34 Dental Tribune Middle East & Africa Edition | May - June 2014news < Page 19 bite into my food without pain & with confidence”. Said P.V Shah an elderly man who received his oral rehabilitation in Dubai by Oral Maxillofacial Surgeon Dr. Costa Nicolopoulos at Same- Day Dental Implants. Since 1991 Doctor Nicolopolous has been practicing as a full time Maxil- lofacial & Oral Surgery special- ist concentrating on immediate loading of dental implants. (Fig- ure 5) “Less is more, that is our ambi- tion when it comes to dimen- sions and numbers of anchor- ing elements” says Per-Ingvar Brånemark. In ordinance with the founding father of modern implants we can now install a full set of teeth on only four implants thanks to the new ad- vancements in implantology. This total rehabilitation tech- nique for the edentulous patient known as the All-on-4® treat- ment concept, is a well docu- mented surgical and prosthetic medical procedure. Clinics like The SameDay Den- tal Implants Clinic utilize this treatment protocol allowing patients to have their implants and teeth placed all in the same day as opposed to the conven- tional technique where dental implants are loaded with teeth usually two or three months later. (Figure 6) Every year all the BOC clinics from around the globe are invit- ed to the Annual Brånemark Os- seointegration Center meeting in Gothenburg Sweden to pay respects and tribute to the man who started it all. (Figure 7) “It is the works of Professor Brånemark sixty years ago that allows us to change our patients lives on a daily basis”, said Dr. Costas Nicolopoulos at the ABOC annual meeting 2014 in February. Here SameDay Den- tal Implants Clinic was given the Leading Dentists of the World award as a special mem- ber at the ABOC meeting 2014. While new advancements in the medical and dental world impact our patient’s lives, one must not forget that the basis of this invention lies within a man who saw a future while living in the past. (Figure 8) A billion smiles welcome the world of dentistry FDI 2014 · New Delhi · India Greater Noida (UP) Annual World Dental Congress 11-14 September 2014 www.fdi2014.org.in www.fdiworldental.org Deadline for early bird registration 31 May 2014 Figure 5. (Dr. Costa Nicolo- poulos BDS, FFD MFOS) Figure 4. (Per-Ingvar Brånemark and Gösta Larsson in 2005) Figure 6. (Full mouth rehabilita- tion on twelve implants at Same- Day Dental implants) Figure 7. (Professor Per-Ingvar Brånemark and Dr. Costa Nicolo- poulos at ABOC meeting 2014 Go- thenburg Sweden) Figure 8. (Professor Per-Ingvar Bråne- mark Lecturing 2009)