took place. The 2 day program was organ- ized in Dubai for a delegation of 70 Iranian dentists and was co-organized with the help of the Iranian distributor of Bicon – Mehr Taban Co. In addition, dentist from UAE, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iraq, Qa- tar and India formed the group of 112 dentist who attended the theoretical course on the first day with 73 dentist taking part in the hands-on course on the second day. In addition 18 lab technicians from UAE and Iran attended for education. Bicon presented proven clini- cal studies on the 4.0 x 5.0 SHORT implant, TRINIA the metal Free CAD/CAM Solution and Metal Free Fixed Resto- rations on short implants. Bi- con presented guided surgery techniques for the first time to the Middle East dentists. The course attendees received 17 CE credit hours. At the end of the course the attendees re- ceived good exposure advan- tages of the only unchanged implant system since 29 years. During the hands-on course on Bicon Surgical, Prosthetic, Guided Surgery and TRINIA, dentist took advantage and learned about the product in a practical way. Based on the success of the Bicon Short Im- plant Forum 2013 in Dubai, Bicon would like to conduct more hands-on courses from coming year 2014 to dentists from the Middle-East region. Since 1985, the Bicon Dental Implant System has offered dentists a proven solution for missing dentition. The Bicon implant design comprises pla- teaus, sloping shoulders and a bacterially-sealed, and 1.5° locking taper implant to abut- ment connection. With the pla- teau design, cortical like bone forms around and between each plateau. This Haversian bone allows for the routine use of 5.0mm short implants. The sloping shoulder provides the necessary room for bone to support interdental papil- lae that are gingival aesthetic. Bicon’s 360° of universal abut- ment positioning provides for the revolutionary cement less and screw less Integrated Abutment Crown™, which consistently provides for a non-metallic aesthetic gingival margin. Bicon Short Implant Forum 2014 The Scientific Session at Atlantis Dubai, UAE